The Roaring Twenties

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The Roaring Twenties

• Modern Views Objective 9.03

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Centers of Literature and Art

• Greenwich Village

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• South Side, Chicago

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Lost Generation

• Writers who lived in Paris and throughout Europe
  in the 20s
• Seen as a group disillusioned by WWI
• Comprised of poets, novelists, and playwrights

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F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby, 1925
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Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises, 1920
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T. S. EliotThe Waste Land, 1922
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Sinclair LewisElmer Gantry, 1927
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Leisure Activities

• Sports
• Movies
• Music--Jazz

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Prohibition

• The face of Anti-Prohibition Al Capone

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Speakeasies

• Secret bars where people could purchase alcohol
• Very popular

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Bootlegging

• The illegal production and distribution of liquor
• Popular practice in cities and rural areas until
  prohibition finally ended in 1933 with the 21st
  Amendment