January 11-15

[3 Taylor]

Monday- Work on 1920 project

Tuesday- Work on 1920 project 

Wednesday- Present

Thursday- Present

Friday- Present

• Prohibition/Gangsters
  • prohibition
    • 18th
      • illegal to purchase/transport/sell/make
    • noble experiment
    • pushed by churches/women/south/west
    • people thought it would make the economy perfect, no more child abuse, crime, etc.
    • allowed for certain uses (communion/meds)
    • Volstead act
      • enforced law
    • why did it fail
      • people despised it
      • prohibition bureau was underfunded/not many workers/police didn't help
      • organized crime became more common
    • Organized Crime
      • Came about as a result of prohibition
      • Every major city had it's gang
      • Al Capone's bootlegging business in Chicago made over 60 million dollars a year
      • Due to gang violence, only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition by 1925
      • Prohibition was repealed in 1933 by the 21st amendment
    • bootlegging
      • illegally making or distributing alcohol
    • speakeasies
      • illegal bars that sold alcohol
      • had secret compartments to hid alcohol from police
    • police went for suppliers mainly
  • Al Capone
    • tommy gun
    • caught for tax evasion
    • still ran his business while in jail

• Women's rights/freedoms
  • ideal womanhood
    • piety- religious
    • purity- don't drink/smoke, be faithful to husband
    • domesticity- stay home, take care of kids, cook, clean
    • submissiveness- do what is said
  • WWI
    • made society think that women were able to do things that men could
  • 19th
    • august 20,1920
    • allowed women to vote
  • Margaret Sangerworking outside of home
    • founded american birth control league in 1921 
      • women could control their bodies
      • educated women about birth control methods
  • flappers
    • short hair
    • short dresses
    • smoke/drank alcohol
    • didn't wear corsets
  • education
    • 1928- women earned 40% of all college degrees in US
    • 1900- 19%
  • olympics
  • women allowed to compete in 1928
  • "pink collared" jobs
    • low paying jobs
    • gave women taste of world
    • examples
      • secretaries
      • teachers
      • telephone operators
      • nurses
  • Clara Bow
    • "the" flapper of the 20's
    • in 58 films in 11 years
• Politics