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TABLE OF CONTENT• SLIDES 4-6• SLIDES 7-10• SLIDES 11-14• SLIDES 15-18• SLIDES 19 WORK CITED• SLIDES 20-25 QUESTIONS
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THE VOLSTEAD ACT (OCTOBER 3, 1919
• THIS ACT STATED THAT ANY DRINK OVER .05 OF ALCOHOL WAS ILLEGAL.
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FUN FACT: SLANG NAMES FOR ALCOHOL DURING THE
PROHIBITIONSOME COMMON
ROT GOT CORN LIQUOR
HOOCHMOON SHINE
A LITTLE UNCOMMONGIGGLE WATER
MONEY RUMCOFFIN VARNISHHORSE LINIMENT
UNCOMMONWHITE MULETIGER MILK
TARANTULA JUICEPANTHER SWEAT
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PROHIBITION EFFECT
• FOR EVERY SIX BARS THAT CLOSED SAME AMOUNT OF SPEAKEASIES OPENED• AL CAPONE MADE 60,000 A YEAR IN UNTAXABLE INCOME FROM SUPPLYING
ALCOHOL • CRIME AND GANG ACTIVITY INCREASED• JAILS AND PRISON BECAME OVER CROWED
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SPEAKEASYTHE TERM SPEAKEASY CAME FROM
BARTENDERS TELLING THEIR CLIENTELE NOT TO ACT NERVOUS OR
SUSPICIOUS WHEN ORDERING .
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SPEAKEASIES• THEY HAD A SECRET KNOCK OR CODE TO ENTER.• THE OWNERS WERE USUALLY THE BOUNCERS ON THE DOOR• SOME WERE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT, INSIDE STORES AND SUCH• THE BARTENDERS WERE IN WITH THE GANG SUPPLIERS AND THE OWNERS• MOSTLY JAZZ WAS PLAYED AT A SPEAKEASY.
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FLAPPER: THE NEW AGE WOMAN
FLAPPERS BECAME BRASH, DRINKING IN PUBLIC, SMOKING, AND DANCING. THEIR STYLE OF DRESS WAS SHOCKING TO THE OLDER GENERATIONS. A FLAPPERS DRESS CODE WAS: SHORT SKIRTS AND BOBBED HAIR. THEY ENJOYED JAZZ. THEY WERE ALSO KNOW FOR THEIR CONTEMPT OF CONVENTIONAL SOCIAL BEHAVIOR.
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FUN FACTS 1920’SINVENTIONS
INSTANT CAMERA
PENICILLIN
THE BAND-AID
THE CONVERTIBLE
TRAFFIC SIGNAL
ELECTRIC RAZOR
FLAPPER SLANGDAPPER-FLAPPER’S DAD
HANDCUFF-ENGAGEMENT RING
FIRE EXTINGUISHER- A CHAPERONE
BUTT ME –SMOKE PLEASE
FLAMING YOUTH-THE MALE FLAPPER
DRUM-SPEAKEASY
FAMOUS PEOPLEMARCUS GARVEY
HENRY FORD
LANGSTON HUGHES
NORMAN ROCKWELL
WALT DISNEY
ZORA NEAL HURSTON
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1920’S
• STARTED AND ENDED WITH A BANG. THE 20’S STARED WITH PROHIBITION AND CONTINUED WITH GREAT ECONOMIC GROWTH. LOANS AND CREDIT WERE AT AN ALL TIME HIGH FOR THAT TIME. PEOPLE WERE SETTLING IN CITIES INSTEAD OF FARMS AREA.
• THEN TWENTY’S ENDED WITH THE STOCK MARKET CRASH.
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JAZZ
• STATED IN NEW ORLEANS AND MADE ITS WAY NORTH. THE FREE WHEELING PLAYERS SET THE STANDARD FOR TODAYS JAZZ.
• SPEAKEASIES CREATED JOBS FOR JAZZ PLAYERS. • IMPROVISATION WON OVER TRADITIONAL STRUCTURE
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OVER ALL 1920’S
• THE TWENTY’S SHAPED US. • IT CREATED A DIFFERENT TYPE OF FEMALE. • THEY TWENTY’S MADE STRONGER BUSINESSES.• MUSIC CHOICES EXPANDED.
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WORK CITED
• WWW.HISTORY.COM/1920• WWW.SHOTINTHEDARKMYSTERIES.COM/1920S-SLANG-TERMS-AND-DEFINITIO
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QUESTION 2
• MY TOPIC BROUGHT ABOUT A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF MUSIC AND DANCE .• IT BECAME UNDERSTOOD THAT ALCOHOL WASN’T THE PROBLEM PEOPLE
WERE
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QUESTION 3
• I THINK I WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF BRASH FLAPPERS. • FIGHTING THE CONVENTIONAL SOCIAL BEHAVIOR