Monday-
-Explain the causes of the booming stock market
explain the 1924 election
--World War I benefited the USA
-Kept buying from European Markets after the war-
- McCumber Tariff 1922
- Laissez Faire
- People could buy higher priced items using installing plans
- High Tarrifs
- Calvin Coolidge/ credited for Booming Ecnonmy won and went agianst John Davis/ was corrupt won 382-186
- Wanted better life for citizens- progressive
-wanted republicans to stay in office
- Harding's Accomplishments
- Know the biggest impact that Harding had on the country
- 29th President (1921-1923)
- Major impact was reducing the unemployment by 50%
- He raised tariifs and lowered taxes
- Signed the Peace Treaty after WW1 between the US and Germany and Australia
- Didn't get America into the League of Nations
- Fought for anti-viloence and for African Americans/ civil rights
- He entered handful of treaties between many countries
- He died of a Heart Attack
- He was with his wife and talking about his next speech and he choked and died in front of her
- People on tour said he looked sick but his doctor said he was in good health
Tuesday-
It's the 24th day of the government shutdown and we talked how it impacts people
- Prohibition
- What was Prohibition and what caused it?
What was the importance of Gangsters?
- Everyone drank and it was normal
- Lots of abuse when men came home drunk
-Manufacure sale and Transport of Acholic Beverages
- 1920/1933 Ratifcatin of 18th ammendment
- Discrimination caused it, also the 16th ammendmnet taxes on liquor and the crime rate and abuse
- Women's Suffrage cvilize lifestyle and thought it was religous and unholy
- Temperance- a movement to drink less/ treatment of prisoners/ care for mental ill, slavery, world peace, rights
- Gangsters
- Black Market and battleground competition and crime increased 24%/ italain and chicago
- 1920 election
- Warren G Harding- President
- He was a senator for Ohio
- didn't want to be dragged in wars
- James M Cox
- Was Govenor of Ohio was for league of nations
- wanted to be prepared
Wednesday-
I can understand diffrent living habits and cultures of the 1920's
- Beads and feather and bobbed hairstyles
- Mary jane or T Heels
- Pearls were very popular
- House dress and thick black cotton stockings and low oxford heels and aprons
- mornings would put on robe or smoking jacket
- upper class 3 peice suit
- dinner and parties be formal
- Street wear- simple but high formal same as work wear
- gangsters and wore 3 pieces suit
- white spats over boots also walking cane or rolled umbrella
- City wore navy, hrey, tan and olive green
Country wore white in summer yellow red blue and light grey
- Americans loved to disobey
- Party Clothing, semi formal or formal and lighter in color, hosting tea party cant wear hats
- Cheap causual food rise to modern dining
- Ice salons and soda shops
- Salads and molded salads and pastry pigs
- Turkeys, pig sausage, mashed potaoes, lemon cakes with tea
- Marbles, jacks, house, Horseshoes Hokum and Tiddely Winks
- Baby Ruth, Charleston Chews, Butterfingers, Brit O Honey
- Horror, romance and spy movies were common
- Dancing, Tango, Waltz, Lindy Hop, Charleston
- Major sports were baseball, boxing and horse racing
- Radio was popular
- Thursday
Babe ruth and hourse racing very popular
1922 when the radio spanned out
600 radio stations and started ub 1920 KDA radio station
- Lots of clubs, speakeasy, kept moving around, codes to get in
- Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie
- Nearly 100 years wanted the right to vote
- Many men didn't want women to vote and shouldn't have a right to vote
- Marched in parades, hgaves soeecges abd argued over and over
- AUgust 26, 1920 19th ammendment right to vote
-More than 8 milliion women that voted across the united states
- Susan B Anthony and ELizabeth Cady Stanton Womens right movement
- Ida B wells- journalist that wrote about the condition african american throughout the South
- Lucy Stone- leader in the American Woman suffrage assocation
- Prhoibited from jobs where men could be negaticely influence women's behaivor
- Couldn't work while pregnant and couldn't work night shifts, can't do taxi drivers, pool hall workers, or bowling alley, employees
- Couldn't wear what they wnted knee length henlines bobbed haircuts
- Didn't have equal pay and they couldn't have a credit card
Friday- No school
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