Monday -
Harding
Known for drinking in the white house (during prohibition)
Known for having women snuck into the white house
Coolidge
"Silent Cal" or "Cool Cal"
Had a "do nothing attitude" said "99% of the world's problems would go away if everybody sat still
Hoover
The blame was put on him for the great depression and the stock market crash
Republican Philosophy - 1920’s
Trickle-down Theory
Republicans are seen as the rich
Republicans give tax breaks to the wealth (Business)
Give jobs
Pay increase
Laissez-faire
Do whatever
No distractions
Stay out of business
Rugged individualism
Work hard and you will succeed
Normalcy
Back to Isolation
Teapot dome
Rock formation
taking bribes for money
illegal stuff
Albert fall- was given bribes from rich business
- he was in charge----he took oil from the land to small oil companies
Tuesday -
5.-Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs
Buying on credit
“buy now, pay later”
Stock market was booming
Buying on margin
High tariff Policy
What is a tariff?
Why did progressives want to lower tariffs in the early 1900’s? More competition and prices will go down.
Why did the republicans raise tariffs in the 1920’s?
6.-Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case
7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK
Changing of the way people like to do things in Harlem (African Americans) Art, music (jazz), literature. "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
What impact did automobiles have on the united states
Faster transportation
People won't have to live in town and can go to the city
Vacation
A lot of people to move away
Jobs
Building roads, garage, driveways.
Dating (went on dates in cars)
Style - Model T Ford
Route 66 “the mother road” just a highway
History of nascar
Prohibition era
10.-Electricity in the homes and new appliances
11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and the airplane
“lucky lindy” - first to fly across the atlantic
Amelia Earhart - first woman to fly across the Atlantic
Disappeared over the Howland island
12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial
13.-Stock Market Crash-causes
Wednesday - just watched video's
Thursday -
9.-The Model T and the impact of the automobile
What impact did automobiles have on the united states
Faster transportation
People won't have to live in town and can go to the city
Vacation
A lot of people to move away
Jobs
Building roads, garage, driveways.
Dating (went on dates in cars)
Style - Model T Ford
Route 66 “the mother road” just a highway
History of nascar
Prohibition era
10.-Electricity in the homes and new appliances
11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and the airplane
“lucky lindy” - first to fly across the atlantic
Amelia Earhart - first woman to fly across the Atlantic
Disappeared over the Howland island
Friday -
6.-Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case
red scare 1919-1920
Karl Marx - Founder of communism
- Vladimir Lenin - first leader for the soviet union
- The immigration act of 1924
- The law was aimed at restricting immigration of southern Europeans, and Eastern Europeans, and jews
- Severely restricted the immigration of Africans and prohibited the immigration of Arbas, east Asians and Indianian
12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial
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