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1/18- Finished presentations
1/19- Notes
- In 1925 tennesee passed the first law making it illegal to teach evolution in school
- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said it would defend any teacher willing to break the law
- John Scopes, biology teacher from Dayton, accepted.
- Scopes taught evolution and was arrested
- Clarence Darrow was hired by the ACLU to defend Scopes
- William Jennings Bryan was the special prosecutor
- Scopes did not deny teaching evolution
- Trial was really about evolution in schools
- Buying on Credit- "Buy now, pay later" Stocks market was booming= buying on margin
- The Era of "Permanent Prosperity" "As long as everyone has faith, everything will be fine."
- The Ideal of womanhood: Piety, Purity, Domesticity, dubmissiveness.
- Women took the men's jobs in WW1 to show they can work hard.
- In 1921, margaret Sanger found the American Birth Control League(ABCL) now known as Planned parenthood. Women were then able to control their own bodie. This movement educated women about existing in the buisness world.
- 1928 women were earning 39% of the college degrees gien in the United States
- In 1900, it was 19% today is 60%
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