Pertinent Historical Information
This novel was written and takes place in the 1920s.
Key Historical Events Roaring 20s: The decade of the 1920s, especially in America, when economic growth, technological change, and the loosening of social codes encouraged a lively and uninhibited youth culture centered around the automobile, jazz music, and bootleg liquor https://www.yourdictionary.com/roaring-twenties Prohibition: The legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 under the terms of the Eighteenth amendment https://www.britannica.com/event/Prohibition-United-States-history-1920-1933 Bootlegging: illegal production and sale of liquor that occurred in the 1920s, as a result of the passing of the eighteenth amendment https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition |