1. Chapter 11 – Section 5
Cultural Conflicts

2. 1. What was Prohibition?
2. What was the Volstead Act and was it effective? Where?
3. What was a bootlegger?
4. What were 2 ways that bootleggers got their whiskey?

3. 5. What were speakeasies?
6. How did organized crime work?
7. Why did the streets of the cities become battlegrounds?
8. What was racketeering?

4. 9. Who was Al Capone, a.k.a. “Scarface”?
10. What was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929?
11. How did the government try to stop organized crime?
12. How was Capone finally brought down?