the roaring twenties - created from Mind Map

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