1-14-1-18 US History Notes

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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