Friday, December 16th

[3Marielle]

Looked at times for my test....mine is 11:05 to 11:15Presidents of the 20's: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover-Republican Philosophy of the 1920's: Trickle down theory, Laissez-faire, and rugged individualism.-Trickle down theory: help the wealthy by giving tax cuts to big businesses, because they would make more money, more people would get jobs, and they would be able to create more businesses.-Laissez-Faire: don't have the government get their hands all over businesses and try to change things. The businesses helped move things along for the entire country. So the philosophy was to leave them alone.-Rugged Individualism: don't do anything, let everything sort itself out. But things kept getting worse and worse as the years went on. 1933 was the worst year of the Depression.-Charles Lindbergh: he was the first person to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean-Amelia Earhart: first woman to fly non-stop across the Atlantic, attempted to fly all the way around the world, but crashed, and most likely died in the middle of the Ocean-Prohibition, or "The Noble Experiment": 18th Amendment (1920-1933) the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal. Supporters believed alcohol brought about corruption, crime, wife and child abuse and accidents. Supporters came mostly from rural South and West (areas with a lot of Protestants). Anti-Saloon League and Women's Christian Temperence Union led the attack on alcohol.-Alcohol was allowed for medicinal and religious purposes-At first saloons closed and drunkeness went down. The Volstead Act created the Prohibition Bureau to enforce the law. Prohibition failed for three reasons: 1) People despised it. Saw it as government meddling in people's lives. 2) The Prohibition Bureau was underfunded. Had 1,500 people to supervise the country. 3) Organized crime became more popular.-Speakeasies: To obtain alcohol illegally, people went underground to secret bars. They could be anywhere.-Al Capone was a bootlegger: illegally making alcohol, and was also the most famous Organized Criminal.