January 11-15

Monday- started video

Tuesday- worked on video

Wednesday- started 1920's videos

Thursday- continued videos and notes (below)

Friday-

1.-Prohibition and gangsters

2.-Women’s rights and freedoms

Right to Vote- 19th Amendment
Typical women jobs:
- clerk, cleaning
- waitress
- teaching
- nursing
- seamstress
- telephone operators
Decade made it okay for women to start going to college and getting jobs
Flapper Girls
Short hear
Short dresses
- heels
- socks
- dress to knees
- scarf
- not wearing a corset
- red lipstick
- attitude "go to college, get a job, date more than one guy, don't have to be married by 20"
smoked, drank in public
earned their own money
F. Scott Fitzgerald described Flappers as "Lovely, expensive and about 19."
- 1920's. a new woman was born
- Smoked, drank, danced, voted
- Cut her hair, wore make-up, went to petting parties
- She was giddy and took risks
Cult of Domesticity
- Developed throughout 1800's
- Ideal of womanhood had 4 characteristics:
  - piety (very religious)
  - purity (save themselves until marriage, only date one person)
  - domesticity (stay home, clean the house, put food on the table, take care of family)
  - submissiveness (woman isn't going to fight against the husbands power)

WWI
- WWI interrupted the campaign for woman suffrage
- Women took the men's jobs in WWI showing the country that they could do hard work
Roaring 20's
- good decade for women's rights
- 19th amendment
- flapper girls
- going to college more
- working more outside the home
Margaret Sanger
- founded American Birth Control in 1921
  - now known as Planned Parenthood
- women were able to take control of their own bodies
- movement educated women about existing birth control methods
Education
- 1928- women were earning 39% of the college degrees given in US
- 1900- it was 19%
- Today- almost 60%
1928 Olympics
- first Olympics that women could compete in
- arguments about this action
  - some argued that it was historically inappropriate since women did not compete in ancient Greek Olympics
  - others said that physical competition was "injurious" to women
"Pink Collared" Jobs- 120's-1970's
- game women a taste of the work world
- low paying service occupations
- made less money than men did doing the same jobs
  - secretaries
  - teachers
  - telephone operators
  - nurses

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

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

1919-1920
time period after WWI where world was fearful of Communism
Soviet Union had just become communist
Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels came up with communism
Communism- government is in complete control
Vladimir Lenin
Palmer Raids- houses were being bombed and then tried to make sure everyone was caught (radicalists, socialists)
Sacco and Vanzetti- accused of killing a pay master.
- Tried, convicted, and put to death
- Gun that was used was one of theirs
- Italian Radicals (anarchists)
- Today, they would have been found innocent
Ku Klux Klan
- everyone thought they were anti- African American
- Anti- communist
- made sure America was kept "pure"
  - White
  - Anglo
  - Saxon
  - Protestant
Immigration Act of 1924
- Asian Exclusion Act reduced immigrants
- Limiting specific groups of people like Jews and Europeans
- Africa, Asia, Middle East was also reduced
- Purpose was "to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity
- W.A.S.P

7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK

Renaissance- rebirth (of a culture)
Music especially
People from the South moving to cities in the North (African Americans)
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, popular Jazz musicians
Cotton Club- most famous club in NY in 1920's, black performers to an all white crowd

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

Used for entertainment
Charles Lindbergh "Lucky Lindy"
- first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
- most famous person in the 1920's
- racist, anti-Jew, wanted to move to Germany in later 1930's
Amelia Earhart
- crashed in South Pacific somewhere by Howland Island
- tried to be the first person to fly entirely around the world
- ran out of gas, crashed, and drowned

12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial

13.-Stock Market Crash-causes

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