Monday:
work day for movie project
Tuesday:
work day
quiz discussion
Wednesday:
start presentations start
Thursday:
1.-Prohibition and gangsters
Prohibition:
- women pushed for it the most because their husbands were being abusive
- 18th amendment (1920-1933)
- supporters: Christians and most people, Catholics were against it
- alcohol was allowed for medicinal and religious purposes
- at first saloons closed and drunkenness went down
- the Volstead act created the prohibition bureau to enforce the law
- the prohibition failed for three reasons
- people despised it
- saw it as government meddling people's lives
- the prohibition bureau was underfunded
- had 1,500 people to supervise the country
- organized crime became commonplace
- Bootlegging-----illegally making or distributing alcohol
- they were people that made or transported alcohol
- named because people carried liquor in the legs of boots
- most imported alcohol came in form Canada, Cuba or the west indies
- speakeasies---- to obtain alcohol illegally, people went underground to secret bars call (people spoke quiet about it)
- to be admitted a card or password had to be given
- Organized Crime----came about as a result of prohibition
- every major city had it's gang
- St. Valentines Day massacre--------people dressed up as police officers and they shoot down a gang (gang wars)
Women's History:
- women got the right to vote in the 1920's
- developed throughout 1800's
- the ideal of womanhood had four characteristics:
- piety----the woman is the religious figure in the family
- purity----save yourself for marriage
- domesticity-----stay home, take car of the house and kids
- submissiveness-------listen to your husband, husband is the charge figure of the house
- World war I interrupted the campaign for woman suffrage
- women took the men's jobs in WWI showing the country they could do what men do
- black and whites could vote, but blacks had a high tax on it, literacy test
- the 1920's were a good decade for women's rights
- 19th amendment
- flapper girls---style and attitude
- going to college more
- working more outside the home
Margaret Sanger:
- she founded the American Birth Control
- today known as planned parenthood
- women were then able to control their own bodies
Education:
- women were earning 39% of the college degrees given in the United States
- in the 1900, 19%
- It is 60% now
- 1928 Olympics was the first one women were in
- there were many arguments about this
- some said that physical competition was injurious to women
- Pink Collared Jobs: gave women a taste of the work world
- low paying service occupations
- made less money than men did doing the same jobs
- examples of jobs
- teachers
- librarian
- secretaries
The Flapper:
- shorter dresses
- short hair
- corsets
- smoked
- drank in public
- earned their own money
Friday:
continue talking about Flappers:
- snugglepupping was common in high schools and college
- girls like to be called snugglepuppies
Clara Bow:
- became THE FLAPPER of the 1920's
- she appeared in 58 films between 1922 and 1933
Not all girls were flappers:
- most were traditional stay at home, do house work etc.
The biggest threat to the bootlegger was not the prohibition bureau or police...............it is Hijacking
Moonshine:
- alcohol made secretly in home made stills
2.-Women’s rights and freedoms
3.-Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy
4.-Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads
5.-Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs
6.-Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case
7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK
- rebirth of African american culture
8.-Lots of strikes-Boston Police, US Steel, United Mine Workers
9.-The Model T and the impact of the automobile
10.-Electricity in the homes and new applicances
11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhardt and the airplane
12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial
13.-Stock Market Crash-causes
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