Jan 11-15

Monday: work on video projects

Tuesday: work on video

Wednesday: watch presentations and take notes

Thursday: watch presentations and take notes

Friday: presentations and notes

1.-Prohibition and gangsters

18th Amendment - banned the sale, transportation, and manufacturing of alcohol
Known as "The Noble Experiment"
Supporters thought it would help stop corruption, crime, and domestic abuse
Most supporters were from rural South and West (areas with a lot of protestants)
Alcohol was available for medicinal and religious purposes (this caused the sales of these to skyrocket)
It failed because people despised it, they saw it as the government interfering with their personal lives
The Prohibition Bureau was underfunded
Supposed to stop crime, but instead caused organized crime that was usually worse than what they were trying to fix
Bootlegging is illegally making or distributing alcohol (people would hide the alcohol in their boots or pants)
Speakeasies were secret underground bars (speak easily or quietly about them)
Al Capone's bootlegging business in Chicago made over $60 million per year
Only 19% of Americans supported it by 1925
21st amendment repealed the 18th
Tommy Gun was Gangsters' gun of choice

2.-Women’s rights and freedoms

Cult of Domesticity (developed throughout the 1800s)- women would have 4 characteristics: piety (act religious), purity (don't drink, smoke, or have multiple men), domesticity (stay home, take care of the kids), and submissiveness (the husband owns the wife, she acts as every woman should)
World War 1 interrupted the campaign for women's suffrage but helped them out in the end because they had to take the place of men
19th amendment gave women suffrage in 1920
Flapper girls, going to college more, working more outside the home
Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League..women were able to control their own bodies
By 1928, women were earning 39% of the college degrees given in the U.S. (went of 20% from 1900)
They were allowed to go to the Olympics in 1928 (people thought they would get injured or that they shouldn't be able to compete because they didn't in Ancient Greece)
"Pink Collared Jobs" gave women an idea of the work world. The jobs were low-paying service jobs like secretaries, teachers, telephone operators, and nurses that made less money than if men did the same job
Flapper girl - short hair, short shapeless dresses, smoked and drank in public and their own money
Petting parties were like make out parties (usually with one other person) also called snugglepupping
Clara Bow was THE flapper girl in the 20s..leading sex symbol of the 1920s

3.-Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy

Republican Presidents through the whole 1920s
Trickle-down theory: republicans are going to give tax breaks to the wealthy (they own the businesses) and not the middle/lower class. If we help the rich, it will help everyone else (jobs and better pay).
Rugged Individualism: It is up to you to do things not other people
Laissez-faire: hands off, government will not get involved in businesses
Normalcy: isolationism, America first (not republican philosophy today)
Teapot Dome Scandal(Harding): Albert Fall sold land to rich people with oil that was supposed to be for the U.S. navy and pocketed a lot of money
Calvin Coolidge takes over for Harding when he dies
Hoover started off really popular

4.-Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads

comedians, magicians, actors/actresses, baseball, boxing, golf, tennis, football, writing, jazz music, dance marathons, flagpole sitting

5.-Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs

GDP (gross domestic product)- total amount of goods and services produced in a country in one year
GDP went up until 1929
stock market booming throughout the 20s
Dow Jones - 30 largest companies (if it does well the U.S. does well)
tariff - tax on imported goods
progressives wanted to lower tariffs
high tariffs will force people to buy American goods instead of foreign goods
The Era of "Permanent Prosperity" "As long as everyone has faith, everything will be fine."

6.-Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case

Communism - promotes equality
The workers (middle/lower class people) will take over the rich and the government and everyone will share
We were really afraid that communism would come to the U.S. would take over
Palmer Raids - people were deported for being thought to be communist
Immigration Act of 1924 (National Origins Act/Asian Exclusion Act) greatly reduced immigration to the US..aimed at restricting immigration of Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, and Jews & severely restricted the immigration of African and prohibited the immigration of Arabs, East Asians, and Indians
The purpose of the act was "to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity
W.A.S.P. (white, anglo, saxon, protestants)

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 appliances

washer, iron, vacuum, curling iron, hairdryer, dishwasher, sewing machine, lights
night shifts at factories

11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and the airplane

12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial

It was illegal to teach evolution in school and Scopes did
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) said they would defend anyone willing to break the law
Clarence Darrow was hired by the ACLU to defend Scopes
William Jennings Bryan was the special prosecutor
Scopes didn't deny teaching evolution, the trial really about evolution in schools

13.-Stock Market Crash-causes

stock prices were grossly inflated, did not have real value-watered stock prices
over speculation in the 20s..led to watered stock
buying on margin..led to people being in debt and watered stock prices
overproduction of goods/underconsumption of goods
uneven distribution of wealth
too much borrowing from banks
federal reserve increased interest rates
lack of government regulation

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