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Tommy gun
The Tommy gun was invented and perfected -
Prohibition
Phohibition was put in place. Which probitited the sale, distrubution and manufacture of liquor. -
Ecomomics , the new decade
Job unemployment was low, job wages were high and many people had money to spend all over. The middle class started using credit for a lot of products they wanted, but couldn't pay right there, right then. -
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Chicago 1920's
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Flappers
Flappers were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms -
Great migration
African Americans continued to travel north for jobs. -
St. Valentines massacre
Al Capone and his crew faked being cops and had the rival gang agaisnt the wall then killed them. -
Stock Marcket crash
Also known as "Black Friday", Companys share worth dropped tons of points, losing millions and even billions of dollars.
