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Cultural Conflicts of the 1920s

Cultural Conflicts of the 1920s. 18 th Amendment – Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating beverages. Defined the separation of values in the country and in the cities. Prohibition. Bootlegging. Originates from drinkers who would hide flasks in their boots.

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Cultural Conflicts of the 1920s

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  1. Cultural Conflicts of the 1920s

  2. 18th Amendment – Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating beverages. Defined the separation of values in the country and in the cities. Prohibition

  3. 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.

  4. Moonshine

  5. 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. Speakeasies

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Paul Kelly, a.k.a. Paolo Antonio Vacarelli The Five Pointers

  9. Big Jim Colosimo Dale Winter

  10. Johnny "The Fox" Torrio

  11. The Four Deuces

  12. Al Capone comes to Chicago Frankie Yale

  13. Big Jim mudered – Torrio Reigns Flowers for the Mob Dean O'bannion

  14. Hymie Weiss and Bugs“The North Side Gang”

  15. Torrio Dead? Capone Reigns

  16. Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti

  17. Valentine's Day

  18. The Untouchables

  19. Meyer Lansky

  20. Charles "Lucky" Luciano

  21. Frank Costello

  22. Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel

  23. Machine Gun Kelly

  24. Thompson Gun

  25. Bonnie Parker

  26. Clyde Barrow

  27. Bonnie and Clyde

  28. The Modern Version

  29. "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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