Monday- Work day for 1930's presentations
Tuesday- Work day for presentations. Due tomorrow
Wednesday- Videos
1920’s Topics:
Nicknames-
Republican Era- All presidents were republicans.
The Roaring '20s- everything was booming, loud with jazz.
Decade of normalcy- focusing on America
Prohibition Era- Alcohol was outlawed
Advertising Age- A lot of ads
The Golden Age of Sports- Sports became huge
1.-Prohibition and gangsters-
"The Noble Experiment"
- 18th Amendment(1920-1933)
- The manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal
- Supporters believed alcohol brought about corruption, crime, wife abuse, child abuse, and accidents
- Supporters came mostly from rural South and West(Protestants)
- Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League led the attack on alcohol
- Allowed for medical and religious purposes
- Prescriptions and sacramental wine orders skyrocketed
- Bootlegging- Illegally making or distributing alcohol
- Bootleggers- People that made or transported alcohol
- Named because people carried liquor in the legs of boots
- Most imported alcohol came in from Canada, Cuba or the West Indies
- Volstead Act created the Prohibition Bureau to enforce the law
- Prohibition failed for 3 reasons
- People despised it. Saw it as government meddling in people's lives
- Prohibition Bureau was underfunded. Had 1,500 people to supervise the country
- Organized crime became commonplace
- Speakeasies
- To obtain alcohol illegally, people went underground to secret bars call
- Speakeasies- (People spoke easily or quietly about it)
- Could be anywhere
- To be admitted a card or password had to be given
- Organized Crime
- Came about as a result of prohibition
- Every major city had it's gang
- Al Capone's bootlegging business in Chicago made over 60 million dollars a year
- Due to gang violence, only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition by 1925
- Prohibition was repealed in 1933 by the 21st amendment
- The biggest threat to the bootlegger was not the Prohibition Bureau or police but...... The Hijacking
- Moonshine
- Alcohol made secretly in home made stills
- Several hundred people a year died from drinking moonshine
- 1929- Estimated that 700 million gallons of beer were produced in American homes
2.-Women’s rights and freedoms
- Cult of Domesticity
- Developed throughout 1800s
- Idea of womanhood had 4 characteristics
- Piety- Religious
- Purity- Save yourself for marriage, no smoking or drinking
- Domesticity- Stay home, take care of kids, house is clean, food is on the table
- Submissiveness- Husband is the leader of the family, what the husband says goes.
- World War I
- Interrupted the campaign for woman suffrage
- Women took the men's jobs in WWI showing the country that they could do work
- 19th Amendment- Woman could vote
- The Roaring 20's
- 19th Amendment
- Flapper girls- Attitude, style "We are equal to men, We don't care what people think"
- Going to college more
- Working more outside the home
- Margaret Sanger-
- 1921- Founded American Birth Control
- known as planned parenthood
- Women were able to control their own bodies
- Movement educated women about existing birth control methods
- 1921- Founded American Birth Control
- Education-
- 1928- Women earning 39$ of college degrees given in the US
- 1900- It was 19%
- What percent is it today? Almost 60%
- 1928 Olympics-
- First Olympics that women were allowed to compete in
- Many arguments about this
- Some argued that it was historically inappropriate since women didn't compete in ancient Greek Olympics
- Other said that physical competition was "injurious" to women
- "Pink Collared" Jobs
- Gave women a taste of the work world
- Low paying service occupations
- Made less money than men did doing the same jobs:
- Secretaries
- Teachers
- Telephone operators
- Nurses
- Clerks
- Librarians
- The Flapper
- Short hair
- Short dresses
- Shapeless dresses-eliminated corsets
- Smoke, drank in public and earned their own money
- Snuggle pupping was common in high school and colleges
- "Girls like to be called snuggle-puppies," one school administrator told a news reporter. "They grand the boys liberties. Encourage them to take them and if the young chaps do not, they are called 'sissies' or a 'flat tire'
- Eventually spread to cars
- Died out by the end of the 1930's
- Clara Bow
- Became THE flapper of the 1920's
- Appeared in 58 films between 1922 & 1923
- Seen as the leading sex symbol the 1920's
- Flapper
- Not all women were flappers
- Most were traditional stay at home, do the housework, etc...
- Flappers mostly were Northern, urban, single, young, middle-class
3.-Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy
- President Harding- Drinker, had many women sneak into the white house
- Coolidge- "Do nothing" "99% of the worlds problems would go away, if the world just sat still"
- Hoover- Go down in history
4.-Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads
5.-Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs
6.-Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case
7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK
- Changing of how people acted especially African Americas
- "Proud to be black"
8.-Lots of strikes-Boston Police, US Steel, United Mine Workers
9.-The Model T and the impact of the automobile
10.-Electricity in the homes and new applicances
11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhardt and the airplane
12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial
13.-Stock Market Crash-causes
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