roaring+twenties

Roaring 20's = =

** Facts about the 1920’s: **

 * The 1920's, also known as the Roaring Twenties, was an age of political and social change
 * There were new perspectives on alcohol, drugs, and homosexuality.
 * The economic growth at this time was due to the increased use of oil and electricity. Oil was used to power factories which mass produced automobiles. By 1929 there was a total of 26.5 millionregistered automobiles.
 * Newspapers were used as mass communication entertainment, in 1920 the radio had appeared. A few years later there was over 800 stations broadcasting to millions of radios.

People of the 1920's:

 * ** Al Capone ** - Alphonsus Capone was notorious for being the greatest known gangster in America, during the Prohibition era
 * ** F. Scott Fitzgerald ** - American author that wrote about the Jazz Age/1920's. Wrote famous novels such as The Great Gatsby, Tender Is The Night, The Beautiful Is Damned and much more.
 * ** Charlie Chaplin ** – Charles Spencer Chaplin was one of the greatest comedic actors of the 1920’s. Along with being a talented actor, Chaplin was an accomplished musician, composer and director.

Vocabulary:

 * ** Inflation ** - When the value of money decreases, causing merchants to raise the prices of products.
 * ** Flappers ** – A new type of young women in the 1920’s that went against traditions and created new morals and behavior. They were considered as bold, energetic, and rebellious.
 * ** Prohibition ** – An era that lasted 14 years in which the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcohol was banned. (18th amendment)
 * ** Bootlegger ** - Someone that manufactures and/or sells illegal liquor

**Document A** “Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!” – Agatha Christine, Murder on the Links

Document B
 * What does the given quote reveal about women during the Roaring Twenties?**


 * What does the picture above tell you about the economy during the 1920’s?**

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