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    The Roaring 20s was a decade of great social and economic change in the United States. It was a period of widespread prosperity due to expansion of industry and mass production, especially in the automobile industry. At the same time, declining agricultural markets led many farmers to migrate to cities in search of higher wages. Culturally, the 1920s saw the rise of celebrities in sports and entertainment. It was also known as the Jazz Age due to the popularity of jazz music. Women gained more freedom during this era as flappers emerged, wearing short skirts and bobbed hair. However, Prohibition had unintended consequences, empowering organized crime and gangsters like Al Capone who profited from illegal alcohol.

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    The Roaring 20s was a decade of great social and economic change in the United States. It was a period of widespread prosperity due to expansion of industry and mass production, especially in the automobile industry. At the same time, declining agricultural markets led many farmers to migrate to cities in search of higher wages. Culturally, the 1920s saw the rise of celebrities in sports and entertainment. It was also known as the Jazz Age due to the popularity of jazz music. Women gained more freedom during this era as flappers emerged, wearing short skirts and bobbed hair. However, Prohibition had unintended consequences, empowering organized crime and gangsters like Al Capone who profited from illegal alcohol.

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    The Roaring 20s

    An era of prosperity,

    1920's collectively known as the "Roaring 20's", or the


    "Jazz Age"
    in sum, a period of great change in American Society modern America is born at this time
    for first time the census reflected an urban society people had moved into cities to enjoy a higher standard
    of living

    Age of Prosperity

    Economic expansion
    Mass Production
    Assembly Line
    Age of the Automobile

    Ailing Agriculture

    an agri. depression in early


    1920's contributed to this
    urban migration
    U.S. farmers lost agri. markets
    in postwar Europe
    at same time agri. efficiency
    increased so more food
    produced (more food = lower
    prices) and fewer labourers
    needed
    farming was no longer as
    prosperous, and bankers called
    in their loans (farms
    repossessed)
    so American farmers enter the
    Depression in advance of the
    rest of society

    Consumer Economy

    Culture of the Roaring 20s


    Silent Movies
    Charlie Chaplin

    Celebrities

    Babe Ruth &Ty Cobb


    Charles Lindbergh
    The Spirit of St. Louis

    Jack Dempsey

    The 20s is The Jazz Age


    The Flappers
    make up
    cigarettes
    short skirts

    Writers

    Musicians

    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Ernest Hemingway

    Louis Armstrong
    Duke Ellington

    Flappers

    Flappers were
    women who
    smoked, drank,
    voted, danced, and
    flaunted their
    disdain for
    conventional
    behavior

    1920's also brought about


    great changes for women...

    1920 - 19th Amendment


    gave them the federal vote

    after 1920, social


    circumstances changed too
    as more women worked
    outside the home

    and more women went to


    college and clamoured to
    join the professions
    characterized by the
    FLAPPER/ "new woman"

    (bobbed hair, short dresses,


    smoked in public...)

    Prohibition Volstead Act

    18th Amendment

    Gangsters

    Al Capone

    PROHIBITION - on
    manuf. and sale of alcohol
    adopted in 1919 - 18th
    AMENDMENT
    a difficult law to enforce...
    organized crime,
    speakeasies, bootleggers
    were on the rise
    Al Capone virtually
    controlled Chicago in this
    period - capitalism at its
    zenith
    Prohibition finally ended
    in 1933 w/ the 21st
    Amendment
    forced organized crime to
    pursue other interests

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