the roaring twenties - created from Mind Map

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flappers

women in the 1920s

wore shorter dresses

went to lots of parties

lower waistline

disobeyed the prohibition

the prohibition

the ban of alcohol in the 1920s

lots of people disobeyed the prohibition

it had the opposite effect to what people wanted

speakeasies

bootlegging

moonshine

illegal bars

often in basements

used to drink to alcohol in mugs so it looked like they were drinking coffee

smuggling illegal alcohol over the border

lots of gangsters did it

alcohol people made at home

some people didn't know how much alcohol to put in

some people died

gangsters

they did racketeering

Al Capone

smashing up shops

for money

Al Capone was a famous gangster

born in brooklyn

parents were immigrants from italy

excluded from school for hitting a teacher

in a street gangs called 5 pointers

in 1919 he moved to chicago

gang boss jhonny torrio offered him a job

by 1927 al had 700 men working for him

on valentines day 1929 he did valentines day massacre

was called public enemy number 1

spent 11 years in prison and was released as he had brain cancer

died from heart attack in 1947

they took over other gangs

torrio retired in 1925

shot dead 7 members of rival gang North Side Gang run by Bugs Moran

got brain cancer from std from prostitute in 1920s

racism

lynching

segregation

there was most racism in the south

Ku Klux Klan

black people being hung from trees

illegal

strange fruits

written because of a photo of lynching

'strange fruit' means the black poeple

black and white people had different water fountains

black people were served last in shops

group of extremist white racists

lynched the black men

wore white hoods

known as kkk

membership came down when a member was caught and revealed a lot about the kkk

still exists today

protected identity

showed they supported the white people

new music

black music

jazz

Louis Armstrong became very famous

blues

flappers danced to it in speakeasies

crazes

watching sport

flag pole sitting

going to the cinema

people watched baseball

boxing

sat on top of big flag pole

world record is 439 days, 11 hours, and 6 minutes

called them picture palaces

short films

silent films

the roaring twenties