Monday
- Continued work on 1920's/1930's project
Tuesday
- Continued work on 1920's/1930's project
Wednesday
- Prohibition and Gangsters
- 18th Amendment
- Prohibition - banned the manufacturing, selling, and transporting of alcohol
- Highly supported by women and rural South and West areas
- Thought to end corruption and crime
- Did the opposite
- Alcohol was allowed for medicinal and religious purposes
- Why prohibition failed
- People despised it, saw it as government was meddling in their lives
- Prohibition Bureau was underfunded
- Organized crime became commonplace
- Bootlegging
- Illegally making or distributing alcohol
- People would hide alcohol and sell it illegally
- Speak Easies
- Underground secret bars
- Called speak easies because people would have to keep it secret
- Required passwords to get in
- Organized crime
- Gang violence created only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition
- Al Capone made $60 million a year
- 21st Amendment
- Repealed Prohibition
- Gangsters
- Tommy Gun
- Preferred weapon of gangsters
- Al Capone
- Caught for Tax Evasion
- Tommy Gun
- 18th Amendment
- Women
- Cult of Domesticity
- Piety
- Leader of religious acting in the home
- Purity
- Don't drink
- Only be with one man
- Domesticity
- Stay at home
- Take care of kids
- Do chores
- Submissiveness
- Listen to your husband
- Man is the leader
- Piety
- WWI
- Women Campaign
- Interrupted suffrage movement
- Women took men's job
- Showed men that women could work
- Winning the vote
- 19th Amendment
- Gave women right to vote
- August 20, 1920
- Women Campaign
- Roaring 20's
- Women got the right to vote
- Flapper girls
- Short hair
- Short dresses
- Smoke, drank, earned their own money
- Margaret Sanger
- Founded American Birth Control League (ABCL)
- Women were able to control their own bodies
- Educated Women about birth control methods
- Education
- By 1928 women were earning 39% of the college degrees given in the US
- 1900 19%
- Today 60%
- 1928 Olympics
- First Olympics women were allowed to compete in
- Argued that women weren't in Ancient Greek Olympics or that they were going to get hurt
- First Olympics women were allowed to compete in
- Pink Collared Jobs
- Low paying service occupations
- Made less money than men did doing the same jobs
- Examples
- Secretaries
- Teachers
- Telephone operators
- Nurses
- Cult of Domesticity
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