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