January 11-15

[1Blake]

Monday & Tuesday - worked on our 1920's/1930's projects

Wednesday - 

Starting to present videos

Thursday - 

Presented videos

1920’s Topics:

 

1.-Prohibition and gangsters - 

2.-Women’s rights and freedoms - 

• 1920 - the 19th amendment was passed which gave women the right to vote 
• The New Age Women - more went to college, started to work more
  • Jobs - clerk, cleaning, waitress, teaching, nursing
• By 1930 most women had a well paying job
• The ideal of womanhood had four characteristics:
  • Piety
  • Purity
  • Domesticity
  • Submissiveness
• World War I interrupted the campaign woman suffrage
• Women took the men's jobs in WWI showing the country that they could do hard work
• The 1920's were a good decade for women's rights
• Margaret Sanger - In 1921, she founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL)
  • Today known as Planned Parenthood
• In 1928, women were earning 39% of the college degrees given in the United States
  • In 1900, it was 19%
• The 1928 Olympics were the first Olympics that women were allowed to compete in
• The Flapper
  • Short hair
  • Short dresses
  • Shapeless dresses - eliminated corsets
  • Smoked, drank in public and earned their own money

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,
• A period after WWI was fearful of communist takeover,
• Soviet Union was in the middle of becoming communist,
• Guy that came up with communism is Karl Marx,
• communism - government has total control over the people,
• Vladimir Lenin - first Soviet leader,
• The Palmer Raids - Mitchell Palmer; attorney general at the time,
• The Immigration Act of 1924 greatly reduced immigration to US (feared they were communists),
• The law was aimed at restricting immigration of Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, and Jews,
• Severely restricted the immigration of Africans and prohibited the immigration of Arabs, East Asians, and Indians,
• The purpose of the was "to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity

7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK -

• Harlem Renaissance was when the African American culture start to rise/flourish
• Cotton Club - white people were going to a black community where only white people were allowed and famous black musicians would perform for them such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and etc.
• Wanted to keep our country pure,
• Anti-black, anti-Catholics, anti-immigrants

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 appliances - 

11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and the airplane - 

• Used for: war, airmail, transportation (not very often), entertainment purposes, feats (who can do this first type of thing)
• Charles Lindbergh - first person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic
• Amelia Earhart - was the first woman to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic,
  • Was going to be the first person to fly nonstop around the world, but crashed in the southern pacific
    • People believe she ran out of gas and drowned

12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial - 

13.-Stock Market Crash-causes -