Jazz is a lively and improvisational style of music which relates to the jazz age in which socially society became more lively itself. Jazz was introduced by African Americans which also suggest that the Jazz age is an era of cultural acceptance. FLAPPERS “Flapper” In the sass was a term applied to a “new breed” of young Western women 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, mooing, driving automobiles and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms. Flappers had their origins in the period of liberalism, social and political turbulence and increased transatlantic cultural exchange that followed the end of the First World War, as well as the export of American Jazz culture to Europe. Despite its popularity, the flapper lifestyle and look could not survive the Wall Street Crash and the following Great Depression.
The high-spirited attitude and hedonism simply could not find a place amid the economic hardships of the sass. Prohibition was the political forbearance of producing, transporting and selling alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment was imposed in 1917 and was abolished in 1933. It was known as the National Prohibition Act. This act was enforced by the government assuming that it would help reduce criminal actions like homicide, assault and battery. Furthermore they hoped to reduce poverty and to improve economy and the quality of life.
The Great Migration refers to the widespread migration of African Americans in he 20th century from rural communities in the South to large cities in the North and West. At the turn of the 20th century, the vast majority of black Americans lived in the Southern states. From 1916 to 1970, during this Great Migration, it is estimated that some 6 million black Southerners relocated to urban areas in the North and West. African Americans moved north to escape the rural poverty and racial prejudice of the Jim Crow South, and to find better work opportunities in northern industrial cities like Chicago, Detroit and New York City.