Monday - No school
Tuesday - No school
Wednesday - Starting 20's projects
1) Entertainment
Fads - Flag pole sitting, radios, majong, dance marathons, Pez candy
APFA / NFL - Started in the 1920's
Thursday - Talked about Obama and Trump
Friday - Presentations
Prohibition -
- 18th amendment
- the banning of alcohol
- selling, transporting, and manufacturing
- many people weren't okay with this
Al Capone -
- started in New York
- became the most well known Chicago gangster
- he would beat up people who would not repay loans as a young man
- during a bar fight he got a razor blade to the face, ie his nickname "Scarface"
- he met Mae Caughlin who he later had a son with. His name was Albert Francis Capone
- in 1919 Capone left Brooklyn for Chicago
- joined the five point gang, quickly moved up the ranks
- Capone found himself in charge of bootlegging, illegally supplying alcohol
- Capone protected business by wars on rivals gangs
- he was arrested for tax fraud and served 10 years
- also he served in Alcatraz
- suffered from syphilis
- he was released on parole in 1939 because he was so weak
Women's Rights and Freedoms in the 1920's
- all women got the right to vote in 1920
- flappers were girls who listened to jazz, smoked, drank, and became sexually liberated. This did not mean they were prostitutes.
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