Deck 2: Development of Organized Crime in the United States

Question 1

Who wrote a pamphlet in 1785 that helped fuel the move toward prohibition which, more than 130 years later, resulted in the Volstead Act (Prohibition)?

A) John Howard
B) James Pendergast
C) Benjamin Rush
D) Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The Constitution does not provide for or make mention of:

A) freedom of religion
B) speedy trials
C) juries
D) political parties

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Immigration into the United States, except for brief depressions, grew dramatically in the years from 1820 to 1850, particularly in _____________.

A) rural areas
B) urban areas
C) coastal areas
D) forested areas

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In Kansas City, _____________ began his political career as a saloonkeeper. e became a dominant power in the First Ward, and his ability to deliver the vote enabled him to provide police protection for organized gambling.

A) Daniel Drew
B) James Fisk
C) Jay Gould
D) James Pendergast

Question 5

____________ were in a position to influence their customers and their votes-they could deliver their precincts and thus control the wards or districts.

A) Salesmen
B) Saloonkeepers
C) Prostitutes
D) Bankers

Question 6

The immigrant gradually found that he possessed at least one commodity that some American natives coveted:

A) vote
B) labor
C) children
D) strength

Question 7

Corruption reform was typically fostered by ___________ for their own ends.

A) business leaders
B) politicians
C) women
D) police

Question 8

Which Robber Baron's fortune was based on alcohol and fraud? Native American fur traders were cheated by agents of this Robber Baron's American Fur Company.

A) John Jacob Astor
B) Cornelius Vanderbilt
C) Daniel Drew
D) James Fisk

Question 9

As part of a scheme to fleece Vanderbilt, the ______________ secretly authorized the issue of ten million new shares of Erie stock while Vanderbilt was busy buying up shares to gain control of the Erie Railroad.

A) Erie Canal
B) Erie Gang
C) Irish
D) Erie Ring

Question 10

By 1890, most big-city Democratic machines were controlled by:

A) Italian bosses
B) Colombian bosses
C) Irish bosses
D) Russian bosses

Question 11

In what city did a special grand jury, in 1928, find that certain members of that city's police department received a total of $2 million in bribes annually?

A) Chicago
B) Kansas City
C) New York
D) Philadelphia

Question 12

The roots of OC can be found in the politics of urban America before Prohibition, in the patron-client network known as:

A) the Irish machine
B) the political machine
C) the corrupt machine
D) the immigrant machine

Question 13

How did John D. ockefeller earn his fortune?

A) the railroad
B) gold
C) oil
D) all of these

Question 14

Reformers in the late 19ᵗʰ and early 20ᵗʰ century were often part of rampant __________ that at times intertwined with social Darwinism.

A) ethnocentrism
B) nativism
C) corruption
D) discrimination

Question 15

Throughout much of urban America, the ________ was a center of neighborhood activity and an important social base for political activity.

A) pool hall
B) casino
C) saloon
D) House of Congress

Question 16

In Ireland, in the latter half of the 16ᵗʰ century, England tried to impose __________ on the largely __________ Irish.

A) Catholicism, Protestant
B) Judaism, Protestant
C) Catholicism, Jewish
D) Protestantism, Catholic

Question 17

In what year was the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) established?

A) 1785
B) 1800
C) 1808
D) 1874

Question 18

In what year was the first temperance society established?

A) 1785
B) 1800
C) 1808
D) 1847

Question 19

In the United States, the Irish found themselves restricted from upward mobility, which was reserved for:

A) middle-class Protestants
B) middle-class Catholics
C) middle-class Italians
D) middle-class Jews

Question 20

Who was behind the Election Day outrage of 1934?

A) Charles Parkhust
B) Clarence Lexow
C) Jay Gould
D) James Pendergast

Question 21

In Chicago, the police department generally, and the 38 district stations in particular, were parts of the Democratic political machine.

