18th Amendment- July 16, 1920 Billy Sunday- 1920s Evangelist

Held mock funeral for John Barleycorn

Horse-drawn, twenty foot coffin with 10,000 bone dry followers

Anti Saloon League of New York

Ushered in a new era of clear thinking and clean living Asked the public to shake hands with Uncle Sam and board his water wagon

 Womens Christian Temperance Union

Women were the leaders in the Temperance movement of the early 1900s
Ella Boole, Annie Wittenmyer, Frances Willard, and Carry Nation Sick and tired of drunken husbands who beat them and spent all of their paychecks on booze

When joined by the men of the Anti Saloon League of New York- passage of the 18th Amendment occurred

 The Great Red Raid- January 1, 1920 Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
Hunted down and imprisoned suspected communists Under the guise of the new Alien and Sedition Acts of 1918
Redux of earlier laws to ban foreigners and keep the public from criticizing the current presidential administration

 Red Fever took hold of the US as fanatics and bombers helped to retain the grip of the Red Raid Political prisoners ended up behind bars, newspapers shut down, college professors expelled Palmers Doom Book held suspect names who would later be interrogated and jailed

 Eugene Debs- labor leader and socialist

Imprisoned for opposing WWI

Victor Berger- Wisconsin socialist elected to Congress three times

Congress would not allow him to take his seat

Emma Goldman- arrested under the Sedition Act for opposing WWI
Poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?

 Theres a sucker born every minute Charles Ponzi took investors money in a scheme that allegedly sent the money overseas to buy International Postal Union reply coupons at depressed rates and eventually would sell them later at higher rates of exchange Investors were to make $2.50 for every dollar invested Ponzi was making $200,000 a day in 1920 Ended up in jail for myriad crimes and finished his life poor in Brazil

 The Black Sox Scandal of 1920 ChiSox purposely threw the 1919 World Series to make money off of bets that were made in favor of Cincinnati (who won 5 games to 3) Say it aint so, Joe.- famous line of a kid who pleaded with one of the culprits Shoeless Joe Jackson Would have killed baseball except for the character of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis and George Herman (Babe) Ruth Other stories diverted peoples attention from baseball Red Grange, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, The Four Horsemen, Bill Tilden, Helen Willis, Bobby

 Big Jim Colosimo- first of the Chicago overlords of crime

Started as a restaurant owner in Chicagos Red Light District Murdered gangland style- first of the extravagant gangland funerals

Johnny Torrio- New York tough guy

Sent for by Colosimo for protection

 Scarface Al Capone
New York tough guy sent for by Johnny Torrio for protection Became Public Enemy No. 1 after taking over Torrios Crime Syndicate, which included
Beer, liquor, home brew- $60 Million Gambling, dog tracks- $25 Million Brothels, dance halls, inns- $10 Million Miscellaneous Racketeering- $10 Million

 Al Capone (Cont.)
Became bigger than the city of Chicago Mayor, governor, and machine boss all rolled into one Only 2 convicted murderers in a 4-year period where gang rivals killed 227 men
Paid off police, city officials, and judges

Lived beyond luxuriously

Homes in Chicago and Florida 11.5 karat diamond ring 7-ton, steel-plated limo

 Al Capone (Cont.)
Arrested in Philadelphia in 1927 for possession of a deadly weapon (gun) Allegedly fixed so that Capone could go to jail for a year (protection) President Herbert Hoover (1929) Sent the Treasury Department after him for tax evasion Capone was convicted of tax evasion and bootlegging from the years of 1924 to 1929 Served his sentence in Atlanta and Alcatraz Got out of jail in 1939 dying from Syphilis and paranoia Died in 1947 at the age of 48

 Created by General John T. Thompson

Came from a desire to create a weapon light enough and with enough fire power to be wielded by one soldier Was to be the gun to end the Great War Adopted by the Marine Corps in 1928 Utilized by the Federal Government against rum runners and gangsters Utilized by Capones Crime Syndicate- among others

 The embodiment of the modern spirit of the Jazz Age Rebellious girls wore short hair, short skirts (to the knees), turned-down hose, and powdered knees No longer confined to home and tradition Defied conventions of acceptable feminine behavior Wore clothing that exposed bare arms and legs The worship of youth

 F. Scott Fitzgerald
First to draw attention to post-WWI sophistication in his writings His stories and his novels recorded and (partially) created the era Famous works included
Novels such as The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and the Damned Short stories such as Bernice Bobs Her Hair

 Other Lost Generation authors included

Dorothy Parker- The Flapper Anita Loos- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes Considered as diaries of a flapper who travels to Europe and returns home to marry a millionaire

 Chicago Style Dixieland (The 1920s) The merger of New Orleans Style Dixieland with ragtime style led to what is now referred to as Chicago Style Dixieland. This style exemplified the Roaring Twenties, or to quote F. Scott Fitzgerald, "the jazz age." Chicago was exciting at this time and so was its music. In 1917 with the closing of Storyville in New Orleans, Chicago became the center of jazz activity. Many workers from the south migrated to Chicago and brought with them a continued interest in the type of entertainment they had left behind.

 The New Orleans instrumentation was augmented to include a saxophone and piano and the influence of ragtime added 2/4 backbeat to the rhythmic feeling. The banjo moved to guitar and the tuba moved to string bass. The tempos were generally less relaxed than New Orleans Dixieland, and the music seemed more aggressively performed.