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Born in St. Paul Minnesota, his father, Edward, was from Maryland, with an allegiance to the Old South and its values. Fitzgerald’s mother, Mary (Mollie) McQuillan, was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy as a wholesale grocer in St. Paul. Both were Catholics. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
some states in the West began to extend the vote to women for the first time in almost 20 years. Idaho and Utah had given women the right to vote at the end of the 19th century. https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage -
He attended the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey, where he met Father Sigourney Fay, who encouraged his ambitions for personal distinction and achievement. As a member of the Princeton Class of 1917, Fitzgerald neglected his studies for his literary apprenticeship. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
The first woman elected to the U.S. house of representatives and sponsored legislation to provide federal voting rights and health services to women. She held leadership roles in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and other groups.
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He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry. Convinced that he would die in the war, he rapidly wrote a novel, “The Romantic Egotist”; the letter of rejection from Charles Scribner’s Sons praised the novel’s originality and asked that it be resubmitted when revised. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
This amendment prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors,” was drafted and passed national legislation the following year. https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-prohibitionspeakeasy/ -
This would be the end of World War I. Germany and the allied forces (Britain, France, Italy, and Russia) signed the Treaty of Versailles that would end WWI.
https://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/jazz/jb_jazz_ww1_1.html#:~:text=Germany%20had%20formally%20surrendered%20on,Versailles%2C%20formally%20ending%20the%20war. -
In the first novel published by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the hero, Amory Blaine, is a handsome, spoiled young man who attends Princeton, becomes involved in literary activities, and has several ill-fated romances. A portrait of the Lost Generation, the novel addresses Fitzgerald’s later theme of love distorted by social climbing and greed. https://www.britannica.com/topic/This-Side-of-Paradise -
Fitzgerald would exchange wedding vows at New York's St. Patricks Cathedral with Zelda Sayre, daughter of Alabama's Supreme Court judge. This was done a week after his novel debut "The Side of Paradise". https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/03/zelda-scott-fitzgerald-marriage-letter/#:~:text=On%20April%203%2C%201920%20%E2%80%94%20exactly,Patrick's%20Cathedral. -
The 19th Amendment stated that "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
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After a riotous summer in Westport, Connecticut, the Fitzgeralds took an apartment in New York City; there he wrote his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
His ineptitude with finances inspired him to write the self-mocking autographical account, “How to Live on $36,000 a Year,” as well as a sequel sent from Europe, “How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year,”.
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First published in 1925, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Great-Gatsby/F-Scott-Fitzgerald/9781982146702#:~:text=First%20published%20in%201925%2C%20this,of%20America%20in%20the%201920s. -
After a short, unsuccessful stint of screenwriting in Hollywood, Fitzgerald rented “Ellerslie,” a mansion near Wilmington, Delaware, in the spring of 1927. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
The start of the Great Depression and the economic expansion of the Roaring Twenties came to an end. A series of financial crises punctuated the contraction.
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The Empire State Building was primarily designed to house corporate offices, but it got off to a rocky start thanks to the 1929 stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression. https://www.history.com/news/10-surprising-facts-about-the-empire-state-building#:~:text=The%20Empire%20State%20Building%20was%20primarily%20designed%20to%20house%20corporate,onset%20of%20the%20Great%20Depression. -
the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of her husband. She is reelected in 1932 and 1938.
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The beginning of the Holocaust, later on, would kill 6 million Jews in concentration camps by the nazi germans. It ended in May 1945, when the Allied Powers defeated Nazi Germany in World War II.
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The purpose of the law was to “provide emergency relief with respect to home mortgage indebtedness, to refinance home mortgages, to extend relief to the owners occupied by them and who are unable to amortize their debt elsewhere…”.
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The New Deal restored a sense of security as it put people back to work. It created the framework for a regulatory state that could protect the interests of all Americans, rich and poor, and thereby help the business system work in more productive ways.
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The ratification of the 21st Amendment marked the end of federal laws to bar the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/five-interesting-facts-about-prohibitions-end-in-1933#:~:text=The%20ratification%20of%20the%2021st%20Amendment%20marked%20the%20end%20of,and%20sale%20of%20intoxicating%20liquors. -
Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe than any previous war.
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At this time he was writing a new novel but only getting halfway through when he had a heart attack in graphms apartment. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php#:~:text=He%20began%20his%20Hollywood%20novel,apartment%20on%20December%2021%2C%201940. -
the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor. The attack killed 2,403 service members and wounded 1,178 more, and sank or destroyed six U.S. ships.
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World War II ended on September 2, 1945, in the Pacific theater with the official signing of surrender documents by Japan.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/world-war-ii-key-dates#:~:text=When%20did%20WWII%20start%3F,the%20German%20invasion%20of%20Poland.