MAY STUFF 🥀💔🤓 Flashcards

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Who named the jazz age

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F Scott Fitzgerald

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2
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Flapper

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Rich, young, white, fashionable and american women eg Louis Brooks

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3
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Prohibition

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The banning of making, drinking and distributing alcohol, very unpopular

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4
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Speakeasies

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Illegal club selling moonshine

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5
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Wall street crash

A

24 - 29th October 1929
Collapse of Us stock market or economy

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6
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Great depression

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Time of great poverty and unemployment

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7
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Soup kitchen

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Poor Americans relied on these to survive

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Gangsters

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Provided moonshine and owned speakeasies
Al Capone

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9
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Saint Valentine massacre

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12th Feb 1929
7 died

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10
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Jim Craw laws

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Allowed races to be segregated

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KKK

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White, racist group in the southern states
Targeted: African Americans, roman catholics and jews

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12
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New hobbies and crazes

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Consumer shopping
Going clubbing eg cotton
Cinema eg charlie chaplin
Watching sport eg Babe Ruth
Flag pole sitting eg Shipwreck Kelly
Buying shares
Dance marathons eg Lindy Hop

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13
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Harlem Renaissance

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New York
African American mucisians eg Louis Armstrong, writers and actors got work here eg cotton club

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14
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What did the prohibition lead to

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A rise in crime, gangsters made millions supplying moonshine

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