went over presentation
went over the Obama presidency
1.-Prohibition and gangsters
- The 18th amendment banned making or selling alcohol but drinking or owning it was not illegal
- Gangsters were selling and making alcohol illegally.
- crime rate increased by 24% and drug addiction went up by 44%
- people thought drinking was damaging America
- Al Capone was the most famous gangster, 6th grade he beat a teacher up and dropped out.
- he worked in a bar and also beat up people for money
- was nicknames scar-face because he was cut in a fight, moved to Chicago to avoid murder charges.
- he paid off officials to allow him to sell alcohol
- was caught for tax fraud and went to alcatraz and could run his buisnes from georgia and died 8 years later
2.-Women’s rights and freedoms
- woman could finally vote, they thought that the new generation was threatening family values
- African american woman got more rights and a lot of the young woman moved to the cities
- woman could work and go to college
- number of working woman rose 25%
- they wanted more rights like higher wages and new divorce laws and working condition
- margaret anger started a birth controll leauge in 1921
3.-Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy
- Warren G. Harding was the 29th president and he cared more about America then foreign country.
- James Cox was the democratic candidate and he wanted lower income tax and focused on domestic issues.
- Teapot Dome Scandal an oil company bribed the government for the oil out of the rock formation
- Calvin Collage became the 30th president and he focused on a modern U.S. and reduced taxes and passed Indian citizenship
- John W. Davis was a U.S. representative and tried to crack down the monopolies on the steel mills.
- Herbert C. Hoover was the 30th president he was from Iowa and pushed for the common man and he failed to recognize the severity of the depression.
- Alfred E. Smith tried to bring more urbanization and was the leader of PM and was anti prohibition he was a catholic
- normalisiam and isolationism - Rugged Indivigualism people should pull their own weight and beleieves in Laissez-Faire
4.-Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads
- People liked to dance and a big fad was flag pole sitting, movies were verry popular
5.-Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs
- the model T was mass produced, there was a really good economy, farmers got hit by the depression sooner.
- A stalk is a part ownership in a company and people make money on them.
- People started buying on credit , there was high tariffs on imported goods
- lots of strikes hapend and Boston didn't have any police and many of them didn't get their jobs back
- steel strike - 350,000 workers went on strike it hapend in Ohio still known as the AFL its a labor union
- united mine workers strike, wanted more pay and less hours
6.-Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case
- Fear that communists would take over America from Russia
- Bolshevik revolution started so they started to come to America to be free
- General Palmer stated raiding homes and taking people who might be communists and put them in jail.
- they made Anti-Immigration acts - limited number of immigrants and they had to pay money to mover here plus people from Eastern Asia and Europe were forbidden.
- Sacco and Vanzetti case - 2 immagrants robbed shoe factory and killed sombody but there was no evedence but they blamed them.
7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK
- Cultural social and artistic time period for African Americans
- they are mostly from the south because they fled the south to express their beliefs
- kkk is a hate group they hated blacks, catholics, and jews
- wanted America to be all white and protistant
8.-Lots of strikes-Boston Police, US Steel, United Mine Workers
9.-The Model T and the impact of the automobile
- $250 for a car and about 40% of the cars were model T
- They topped out at about 45 mph and only had 20hp and it was a hand crank start, weight about 1200lbs
- they sold 15 million motel T's they were the cheapest cars
- GM made a car for about $680 they said that that they shouldn't offer cheap cars but better quality they had a variety of colors
- Crystler was about $1000 for a car and they could go 70mph and they were the sports car of the day they had hydrolic breaks and had the first electric start.
- started the replaceable oil filter and rubber engine mounts to make the car not shake as bad.
10.-Electricity in the homes and new applicances
- Thomas Edison made the first light bulb that was reliable
- the vacuum cleaners, refrigerates, and washing machines all used electricity.
- 2/3 of americans had electricity and 1/2 of the fridges sold were electic
- There was not alot of power in cities and 35% of cities had eectiricity but only 10% of farmers had electricity
11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhardt and the airplane
12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial
- A substitute teacher taught evolution and got fired
- The judge was bias and was against scopes but was a christian
- brain was called to the stand and was humiliated and made up answered to amuse the crowd
- scopes was convicted and had to pay $100.
13.-Stock Market Crash-causes
- people were unable to pay loans back so they lost their stalks.
- buying on margin was where people could get more money on less amounts of stalk
- companies were over producing their product which affected the companies products
- people weren't paying banks back so most banks went bankrupt and the rural areas were the worst and half of banks shut down
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