Prohibition, The Jazz Age, and The Changing Culture

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Prohibition, The Jazz Age, and The Changing
Culture

• How did Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Margret
  Mitchell influence American culture?

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The 1920s were a time of change new fashion,
home products, and music. New laws were being
passed to limit the sale of alcohol. Others
called for prohibition.
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The Eighteenth Amendment was added to the United
States Constitution and prohibited the sale,
manufacturing, and transportation of alcohol.
Criminals known as bootleggers took over the
alcohol business.
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Bootleggers would bring alcohol into the US or
make their own. Sometimes the alcohol that they
sold was dangerous. It would make people go
blind or even die. Bootleggers sold their
alcohol to speakeasy's. Competition between
bootleggers sometimes became violent.
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Police had little success with stopping
bootleggers. Finally, in 1933 the Twenty-first
Amendment was passed ending prohibition.
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As radio brought music to a wide range of people
and there was none more popular than jazz. Many
of the most popular performers were African
Americans.
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Duke Ellington was one of the best-known jazz
composers and bandleaders. Louis Armstrong was
another famous jazz musician.
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Jazz music led to new kinds of dances throughout
the nation. Young people loved to move their
feet to fast, energetic dances with names like
the Charleston and the Lindy Hop.
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Jazz was so important that writer F. Scott
Fitzgerald nicked named the decade The Jazz
Age. Literature, music, dances, and symphonies
were being written depicting the change in
American culture.