GCSE History: The USA, Key Topic 2 (US Society 1919-29)

Edexcel GCSE History

History A: The Making of the Modern World

Unit 2C: The USA 1919-41 :)

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What was a flapper?
A woman who smoked, drank, wore make-up and short dresses, and worked
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What was the most popular genre of music in the 1920s?
Jazz
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What was a speakeasy?
A place where you could buy illegal alcohol during prohibition
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Why was jazz music seen as immoral?
Because the dances that went with it were sexual
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When was the St.Valentines Day Massacre?
14th February 1929
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What was the first ever radio advertisement for?
Cereal
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What was segregation?
When black people were not allowed to use the same facilities as white people
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What was the most popular genre of music in the 1920s?

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Jazz

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What was a speakeasy?

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Why was jazz music seen as immoral?

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When was the St.Valentines Day Massacre?

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Charlottealice65

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very useful :) thankyou!! ***

Jack Clarke

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Useful, but question 1 is not needed at all, you do not need to know this for the exam. You simply need to know that radio was a new technology that became popular in the 1920's and was most famously used by FD Roosevelt when he was president, during his fireside chats.

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