January 18-22

[6Faith]

Monday-

• -Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy
• President Harding, Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover
  • Republican Philosophy
    • Trickle-down Theory
      • Republicans are seen as the rich
      • Republicans give tax breaks to the wealth (Business)
      • Give jobs
      • Pay increase(?)
    • Laissez-faire
      • Do whatever 
      • No distractions 
      • Stay out of business 
    • Rugged individualism 
      • Work hard and you will succeed
    • Normalcy
      • Back to Isolation 
  • Teapot Dome Scandal 
    • Albert Fall Got a lot of land then sold it and pocketed the money
    • Sold the land and it had a lot of oil
    • Oil was expensive 
    • He sold it and then kept the money 
  • Warren Harding's Funeral 
    • Got sick and passed
    • Calvin Coolidge took over
    • Was quite
    • Vice President (replaced old vice president
• Entertainment 
  • Clara Bow
    • Became THE flapper girl
    • The "it" girl
    • She appeared in 57 films
    • seen as the leading sex symbol
    • All girls wanted to be just like her
  • Al Jolson
    • "The" Jazz Singer 
    • White people painted Faces black 
  • The Marx Brothers 
  • Harry Houdini
    • Escape artist 
  • Babe Ruth 
    • Most famous baseball play of the 20's
  • Red Grange 
    • Major football player
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald 
    • Wrote the great Gasspie
    • Famous writer  

Tuesday- 

• Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs
  • Buying on a credit car
    • "Buy now or Pay later"
    • Stock Market was booming 
      • Buying on margin 
  • High Tariff Policy
    • What is a tariff- tax on imports
    • Why did the progressive want to lower tariffs in the early 1900's- It would make more competition
    • Why did the Republicans raise tariffs in the 1920's? It would force people to buy American goods. Pushing foreignness out 
  • The Era of "Permanent Prosperity" 
    • "As long as everyone has faith, everything will be fine."

• Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case (1919 -1920)
  • Karl Marx (German)
    • Founded the Idea of communism 
    • Take away rights and make you fear them
    • Theory (Socialism)
      • The middle and lower class will rise up over the rich and over throw them and create equality.
  • Vladimir Lenin 
    • Believes that the people will share money 
    • Died of sickness
    • wanted people to have power
    • Changed course of communism 
  • The Palmer Raids 
    • Wide spead attack on radicals 
    • Mass arrests were made 
    • 246 people deported 
  • Sacco and Vanzetti
    • Accused of killing a pay master 
    • A gun found at scene was one of theirs 
    • They set a message of "we don't want you here." 

Wednesday-

• Harlem Renaissance-KKK
  • Ku Klux Klan
    • anti communist 
    • Anti- Catholic (But religious) 
    • Spread though out the southern states 
    • Local Klan members–often wearing masks
    • dressed in the organization’s signature long white robes and hoods
    • Usually carried out their attacks at night
    • Acting on their own but in support of the common goals of defeating Radical Reconstruction and restoring white supremacy in the South.
  • Immigration in the 1920's 
    • Wanted immigrants out 
    • National Origins Act/ Asian Exclusion 
    • That greatly reduced immigration to US 
      • The law was aimed at restricting immigration of Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, and Jews
      • Severely restricted immigration of Africans and prohibited the immigration of Arabs, East Asian, and Indians 
      • The purpose of the act was "to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity"
      • W.A.S.P
        • White... Anglo... Saxon....Protestant 
  • Harlem Renaissance
    • Rebirth of African American life 
    • Marcus Garvey 
      • Had a movement
    • Cotton Club 
      • Louis Armstrong and other African Americans played here 
    • Jazz
      • White people because to love Jazz
      • Whites entertained by that

Thursday-

• Lots of strikes-Boston Police, US Steel, United Mine Workers
  
  • Labor Unions
    • Workers get together to go on strike
    • Never usually won 
    • Only because to owners had the upper power 
    • Labeled communist
    • Cost 6-8 hundred dollars a year
  • Good reason to be Labor Union
    • The more people- the more power
    • Power in numbers 
    • Got victories near WWII
  • Strikers 
    • Looked for more money
    • 30 dollars a week
• Electricity in the homes and new appliances
  • Electricity 
    • Candles/ Oil Lamps/ and Kara sine
    • Factories didn't have night shift 
  • Inventions 
    • Washing Machine
    • Sewing Machine 
    • Dishwasher 
    • Vacuum
    • Model T
    • Refrigerator  
  • Automobiles
    • Model T
      • Started at $950
      • Later costed $250
    • Known as 
      • "Tin Lizze" 
    • Changed the way people worked and traveled 
    • More than 15 million Model Ts were built
      • in Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan
    • Built for safety
      • When kids moved out
      • Kids when out on dates 

Friday-

Absent