notes: sections 4 & 5: “bootlegging, organized crime, and a national culture”
TRANSCRIPT
Notes: Sections 4 & 5: “Bootlegging, Organized Crime, and a National
Culture”
Prohibition -- The passing of the 18th amendment that made the production and sale of liquor illegal.
Bootlegging – making alcohol illegally. In the 1920’s, many different types of alcohol were made illegally.
Bootleggers -- Illegal makers of liquor during prohibition.
Speakeasies -- Places where illegal liquor
was sold.
Organized crime -- A result from the
prohibition of the 1920s.
Video: Gangsters & Prohibition
Al Capone – famous crime boss; made his money and power by bootlegging alcohol.
Video: Al Capone
Henry Ford -- His creation of the assembly line
marked the beginning of the modern era.
Charles Lindbergh -- He was the first man to fly non-stop
across the Atlantic and became a national hero.
Video: Charles Lindbergh
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Famous American author who
criticized the greedy rich; wrote the Great Gatsby.
Scopes Trial -- This was a symbol of the battle of modernism and fundamentalism that existed during
the 1920s.
Shared Culture -- Term for commonalities in America that
resulted from the technological innovations of the 1920s.