Monday: Working on projects and recordings
Tuesday: Finishing up projects
Wednesday: Just started presenting project videos, got through our presentation on prohibition/gangsters, renaissance/kkk, and woman rights!
Thursday:
1.-Prohibition and gangsters
the police weren’t paid very well and got bribed
it banned the transportation, selling, and making of alcohol
the factory wanted prohibition to happen so people weren’t hungover or drunk (less accidents)
they got rid of prohibition- lots of crimes arose (al capone)
women pushed for prohibition
more specifically the women's christian temperance union
people believed that alcohol brought about corruption, crime, wife and child abuse and accidents
supporters came mostly from rural south and west (areas a lot of protestants)- they pushed for it
Alcohol allowed for medicinal and religious purposes
prescriptions and sacramental wine orders skyrocketed
At first saloons closed and drunkenness went down
the volstead act created the prohibition Bureau to enforce the law
prohibition failed for three reasons
people despised it. Saw it as government meddling in people's lives
the prohibition bureau was underfunded. Had 1,500 people to supervise the country
lead to major organized crime became commonplace
Bootlegging- Illegally making or distribution alcohol
- most imported alcohol came in from Canada, cuba or west indies
Speakeasies- to obtain alcohol illegally, people went underground to secret bars called speakeasies (people spoke easily or quietly about it)
They could be anywhere (bars and saloons)
Al Capone- Organized crime
Prohibition created organized crimes in major cities and disrespect for the law
One of the well known gangsters was Al Capone. Chicago became “the home” of Al Capone,
He was a gangster that had a bootlegging empire that netted over $60 million a year
Bootlegging- name for a smuggler’s practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots
Al Capone took control of chicago’s liquor business by killing off his competition
the headlines reported 522 bloody gang killings made during the 1920’s made Al Capone became a well known gangster of that period
They caught them for tax evasion
Characteristics of Al Capone
From 1924- 1931 he bootlegged whiskey from Canada
he operated illegal breweries in Chicago
Ran a network of 10,000 speakeasies (Hidden underground nightclubs and saloons)
St valentine’s day massacre
Al capone people and shot part of another gang and took over more of chicago. There were gang wars
2.-Women’s rights and freedoms
They got the right to vote (very important)
Developed through the 1800s
The ideal of womanhood had 4 characteristics
1. piety 2. purity 3. domesticity 4. submissiveness (husband leader of family)
WWI interrupted the campaign for woman suffrage
women took the men’s job in WWI showing the country that they could do hard work
finally 1920 the 19th amendment became part of the US constitution
The 1920s were a good decade for women’s rights
Flapper girls (we were equal to men)
Going to college more
Working more outside the home
Margaret Sanger- birth control was founded, women were able to control their own bodies, this movement educated women about existing birth control methods
Education- 1928 women were earning 39% of the college degrees given in the US, in 1900 it was 19%, today's percent is 60%
1928 Olympics- these were the first olympics that women were allowed to compete, there were many arguments about these actions
some argued that it was historically inappropriate since women did not compete in ancient greek olympics
“pink collared”
gave women a taste of the work world
low paying service occupations
made less money than men did doing the same jobs- ex of jobs. secretaries, teachers, etc
The flapper
short dresses
short hair
shapeless dresses eliminated corsets
- smoke, drank and earned their own money
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