1. Notes: Sections 4 & 5: “Bootlegging, Organized Crime, and a National Culture”

2. Prohibition -- The passing of the 18th amendment that made the production and sale of liquor illegal.

3. Bootlegging – making alcohol illegally. In the 1920’s, many different types of alcohol were made illegally.

4. Bootleggers -- Illegal makers of liquor during prohibition.

5. Speakeasies -- Places where illegal liquor was sold.

6. Organized crime -- A result from the prohibition of the 1920s.

7. Video: Gangsters & Prohibition

8. Al Capone – famous crime boss; made his money and power by bootlegging alcohol.

9. Video: Al Capone

10. Henry Ford -- His creation of the assembly line marked the beginning of the modern era.

11. Charles Lindbergh -- He was the first man to fly non-stop across the Atlantic and became a national hero.

12. Video: Charles Lindbergh

13. F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Famous American author who criticized the greedy rich; wrote the Great Gatsby.

14. Scopes Trial -- This was a symbol of the battle of modernism and fundamentalism that existed during the 1920s.

15. Shared Culture -- Term for commonalities in America that resulted from the technological innovations of the 1920s.