January 11-15 2016

[6Faith]

Monday- Self Quiz and Work on project 

Tuesday- Work on Project 

Wednesday- Start Presentation 

1.-Prohibition and gangsters

• Prohibition (The Noble Experiment)
  • 18th Amendment
  • Supporters believed alcohol brought
    • corruption
    • crime
    • wife
    • child abuse
    • accidents
  • Supporters were from the south
    • Bible Belt 
  • Volstead Act
    • created the Prohibition Bureau
  • Prohibition failed
    • People despised it, government meddling in people's lives
    • Prohibition Bureau was underfunded, 1,500 people supervise the country
    • Organized crime became commonplace
  • Bootlegging
  • • Illegally making or distributing alcohol
    • Hit alcohol in the boot
    • Bootleggers- people that made and transported alcohol
    • Names because people carried liquor in the legs of their boot
    • Most was imported alcohol came in from Canada, Cuba or the West Indies 
  • Speakeasies
    • To obtain alcohol illegally, people went underground to secret bars call speakeasies  
    • Speakeasies were everywhere 
  • Organized Crime
    • Came as a result of Prohibition
    • Every major city had its gang
    • Al Capone bootlegged. He was later taken down by Tax Evasion 
    • Gang violence. Only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition in 1925
    • Prohibition was repealed in 1933 

Thursday- Continued Prohibition Era and Started Women's Rights 

2.-Women’s rights and freedoms

• Cult of Domesticity 
  • Developed through out the 1800's 
  • the Ideal Womanhood had 4 characteristics 
    • Piety
    • Purity
    • Domesticity
    • Submissiveness
• World War I 
  • WWI interrupted the campaign for Woman suffrage
  • Woman took the men's jobs in WWI showing the country what they could do 
• Finally the 19th Amendment became part of the US constitution when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify it.
• The Roaring 20's 
  • This was was great decade for women 
  • 19th amendment 
  • Flapper girls 
• Margaret Sanger
  • In 1921, she founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL) 
    • Known as planned parenthood
  • Women were then able to control their own bodies
  • This movement educated women about existing birth control methods 
• Education
  • By 1928 women were earning 39% of the college degree is given in the US 
  • In the 1900's it was 19%
  • What is the % today? 
  • 60%
• 1928 Olympics 
  • These were the first Olympics that women were allowed to compete in
  • There were many augments about these actions
    • Some argued that it was historically inappropriate
    • Others said that physical competition was "injurious" to women
• "Pink Collared" Jobs
  • Gave women a taste of the work world 
  • Low paying service occupation
  • Made less money than men did doing the same jobs 
    • Examples of Jobs
      • Secretaries 
      • Teachers 
      • Telephone operators
      • Nurses
• The Flapper Girl
  • Short hair
  • Short Dresses (to the knees) 
  • Shapeless dresses
  • Got rid of corsets 
  • Dress gave you hour glass figure 
  • Smoked, drank in public and earned their own money
  • Not all women were flappers 
  • Most were the traditional stay at home, do the housework
  • Flappers were mostly Northern, Urban, single, young, and middle class
• Petting Parties
  • Basically like a "kissing party"
  • Teens and College students 
  • Girls called it the Snuggle puppies
  • They grant boys liberty 
  • If you didn't kiss or cuddle you made fun of the men 
  • "Loose- moraled gathering"
  • Spread to cars
• • Died out in the late 1930's
• Clara Bow
  • Became THE flapper girl
  • The "it" girl
  • She appeared in 57 films
  • seen as the leading sex symbol
  • All girls wanted to be just like her
• Moonshine
  • Alcohol made secretly in home made stills 
  • Several hundred people a year died from drinking moonshine
  • In 1929 it is estimated that 700 million gallons of beer were produced in American homes 

Friday- Finished taking notes on Women's Rights