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Roaring 20s & F. Scott FItzgerald

By Jakub Kendziorek

Roaring 20s

Period between 1918 - 1929

Jazz Age

- End of World War I

- Phobition (1920 - 1936)

- Birth of consumerism

- Technology

- Women's suffrage

New Technologies:

Affordable car

Radio

Washing machine

Vacuum cleaner

Life

Culture:

Speakeasies

VIbrant night life

Jazz

Flappers

Art deco

Music

Jazz

Charlston and Lindy hop

Louise Armstrong Duke Ellington

Art deco

Art deco

Slang

dough - money

vamp - seductive woman that easily manipulates men

sheik - charming handsome man

and how - affirmative

putting on the ritz - dressing fashionably. Ritz hotels

ragamuffin - dirty person

wet blanket - buzz kill

fried/bent/zazzled - drunk

heebie jeebies - shaking

bee’s knees - excelent

you got it - sex appeal

beef - problem

Chicago overcoat - a coffin

bump off - dead

hot - stolen

Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott FItzgerald

- Born in 1896 in St. Paul Minesota to an upper middle class family

- Atended Princeton University

- Met Ginevra King (southern belle). Rejection

- 1917 Dropped out of university to join the war

- During the war he met Zelda Sayre (southern belle) Rejection

- 1919 - moved to new york city

- 1920 - publishing of "This side of paradise" Huge hit

- Marriage to Zelda

-1925 - Publishing of "The Great Gatsby"

- 1929 The great dpression

- 1929 - Cliff incident. Zelda institutionalized

- 1930s - bankruptcy

- 1904 - death of a heart due to alcoholism.

Zelda Sayre Ginevra King

The great depression

End of the Roaring 20s

In 1929 the stock market collapsed starting an economic meltdown. The reasons are

- Stock market speculation

- Weak banking

- overproduction

It resulted in

- mass unemployment

- widespread poverty

- social unrest

- plummeting of trade and production

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