Jan. 23rd- Jan. 27th

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1.-Prohibition and gangsters

Prohibition- Made alcohol illegal to buy sell or transport alcohol
- Organized crime ran the bootlegging operation
- Increased crime
- Women pushed for this
Gangsters
- Each City had a leader
- Al Capone (Scar Face) was the most famous
  - Took over for his uncle
    - Told to keep a low profile
  - Responsible for many killings
    - Valentine day Massacre
      - He was convicted for the killing but Tax fraud
  - New York Leader
  - Lived a lavish life
  - Became mental
    - Side effects from an STD

2.-Women’s rights and freedoms

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

Elections/ Pres
- Warren Harding 1920
- Calvin Coolidge 1924
- Herbert Hoover 1928
  - Iowa born
Republican Policies
- Rugged Individualism
  - Succeed on your own
- Laissez Faire
  - Hands off; Government shouldn't interfere with business
- Trickle Down Economics
  - If people who have higher salaries make more, rest of the economy will benefit
- Isolationism
  - Stay away from foreign affairs
- Normalcy
  - Focusing to make a America Better
Teapot Dome Scandal
- Harding Pres
- Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall
- Navy petroleum being leased to private companies
- Considered the biggest scandal in the 20's

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

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

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

Where the government rounded up and deported hundreds of immigrants with radical political view
- Causes
  - Fear of Communism
  - Sparked when Russia was taken over by communists
Stories of Communism
- Series of Bombing in 1919
  - Lead by General, A. Mitchell Palmer
  - Led a campaign against communists
  - Arrested over 6000 people on NYD 1920
  - Palmer Raids
    - Mass arrest and deportations
- Sacco and Vanzetti
  - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-Americans
  - Convicted of robbery and murder
  - Sentenced to death
Anti- Immigration
- Immigration Acts 1924
  - Limiting numbers of Immigrants coming in
  - 2% of each nationality were let in
- National Origins Act
  - Discrimination of immigrants
- Asian Exclusion Act

7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK

Harlem Renaissance

Harlem, New York
Black Resided in Harlem
- The Great Migration - Massive influx when they African American move from the south
  - North Booming in jobs and opprotunities
  - Southern Rascist Groups - KKK
Harlem People
- Musicians
  - Bessie Smith
    - Downhearted Blues
    - One of the highest paid singers of her time
- Poets
  - Langston Hughes
- Actors
- Artists
Jazz
- Cotton Club in Harlem
  - Billie Holiday
  - Bessie Smith
  - Louis Armstrong
KKK
- Established in 1866 by Ex-Confederate Soldier
- WASP were
  - Racists
  - Anti - immigrant
  - Catholics
- Leader
  - Hiram Wesley Evans
    - Imperial Wizard
- Embedded themselves in the Government
  - Not just poor people
    - Lawyers
    - Doctors
    - Ministers
- What they did
  - Burnt Churches
  - Raped
  - Murdered
  - Castrated
  - RARELY CAUGHT

8.-Lots of strikes-Boston Police, US Steel, United Mine Workers

Labor Unions
- Organized Group of works
  - Working for a common goal
  - Power in numbers
Boston Police strike
- About it
  - September 9th, 1919
  - Higher Pay, shorter hours, better conditions
  - Criminals looted the city during the strike
  - They fired the police on strike were fired, then gave the new ones the benefits the strikers were fighting for
- Effects from strikes
  - $350,000 in property damage
  - 3/4 of officers fired
  - 1300 new police officers
US Steel Strike
- AFL going on strike against US Steel
  - Wanted higher wages and better working conditions and 8 hour day and the recognition of Unions
- Results
  - 300,000 quit jobs
  - Work day was reduced to 8 hours
  - Failed after 15 weeks
United Mine Workers Strike
- started after Tom Mooney arrest for mine explosion killing ten people
- Protester's pay docked
- Was a nation wide strike
- Demanded 50% pay raise, and 6 hour work days
- Results
  - Workers got a 27% wage increase
  - Shorter work day
  - 5 day work week
Slowly but surely they were getting their way

9.-The Model T and the impact of the automobile

10.-Electricity in the homes and new appliances

11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhardt and the airplane

12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial

American Civil Liberties Union
Dayton, Tennessee, May 1925
Butler Law
- Darwin's theory wasn't allowed to be taught in schools
John T. Scopes
- High School science teacher and football coach
- Was Arrested
Clarence Darrow
- Lawyer
- Represented Scopes
- Leading member ACLU
Williams Jennings Bryan
- Led Prosecution
- 3 time pres candidate
- Wanted to ban the teaching of evolution
Out come
- Huge media circus
- Scopes was Guilty $100 later fine dismissed

13.-Stock Market Crash-causes

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