week 1/18 - 1/22

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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