The Great GatsbyThe Roaring 20’s

World War I

Over ThereWWI

20’s References to Men

bimbo

daddysheik

hard boiled

fly boy

hood

bell bottom

big six

18th Amendment

Bootlegging

Boardwalk Empire

Arnold Rothstein

An extensive gambler and loan shark Known for Fixing 1919 World Series

with the White Sox After he left gambling, he moved

onto drug-dealing, boot-legging, and labor racketeering.

Arnold Rothstein Clip Best of Arnold Rothstein

The Jazz Age

20’s Fashion

20’s Cars

These two certainly are not jalopies!!

20’s Cars

You would really be putting on the Ritz if you drove one of these!!

20’s Cars

Aren’t these cars the cat’s meow!!

19th Amendent

20’s References to Women

baby

dame

doll

flapper

janedumb doragold digger

moll tomato

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Born in a middle-class neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota

His family was not prosperous Went to Princeton and formed

friendships with campus intellectuals Failed to make the football team and

felt the disappointment for years Fitzgerald quit college to join the

army, but the war ended before he saw active service.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Stationed in Montgomery, Alabama, he met and courted Zelda Sayre.

Zelda rejected him. He went to NYC to make a fortune

and win Zelda. After Fitzgerald published his first

novel, he and Zelda were married. They had one daughter.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Fitzgeralds moved to Europe and lived a lavish lifestyle

The Fitzgeralds succumbed to enormous debts.

Scott became an alcoholic. Zelda had a mental breakdown and spent the remainder of her life in mental institutions.