Monday:
- worked on video
- I was gone
Tuesday:
- Worked on video
Wednesday:
- Started sharing the movies
1.-Prohibition and gangsters
- Liquor and beer seized under the volstead act
- Banned sale transportation of alcohol beverages
- 18th amendment- Supporters believed alcohol brought about corruption, crime, wife and child abuse, and accidents
- The noble experiment
- Alcohol was allowed for medical reasons
- Volstead act created by the prohibition bureau to enforce the law
why it failed
- people despised it. Saw it as government meddling in people's lives
- the prohibition bureau was underfunded
- cops even drank so they thought it was a dumb law to pass when nobody will follow it
- organized crime became commonplace
Thursday-
bootleggings
- illegally making or distributing alcohol
- people that made or transported alcohol
- named because people carried liquor in legs of botos
- most important alcohol came in from canada, cuba, or the west indies
Speakeasies
- to obtain alcohol illegally, people went underground to secret nars call
- ( speak quietly)
- they could be anywhere, they moved around
- to be admitted a card or password had to be given
Organized crime
- came about as a result of prohibition
- every major city had its gang
- al capone's bootlegging business in chicago made over 60 million a year
- due to gang violence, only 19% of americans supported prohibition in 1929
Woman in the 1920's
2.-Women’s rights and freedoms
3.-Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy
4.-Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads
5.-Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs
6.-Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case
7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK
8.-Lots of strikes-Boston Police, US Steel, United Mine Workers
9.-The Model T and the impact of the automobile
10.-Electricity in the homes and new applicances
11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhardt and the airplane
12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial
13.-Stock Market Crash-causes
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