Prohibition Hand out
The author of Prohibition starts off comparing Gatsby's life in long island with prohibition during the same time the book was meant to be placed in. Prohibition was meant to limit availability of alcohol and increase peoples health. as people would soon know Prohibition would soon backfire and start the major growth of violent organized crime in the united states. between 1830-1960 most people thought of liquor stores as places of violence and illegal activate. in the end most people thought that prohibition just withheld peoples fundamental rights.
Harlem in the Jazz age
the African american population exploded between 1910 and 1920. Ralph Ellison was the author of Invisible man, taking us through the life of an educated young man going through a racist world. harlem was the birth place of the Jazz age.
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