Jessica Burridge
The Great Gatsby: Context. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key, the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Fitzgerald was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though an intelligent child, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. Prohibition in the United States. Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine brewery during the Prohibition era Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.[1] The dry movement, led by rural Protestants and social Progressives in the Democratic and Republican parties, was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League.
Prohibition was mandated under the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby takes place during the summer of 1922.
Fitzgerald coined the phrase, "the Jazz Age" that same year to describe the flamboyant—"anything goes"—era that emerged in America after World War I. Find out more about the popular culture and historical events that shaped and defined the 1920s. From the Web - Resources available for all readers The Roaring 20s.
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