20:3 The Business of America. Automobile Huge Spin off effect on economy: Roads, houses, gas...

20:3 The Business of America

Automobile

• Huge Spin off effect on economy: Roads, houses, gas stations, repair shops, motels, tourist camps, shopping centers, etc.

• Pg. 629

Urban Sprawl

• Pg. 630

Lindberg baby kidnappingTrial of the Century

Consumerism Fueled by Radio Advertising

Electricity

• Powered factories• Spread to suburbs• Effect on factory production• Effect on women

Modern Advertising

• Psychological appeals• Slogans• Brand names

21:1 Changing Ways of Life

Prohibition

• 18th amendment• Liquor cause of corruption• Temperance organizations

Failure of the Volstead Act

• Funding• Borders• Home manufacture• Legally used

Speakeasy

• “Hidden” saloons

Bootleggers

• Smugglers• Cuba, West Indies, Canada

Organized Crime

• Al Capone/Scarface• Chicago Empire• St. Valentines Day massacre

1980s Scarface

Eliot Ness

• Department of Justice• “The Untouchables”• 1931 tax evasion

21st amendment

• Prohibition caused more problems than alcohol consumption– Crime– Illness– Chart pg. 643