-ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages from 1920-1933 -Mean to boost morals and health of the country -lead to a rise in organized crime and corruption amongst law enforcement and politicians
-ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages from 1920-1933 -Mean to boost morals and health of the country -lead to a rise in organized crime and corruption amongst law enforcement and politicians
-a new type of western woman in the 20's -seen as unconventional -didn't conform to social/sexual norms -challenged the traditional role of females in society -stopped wearing corset, didn't wear supportive clothing, hair styles made them look boyish -Daisy from Great Gatsby is a flapper
-old money implies wealth from a family who has been rich for many generations -those with old money are provided with a more social mobility and offers their descendants financial stability -"new money" implies coming from a lower social/economic ranking and rising up -the term "new money" distinguishes those with newly acquired wealth a lower than those from old money families
-made organized crime into more than just thugs but into a flourishing business -first person to see how prohibition could be used to create an empire -was part of the group that rigged the 1919 World Series -he was used as a model for the character 'Meyer Wolfsheim' in the Great Gatsby
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."
-spent his life on the outskirts of the rich,always close but never apart of them -he always felt like almost -he wasn't born poor but never came from super wealthy family -his view of the rich can be interpreted through many of the characters in his stories
-US national ideal -rooted in the Declaration of Independence -implies that through hard work prosperity can and will be achieved -many have tried and failed
