roaring twenties
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ROARING TWENTIES. CITY LIFE DRINKING & FASHION. JAZZ. Harlem Renaissance. FLAPPERS. “bobs”. Underground drinking. Organized Crime. For every gallon dumped, 100 gallon reached consumers through bootleggers!!. By the mid 1920’s bootlegging was a $2 billion business. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
ORGANIZED CRIME
• By the mid 1920’s bootlegging was a $2 billion business
•Organized crime came to control distribution of liquor & violent gang feuds started
Al Capone
For every gallon dumped, 100 gallon reached consumers through bootleggers!!
SCOPES TRIAL (MONKEY TRIAL) 1925 Tennessee teacher was arrested and
found guilty for teaching evolution in school
106,521,537 people in the United States 2,132,000 unemployed, Unemployment 5.2% Life expectancy: Male 53.6, Female 54.6 343.000 in military (down from 1,172,601 in 1919) Average annual earnings $1236; Teacher's salary
$970 Dow Jones High 100 Low 67 Illiteracy rate reached a new low of 6% of the
population. Gangland crime included murder, swindles,
racketeering It took 13 days to reach California from New York
There were 387,000 miles of paved road.
WARREN G. HARDING Believed in less government
control of business Raised tariffs to highest level
ever Presidency tarnished by scandal Secretary of Interior leases
Teapot Dome oil reserve to private companies
Harding dies of a stroke