Monday - Worked on our 20s/30s project
Tuesday - Worked on our 20s/30s project
Wednesday - Started presenting projects
1920’s Topics:
*Republican Era - All presidents were republican
*The Jazz Age - Jazz music was huge
*Boom to Bust - Stock market crashed
*Prosperity Decade - Time of prosperity
*Advertising Age - A lot of new popular products (electricity)
*The Golden Age of Sports - Popular time for sports
1.-Prohibition and gangsters
2.-Women’s rights and freedoms
- 19th Amendment people have rights to vote - They now have a say in the government
*Women started going to college and working.
- Typical jobs were clerks, cleaning, waitress, teaching, nursing
- Only 25%
*Flapper Girls
- Bobbed hair, fringe dresses, makeup, no more corsets
- They had a fun attitude, wanted to go to college and get a job before they wanted marriage or kids
- Smoked and drank in public, earned their own money
- Clara Bow - famous actress that was the sex symbol of the 20s
- Most women were traditional
*Cult of Domesticity
- Developed throughout the 1800s
- Four characteristics - piety (religious), purity (wait till marriage, one man, innocent), domesticity (stay home take care of house), submissiveness (woman will not argue, not to speak up)
*WWI
- Interrupted the campaign for woman suffrage
- Women took the mens' jobs while they were at war, showing that they could do hard work
*Margaret Sanger
- 1921 she found the American Birth Control League (ABCL)
- Known as planned parenthood today
- Women could then control their own bodies
*Education
- By 1928, women were earning 39% of the college degrees in the U.S.
- In 1900 it was 19%
- Almost 60% today
*1928 Olympics
- First Olympics that women competed in
- Some argued physical competition wasn't adequate, or historically innapropriate
*"Pink Collared" Jobs 1920s-70s
- Low paying service occupations
- Nurses, secretaries, teachers, cleaning
- Make less money in general
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)
*United States was fearful of communist takeover
- The Palmer Raids - Mitchell Palmer searched out communists, house was bombed
- Hysteria reached an all time high when they heard a communist takeover would happen
- Sacco and Vanzetti - Italian radicals that were accused of killing someone and put to death (probably innocent)
*Russia dropped out of WWI and became communist
- Vladimir Lenin - first Russian leader, he dies
- Joseph Stalin - Made communism what we think of today (fear)
*Communism...
- Karl Marx
- No personal freedoms
*Immigration Act of 1924
- Greatly reduced immigration to the US,
- The law was aimed at restricting immigration of Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, and Jews
- Severely restricted immigration from Aftica, prohibited Arabs, East Asians, and Indians
- The purpose of the act was "to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity"
7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK
- African Americans moving from the south to cities in the North
- Art and music
*Famous jazz artists
- Louis Armstrong
- Duke Ellington
- Cab Callington
- Bassie Smith
- The cotton club, very famous
*Klu Klux Klan
- Tried to keep our country "pure"
- W.A.S.P .... White anglo saxon protestant
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
- Airplanes used for carrying mail, entertainment shows, and competitions, military purposes
*Charles Lindbergh
- Most famous person in U.S.
- First person to fly against the Atlantic Ocean (New York - Paris)
- Lost fame in late 1930s due to racism, non jewish
*Amelia Earhart
- First woman to fly across the Atlantic ocean
- Tried to become the first to fly around the world, crashed in the south pacific and disappeared
12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial
13.-Stock Market Crash-causes
Thursday - Watched more presentations and took notes
Friday
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