Jazz Age Key terms Flashcards
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Jazz age
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Term created by f Scott Fitzgerald
USA 1920s
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Flapper
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A young rich fashionable woman
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Prohibition
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Banning alcohol
4
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Speakeasies
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Illegal bars that sold moonshine eg. Alcohol
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Wall Street crash
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Stock market crash that ruined American economy. 24 - 29th October 1929
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Great Depression
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A time of great poverty
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Soup kitchen
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People came to get food
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Al capone
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Famous gangster from 1920s
9
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Babe Ruth
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Baseball star
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Shipwreck Kelly
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Stuntman famous for flagpole sitting
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Laurel and hardy
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Comedy duo
12
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5 new hobbies
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Dancing, flagpole sitting, smoking,drinking, consumerism
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