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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