January 4th-February 5th blog post

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1920’s

  • Bobbed hair

  • Heavy makeup

  • Short skirts

  • Sheer silk stockings

  • Cigarettes alcohol dancing

  • Flappers

  • Middle class

  • Single

  • Young

  • Steady economic

  • Jazz clubs

  • Shows

  • Carefree liberated

Zazz

  • Louis Armstrong

  • Duke Ellington

  • Big house bands

Harlem Renaissance

  • Empress of the Blues

  • Columbia records-1923

  • Swing era ‘tragic dreath

  • Banana dress

 

Sports

  • Babe ruth- Baseball

  1. Most impressive career

  2. Hard drinker

  3. Womanizer

  4. 714 total home runs

Jack dempsey -boxing

Fast combos

Blazing knockouts

Pine gum

Brine soaked face

Football

  • College football

  • August 20,1920 (apfa-NFL)

  • 4 original teams

  • Akron

  • Pros

  • Canton

  • Bulldogs

  • Cleveland

  • Indians

  • Dayton

  • Triangles

  • Abl creator 1925

  • Ny celtics

  • Affordability

  • Not popular  

 

Broadway

  • Biggest indestry in NYC

  • Gamblers

  • Gangsters

  • Celebrities

  • Chorus girls

Hollywood

  • Charlie Chaplin

  • Gloria swanton

 

Prohibition-Alcoholic beverages(ban)

  • Production

  • Importation

  • Transportation

  • Sale

 

Movements and acts

  • Social movement  against the consumption of ac

  • Promote abstience

  • Movements were mostly run by women

Volstead act

 

Gansters

Controlled

liquor sales

Gambling

Prostitution

 

Illegally organised

Bootlegging

Speakeasies

Prohibition

Instead of reducing crime it didnt

  • Al Capone

  • Major gangster

  • Saint valentine's day massacre

  • 5 short day week

  • why

  • Low wages

  • Long work days

 

27% Wage increase

 

Women's suffrage movement 1848-1920

19th amendment ratified

Signed by secretary of state Bainbridge colby

 

The “New Women”

  • Vote

  • College

  • Work travel

Divorces during the 1920’s- doubled

Margaret sanger opened America’s first birth control clinic in 1916

Founded the american birth control league 1921

 

New dress

  • Unconventional attitudes

  • Clothing

  • Hair was cut into bobs

  • Lots of make up

  • Independent woman

  • flappers

Average woman

Didn't have the attitudes flappers had

Lose restrictive clothing

Cloche hats

 

Boston Police strike

  • September 9th,1919

  • Higher pay

  • Shorter hours

  • Police expected to act more professional

  • Illegality is necessary to preserve legality

  • What happens

  • False reportings

  • Prompted property damage

  • Spread of communism

  • Allowed to form unions

  • Protect and further rights rights or interests



Politics

  • Returned to isolationism

  • Went back to focus on ourselves

  • Ww1 ended

  • Democrats dominated the south

  • Republicans dominated the elections

  • Prohibition started

  • Woman fight for rights

 

  • Laissez-Faire- Do x or y as you see fit

  • Autocratic Dictator do it

  • Democratic which is better

Republican platform

  • Laissez-Faire(hands off)

  • Basically let things go

  • Government stays out of businesses

  • Dominated in the late 1920’s

  • Rugged individualism- defend yourself

 

Trickle down theory

  • Benefit american business

  • Give tax break to investors and businesses

  • Suppose to help everyone

James Cox

  • Democratic Candidate 1920

  • From ohio

  • FDR as vice president

  • Still wanted league of nations

  • Tried to help education

  • Wanted to help woman

 

