MAY STUFF 🥀💔🤓 Flashcards
Who named the jazz age
F Scott Fitzgerald
Flapper
Rich, young, white, fashionable and american women eg Louis Brooks
Prohibition
The banning of making, drinking and distributing alcohol, very unpopular
Speakeasies
Illegal club selling moonshine
Wall street crash
24 - 29th October 1929
Collapse of Us stock market or economy
Great depression
Time of great poverty and unemployment
Soup kitchen
Poor Americans relied on these to survive
Gangsters
Provided moonshine and owned speakeasies
Al Capone
Saint Valentine massacre
12th Feb 1929
7 died
Jim Craw laws
Allowed races to be segregated
KKK
White, racist group in the southern states
Targeted: African Americans, roman catholics and jews
New hobbies and crazes
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
Harlem Renaissance
New York
African American mucisians eg Louis Armstrong, writers and actors got work here eg cotton club
What did the prohibition lead to
A rise in crime, gangsters made millions supplying moonshine