Monday
- No School
Tuesday
- No School
Wednesday - Friday - Presentation Notes
1.-Prohibition and gangsters - prohibition is banning alcohol beverages (18th amendment) - led to crime, murder, health problems, and other negative parts of society - Temperance Movement was a social movement against consumption of alcohol, it promotes abstinence, the movements were mostly run by women - Volstead Act was written to enforce 18th Amendment - President Wilson vetoed - it provided penalties for abuse of law
Gangsters - often controlled: liquor sales, gambling, and prostitution - illegally organized bootlegging and speakeasies - Al "Scarface" Capone was a gangster during the prohibition era - leader of Chicago mafia & ran multi-million dollar Chicago operation - start of him being a gangster was when he got expelled at 14 for hitting a female teacher - met Johnny Torrio which led him to become a gangster - got arrested in 1931 for income-tax evasion
2.-Women’s rights and freedoms - Women's suffrage movement lasted from 1848-1920 - 19th Amendment ratified - signed by secretary of State Bainbridge Colby - Women's rights were to vote, go to college, work, and travel - divorces during the 20's doubled - Margaret Sanger opened America's first birth control clinic in 1916 and founded the American Birth Control League in 1921 - new dress: flappers, unconventional attitudes, bob hair, lot of makeup, and drinking and smoking in public - Average women wore loose clothing, cut their hair in bobs, wore cloche hat
3.-Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy - Politics returned to isolationism. went back to focus on ourselves, WW1 ended, democrats dominated in the South, republicans dominate elections, prohibition started, and women fight for rights
Autocratic - do 'x"
Laissez-Faire - do "x" or "y" as you see fit
Democratic which best, "x" or "y"?
Republican platform - laissez faire (hands off), basically let things go, government stays out of business, rugged individualism, fend for yourself, help businesses, dominated in the 1920's
Trickle Down Theory - benefit American businesses, give tax break to investors and businesses, supposed to help everyone
James Cox - Democratic candidate in 1920, from Ohio, FDR as vice president, still wanted league of nations, tried to help education, wanted to help women
Warren Harding - Republican candidate 1920, from Ohio, administration gave bribes, open about what he could do, republican party kept him out of public
Harding's Accomplishments - returned US to normalcy, lowered taxes, raised tariffs, lowered unemployment, established veteran bureau, died 1923 from stroke, reveals teapot dome oil scandal
4.-Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads - Flappers: heavy makeup, short skirts, sheer silk stockings, cigarettes, alcohol, dancing - they were middle class, single ladies who did what they want and were carefree - shorter hair most of the time
Coco Chanel was a designer. Fashion consisted of cloche hats, complex jewelry, sky high heels, floral prints, pastel colors, beads and feathers, "boyish looks" - they didn't have the hourglass figure
Dancing - fox-trot, charleston, lindy hop, texas tommy, and the shimmy were popular types of dance
Jazz - most popular type of music in the 20's - Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington were very famous jazz artists - the Big House Band was a jazzy popular band
Singers - Bessie Smith sang blues and jazzy music, signed Columbia Records in 1923, and had a tragic car accident death - Josephine Baker was known for her banana dress, was a "sex symbol" because she went on stage nude, and was very goofy
Sports - baseball and boxing was the most famous - Babe Ruth has the most impressive career in baseball, he was a hard drinker, womanizer, and had 714 total home runs - Jack Dempsey was a famous boxer - he had a blazing knockout, used pine gum to made his jaw stronger, and brine-soaked his face - steroids were common among athletes
Pro Football - wasn't introduced until August 20, 1920 - APFA --> NFL in 1922 - 4 original teams called Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, and Dayton Triangles
Pro Basketball - wasn't popular because it was too expensive - ABL created in 1925 - NY Celtics
Broadway - very popular - biggest industry in NYC with a lot of gamblers, gangsters, celebrities, chorus girls, and salespeople - called the chorus girls "tough", "broad", or "doll" - many men had affairs with these girls - Damon Runyon was a famous Newspaperman - Famous Gangster was Owen Madden
Hollywood - Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson were famous actors
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
Steel Strike - 1919-1920 - Ohioan led - wanted shorter hours, better wage, and a better environment - walkout of 350,000 workers, failure for workers because most of them got fired or died
United Mine Workers Strike - occurred during November 1, 1919 nationwide because of low wages and long work days - they achieved 27% wage increases, shorter workday, and a 5 day work week - John L. Lewis became leader of United Mine Workers in 1920 - got 27% wage increase for mine workers - viewed as national hero - led campaign for the first Federal Coal Mine Safety Act
Boston Police Strike - September 9, 1919 - higher pay, shorter hours - police expected to act more professional - previous practices are not allowed - at the end police were allowed to form unions
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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