1920'S

PROHIBITION

• The prevention by law of the manufacture & sale of alcohol, especially in the US between mobsters illegally sold alcohol.

THE FLAPPER

• After a 72-year struggle, women had won the precious right to vote.
• The generations of suffragists that had fought for so long proudly entered the political world.

AL CAPONE

• Born in 1899
• Born in Brooklyn NY
• Immigrant parents
• Alphonse Gabriel Capone
• boss of the Chicago Outfit

CHARLES "LUCKY" LUCIANO

• November 24, 1897
• original name was Salvatore Luciana
• he didn't know English
• gained the name Lucky when he was kidnapped by a rival gang
• Died January 26, 1962

DUTCH SCHULTZ

• born August 6, 1902
• Born in New York
• committed his first crime at 17 years old
• very successful saloon owner
• gunned down in a restuarant in Newark, on October 23, 1935.

INVENTIONS

• The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson
• John Larson invented the lie detector.

19TH AMENDMENT

• Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.