Monday - We worked on project.
Tuesday - We worked on project.
Wednesday - We started watching videos today.
1920’s Topics:
1. Prohibition and gangsters
- Prohibition (The Noble Experiment)
- 18th Amendment
- Supporters believed alcohol brought
- corruption
- crime
- wife
- child abuse
- accidents
- Supporters were from the south and west (lots Protestants lived in those areas)
- Bible Belt
- Anti-Saloon League and Women's Christian Temperance Association led the act
- Volstead Act
- created the Prohibition Bureau
- Prohibition failed
- People despised it, government meddling in people's lives
- Prohibition Bureau was underfunded, 1,500 people supervise the country
- Organized crime became commonplace
- Bootlegging
- Illegally making or distributing alcohol
- people carried liquor in the legs of boots
- most imported alcohol came in from Canada, Cuba, or the West Indies
- Speakeasies
- to obtain alcohol illegally
- underground to secret bars
- people spoke easily or quietly about it
- could be anywhere
- had to have a card or password to enter
- Organized Crime
- result of prohibition
- major cities had gangs
- Al Capone's bootlegging business in Chicago
- made $60 million a year
- St. Valentine massacre
- Tommy Gun
- Taken down by tax evasion
- Let out of prison for health problems
- only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition due to gang violence
2.Women’s rights and freedoms
- Cult of Domesticity
- Developed throughout 1800's
- Ideal womanhood
- Piety - religious acting
- Purity - don't drink or smoke, abstinence
- Domesticity - stay at home, take care of kids, house chores
- Submissiveness - follow husbands orders
- World War 1
- interrupted the campaign for woman
- Women took men's jobs in WW1
- showed the country that they could do hard work
- The 19th Amendment
- August 20, 1920
- The Roaring 20's
- Good decade for women
- 19th Amendment
- Flapper Girls
- short hair
- short dresses
- shapeless dresses
- no corsets
- smoke in public
- drank in public
- earned their own money
- jazz music
- unchaperoned dancing
- makeup
- voted
- not all women were flappers
- most were traditional-stay at home, do the housework
- mostly were
- Northern
- Urban
- Single
- Young
- Middle-class
- Birth Control
- able to control their own bodies
- educated women about existing birth control methods
- Education
- 39% of the college degrees earned by women
- 1928 Olympics
- first Olympics that women allowed to compete in
- Many arguments against it
- physical competition was "injurious" to women
- historically inappropriate since women didn't compete in ancient Greek Olympics
- Pink Collared Jobs
- women a taste of the work world
- Low paying service occupations
- Made less money than men
- Example jobs
- secretaries
- teachers
- telephone operators
- nurses
- Petting Parties
- kissing fest
- snugglepugging (cuddling)
- high schools and colleges
- Girls liked being called snuggle-puppies
- made fun of boys if they didn't
- sissies
- flat-tires
- moved to cars
- died out by the end of the 1930's
- Clara Bow
- THE FLAPPER
- appeared in 58 films
- 1922-1933
- leading sex symbol of 1920's
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
7.Harlem Renaissance-KKK
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
12.Scopes-Monkey Trial
13.Stock Market Crash-causes
Thursday - Continued watching videos and continued notes above.
Friday - Continued watching videos and continued notes above.
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