Question 22

In __________, the National Safety Council adopted a resolution condemning alcohol as a cause of industrial accidents.

A) 1808
B) 1914
C) 1940
D) 1970

Question 23

Which of the following was created through the Volstead Act?

A) The Organized Crime Unit
B) The Gambling Bureau
C) The Prohibition Bureau
D) The Political Enforcement of Organized Crime

Question 24

The machine politician was usually a popular figure who provided important social services to loyal constituents.

Question 25

Most experts agree that Al Capone was the first ruthless entrepreneur to combine with thugs, gunmen, and government officials and carve out an illegal fortune.

Question 26

New immigrants to the United States in the 19ᵗʰ century found well-paying and upwardly mobile employment.

Question 27

The importance of organized crime as a national political issue was recognized by Tennessee Senator ____________ in 1950.

A) Carl Hayden
B) Estes Kefauver
C) Robert Wagner
D) Claude Pepper

Question 28

The financial piracy of the Robber Barons, nativism, and the corrupt political machines of urban America were some of the contexts from which OC emerged.

Question 29

_________ success in politics was advanced by their ability to speak English, knowledge of the government, and the timing of their arrival in the U.S.

Question 30

One of the roots of organized crime can be found in the politics of ________ America before Prohibition. (Choose from rural, urban, or suburban.)

Question 31

Immigration into the United States grew dramatically in the years from 1820 to 1850, particularly in rural areas.

Question 32

The temperance movement of the 1800s did not make great progress in the United States.

Question 33

One of the roots of organized crime can be found in the political machine.

Question 34

According to the Kefauver Committee, all members of organized crime were:

A) Italian
B) Irish
C) Jewish
D) All of these

Question 35

In what city were three Prohibition agents indicted for selling seized liquor to bootleggers ten days after the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect?

A) New York
B) Philadelphia
C) Chicago
D) New Orleans

Question 36

Prohibition was accomplished by the political efforts of an economically declining segment of the _____________.

A) American upper-class
B) American middle-class
C) American immigrants
D) American Catholics

Question 37

The __________ strengthened the language of the Eighteenth Amendment and defined all beverages containing more than 0.5 percent alcohol as intoxicating.

A) Volstead Act
B) RICO Statute
C) Truman Act
D) Prohibition Statute

Question 38

Prohibition encouraged cooperation between gang leaders from various regions. his is known as:

A) syndication
B) compartmentalization
C) cooperation
D) none of these

Question 39

One of the roots of organized crime can be found in Prohibition.

Question 40

Throughout much of urban America, the saloon was an important social base for political activity.

Question 41

iscuss the success of the Irish in politics in America during the mid-to-late-nineteenth century.

Question 42

he Kefauver Committee equated organized crime with ____________.

Question 43

hy did Irish immigrants in the 19th century get so involved in politics?

Question 44

The ____________, who provided important services to loyal constituents, asked for votes and a free hand to become wealthy in politics in return for those services.

Question 45

hat are the characteristics of "political machines?"

Question 46

ongressional interest in organized crime in 1950 resulted in the ___________ hearings.

Question 47

n what ways did the Robber Barons serve as role models for, and create a climate conducive to, the growth of organized crime?

Question 48

iscuss the importance of the saloon in urban America during the late nineteenth century.

Question 49

Discuss the impact of Prohibition on organized crime.

Question 50

The machine leader mediated between unorganized urban masses, the __________ and the __________.

Question 51

ow did the findings of the Kefauver Committee influence views of organized crime?

Question 52

iscuss the pioneering role of the "Robber Barons" in American criminal history.

Question 53

Explain how nativism generated support for the political machine.

Question 54

The liquor business demanded large-scale organization and encouraged cooperation between gang leaders from various regions; this was known as _________.

Question 55

n what way did Murder. nc. ymbolize cooperation between criminal organizations?

Question 56

_________ allowed coarse street criminals to become "beer barons" who ruled large swaths of urban America.