History 1/18-23

Moday: 

  • President harding, coolidge and hoover
  • ^^^ worst president, ^ everyone's favorite,

Republican philosophy-

  • Trickle -down theroy 
  • laissez- faire
  • Rugged undividualism
  • normalcy

Albert fall- teapot dome scandal

  • found land that had tons of oil
  • bribed into selling the oil to rich people

Warren Harding's funeral

  • sick and died
  • president calvin coolidge took over

entertainment

  • dancing
  • flag pole sitting 
  • flapper girls

Greta Garbo-

Clara bow- flapper girl of the 20's

Charlie Chaplin- movie actress

Rudolph Valentino-

Al Jolson in the jazz singer- paints their face black

the Marx brothers-

Harry Houdini- magic

Babe Ruth- 

Jack dempsey- boxer

Gene tunney - boxer

Bobby jones- golfer

Bill tilden- tennis player

Red Grange- football player

Tuesday:

The "roaring" Economy

  • Buying on credit
  • Buying on margin
  • Stocks were booming]

High tariffs police

  • what is a tariff?
  • -taxes and imports 
  • lower tariffs because there would be more competition

The red scare- 1919-1920

  •  Karl Marx (German)
  1. founded the idea of communism 
  2. china, nk, cuba, vietnam, louse 
  3. Believed that germany was the best country to have communism
  • Vladimir Lenin
  1. Wanted to hand the government over to the people 
  2. .
  3. .\

The Palmer Raids:

Sacco and Vanzetti

Wednesday:

Early Out 

Immigration in the 1920 

  • The immigration act in 1924 (national Origins act/asian exclusion act) greatly reduced immigration to US
  • The law was aimed at restricting immigration of southern europeans , eastern europeans ,and jews.
  • Severely resisted the immigration of africans prohibited the immigration or abes, east asians , and indians 
  • The purpose of the act was" to preserve the ideal of american homogeneity".
  • W.A.S.P

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