Deck 3: The American Mafia

Question 1

ho surrounds the captains?

A) clients
B) the crime unit
C) soldiers
D) none of these

Answer 1

C

Question 2

he role of the Boss is to:

A) resolve disputes
B) make money
C) recruit new members
D) hire organizers

Answer 2

A

Question 3

ith the deaths of Masseria and Maranzano, __________ became the most important Italian OC figure in New York.

A) Lucky Luciano
B) Frank Costello
C) Vito Genovese
D) John Gotti

Answer 3

A

Question 4

hich of the following was a struggle for domination in New York?

A) Italian War
B) Castellammarese War
C) Mafia War
D) Murder, Inc.

Question 5

ollowing the election of ______________ as mayor of Chicago in 1915, the spoils system swept over the city like a noxious blight, and city hall became a symbol for corruption and incompetence.

A) Big Bill Thompson
B) John Coughlin
C) Mike McDonald
D) Michael Kenna

Question 6

In 1902, _____________ married a brothel keeper and began to manage her business.

A) Capone
B) Torrio
C) Giancana
D) Colosimo

Question 7

hich of the following has made the position of boss less desirable than in the past?

A) Increased surveillance
B) Increased prosecution
C) Both a and b
D) None of these

Question 8

embers of an organization who are not necessarily guided by their organization's goals, but share a common interest in the survival of the system are considered members of:

A) a unilateral system
B) a hierarchical system
C) a bureaucratic system
D) a natural system

Question 9

_________ began his political career as a rubber in the exclusive Palmer Baths.

A) Big Bill Thompson
B) John Coughlin
C) Mike McDonald
D) Michael Kenna

Question 10

he origins of OC in Chicago can be traced to the mayoralty election of 1873, in which ___________ backed the victorious candidate for mayor.

A) Big Bill Thompson
B) John Coughlin
C) Mike McDonald
D) Michael Kenna

Question 11

Members and associates are organized into ___________, semi-independent units nominally headed by a caporegime, a capodecina, a street boss, or even a soldier.

A) compadres
B) crews
C) compartments
D) comrads

Question 12

hich of the following was involved in the Castellammarese War?

A) The Maranzano group
B) The Masseria group
C) Both a and b
D) None of these

Question 13

t the center of the American Mafia Family patron-client network is:

A) the Boss
B) the sottocapo
C) the consigliere
D) the made-man

Question 14

n New York, an organized crime group is referred to as ___________.

A) The Outfit
B) a Family
C) Il Gruppo
D) The Office:

Question 15

he ____________ emerged in the nineteenth-century New York as a lawful fraternal society designed to advance the interests of Sicilian immigrants.

A) Unione Siciliana
B) La Cosa Nostra
C) Mafia
D) None of these

Question 16

In the New York Model, the crime unit is tied together in a network that includes which of the following?

A) nonmember associates
B) members
C) captains
D) all of these

Question 17

n what year was Chicago incorporated as a town?

A) 1800
B) 1833
C) 1853
D) 1870

Question 18

hat was key to the power of Kenna and Coughlin?

A) Delivering the vote
B) Cornering the drug market
C) Cornering the gambling market
D) All of these

Question 19

ccording to the text, New York OC bosses are linked in a rather informal arrangement known as:

A) the crew
B) the confederacy
C) the commission
D) the conglomeration

Question 20

hich of the following demonstrate their value to the Family with financial success?

A) Earners
B) Shooters
C) Both a and b
D) None of these

Question 21

n 1931, Capone was found guilty of income-tax evasion.

Question 22

The most important event for Capone was a 1927 U. . upreme Court decision ____________ that upheld the Internal Revenue Service's contention that even unlawful income was subject to income taxes.

A) United States v. Sullivan
B) Gregg v. Georgia
C) Lewis v. Wilkinson
D) Tennessee v. Garner

Question 23

hen millions of Italians immigrated to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, social and economic circumstances available to them were bleak and hostile.

Question 24

olosimo opened several brothels and a string of gambling houses.

Question 25

mong the Italian immigrants were mafiosi who established protection regimes in every American city that had a sizable Sicilian population.

Question 26

ho did Colosimo leave in charge of his operations?

