On New Year's Day, 1920, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison. ... Some of the new fashion and cultural trends of the 1920's were that the younger women shocked the older generation with their new hairstyle a short bob. Also new clothes that they wore often much shorter than had been seen and tended to expose their legs and knees. ... The Jazz age also brought new dances such as The Charleston, One Step and Black Bottom. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Many European Americans listen to pop and rock music and mimic the personas of pop and rock legends by their hairstyles, piercing and apparel. ... Moreover, beginning in the seventeenth century, a burgeoning slave trade saw Africans captured and brought to America in bondage, separated from their relations and sold, leaving individuals with no point of familiarity: forced into slavery, on a new continent, without kin or social contacts (Sullivan 21). ...

• Word Count: 1424
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School