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A period of time when technology and industrial advances skyrocketed. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-6 -
A period of time where the United States under went major political and social reform, where the u.s. was trying to make a better society.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896 during the end of the prohibation era
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The airplane was invented and allowed for easier travel between countries and interstate https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/online/fly/1903/ -
F. Scott Fitzgerald attended Newman School, a Catholic preparatory school where he was encouraged by his teachers and pastors to pursue a writing career. https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/historyofus/web11/features/bio/B07.html -
The RMS Titanic sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg a total of 1,517 lives were taken. https://www.businessinsider.com/titanic-famous-survivors-victims-2018-4 -
F. Scott Fitzgerald attends Princeton University where he studied literature. https://blogs.princeton.edu/mudd/2019/09/f-scott-fitzgerald-a-great-writer-but-a-not-so-great-student/ -
Woodrow Wilson was sworn into presidency and remained the president during WWI leading America into neutrality until 1914.
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The creation of the assembly line meant that products such as cars or airplanes could be produced faster and would provided more jobs for unemployed people. https://corporate.ford.com/articles/history/moving-assembly-line.html -
The Clayton anti trust act was made to crush trusts and make an economy where companies would not have to compete with one another.
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World War One started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914. America joined the war in 1917 after the Zimmerman telegram. https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/edu-home/edu-topics/579-overview-general-collections/4989-the-u-s-in-wwi-overview.html#:~:text=On%20April%206%2C%201917%2C%20the,and%20the%20world%20for%20generations. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald was placed on academic probation and decided to quit school and join the military. He was stationed in Montgomery, Alabama where he met his future wife.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald married his wife Zelda Sayre in 1920 after she rejected his proposal because he did not have enough money. https://www.twincities.com/2015/05/02/fitzgerald-and-zeldas-marriage-talk-focuses-on-her-1924-affair/ -
The United States stopped having political involvement with foreign countries.
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Liquor was banned from the United States, banned the consumption, making, and trading of alcohol.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was what made his career. https://blog.pshares.org/one-hundred-years-later-the-dark-predictions-in-this-side-of-paradise-have-all-come-true/ -
A famous movie actor in the silent film era. Came out with a famous movie "The Kid" in 1921. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/charlie-chaplin-about-the-actor/77/ -
Frances Scott Fitzgerald otherwise known as Scotty is the only child of author F Scott Fitzgerald. She was an author just like her father and worked for The Washington Post. https://www.vassar.edu/stories/2017/170531-scottie-fitzgerald.html -
During the 1920's and the 1930's the jazz age emerged. New dances and music were made that quickly gained popularity, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/monkeytrial-jazz-age/ -
Fitzgerald's second book published what it's like to live in New York during the jazz age.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the iconic novel The Great Gatsby in 1925 during the peak on the jazz era. http://library.stillwater.org/docs/Gatsby_dq_handout.pdf -
Created the first mechanical television. First time videos were shown at real time in the comfort of peoples home. https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~pjs54/Teaching/AutomaticLifestyle-S02/Projects/Vlku/history.html#:~:text=The%20first%20%22television%22%20system%20broadcast,a%20few%20major%20nationwide%20papers. -
The Great Depression was a time of economic failure, where 25 percent of Americans were unemployed.
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Seven Irish men who were associated with the notorious North Side Gang were killed in Lincoln Park in Chicago.https://themobmuseum.org/exhibits/massacre-wall/ -
After the publication of his book The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald became an alcoholic after his wife became mentally ill.
https://fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org/about-us-2/biography/
