Today we went over our assigned blogs.
What positive and negative impact did the 1920's have on the US.
Red Scare- The fear that the US was going to become communist- taking from the rich and distributing it to everybody else equally. (Negative) false accusations
Anti Immigration- Because of the red scare, we felt like we needed to limit immigration. Immigration was almost stopped from Europe and Asia. We didn't like immigrants because we thought they might over throw our government. (Positive and negative)
Airplanes- They were used for mail or transporting a few people. Used for entertainment for people to just go and watch. Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly non stop across the Atlantic. Amelia Earhart was the first girl to fly around the world. She disappeared during her flight, some people think she died, some think she just lived where ever she landed. (Positive)
Automobiles- It grew a lot in the 1920's.. Soldiers would bring home cars from the war. Only the rich had cars before the war, but after prices dropped and everybody else got them. Buying on credit was a popular thing. Ford was the biggest and cheapest car. The Model T was the most popular car.. they were only black Model T's. Cars were being bought, so they needed to make more roads, which they needed more people for. Suburbs were being developed. (Positive)
Other Inventions- The band-aid, hair dryer, lie detector, q tips, telephone, traffic lights, TV and radio transmissions, invention of frozen foods, entertainment- water ski, koolaid, pez candy. Electricity in the homes. (Positive)
Gangs-Al Capone- came up a lot during prohibition. Al Capone was from Chicago, he drove around in a bulletproof limo because lots of people didn't like him. Gangs would pay off police officers, and judges so that they could get away with whatever he was doing. He made almost 60 million years from drugs and alcohol. They got him for tax evasion(not paying his taxes). Every city had their own gangsters but Al Capone was the most famous.
Presidents- All 3 were republicans. Philosophies- rugged individuals- all about yourself. laissez- faire- the government is going to stay out of businesses. trickle-down theory- you're going to give tax to rich and then it will trickle down to help everybody else.
Harding's background- Born November 2. When he was ten his family moved and became owners of a newspaper company. Graduated when he was 17 with bachelors in science. 1889, he suffered from exhaustion. He got married to the daughter of a rival newspaper owner. He promised that the nation would return to normalcy. Accomplishments- He cut taxes in order to get out of 1920-1921 depression. The unemployment rate went down. T Pot Dome- place in Wyoming. He leased the land to companies. The land was government owned so they weren't supposed to sell it. This was a scandal. Harding got blamed for things because the people he put in place were the ones who did this. He died in office of a heart attack.
Coolidge's background- Wasn't very talkative. Didn't like a lot of social things. His mom and sister died when he was younger. Only president to be born on the fourth of July. Vice President for Harding so Coolidge became president. He got elected again, and won. But he didn't run again for the next term because he thought 10 years would be too long. Accomplishments- He ended up trying to get a bill that was supposed to help farmers by giving them money for anything they needed but it didn't end up getting through Congress. He cut taxes through revenue acts. Passed the bill that said all Indians were citizens. He signed the Immigration act that made it so the immigrants couldn't come into our country as much.
Hoover's background- 31st president. He was an engineer. He served as the head of the food administration. He was a strong believer that we shouldn't spend more than we make. He was born in Iowa. He was not born into a very rich family. He helped people as a person but as president he didn't think he could do very much because of the philosophies. Accomplishments- Fought for regulation and didn't believe in the laissez-faire as much as the other presidents. He had the federal farm bond that helped farmers with organization and other things because they were struggling. Cancelled oil leases so that he could do some of the wrong that was done. Good neighbor policy that gave us a good relationship with Latin America. Set aside millions of acres for state parks and helped push through laws that would help with Veterans. Water way put in through Canada. The Hoover dam was named after him because he helped build it. Reconstruction Finance Corporation- what Hoover did to help with the great depression. Failures- He wanted a small government so he didn't do a bunch with the government. Proposed lots of things but Congress didn't pass any of them. People say that he caused the crash in the economy, but he didn't.
Women in the 1920's- Mostly about their fashion and their rights. They called themselves flappers because the noise that their shoes worked. It started with the teenagers. They wore make up which was weird for them because nobody usually did. The prostitutes were usually the only ones who did and they also started smoking and drinking. Women's suffrage union- passed in 1920 where they could vote. (Positive)
African American's in the 1920's- They didn't feel as bad about being black. A lot of them moved out of the South.. and into the bigger cities. The Great Migration (Positive) is when lots of African Americans moved North for job opportunities. They were still treated badly. KKK was very racist to black and were mean to them and didn't believe the blacks had the right to move and take their land. Harlem Renaissances- people who played jazz music, painted art and read literature. It basically celebrated the African American culture.This time period was good for African American's because it helped them push through things.
Causes of the stock market crash- people were selling lots of things and nobody was buying anything. the ticker was getting behind and at one point it was 2 and 1/2 hours behind. People got nervous because they were in debt so they started not buying things. Companies profits were going down but their stock prices were going up. Companies were no longer making money and people were in debt. There was no government regulation of companies so people could do whatever they wanted.
Impact the Great Depression had on US- Lots of businesses went out of business. 24% of American's were unemployed in 1932. Because the rich lost things and some people lost everything, they couldn't buy things which put a lot of people out of business. People lots their jobs. Companies closed. It affected upper, middle and lower class. It hurt the farmers and factory workers bad. Banks closed down and that is why lots of people don't trust banks now. World War 2 got us out of the great depression.
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