January 11th- 15th (1920's Research)

Monday- Worked on 1920's presentations

Tuesday- Continued working on 1920's presentations

Wednesday- Started presenting 1920's projects

Nicknames
- Republican Era
- Jazz Age
- The Lost Generation (War)
- Boom to Bust
- The Roaring 20's
- Decade of Normalcy
- Prosperity Decade
- Prohibition Era
- The Advertising Age
- The Golden Age of sports
Prohibition "The Noble Experiment
- 18th Amendment (1920-1933)
  - The manufactures, sale and transportation of alcoholic drinks were illegal
  - Supporters believed alcohol brought about corruption, crime, wife and child abuse and accidents
  - Supporters came mostly from the rural South and West (areas with a lot of Protestants)
  - Anti-Saloon League
  - Alcohol was allowed for medical religious purposes
  - Prescriptions
  - At first saloons closed
  - The Volstead Act created the Prohibition Bureau to enforce the law
Why it failed
- People despised it Saw it as government meddling in people's lives
- The Prohibition Bureau was underfunded, Had 1,500 people to supervise the country
- Organized crime became a common thing (Murders, prostitution, black marketing ect.)

Thursday- Taking notes and Presentations

Exceptions
- Drink for medical reasons
- Religious reasons
Bootlegging
- Illegally making or distributing alcohol
- people transport and make it
- Some were imported from Canada, Cuba, and West Indies
- Carried the alcohol on their legs
Speakeasies
- illegal bars underground to obtain alcohol
- Could be anywhere
- Needed a card or password
- Had secret departments that lowered the alcohol from police
Organized Crime
- Every city had it's gang
- Al Capone made over $60 million per year
- Only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition
- Repealed in 1933 by the 21st Amendment
- Used Tommy Guns
Women
- Cult of Domesticity
  - Developed throughout 1800's
  - The Ideal of women hood had 4 characteristics
    - 1. Piety (Religious person)
    - 2. Purity (Restraining from sexual and drinking activities)
    - 3. Domesticity (Stay home, take care of kids and home)
    - Submissiveness (listen to their husband- must agree and keep quiet)
- World War I (1917-1918)
  - Interrupted the campaign for women suffrage
  - Took jobs for men in factories proving they could work just as hard
- 19th Amendment
  - August 20th, 1920
  - Women had the right to vote
- Margaret Sanger
  - Founded birth control
  - Planned Parenthood
  - women were able to control their own bodies
  - educated women about existing birth control methods
- Education
  - by 1928, Women earned 39% of college degrees
  - in 1900 was 19%
  - Today almost 60% (Try hard)
- 1928 Olympics
  - Some argued that is was historically inappropriate since women did not compete in ancient Greek Olympics
  - Would cause injuries
  - 60's was when women could start playing high school sports
- Pink Collared Jobs
  - Low paying occupations
  - Made less money than men doing the same job
  - Secretaries
  - Teachers
  - Telephone operators
  - Nurses
- The Flapper
  - Short Hair
  - Short Dresses to the knees
  - Shapeless dresses
  - Smoked drank in public and earned their own money
  - Most were Northern, urban, single, young, middle class

Friday- 1920's Notes and Presentations

Petting Parties
- Hangout and make out parties -Cuddling
- Common in High school and College
- Snuggle-puppies
- Eventually spread to cars
- Died out by the end of the 1930's
Clara Bow
- Became THE Flapper girl
- She appeared in 58 films between 1922 and 1933
- Seen as the leading sex symbol of the 1920's

1.-Prohibition and gangsters

2.-Women’s rights and freedoms

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

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January 11th- 15th (1920's Research)

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