12-12-12
We went over semester test stuff again today.
Blog Discussion:
What positive and negative impact did the 1920's have on the United States?
1. Roaring 20's-jazz(music), sports, buying on credit, fashion, fads, movies
Jazz music- Upbeat and commonly used for dancing. Music that helped make the 20's.
Sports- Golden Age of Sports. Babe Ruth- BIG in baseball. Red Grange- football. Boxing was also big in the 20's.
Fashion- Hair was shorter, skirts, less covering outfits. Men wore sweaters and a lot of them war sweaters, hats, and tuxes that were short in the front and longer in the back. Men's ties were shorter and so were their pants. They did not wear a lot of jeans. Women and Men wore a lot of hats.
Movies- Movies were silent mostly, and horror movies. Captions only. Peter Pan came out in 1924.
Buying on Credit- How the whole world spent there money. They would buy and then pay later. It was nice cause people would get whatever they wanted. A problem was people didn't pay back there loans.
Fads- Board Games were very popular in the 20's. Jazz began to be really popular. World Records became a big thing. A guy actually sat on a flag pole for 49 days. This guys name was Alvin Kelly. The Charleston dance, the shimmy, and the black bottom were some famous dancing. Drinking illegally was also a fad.
2. Red Scare/Anti-immigration
Red Scare- 1919-1920. Red is associated with communism. After WWI was over, the US had a red scare. (A fear in the United States that we would fall into communism.)
Anti-Immigration- Anti Immigration act was passed. Put a quota on how many people were allowed in a country.
3. Planes and automobiles
Planes-Planes at first were only used for mail but then companies started transferring small groups of people. Amelia Earhart was the first person to try to travel around the world by airplane.
Automobiles- started getting cheaper so a lot of people started to by them. Henry Ford was a major person within automobile history. (Model T Ford.) Other companies came about such as Chevy.
4. Prohibition/Gangs
Prohibition- Production and Distribution was what was illegal in alcohol in the 20's. A lot of bars had alcohol on hand so many bars got away with selling it. 18th Amendment. (Banning of alcohol.) Prohibition was to stop crime but it brought us to more.
Gangs- Every major city had it's gang. Al Capone's bootlegging business in Chicago made over $60 million a year. Due to gang and violence, only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition by 1925. Prohibition was repealed in 19th amendment in 1933.
5. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
Harding- The reason we didn't join the League of Nations. He just wanted to focus on America. Died in office.
Coolidge- The only president that was boring on July 4th. He wanted people to pay less taxes and lower taxes. Wanted to do as little as possible, and pay as little as possible.
Hoover-
31st president. He was president when the stock market crashed. He didn't do much as people looked at him. He tried to help trade, farmers, and raised tariffs.
6. Women in the 20's
7. African-Americans in the 20's
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