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Back to the top! An Overview of the 1920's
The 1920's has a lot more than just gangsters and Prohibition going on so here is some food for thought that I would use when thinking about concepts for characters in the game.
Although organized crime enjoys a lot of power at this time...social conditions have also changed since the 1890's and the nation is on the cusp of the modern 20th century.
Prohibition - The society of the 1920's is at odds with itself. There are those of older generations and the middle class who still cling to the Puritan ethics that accompanied our Founding Fathers. This segment of society wallows in propriety of the later 19th Century and the first decade of the 20th. Religious groups made up mostly of women searching to assert themselves politically formed a crusade against immoral practices including the consumption of liquor. The Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti Saloon League Art Deco Poster were founded in the early 1800's in response to the growing lawlessness in and around saloons. By later half of the 19th Century in response to the excessive immorality shown by saloon keepers in the Mid-West in which is now known as the Bible Belt, their long moral crusade known as the temperance movement gained it's first victory. They spread like locusts within the governments of the nation and pushed their agendas forward as state after state passed prohibition laws. In 1919 the 18th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified and it became illegal to distribute and manufacture distilled spirits in the United States. This segment of society wallows in propriety of the later 19th Century and the first decade of the 20th. Religious groups made up mostly of women searching to assert themselves politically formed a crusade against immoral practices including the consumption of liquor. The Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti
Back to the top! An Overview of the 1920's
The 1920's has a lot more than just gangsters and Prohibition going on so here is some food for thought that I would use when thinking about concepts for characters in the game.
Although organized crime enjoys a lot of power at this time...social conditions have also changed since the 1890's and the nation is on the cusp of the modern 20th century.
Prohibition - The society of the 1920's is at odds with itself. There are those of older generations and the middle class who still cling to the Puritan ethics that accompanied our Founding Fathers. This segment of society wallows in propriety of the later 19th Century and the first decade of the 20th. Religious groups made up mostly of women searching to assert themselves politically formed a crusade against immoral practices including the consumption of liquor. The Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti Saloon League Art Deco Poster were founded in the early 1800's in response to the growing lawlessness in and around saloons. By later half of the 19th Century in response to the excessive immorality shown by saloon keepers in the Mid-West in which is now known as the Bible Belt, their long moral crusade known as the temperance movement gained it's first victory. They spread like locusts within the governments of the nation and pushed their agendas forward as state after state passed prohibition laws. In 1919 the 18th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified and it became illegal to distribute and manufacture distilled spirits in the United States. This segment of society wallows in propriety of the later 19th Century and the first decade of the 20th. Religious groups made up mostly of women searching to assert themselves politically formed a crusade against immoral practices including the consumption of liquor. The Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti