1. The Roaring 20s: Flappers, Moonshine, & Organized Crime

2. Flappers 1920s social movement Disdain for social convention
Bobbed hair, wore short skirts, listened to jazz music
Seen as brash
Drove cars & smoked cigarettes
Had unconventional social lives

5. The Rise of Jazz

6. Started in African American neighborhoods in New Orleans
Heavy improvisation, swing, and blues melodies
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald among the greats

7. There was also a growing trend in dance: more informal and more upbeat!

8. Suffrage
19th Amendment: Passed on August 26, 1920; guaranteed women the right to vote in national elections
Influenced by the abolitionist movement
Popular in the west
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Suzanne B. Anthony (both had been arrested multiple times for trying to vote)

11. Prohibition: The Noble (& Failed) Experiment

12. 18th Amendment January 29, 1919: Amendment Ratified
Went into effect one year later
Banned the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of intoxication (grain based) liquors
Influenced by state bans that had been in place since the 1820s, pushed by temperance societies
Failed

13. Enforcement
Mainly enforced in areas that supported amendment: rural areas & small towns
Early signs of success: Drop in arrests for drunkenness, 30% drop in consumption

15. Failure Led to illegal production & sale of alcohol (bootlegging)
Sold illegally clubs & bars called speakeasies
Illegal alcohol called moonshine or bathtub gin
Led to the rise of organized crime

16. Al Capone Made $60 million per year on bootlegging
Responsible for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929
Went to prison for tax evasion & fraud

17. George “Bugs” Moran Chicago gangster Battled with Al Capone
Openly accused Capone of the Valentine’s Day Massacre

18. John Dillinger
Went to Chicago in 1924 after escaping jail for robbing a grocery store
Ran Dillinger/Terror Gang from Chicago
Sentenced to years in prison in 1924
Paroled in May 1933, helped friends break out of Indiana State Prison later that year
Headed back to Chicago
1934: Public Enemy Number 1
Shot and killed outside Marboro Theatre on July 22

19. 21st Amendment February 1933: Repealed
Utah cast the 36th and deciding vote in favor of repeal

20. Bonnie and Clyde Met in Texas (January 1930) Bonnie was 19, Clyde 21
Bonnie smuggled Clyde a pistol to escape from prison
Crime Spree began in 1932 after Clyde was paroled from prison
Thought to have killed 13 people and robbed several banks and businesses
Chased by legendary Texas Ranger Frank Hamer
Killed May 23, 1934 near Sailes, Louisiana in an ambush