-The Roarini 20's Entertainment
Flappers wore - Bobbed Hair, heavy makeup, short skirts, sheer silk stockings, cigarettes, alcohol, dancing
Flappers were - Middle class, single, young, steady economic jobs, Jazz clubs, Vaudeville shows, Carefree/liberated
Fashion & Fads - Cloche hats, complex jewelry, sky high heels, no hips, rising hemline, floral prints, pastel colors, breads and feathers, "boyish look"
Dancing - New fox-trot introduced post war, The Charleston became popular after a musical (Runnin' Wild), Texas Tommy - African
Jazz - Artist : Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Big House Band. Singers : Bessie Smith - "Empress of the Blues" 1923, Josephine Baker - Chorus girl 19 yrs old, Exotic Dancing
Sports Most popular - Babe Ruth : Base Ball player, and Jake Dempsey Boxer. Pro Football changed Aug 20, 1920 (APFA to NFL) Pro Basketball ABL created-1925 Very expensive to go to.
Broadway - Biggest industry in NYC, big gamblers paradise, There were gangster, Tones of celebrities, typical hangout. Newspaperman : Damon Bunyan, Gangster :
Hollywood - Charlie Chaplin, And Gloria Suasion
The steel Strike of 1919 - Sep 21, 1919 to Jan 8, 1920, Ohioan led, Working Conditions, 1. Long hours 2. low wages 3. Poor environment, 250,00 workers
Prohibition - Alcoholic Beverages Ban (18th amendment) Production, Importation, Transportation
Movements and Acts - Temperance Movement : Social movement against consumption of alcohol, Volstead Act :
Gangsters - control : Liquor sales, gambling, prostitution. Illegally
Al "Scar face" Capone - Prohibition Era : Leader of Chicago mafia. Became a gangster : expelled for hitting a teacher witch lead him to what he is know as today. Arrested in 1931: income tax invasion
United Mine works strike - Started Nov 1, 1919 it was nation wide low wages long work days
John L. Lewis Leader of the united mine workers in 1920
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