Warren Harding

  • Republican candidate

  • Return to normalcy

  • From ohio

  • Bribed

  • Lowered taxes

  • Raised tariffs

  • Lowered unemployment

  • Established veteran

  • Died in 1923 from stroke

  • Reveals Teapot Dome scandal



Teapot dome

  • Secretary sent to prison

  • Navy oil reserves sent operators

  • Oil companies drilled on federal land

  • Hundreds of thousands of dollars

Calvin coolidge

  • Vice President for harding

  • Wins 1924 election

  • The business of America is business

  • No connection with scandals

  • Kept us out of the league of nations

  • Cut more taxes

  • Kept government out of the way

Democratic nominee

  • William gibbs mcAdoo

Robert La Follette

  • Against bribes

  • Hated corruption

  • Progressive movement

Alfred Smith

  • Democrats wanted urban states

  • Wanted to repeal prohibition

  • America was anti catholic

Herbert Hoover  

  • Never ran for office before

  • From iowa

  • In food administration

  • Part of WW1 relief efforts

  • Republicans were on a roll

  • They took credit for 1920’s prosperity

  • Know for the stock market crash

  • Blamed for the great depression

  • Did his best to stop it

  • Hand Tied by his philosophy

  • Started more products

  • Lending institutions put in place  

Economy 1920’s

  • GDP 6,500-8700

  • 2016 GDP- 51,486

  • Electricity impacted inventions

  • Automobile impacted lifestyle

  • Mass production of automobiles & appliances

  • Increased available jobs

  • Buying on credit

  • Buy now pay later

  • Consumes could buy all new appliance

  • Debt doubled between 20s and 30’s

Stock market crash

  • In 1929 production had declined

  • Unemployment rose

  • People had too much debt

  • Buisness didn't have the money

  • Tariffs did not allow money in

Harlem Renaissance

  • This time in history



KKK

  • Founded in 1866

  • Any white man could join

  • They disliked minorities that were not themselves

  • Wasp

  • The immiagration act

  • This was an act for a limited number for immigrants to enter the US

  • The US wanted White skinned people not colored

 

The red scare

  • A nationwide fear of communist socialist,anarchist  who oppose

  • Official policy

  • Fear of a communist was at the core of the red scare

  • FBI would go into houses and business and would search for radicals or terrorists or communist  

  • Fear and paranoia fill the US

Model t and the automobile

October 1st 1908

Cost was 850(18.000)

Cheapest car was 250

Last of may 26th 1927

 

Cars

Model A started in 1927-1931

Riots started to see these cars

Different styles

1930-1932 truck

Now have color

 

Rolls royce

Dusenburg

Dodge

Buick

Cadillac

 

Route 66

Chicago- Los Angeles

Plan started in 1916

Got revised in 1921

The government got in and helped in 1925

Started the Highway system

Roadways today

Washing machine

Wash day was on a monday

60-200

 

1860

Daniel hess



Refrigerator

 

Karl Marx

Communism

Give to everyone

 

Vladimir Lenin

 

J edgar hoover

 

Sacco and Vanzetti

  • Known for “Robbing” and killed a guy

  • Shot and killed

  • Immigration in the 1920’s

  • The immigration act of 1924 (National origins act/asian exclusion act)

  • The law was aimed at restricting immigration of southern europeans eastern europeans and jews

  • Wasp

Trickle down theroy

  • Laissez faire

  • Rugged individualism

  • Normalicy

  • Airplanes

  • Mail carrying

  • Transporting small groups of people

  • Military

  • Major feats

  • Entertainment

  • 1920 census-51.2

  • People lived in cities of 2,500 or more

  • 1922-1929-more than 2 mil people moved from farms to the cities each year

  • Rural areas tried to hold on to moral values and close social relationships

Prohibition

  • At first saloons closed and drunkenness

  • Went down

  • The volstead act created the prohibition bureau

  • To enforce the laws

  • People despised it

  • The prohibition bureau was underfunded had 1500 people only

  • Alcohol made secretly in homemade stills

By 1928 women were earning 39% of the college degrees given in the united states

60% of girls went to college

Gave woman a taste of the work world

Low paying service occupants

 

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  • You are missing some 1930's notes.

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