Jazz Age - Key Terms - IN EXAM

Question 1

Flapper

Answer 1

A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behaviour

Question 2

Wall Street Crash

Answer 2

The period in October 1929 when shares and other investments in the US fell in value by very large amounts, and that was followed by the depression

Question 3

Great Depression

Answer 3

the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.

Question 4

Gangsters

Answer 4

Members of a gang of violent criminals

E.g. Al Capone
John Dillinger