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12 Cards in this Set
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Federal law that enforced the eighteenth Amendment (prohibition)
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Volstead Act
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He ruled Chicago's underworld with his small army of mobsters.
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Al Capone
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He organized a top squad of young detectives to go after gansters.
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Eliot Ness
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Nickname given to a group of detectives led by Eliot Ness who targeted gangsters during Prohibition.
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Untouchables
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1933 Constitutional amendment that ended prohibition by repealing the 18th amendment.
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Twenty-first Amendment
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Had an outstanding baseball career in the 1920's and attracted many fans.
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Babe Ruth
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A multisport 1920's athlete.
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Jim Thorpe
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The first person to fly nonstop between New York and Paris.
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Charles Lindbergh
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The first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane.
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Amelia Earhart
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Protestant religious movement that teaches that the Bible is literally true.
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Fundamentalism
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A famous criminal lawyer from Chicago (Scopes' chief defense attorney)
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Clarence Darrow
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Trial of John Scopes, a high school science teacher who was prosecuted for teaching evolution.
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Scopes trial
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