chapter 15-the jazz age notes

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18th Amendment- July 16, 1920

Billy Sunday- 1920s EvangelistHeld mock funeral for John Barleycorn

Horse-drawn, twenty foot coffin with 10,000 bonedry followers

Anti Saloon League of New York

Ushered in a new era of clear thinking andclean living

Asked the public to shake hands withUncle Sam and board his water wagon


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Womens Christian Temperance Union

Women were the leaders in the Temperancemovement of the early 1900s

Ella Boole, Annie Wittenmyer, Frances Willard,and Carry Nation

Sick and tired of drunken husbands who beatthem and spent all of their paychecks on booze

When joined by the men of the Anti SaloonLeague of New York- passage of the 18thAmendment occurred


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The Great Red Raid- January 1, 1920

Attorney General A. Mitchell PalmerHunted down and imprisoned suspected

communistsUnder the guise of the new Alien andSedition Acts of 1918 Redux of earlier laws to ban foreigners and keep

the public from criticizing the currentpresidential administration


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Red Fever took hold of the US asfanatics and bombers helped to retainthe grip of the Red Raid

Political prisoners ended up behindbars, newspapers shut down, collegeprofessors expelled

Palmers Doom Book held suspect

names who would later be interrogatedand jailed


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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 SeditionAct for opposing WWI

Poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of

it to the world?


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Theres a sucker born every minute

Charles Ponzi took investors money in ascheme that allegedly sent the money

overseas to buy International Postal Unionreply coupons at depressed rates andeventually would sell them later at higherrates of exchange

Investors were to make $2.50 for every dollarinvested

Ponzi was making $200,000 a day in 1920

Ended up in jail for myriad crimes and

finished his life poor in Brazil


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The Black Sox Scandal of 1920

ChiSox purposely threw the 1919 World Series tomake money off of bets that were made in favor ofCincinnati (who won 5 games to 3)

Say it aint so, Joe.- famous line of a kid whopleaded with one of the culprits Shoeless JoeJackson

Would have killed baseball except for the characterof Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis and GeorgeHerman (Babe) Ruth

Other stories diverted peoples attention frombaseball

Red Grange, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, The

Four Horsemen, Bill Tilden, Helen Willis, Bobby


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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


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Scarface Al Capone

New York tough guy sent for by Johnny Torrio forprotection

Became Public Enemy No. 1 after taking overTorrios 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


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Al Capone (Cont.) Became bigger than the city of Chicago

Mayor, governor, and machine boss all rolled intoone

Only 2 convicted murderers in a 4-year periodwhere 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


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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


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Created by General John T. Thompson Came from a desire to create a weapon light

enough and with enough fire power to be wieldedby 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 rumrunners and gangsters

Utilized by Capones Crime Syndicate- amongothers


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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


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F. Scott Fitzgerald

First to draw attention to post-WWI sophisticationin 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 andthe Damned

Short stories such as Bernice Bobs Her Hair


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Other Lost Generation authors included

Dorothy Parker- The Flapper

Anita Loos- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But GentlemenMarry Brunettes

Considered as diaries of a flapper who travels to Europeand returns home to marry a millionaire


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Chicago Style Dixieland (The 1920s)

The merger of New Orleans Style Dixieland withragtime style led to what is now referred to asChicago Style Dixieland. This style exemplified the

Roaring Twenties, or to quote F. Scott Fitzgerald, "thejazz age." Chicago was exciting at this time and sowas its music. In 1917 with the closing of Storyville inNew Orleans, Chicago became the center of jazzactivity. Many workers from the south migrated to

Chicago and brought with them a continued interestin the type of entertainment they had left behind.


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The New Orleans instrumentation wasaugmented to include a saxophone and pianoand the influence of ragtime added 2/4

backbeat to the rhythmic feeling. The banjomoved to guitar and the tuba moved to stringbass. The tempos were generally less relaxedthan New Orleans Dixieland, and the music

seemed more aggressively performed.


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