Automobile Facts Fads/Fashions

As a result of the spread of the automobile, the number of paved roads increased all across America. New towns built up all along the major roads and changed the face of the nation. Another huge change for the nation was that the new houses were built with a garage and a driveway.

The automobile brought about the development of gas stations, repair shops, public parking, motels, and shopping centers.

Installment Plan An arrangement in which a purchaser pays over an extended

time, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase.

“Have you an automobile yet?”“No, I talked it over with John and he felt we could not afford

one.”“Mr. Budge who lives in your town has one and they are not

as well off as you are.”“Yes, I know. Their second installment came due, and they

had no money to pay it.”“What did they do? Lose the car?“No, they got the money and paid the installment.”“How did they get the money?“They sold the cook-stove.”“How could they get along without a cook-stove?”“They didn’t. They bought another on the installment plan.”

- A business owner quoted in In the Time of the Silent Cal

–noun 1. the act of prohibiting. 2. the legal prohibiting of the manufacture and sale of

alcoholic drinks for common consumption. 3. (often initial capital letter) the period (1920–33) when

the Eighteenth Amendment was in force and alcoholic beverages could not legally be manufactured, transported, or sold in the U.S.

4. a law or decree that forbids.

Definition from Dicitionary.com

1826 – American Temperance Society Founded to convince people to stop drinking

1893 – Anti-Saloon League Influential in bringing about a national ban on alcohol

1905-1917 – Several anti-drinking local laws States across the country began laws that prohibited the manufacture and sale of

intoxicating beverages

Religious groups played an important part in pushing for Prohibition.

“Dries” – wanted Prohibition; identified saloons as politically corrupt and drinking as a personal sin Methodists, Northern Baptists, Southern Baptists, Presbyterians, Disciples,

Congregationalists, Quakers, and Scandinavian Lutherans

“Wets” – did NOT support Prohibition; did not believe that the government should define morality Episcopalians, German Lutherans, and Roman Catholics

Introduced May 27, 1919 President Wilson’s veto

overridden Exceptions for

Industrial Alcohol Sacramental Wine Doctors’ prescriptions Toilet Preparations Flavoring Extracts Syrups Vinegar Cider

Became “Dry” in 1918 Mayor William Hale “Big Bill”

Thompson turned his head to much of what went on in Chicago. He was referred to as a “testy, foul-mouthed tub-thumper with a child’s attention span and only moderate intelligence.”

Saloons were called “blind pigs.” They were run without a sign in the front indicating what the business was. The patrons would have to enter through a side door and were run by the gangs.

Capone arrived in Chicago in 1919 and moved his family into a house at 7244 South Prairie Avenue. He quickly began to manage the bootlegging business for John Torrio and by 1922 was Torrio’s number 2 man. When Torrio decided to leave Chicago, Capone inherited the “outfit”. Capone controlled speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses, brothels, horse and race tracks, nightclubs, distilleries and breweries at a reported income of $100,000,000 a year. He was the first to open soup kitchens after the 1929 stock market crash and he ordered merchants to give clothes and food to the needy at his expense.

Women began to be seen-Smoking cigarettes-Drinking in public-Dancing the fox trot, camel walk, tango, lindy hop, and shimmy-Playing golf