Monday- No school
Tuesday- no school
Wednesday- presentations beginning with the 1920's first. Notes: (topic 7 is mine :)
Thursday- talked about the president and looked at statistics of the president's work (which is mediocre at best in my opinion)
Friday-Presentations (continued)
1.-Prohibition and gangsters
- Prohibition: 18th amendment
- banned alcohol
- selling, transporting manufacturing of alcohol
- People wouldn't follow the law, because they didn't think it was necessary.
- Lead to a black market for alcohol
- Crime rate increased 24%
- Theft- 9%
- homicide- 12.7%
- assault and battery- 13%
- Drug addiction- 44.6%
- Police cost-11.4%
- Why? National mood, practical, religious, moral
- Gangster: member of criminal gang
- Famous gangster Al Capone (Chicago)
- Al Capone: born in 1899, parents from Italy, one of 7 children, beat up a teacher, then the principal beat him up, worked many odd jobs, worked in a bar, beat up people who could not pay back loans.
- Nickname 'scar face', married Mae Coughlin, had a son nicknamed 'sonny', married Mae in 1918, joined five point gang in Chicago, quickly moved up the ranks in the gang.
- In charge of bootlegging, valentines day massacre in 1929, happened in a garage in Chicago,
- He pained off many officials to follow his operation
- US treasury found him by not filing income tax, served 10 years, suffered from syphilis, released in 1939, spent the rest of his life in palm island, Florida, died on January 25th, 1947.
2.-Women’s rights and freedoms
- Role of women- traditional, 'New Woman', and the older gen.
- New women- Flappers, embraced fashions and new ideas
- Traditionalists-feared that the new morality era was threatening family values
- Black american women's lives were also changed in the 1920's due to the influence of the Harlem Renaissance, and changed rural life and urban live in the cities
- Facts: 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. New woman learned to drive, go to college, went to work
- Flappers: cut their hair, drank, smoked, listened to jazz, became sexually liberated, scandalized the older generation (NOT PROSTITUTES!!)
3.-Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy
4.-Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads
- Slang terms :Bee's knees, Banana oil
- Fads:Flagpole sitting, record 13 hours 13 mins, Radio, Hats, PEZ candy, Majong, Dance marathons,
- NFL:September 17th, 1920 1st meeting. Jim Thorpe founder of NFL. By 1922, it was known as the NFL, but it was known as APFA
- Basketball wasn't really that big.
- Entertainment: Jazz music, Charleston dance, etc
5.-Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs
6.-Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case
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
11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and the airplane
12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial
13.-Stock Market Crash-causes
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