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NEW YORK AND THE ROARING TWENTIES - Coggle Diagram
NEW YORK AND THE ROARING TWENTIES
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
end oh wwi and prosperity in NY
NY= growth, glamure, culture, curroption
LIFESTYLE AND CULTURE
women: freedom, cars, spending
jazz musica and dance halls
Artistic and cultural boom
sport: yankee stadium, madison square garden
ECONOMY
end of prosperity
1929 wall street crash
PROHIBITION (1920-1933)
bootleggers and speakeasies
italian mafia control
alcohol illegal
1933 president roosevelt ended prohibition
NY IN THE 1920s
great migration
200.000 black southerners
population became 6 milion
more cities residents than farms
harsh factory conditions
major industial city
ARCHITECTURE E URBAN GROWTH
chysler and empire state building (art deco)
cars: 20% americans ownes one (1929)
skyscrapers boom (+10 than chicago)
ART AND LITERATURE
museum of modern art (1929)
photography: stieglitz strand
georgia o'keeffe (painter)
HARLEM RENAISANCE
black writers, artists, musician
jazz and blues legends: luois armstrong, ella fitzgerald
harlem = cultural centre