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Questions on Crime and the Rise of Modern America

Be sure to specific in your answers and provide examples.

DO NOT REPEAT THE READINGS'S WORDS--USE YOUR OWN!

1. 1) There are a number of explanations as to how Prohibition influenced crime in the 1920s and 1930s.  One view looks at earlier prohibitions on machine politics and prostitution.  What impact, according to this view, did prohibition have on crime?

2) Another view about Prohibition and crime looks at the role of gambling and attempts to eradicate it.  According to this view, how did the prohibition of alcohol influence crime?

3) According to the author, the most important impact of prohibition on crime was its impact on the everyday life of many individuals?  Explain and provide examples.

Questions on G-Men

4) Using two paragraphs that each adopt the cl/ev/wa format, explain how Al Capone (according to the author) was both (A) an “incitement to civic cynicism, irrefutable proof the government could no longer function as the guardian of the law” and (B) “a moral challenge to American’s culture solidarity and confidence in its value system.”  Be sure to provide specific details and a clear warrant in each of your paragraphs. You will likely want to handle (A) and (B) in separate paragraphs.

5) As the author notes on p. 12, the newspaper the Philadelphia Record in response to the Lindbergh kidnapping "urged that the police systems of all the states be 'unified into one incorruptible central agency [that] can supervise our national battle against organized crime." Answer all of the the following three questions (A,B, & C):

A) Thinking about the chapter as a whole, what in particular about this time period would lead the Philadelphia Record to call for a " incorruptible" police force? Be sure to provide specifics in your answer. (This question will require pulling upon the chapter as a whole and not just the section on the Lindbergh kidnapping)

B) Thinking about the chapter as a whole, what in particular about this time period would lead the Philadelphia Record to call for a "centralized" (that is, federal rather than local) police force and how was that call different from what President Hoover had announced in response to theLindbergh kidnapping? Be sure to provide specifics in your answer. (This question will require pulling upon the chapter as a whole and not just the section on the Lindbergh kidnapping)

C) If there was no evidence that "organized crime" was behind the Lindbergh kidnapping why would the Philadelphia Record and many American conclude that "organized crime" was somehow responsible and what can that perceived responsibility tell us about how Americans viewed crime at the time. (This question will require pulling upon the chapter as a whole and not just the section on the Lindbergh kidnapping)