Monday- No school
Tuesday- No School
Wedneday-
Birth Control was more available- Margaret Sanger
Women picked up jobs when men left fot the war earning good income
Women have to give up jobs as men returned
Flapper Girls
- Known for energetic freedom, young carefree women
- Bars became a famous place for flapper girls
- Wore bobbed haircuts, losse dresses, high heels
- Smith vs Hoover and Hoover won demandingly
- Hoover won 58.2% and won 444 electortal votes and Smith only got 87 electoral votes
- Trickle down theory- loved republicans because of the booming ecnonmy tax cuts to the rich
- Isolation-as a country we isolated ourselves and focus on America
- Normalacy- going back to focusing on America avoid european conflicts
Thursday
- Laisez Faire- Government stays off
- Rugged Indvidualism- work hard you will find success
- What is communism and why were we afriad of it? What is the red scare? and what impact did have on our country
- Fear of communism, 150,00 anarchisrs ir communists and strikes in 1919
- Goverment ownership of the production of good and services and taking money from the wealthy and giving it to the poor
- Red scare was 1919-1920
- Spread of communism in other countries
- Soviet Union was a world superpower
- Afraid that US citizens were sharing information
- House Comitee on Un American Activities
- Emergency Immigration act of 1921
- Palmer Raids- first raid at headquarters if the Union if Russian Workers, second raid, third raid, aressted a lot of immigrants
- What was a long lasting impact of the Monkey Trial?
- What was the ruling of the case?
- John Thomas Scopes- teaching evoultion in viloation
- Lawyers William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow
- First day setbacks, carnival outside the courthouse, closing speech, guilty
- After the trial he was offered the same position, but chose to leave and be an engineer
- Effects on religion church and state can't teach religion
- Effects on society- shouldn't be taught
- Effects on education
- William Jennings Bryan- he said he was a bible expert and called him to testify
- What was the Harlem Renassance? What effects did it have on black culture
- Harlem is a neighborhood in New York City
- Black families started taking over the Harlem neighhorbood in the city of new york
- Landlords needed builiding full, artistic explosion
- Blacks were getting regognized for something good for the first time, it was good for culture and gained major popularity for their talent
- Du Bois- african american spokesperson
- A white only group that terrozied blacks and others who follow them, they wanted to rid the country of other who weren't apart of the KKK mainly blacks
- The KKK were at their highest point in the 1920's and they weren't happy about the harlem ressiance
- Lynching, kill someone by hanging for an offense without legal trial
Friday-
Steel Mill Strike
September 22,1919, to Janurary 8, 1920 took place within the US Steel Corp'
- 300,000 people quit their jobs/ workers were beaten, reduced to 8 hours a day, union was still not fully reconginized
- Higher wages, less work hours
- Boston Police Stike September 9, 1919
Took place on the streets of Boston, 1,100 workers
- Higher Wages and raises in salary
- People in Boston used this as a excuse to riot, new officers were granted higher pay and holidays
- United Mine Workers Strike
- April 1919, ended in mid decembe
- higher wages and shorter work days
- schools were closed due to lack of heat, better pay increase 14%
- Srikes were declared unlawful
- Electricity use began in the 20's
- Electricity affected homes in the 20's , n 1920 35% of homes had it, in 1929 68% of homes had it
- Brought electricty devices, boosted industries such as entertainment industry
- Most Urban homes had electricty at the end of the 1920's, people could get more things done at once, movies became more popular, sent laundry to laundromats and laundresses instead of doing themselves
- Farms did not have the access that cities did, only 3% of farms had electricty, power lines had to be built
- The cost was too expensive for private power companies, the government helped in 1930
- Washing machines, regridgerators, vacuum cleaners, irons, dishwashers, TV, Radios, Telephones for entertainment
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