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Criminal Justice 10
Quiz 3
NAME: ______Date: ______
Select the Best Answer. Use a Scantron 882E form
Chapter 3:
1. The massive Irish immigration was blamed on the overwhelming cotton crop in Ireland during the 1840s, the widespread famine that followed, and British colonial oppression of Irish citizens.
a. True
b. False
2. Tammany Hall was incorporated as a fraternal society in 1805 and was aligned closely with the newly emerging independent party.
a. True
b. False
3. In the 1930s, Kansas City became known as the crime corridor.
a. True
b. False
4. Thomas Pendergast was convicted in 1939 on charges of tax evasion and died in 1945.
a. True
b. False
5. Al Capone caused Chicago to be epitomized as one of the most ruthless and crime-ridden towns in the nation.
a. True
b. False
6. “Big Jim” Colosimo was hung and fed to alligators in Boss Croker’s casino.
a. True
b. False
7. In January 2011, local, state, and federal law enforcement arrested 130 members of New York’s Mafia (La Cosa Nostra).
a. True
b. False
8. New York City is probably the best-known example of the emergence of Italian American organized crime in a single city.
a. True
b. False
Chapter 4:
9. Beginning in the 1990s, ______reappeared as an organized criminal enterprise, particularly in shipping lanes off the coasts of Southeast Asia and Africa.
a. organized brothels
b. gambling casinos
c. maritime piracy
d. drug interdiction
10. By the 1940s and 1950s ______was as entrenched in southern locales—such as the cities of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi, and in rural areas across the South—as it was anywhere in the country.
a. piracy
b. organized crime
c. prohibition inhibition
d. hijacking
11. According to organized crime literature, ______for illicit gambling, liquor, sex, and other goods and services spurred the development of criminal organizations.
a. government funding
b. politicians in favor
c. public votes
d. citizen demand
12. Historically, which of the following was central to organized crime in both the North and South?
a. Large populations
b. Pretty prostitutes
c. Political corruption
d. Neighboring countries
13. In the early nineteenth century, several gangs operated across the southern states as ______pirates.
a. air
b. land
c. electronic
d. brothel
14. How did pirate networks obtain shipping schedules and the routes that they used to coordinate their attacks?
a. They would torture the schedulers for information.
b. They committed night time burglaries.
c. They used corrupt officials.
d. They would trade other pirates for the information.
15. Whose head was cut off and boiled and placed on a post for passersby to see?
a. Wiley “Little” Harpe
b. Micah “Big” Harpe
c. Boss “Slim” Skaggs
d. Joshua “Small” Horne
16. Who disposed of his victims by disemboweling them, filling their stomach cavities with stones and sand, and sinking them in a convenient river?
a. Wiley Harpe
b. James Copeland
c. Bras Coupe
d. John Murrell
17. By the time of the ______, every major U.S. city and the relatively sparsely populated South had well-established vice districts catering to the trade in liquor, prostitution, and gambling.
a. Civil War
b. First World war
c. Viet Nam War
d. Prohibition
18. Procuring ______for the prostitution trade was a major vice industry in New Orleans and throughout the South.
a. brothels
b. beds
c. clients
d. young girls
19. Perhaps one of the most important professional criminals in New Orleans was Philip Oster, a burglar and gang leader who ran a network of thieves and counterfeiters that were one of the most successful ______in U.S. history.
a. tax write-offs
b. money launderers
c. counterfeiting rings
d. hard to catch
20. Who shut down the brothels in Galveston and New Orleans in 1917?
a. Elliot Ness
b. The governor
c. The navy
d. The firefighters union
21. At one time there was so much competition that some women who were relegated to street prostitution carried ______on their heads.
a. mattresses
b. signs
c. condoms
d. discount notes
22. Delia Swift, better known as Bridget Fury, operated a bordello that opened in 1859, but before that she had developed a talent for ______, which she turned into a profitable trade at local dance halls.
a. poker
b. pick pocketing
c. dancing
d. kidnapping
23. In the late nineteenth century, a state law enforcement crackdown on moonshining in Cleburne County, Alabama, resulted in the arrest of about ______of the county’s population.
a. 10%
b. 25%
c. 50%
d. 75%
24. How long ago did Georgia become highly organized in bootlegging and moonshining?
a. Not until 1920
b. Georgia never did
c. As long ago as 1888
d. During World War I
25. Just like the Dead Rabbits, the Five Pointers, and the Plug Uglies in New York, the New Orleans gangs played a key role in the development of organized crime.
a. True
b. False
26. Bras Coupe was once a slave named Squire, but later became a dancer and even later became the organizer of a gang of escaped slaves.
a. True
b. False
27. Eugene Bunch was a school teacher but decided that robbing trains was a more rewarding occupation.
a. True
b. False
28. The most spirited attempt to clean up Natchez-Under-the-Hill degenerated to violence and vigilantism in 1835, when reformers attacked lower Natchez and killed a number of gamblers.
a. True
b. False
29. One of the most successful of the southern gambling organizations of the nineteenth centuryoperated outside New Orleans and off the rivers and was headed by a New Yorker named Zachariah Simmons.
a. True
b. False
30. In the early nineteenth century, a prostitution brothel in New Orleans was pioneered byAnnie Christmas, a free black woman who operated a floating “hogpen” near the New Orleans levee.
a. True
b. False