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Prohibition - ANSWER - Banned production, importation, transportation of alcohol
from Jan 1920 to Dec 1933


Bootlegger - ANSWER - Those who sold alcohol illegally during prohibition, Gatsby
and Wolfsheim are bootleggers


Speakeasy - ANSWER - An illegal bar during prohibition, Gatsby and Nick meet
Wolfsheim at a speakeasy in Chapter


Roaring 20s - ANSWER - Despite Prohibition alcohol was very easy to get and the
20s are known as a time of partying/drinking to excess


Roaring 20s - WW1 - ANSWER - Roaring 20s was a reaction to the horrors of the war
and the emergence of a new world of growth and consumerism


Organized crime - ANSWER - Prohibition created more opportunities for organized
crime which grew hugely during this era with 500 gangland murders between 1927
and 1930


Organized crime - gambling - ANSWER - One of the most famous incidents of
organized crime was the fixing of the 1919 World Series by Arnold Rothstein, in
Gatsby it's attributed to Wolfsheim




Jazz Age - ANSWER - Another name for the Roaring 20s as it was heavily associated
with Jazz music which was used to rebel against older generations/values


Women - ANSWER - Women did have some increased freedom in the 1920s with the
loosening of old cultural notions but it was still very difficult to leave your husband
esp in Tom and Daisy's old money world, "beautiful little fool"

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