A) Capone
B) Torrio
C) Giancana
D) Colosimo, Jr.

Question 27

y 2004, the heads of all five Families were incarcerated.

Question 28

ugs Moran was not in the warehouse at the time, even though the "St. alentine's Day Massacre" had been arranged in his honor.

Question 29

ith the coming of ___________, the personnel of organized vice took the lead in the systematic organization of this new and profitable field of exploitation.

A) Prohibition
B) immigration
C) Both a and b
D) None of these

Question 30

he Capone Organization can be described as hierarchical.

Question 31

ho was supposed to be the victim of the St. alentine's Day massacre?

A) Capone
B) Torrio
C) O'Banion
D) Bugs Moran

Question 32

lthough any number of members may be related, the term Family does not imply kinship by blood or marriage.

Question 33

ventually, Capone moved his headquarters from Chicago to _________, where he took over the Hawthorne Inn.

A) Cicero
B) Boston
C) Evanston
D) Las Vegas

Question 34

he Capone Organization can best be described not as a hierarchy directed by Al Capone but rather as a senior partnership involving four men, who in turn entered into a variety of partnerships to run specific enterprises.

Question 35

fter Colosimo's death, Capone succeeded to the First Ward based Italian 'syndicate' throne, which he occupied until his retirement in 1925.

Question 36

s an adolescent, ___________ served as a gunman for Al Capone.

A) Nitti
B) Torrio
C) Giancana
D) Colosimo

Question 37

he struggle for domination of Italian-American OC in New York became known as the Castellammarese War because Maranzano and many of his supporters came from the small Sicilian coastal town of Castellammare del Golfo.

Question 38

n the New York model of the American Mafia, each of the bosses is entirely disconnected from every other.

Question 39

"Diamond Jim" Colosimo was reluctant to get into bootlegging because he was fearful of federal enforcement efforts.

Question 40

ntil Mike McDonald, gambling had been rather unorganized in Chicago and so were politics.

Question 41

What historical factors are related to the prominence of Italians in OC in the US?

Question 42

escribe the structure of the American Mafia in New York.

Question 43

he Outfit's political base in the First Ward has been destroyed.

Question 44

escribe the structure of the American Mafia in Chicago.

Question 45

he conflict that arose in 1930 between the two major Mafia factions in New York is known as ____________.

Question 46

tate the main points about the origin and ending of the Castellammarese War and tell what developed in the immediate aftermath.

Question 47

y 1930, there were two major Mafia factions in New York, one headed by ______________ operating out of the Little Italy of East Harlem, and the other by ______________ whose business office was in midtown Manhattan.

Question 48

he _____________ emerged in 19th century New York as a lawful fraternal society designed to advance the interests of Sicilian immigrants.

Question 49

t the center of the universe of an American Mafia unit is the ____________.

Question 50

he origins of OC in Chicago can be traced to mayoralty election of 1873, in which __________________ backed the victorious candidate for mayor.

Question 51

etween 1891 and 1920, 4 million Italians entered the United States. Most came from the area south of Rome-in particular, Sicily, Naples, and its surrounding Campania area, and the province of Calabria . his area is called the ___________.

Question 52

hat was Johnny Torrio's and Al Capone's importance in the development of organized crime in Chicago?

Question 53

ow does an individual become a member of a Mafia Family? Describe the process, from recruitment to initiation.

Question 54

Explain the role of the boss in the New York model of Italian organized crime.

Question 55

hat happens-how does the public react-when organized crime violence escalates? Does the public become more tolerant or less tolerant of the organized crime group, and why?

Question 56

hen reformer William Dever was elected mayor of Chicago in 1923, the system of political/police protection broke down. Describe what happened then.

Question 57

he Chicago Outfit is organized on the basis of separate ____________.

Question 58

hicago is remarkable for the extent to which persons of various ethnicities have been integrated into the dominant criminal organization, now known as ___________

Question 59

____________ once worked as an assistant to Johnny Torrio.

Question 60

apone moved his headquarters from Chicago to __________ where he took over the Hawthorne Inn.

Question 61

hat was Italian immigrant life like in New York City in the early 1900s?