January 11-15

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      • Repealed Prohibition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
  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
      • Pink Collared Jobs
        • Low paying service occupations
        • Made less money than men did doing the same jobs
        • Examples
          • Secretaries
          • Teachers
          • Telephone operators
          • Nurses
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