HST 386 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Everleigh Club, Black Market, Theodore Roosevelt
6 Aug 2017
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Problems: vice: gambling, alcohol, prostitution, violence, corruption. Immigration: 1. 3 million people with one foreign parent in chicago, 587,112 foreign born. Urbanization: americans living in city over 10,000 population, 1820: 5, 1900: 20, 1920: 50, big cities, 1870-1910, nyc grows from 1m to 4. 7m, chicago grows from 298k to 2. 1m, urbanization leads to poverty. Lottery gets bigger and bigger, esp. in the african-american community. Licensing of bars leads to illegal saloons: pay for police protection police get corrupted by these illegal liquor institutions and their bribes, underground economy of people selling alcohol, no mixed saloons even in the north. Gang violence: 1900 population: 1,698,575 murders: 102, 1910 population: 2,185,283 murders: 201. March(cid:1)8,(cid:1)2017: outlaw as hero, william billy the bully lyons. Corrupt government: politicians own the saloons, brothels, and gambling houses, partisan, corrupt, take bribes, etc, herman rosenthal & lt. charles becker, becker is the rst police of cer to be executed and electrocuted.
