Monday - Was gone
Tuesday - we finished up our presentation and took the little quiz
Wednesday - Presenting the project
Thursday - Going over the video (prohibition, Harlem Renaissance-KKK, and the
1.-Prohibition and gangsters
18th Amendment
Manufactures, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal.
Supporters believed alcohol brought about corruption, crime, wife and child abuse and accidents.
Supporters came mostly from rural South and West (areas with a lot of Protestants).
Anti-Saloon League and Women's Christian
At first saloons closed and drunkenness went down
Volstead act created to prohibition Bureau to enforce the law
Prohibition failed for three reasons
People despised it. Saw it as government meddling in people’s lives
The prohibition Bureau was underfunded. Had 1,500 people to supervise the country
Organized crimes became commonplace
Illegally make or distributing alcohol
Bootleggers
People that made or transported alcohol
Names because people carried liquor in the legs of boots
Most imported alcohol come in from Canada, Cuba or the West Indies
Speakeasies
To obtain alcohol illegally, people went underground to secret bars called speakeasies
Speakeasies 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
Due to gang violence, only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition by 1925
2.-Women’s rights and freedoms
Developed throughout 1800’s
Ideal of womanhood had four characteristics
Piety (religious)
Purity (save yourself from marriage)
Domesticity (Stay home and take care of kids and house clean)
Submissiveness (Listen to the husband, leader of the family)
World war 1 Interrupted the campaign for woman suffrage
Woman took the men’s jobs in WW1 showing
19th amendment
Roaring 20’s
The 1920’s were a good decade for women's right’s.
19th amendment.
Flapper girl.
Going to college more.
Working more outside the home.
Margaret Sanger
1921, she founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL).
Women were then able to control their own bodies.
This movement educated women about existing Birth Control .
Education
1928, women were earned 39% of the college degrees given in the United States
1900, it was 19%
What % do you think it is today?
almost 60%
Olympics
There were the first olympics that women were allowed to compete in.
There were many arguments about these actions
Some argued that is was historically important since women did not compare in ancient Greek Olympics
Other said that Physical competition was “injurious”
“pink collared”
Gave women a taste of the work world
Low paying service occupations
Made less money than men did doing the same jobs
Secretaries
Teachers
Nurses
Librarian
Flapper
Short hair
Short dresses
Shapeless dresses- eliminated corsets
- Smoked, drank in public and earned their own money
Friday -
Snugglepupping was common in high schools and colleges
“Girls liked to be called snuggle-puppies,” One school administrator told a news reporters. “They grant to boys liberties. Encourage them to take them if the young champs do not they are called “sissy” and “flat tire”.
Eventually spread to cars
Died out by the end of the 1930’s
Not all women in the 1920’s were flappers
Most were traditional-stay at home, do the house work, ect.
Flappers mostly were Northern, urban, single, young, middle-class
Moon shine
Alcohol made secretly in homemade stills
Several hundred people a year died from drinking moonshine during the 1920's
- In 1929 it is estimated that 700 million gallons of beer were produced in American homes.
7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK
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