The Jazz Age Flashcards
Who was a stereotypical person in the jazz age
Young, white, rich, Americans
Who was not favoured in the jazz age
Poor Americans - e,g. In countryside or African Americans.
Where was the jazz age
USA
When was the jazz age?
1920s
What were general positives to the jazz age?
New lifestyles- e.g. fashion, hair, smoking, dancing, music, going clubbing, drinking, watching sport, cinema, immigrants
What were some negatives to the jazz age?
Gangsters, prohibition, kkk
Why did the jazz age happen?
After ww1, USA was the richest country.
Young ex soldier American men with money wanted to enjoy themselves.
Young rich American women with the vote and a job wanted to enjoy their new lifestyles.
Who invented the term jazz age
F Scott Fitzgerald
Why did the term jazz age become popular
It spread in magazines, radio, cinema, novels, newspapers
What was F Scott Fitzgerald most famous novel
The great gatsby, published on 10th April 1925
What are flappers
Rich young white fashionable American women. They liked to go dancing and enjoy new hobbies.
What were 3 new dances
Tango, Charleston, black bottom.
What were some new hobbies and pastimes
Clubs, smoking, drinking, consumerism, dance marathons, flagpole sitting.
Who was a famous flagpole sitter and what was their record for longest time
Shipwreck Kelly, 49 days and 1 hour in NYC
What happened to cinema in the 1920s
Time of talking films e.g. ‘the jazz singer’.
Millions of Americans visited the cinema.
Name some famous cinema stars of 1920s.
Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford. Charlie Chaplin.
Name a movie from the 1920s
The black pirate in 1926. Douglas Fairbanks was in it.
Name some popular sports to watch and play in the 1920s
Watching sport was a jazz age hobby.
Baseball, American football.
Who were the poorest Americans
African Americans
What were the Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were laws in southern states that considered blacks and whites ‘separate but equal’ and allowed for segregation of the races.
What happened to African Americans with the Jim Crow laws
They had to use separate areas in public places: restaurants, busses, even prison
What was the Harlem renaissance
Harlem is a neighbourhood in New York , many of the new generation of African American artists lived there.
What kind of people lived in Harlem
Talented African Americans, writers, politicians, musicians moved here.
Who worked in the cotton club?
Many musicians / dancers got well paid jobs in the cotton club.
When and who started jazz music
Began before 1920s with poor black Americans from southern states.
Jazz started in southern us states and became popular through the country.
What was the cotton club
A club in New York.
What was a famous jazz band?
Armstrongs ‘hot fire’
Who were some popular music artists
Louis Armstrong, duke Ellington, fletcher henderson.
What was prohibition
Banning the making, distribution and drinking of alcohol
What was moonshine
Illegal alcohol
What were speakeasies
Illegal clubs selling moonshine.
What was bootlegging
Illegal trade in alcohol/ moonshine
What were protection rackets
Criminal gang (gangsters) who ‘protected’ this illegal alcohol industry (i.e. the speakeasy owners)
2 groups who supported prohibition
Anti saloon league.
Women’s Christian temperance union.
Why did prohibition happen
Americas entry into the Great War stopped the manufacture of alcohol because many business leaders believed their workers would be more productive if alcohol could be withheld with them.
US government reduced alcohol production by prioritising use of wheat in food not drink.
When did prohibition begin
1920
When did prohibition end
1933
How did Americans feel about prohibition
It was a very unpopular idea.
Why was it impossible to enforce the rule of prohibition
Too many people drank alcohol.
There were too few prohibition agents.
What were prohibition agents
Men who had to enforce the law.
Who was Al Capone
Famous criminal gangster from 1920s to early 1930s
When and where was al Capone born
17th January 1899 in Brooklyn New York
What did al Capone organise
The Chicago outfit
When was al Capone arrested
1931 for tax evasion.
When did al Capone die
25th January 1947 in Florida.
Where did Al Capone ‘own’
Chicago
What created gangsters
Prohibition created these rich famous gangsters.
Why did Al Capone/gangsters make so much money
Americans wanted to drink alcohol so Capone made millions supplying this need. This led to rise in crime
Who set up the kkk
Ex soldiers
Where was the kkk
Southern states of USA
When was the kkk
1860s- after the south lost the American civil war to the north.
Who did the kkk target
Many former plantation slaves were targeted.
Why did the kkk do this
Kkk disliked others people and other groups (racism)
What does kkk stand for
Ku klax klan
3 other groups the kkk targeted
Jews, Roman Catholics, communists.
What was the leader of the kkk titled
Imperial wizard
How many members did the KKK have in 1925
4,000, 000
How did the jazz age end
The Wall Street crash and the Great Depression
Who was babe Ruth
Famous American baseball player of the jazz age.
Who was Louise brooks
Famous film actress
Who were laurel and hardy
Famous comedy duo
What was the kkk
A white racist group in southern states targeting, African Americans, Jews, Roman Catholics.
