Mon - The forum post leaders talk about their stories they wrote about. Talk about Trumps audience at the inauguration compared to Obama's. Continue history presentations.
- First animated movie - mickey mouse (steamboat willie)
- Big time stuff - Jazz music, board games (monopoly), Magic tricks (houdini), Dancing
- Lots of purchases with credit cards - rapid growth in loans and bank credit
People went into debt by taking out loans to put into the stock market
Tue - Continue presentations
- Lots of smuggling
- Increased crime rate by 400%
- Alcohol related deaths went up
- Made selling, transporting illegal
- Women didn’t like their husbands drunk all the time - wanted the prohibition
- Al capone was the most famous gangster
- Every city had its own leader for crime
- Valentine’s day massacre, 6 rival gang members.
- Based on prohibition.
Wed - Continue Presentations
Thur - Continue Presentations
Fri - Pick new forum post leaders. Continue Presentations
- The federal government rounded up and deported hundreds of immigrants with “radical political views”
- Causes - feared communism
- Story- Series of bombings by radical communists in 1919. General A. Mitchell Palmer led “Palmer raids” (mass arrests and deportations of immigration radicals) arrested over 6000 on New Year’s Day.
- Sacco and Vanzetti case - Italian Americans convicted of robbery and murder and known of radicals and eventually sentenced to death
- Anti-immigration laws because of Red Scare- Immigration act of 1924 restricted amount of immigrants allowed into US each year. 2% of people in each nationality.
- National Origins act- Set of requirements that discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe excluding Asians. Asian exclusion act later.
- Popular appliances- Fridge, washing machine, vacuum
- Used to allow more time for other activities
- In 1920 35% of houses had electricity
- By 1929 68% of homes had it
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