January 11th - 14th - Blogs

Monday- Forum post leaders shared their topics

Research and Video work day

Tuesday- Work day

Wednesday- Begin presentations on 1920's and 1930's

Nicknames for the 1920's
- Republican Era
  - Only republican presidents
- Jazz age
  - Jazz was on the rise
- Boom to bust-
- Booming economy to crash of stock market
- Prohibition
  - Banning of Alcohol
- Golden age of sports

Thursday-

Mr. Bruns presents on Women in the 1920's, Prohibition, KKK and the Harlem Renaissance

Prohibition
- Banning of sale, transportation and production of alcohol.
- Cops could be bribed
- Women wanted it
  - Husbands would be drunk and abuse wives
- Prohibition helped with
  - Public drunkenness
  - Disease
- Didn't help
  - Crime
  - Created gangsters
- Who supported?
  - Protestants
  - Women
  - Rural South and West
- Alcohol
  - Allowed for medicinal and religious purposes
  - Prescriptions skyrocketed
- Why did it fail?
  - People hated it
    - Didn't want government to say what they could do
  - Bureau was underfunded
    - Only had 1,500 people
  - Led to organized crime
- Bootlegging
  - Illegally making or distributing alcohol
  - Alcohol could be imported from Canada, West indies and Cuba
- Speakeasies
  - Illegal bars
  - Could be anywhere
  - Moved around a lot
Organized Crime
- Came as a result of Prohibition
- Gangs
  - Violent groups that would bootleg alcohol
  - Arrested on tax evasion
- St. Valentines day massacre
  - Had his people dress as police officers
  - Shoot down opposing gang
Women in the 1920's
- Women had the right to vote
- Ideal womanhood had 4 characteristics
  - Piety
    - Religious
    - Keep religion in the home
  - Purity
    - No smoking and drinking
    - Save yourself for marriage
  - Domesticity
    - Stay home
    - Take care of children
    - Cook meals
    - Cleaning
    - Being happy
  - Submissiveness
    - Obey husband
    - Husband is leader
- World War I
  - Men were fighting in war
  - Women began working in factories
  - Made people realized they should have the right to vote
- 1920- Women get the right to vote
Roaring 20's
- Flappers
  - Going to college
  - Shorter clothes
  - Working outside the home
- Margaret Sanger
  - Planned Parenthood
    - Birth control
    - Women don't have to have children right after high school
- Education
  - Women were earning 39% of college degrees
  - Almost 60% today
- Olympics
  - First women to be in the Olympics
  - Never had women in it before
  - Men thought women would be injured
- "Pink Collared Job"
  - Secretaries
  - Teachers
  - Telephone operators
  - Nurses
- Flapper
  - Short hair
  - Short dress
  - Smoked, drank in public
- Petting Parties
  - Kissing Parties
  - Jazz music
  - unchaperoned dancing
  - Lipstick
  - Snuggle pupping Flappers
  - Spread to cars
  - Died out by the end of the 30's
- Clara Bow
  - THE flapper of the 20's
  - appeared in 58 films in 11 years
  - Sex symbol
- Flappers
  - Not all women in the 20's were flappers
  - Flappers were mostly
    - Northern
    - Urban
    - Single
    - Young
    - Middle Class

Friday-

Mr. Bruns continued presenting on the 1920's

Hijacking
- Rival gangs would steal alcohol
Moonshine
- Made secretly in homemade stills
- Several hundred died from drinking moonshine
- 1929- 700 million gallons of beer were made in american homes
Harlem Renaissance
- Rebirth of Black culture in the U.S.
Presidents of 1920's
- Harding
- Coolidge
  - Do nothing philosophy
    - "World's problems will go away if everyone will sit still"
- Hoover

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