Today we went over forum posts and continued working on our video presentations.
1.-Prohibition and gangsters- prohibition is the banning of making, selling, and transporting of alcohol. The police really didn't enforce the prohibition. Most focused on suppliers rather than common people. Women pushed for the prohibition to get a better life. Business owners liked it because more work was done. Prohibition occurred because of the illegal money being made. It was supposed to stop crime, but it increased. The 21st amendment was passed in 1933. The prohibition was a noble experiment. Supporters were Christians(Protestants) from the south. Alcohol was allowed for medical and religious purposes. Bootlegging- selling and making illegal alcohol. Volstead act created the prohibition. The reasons why the prohibition failed: People despised it, The prohibition bureau was underfunded and only had 1,500 workers, Organized crime became commonplace. Most alcohol was imported illegally from Canada, Cuba, or the West Indies. Speakeasies- illegal bars, called speakeasies because they were put on the down low. Al Capone is the most famous bootlegger/mobster. Capone was arrested because of tax evasion. St. Valentine's Day Massacre- Had his people dress as cops and murder another gang, led to Capone winning the gang war and gaining more ground. The biggest threat to the bootleggers was not the police or the bureau of prohibition, it was the hijacker. Many people died from moonshine.
2.-Women’s rights and freedoms- 1920's was a big decade for women. They received the right to vote. Womanhood characteristics- Piety, Purity, Domesticity, and Submissiveness, developed through the 1800's. WWI speed up the process of women getting the right to vote because they stepped up and joined the workforce. 19th amendment passed in 1920. Flapper girls were girls who went against what women before them had done. Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League. By 1928 39% of college degrees were given to women. 1928 was the first time women were allowed to compete in the Olympics. Pink Collared jobs were jobs that were supposed to be fore women. Examples of these jobs: Secretaries, teachers, nurses, telephone operators. The flapper- short hair, short dresses, smoke, drank, made their own money. Snuggle pupping was common in high schools and colleges. These parties died out in the 1930's. The it girl of the 1920's was Clara Bow. She was a flapper that all girls wanted to be like. Flappers were mostly in cities, most women were not flappers.
3.-Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy- Presidents of the 1920's, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. Scandals rocked Harding's administration. He was known for having alcohol in the White House and sneaked women into the White House. Coolidge philosophy was to do nothing. Hoover went down in history as one of the worst presidents ever. He was blamed for the depression.
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- Rebirth of African American Culture- proud to be black. Marcus Garvey promoted the move back to Africa. This brought up the power of the KKK. They used violence to keep blacks down.
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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