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 * [[image:crime.jpg align="center"]] || ===**[|Prohibition increased crime of the 1920s]**=== Prohibition is a great social and economic experiment- noble in motive and far reaching in purpose. - Herbert Hoover.In January 1920 the Eightteenth Amendment was put into effect. Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead, it added to the problems it was intended to help. Prohibition was meant to reduce the consumption of alchol, thereby reducing crime and poverty.The Prohibition amendment increased the amount of crime and use of alchol. Bootleggers smuggled liquor from overseas and produced their own. By 1925, there were over 100,000 speakeasies in New York City alone. In larger cities crime rose 78 percent. Prohibition also increased gang warfare. The most powerful bootlegger was Al Capone, who operated out of Chicago. He made over $60 million in liquor sales alone.  All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular-Al Capone. Prohibition was very ineffective, it was meant to help but instead damaged the society. By 1933, the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution officialy repealed the Eighteenth Amendment-the only time in the history of the United States that an amendment had been repealed- making Prohibition history ||
 * [[image:Capone.jpg align="center" link="http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/worldnews/worldn.htm"]] || ===[|Organized Crime]=== The 1920s was a time of "organized crime". The prohibition laws kept people from being able to sell, create, or move alcoholic beverages. People began to look for ways to obtain alcohol. Many began to make their own out of wood alcohol and medical supplies. The source for real alcohol came from Mexico, Canada, and the West Indies, This was known as "bootlegging". A famous influential briber was Alphonse "Scarface" Capone. He profitted over 60 million dollars by bootlegging. He was finally sent to jail in 1932. He died in 1947 from syphillis.Alphonse Capone was a true hardcore gangster. During the nineteen-twenties, he had become an influential lieutenant in the Colosimo mob. Alphonse Capone, a.k.a. Scarface, and the rest of the gang were involved in tons of crimes. Some of this crimes included enactment of the Prohibition Amendment, illegal brewing, distilling and distribution of beer and liquor. Soon Capone became boss of the mob, and bulit up a fearsome reputation during the time of gang rivalries. On February 14, 1929, also known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, was generally ascribed to the Capone mob, even though Al Capone himself was located in Florida at the time. On March 20, 1929, Capone was arrested for Contempt of Court. The next time Al was arrest was along with his body gaurd for carrying concealed deadly weapons. Othere charges that were brought apon Capone was tax evasion charges. Capone was senteced eleven years, but was released after serving only seven years, six months, and fifteen days. These illegal actions directed by Capone sent several cities to an unruly state. America's infamous gangster, Al Capone, is viewed as "the single greatest collapse of law and order in the United States (chicagohistory). ||
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 * [[image:gatsby1.jpg align="center"]] || ===The Great Gatsby=== Fitzgerald positions the characters of The Great Gatsby as emblems of these social trends. Nick and Gatsby, both of whom fought in World War I, exhibit the newfound cosmopolitanism and cynicism that resulted from the war. The various social climbers and ambitious speculators who attend Gatsby’s parties evidence the greedy scramble for wealth. The clash between “old money” and “new money” manifests itself in the novel’s symbolic geography: East Egg represents the established aristocracy, West Egg the self-made rich. Meyer Wolfshiem and Gatsby’s fortune symbolize the rise of organized crime and bootlegging.In F. Scott Fitzgerald's noval, The Great Gatsby, One of the main characters, Jay Gatsby, has a very similar background to that of Al Capone. Gatsby also participated in the sell of illegal beer and liqour.In Fitzgerals novel, The Great Gatsby, the consumption of alchol is a very common thing. Jay Gatsby holds many parties where the illegal use of alchol is in effect. Gatsby also obtained his money through bootlegging, also an illegal crime commited often during the 1920s. ||


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