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Title: Cody B'


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"Prohibition/ Crime/ Scandals"
  • Cody B.
  • Rodney R.
  • Robert M.

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Prohibition
  • A large change in Americas drinking habit,
    prohibition the banning of alcohol put a large
    dent in the beer and wine businesses. What began
    in the 1830s and onward created chaos and
    anarchy among the masses as people were
    importing, stealing and even killing for just one
    alcoholic beverage! MADNESS!!!!

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Ku Klux Klan
  • extremely white supremacist group formed in 1866
    by a small organization located in Tennessee.
    They developed the first two words of the group's
    name from the Greek word kuklos, meaning "group
    or band," and took the third as a variant of the
    word clan. Starting as a largely recreational
    group, the Klan soon turned to intimidating newly
    freed African Americans. Riding at night, the
    Klan terrorized and sometimes murdered those it
    opposed. It adopted its hooded white costume. It
    was intended to represent the ghost of fallen
    confederate soldiers in battle, it was also used
    to keep the persons Identities secret while
    committing crimes in the night time hours.

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1919 World Series
  • In 1919, the World Series ended as the most
    famous scandal in baseball history. Eight players
    from the Chicago White Sox, which were later
    named the Black Sox, were accessed of throwing
    the series against the Cincinnati Reds.
    Information of the scandal and the extent to
    which each man has been involved have never been
    clear. It was front page news however, that eight
    men were banned from baseball for life. The eight
    men included the great Shoeless Joe Jackson,
    pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty"
    Williams infielders Buck Weaver, Arnold "Chick"
    Gandil, Fred McMullin, and Charles "Swede"
    Risberg and outfielder, Oscar Happy Felsch.

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St. Valentines Day Massacre
  • On a February evening in North Chicago, seven men
    were found dead inside the S.M.C Cartage Co.
    garage. They had been lined up against a wall,
    with their backs to the men responsible for the
    murder, and were then shot to death. With the
    exception of Dr. Reinhardt H. Schwimmer these men
    were mobsters working under the leadership of
    gangster and bootlegger, "Bugs" Moran. Within a
    few seconds, while staring at a bare brick wall,
    these seven men had become a part of Valentine's
    Day history the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

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Al Capone
Al Capone is America's best known gangster and
the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law
and order in the United States during the 1920s
Prohibition era. Capone had a leading role in the
illegal activities that lent Chicago its
reputation as a lawless city.

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  • At a three day party a young starlet became
    extremely ill and died four days later, news
    papers soon caught word of this and ran wild with
    the story popular silent-screen comedian Roscoe
    "Fatty" Arbuckle had killed Virginia Rappe with
    his weight while raping her. Though the
    newspapers of the day reveled in the gory,
    rumored details, juries found little evidence
    that Arbuckle was in any way connected with her
    death.

Fatty Arbuckle
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THE END
history1900s.about.com/od/famouscrimesscandals/a/f
attyarbuckle.html www.chicagohs.org/history/capon
e.html
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