1920s Bad Side - Revision Aim: To revise Women, Prohibition, KKK and Gangsters Outcome: Three pages of revision notes – facts with explanations flappers Modern appliances Anti Flirt Association Ford Model T Jobs votes education Indecent bathing costumes
Cut out the phrases/ facts and sort them into these 3 categories: KKK Prohibition Gangsters Check they are right! Then stick them in your book, under the appropriate sub- headings. Next, write a sentence underneath or next to each fact, to explain what it means. You may want to use pg to help. (9) (12) (7)
Answers Prohibition 15,794 Bootlegging 30,000 Speakeasies Canada Eliot Ness 10% Anti Saloon League 18 th Amendment Volstead Act Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1920 KKK WASPS Jews, Catholics, immigrants 5 million Jobs Southern states Tarred and feathered Lynched 100,000 Police and judges often members Gangsters 700 Time magazine Chicago 11 years Tax evasion Valentine’s Day Police, judges and state officials
1920s Bad Side Quiz 1. When did membership peak for the KKK? When was the KKK first set up? (2 marks) 1865, after the American Civil War 3. Name an organisation which campaigned to ban alcohol Anti Saloon League 4. What was the term for making alcohol illegal? Prohibition 5. Al Capone’s nickname? Scarface 6. What was Capone eventually arrested for? Tax evasion 7. What were the WASPs? White Anglo Saxon Protestants 8. What happened on 14 th February 1929? St Valentines Day Massacre 9. What was moonshine? Alcohol made at home, illegally 10. What was the name of the law which banned alcohol, and which amendment was it? (2 marks) Volstead Act, 18 th amendment