Roaring Twenties Flashcards
(8 cards)
Jazz
Speakeasies
Jazz evolved from black music, route for black people to be successful
Band leader Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith, female sexuality, poverty and racism
National identity
Cinema
Rise to Hollywood and Warner Brothers
Silent films
Charlie Chaplin
The Jazz singer, first talkie
Mass events, picture palaces like the New York Roxy
Created common culture and allowed escapism
Radio
New and entertainment for rural and urban areas
Music, comedies, news, sporting events particularly baseball and football
Common culture
Sports
More leisure time/ booming economy
Babe Ruth New York Yankees
Immigration Statue of Liberty
‘Huddled masses’
WASPS
New immigrants from Eastern Europe and Asia were unskilled and illiterate and had different cultural backgrounds
Congress started legal quotas
Immigration Quota Act
According to their presence in th US population
Red scare
Russian revolution
General Mitchell Palmer attack and Palmer raids
Vulnerability of immigrants highlighted by the Sacco and Vanzetti case
Jim Crow laws
Literacy tests
Great Migration
Eugene Williams race riots
Black families made homeless by burnt houses
Intolerance to Catholicism as catholics were un-American
Monkey trials-John Scopes
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Ku Klux Klan
Lower class white people that believed black people were taking their jobs
Also targeted Jews and Catholics claimed them to be anti-American
Supported by politicians and judges
Lynchings
Prohibition
18th Amendment-Volstead Act
Anti-Saloon League and Womans Christian Temperance, politicians wanted these votes
Moonshine and speakeasies
Bootlegging, smuggling from Canada or West Indies
Gangsters gave supply to demand and fought for business notably Al Capone encouraging disrespect to the law
St Valentines Masacre gang members killed
Led to organised crime during Italian immigration
Woman’s rights
19th amendment, right to vote
No significant change voting for Harding in 1920 in equal proportion
More independence, the flapper
Hair short, smoke and drank
Women’s lives in rural areas didn’t change being dependent on men
Birth control was an improvement
Slightly more women in work
