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Cultural Conflicts of the 1920s. Prohibition 18 th Amendment – Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating beverages. Defined.

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1 Cultural Conflicts of the 1920s

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3 Prohibition 18 th Amendment – Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating beverages. Defined the separation of values in the country and in the cities.

4 Bootlegging Originates from drinkers who would hide flasks in their boots. In the 1920s it was used to describe anyone who could supply alcohol. Bootleggers would either transport the alcohol from Canada or Mexico. They would also run distilleries and make their own alcohol to sell.

5 Moonshine

6 Speakeasies Illegally operated bars that would buy the alcohol from bootleggers. Primarily located in cities. A patron of the bar would need a membership card or a password to enter.

7 Organized Crime Regimented organizations that participated in one or many illegal ventures. Bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, and racketeering. Racketeering – means of controlling a neighborhood or city. A racketeer would offer protection to people or businesses in exchange for a tribute.

8 Organized Crime If the tribute was not paid the person or business would face consequences. In American cities gangland wars ravaged neighborhoods. In Chicago alone 157 bombs targeted at homes and businesses were set off in one year.

9 Paul Kelly, a.k.a. Paolo Antonio Vacarelli

10 Big Jim Colosimo

11 Johnny "The Fox" Torrio

12 The Four Deuces

13 Al Capone comes to Chicago

14 Big Jim mudered – Torrio Reigns

15 Hymie Weiss and Bugs “The North Side Gang”

16 Torrio Dead? Capone Reigns

17 Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti

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19 Valentine's Day

20 The Untouchables

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22 Meyer Lansky

23 Charles "Lucky" Luciano

24 Frank Costello

25 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel

26 Machine Gun Kelly

27 Thompson Gun

28 Bonnie Parker

29 Clyde Barrow

30 Bonnie and Clyde

31 The Modern Version

32 "The American people... had expected to be greeted, when the great day came, by a covey of angels bearing gifts of peace, happiness, prosperity and salvation, which they had been assured would be theirs when the rum demon had been scotched. Instead they were met by a horde of bootleggers, moonshiners, rum-runners, hijackers, gangsters, racketeers, trigger men, venal judges, corrupt police, crooked politicians, and speakeasy operators, all bearing the twin symbols of the Eighteenth Amendment--the Tommy gun and the poisoned cup." –Herbert Asbury –author of Gangs of New York


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