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PROHIBITION, FLAPPERS1920, AND JAZZ

BY

CATHY DAVIDSON

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The Roaring Twenty’s and All That Jazz

The Volstead Act started it all

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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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Prohibition Jan. 16 1920-Dec. 5 1933

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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 PROMISES

• HIGHER MORALITY• LOWER CRIME RATES• INCREASE PROFIT IN NEIGHBORS

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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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Flappers

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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 1

• MY TOPIC WAS EMBRACE BY SOME IN THE ERA, OTHER WERE SKEPTICAL

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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

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QUESTION 4

• THE TOPIC HASN’T CHANGED BUT PEOPLES VIEW OF IT HAS

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QUESTION 5

• I LEARNED THAT BACK THEN THAT CRIME DID PAY• THAT GROWTH IS NOT GOOD AT A FAST PACE