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The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Born 1896 in St. Paul, MN Named for Francis Scott Key, a distant relative Princeton in 1913 Enlists in 1917 for WWI Publishes first novel Marries Zelda Sayre Coins the term "Jazz Age" The Lost Generation

Industrial Revolution

World War I

Flappers

Wealth Gap

Roaring Twenties

Prohibition

Bootleggers

Speakeasy

East and West Egg

Gatsby's Mansion?

1920s Facts On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified prohibiting any U.S. citizen from being denied the right to vote based on sex. KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA, becomes the first radio station to offer regular broadcasts on November 2, 1920. On March 4, 1921, Congress approved the burial of an unidentified American soldier from World War I in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. Lila Bell and DeWitt Wallace begin publishing Reader's Digest in 1922. F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby in 1925. Tennessee school teacher John T. Scopes' trial for teaching Darwin's "Theory of Evolution" begins July 1925. A. A. Milne publishes his first collection of stories about the character Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926. Charles Lindbergh lands "Spirit of St. Louis" in Paris on May 21, 1927, successfully completing the first trans-Atlantic flight. Audiences see the first motion picture with sound The Jazz Singer in 1927. Ford Motor Company celebrates as the 15 millionth Model T rolls of its Highland Park, MI, assembly line on May 26, 1927. William Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury in 1929. US Census Bureau (www.census.gov)

1 New York City, NY 5,620,048 2 Chicago, IL 2,701,705 3 Rank Place Population   1 New York City, NY 5,620,048 2 Chicago, IL 2,701,705 3 Philadelphia, PA 1,823,779 4 Detroit, MI 993,078 5 Cleveland, OH 796,841 6 St. Louis, MO 772,897 7 Boston, MA 748,060 8 Baltimore, MD 733,826 9 Pittsburgh, PA 588,343 10 Los Angeles, CA 576,673

Value of Money in 1920 Inflation (Buying Power) $100 (1920) = $1345 (2016) *Bureau of Labor and Statistics Average Income (All) = $1407/yr Average Income (Gov) = $1164/yr Average Income (Teacher) = $970/yr Building Trades Wage= $1.08/hr Pound of butter = $0.70 Dozen eggs = $0.78 Manual washing machine = $7.15 Bicycle = $43.00 US Embassy (DE) So…a $350k purchase in 1925 would be equal to…

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