Monday- Worked on our projects
Tuesday- Worked on our projects
Wednesday- One group presented
Thursday-
- Prohibition and gangster
- Prohibition
- at first saloons closed and drunkenness went down
- The Volstead Act created the 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 crime because commonplace
- 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
- Speakeasies (people spoke easily or quietly about it)
- To obtain alcohol illegally, people went underground to secret bars
- Speakeasies could be anywhere
- To be admitted a card or password had to be given
- Organized Crime
- Came as a result of Prohibition
- Every major city had it's gang
- Al Capone's bootlegging business in Chicago made over $60 million a year
- Due to gang violence, only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition by 1925
- Prohibition was repealed in 1933
- Bootleggers
- Women’s rights and freedoms
- Cult of Domesticity
- Developed throughout 1800's
- The ideal of womanhood had four characteristics
- Piety
- Purity
- Domesticity
- Submissiveness
- August 20, 1920, the 19th amendment became part of the United States Constitution when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify it
- The Roaring 20's
- The 1920's were a good decade for women's rights
- 19th Amendment
- Flapper Girls
- Going to college more
- Working more outside the home
- Margaret Sanger
- In 1921 she founded the American Birth Control league
- Today known as planned parenthood
- Women were then able to control their own bodies
- This movement educated women about existing birth control methods
- In 1921 she founded the American Birth Control league
- Education
- By 1928, women were earning 39% of the college degrees given in the United States
- In 1900, it was 19%
- What % do you think it is today. 60%
- 1928 Olympics
- These were the first Olympics that women were allowed to compete in
- There were many arguments about these actions
- Some argued that it was historically inappropriate since women did not compete in ancient Greek Olympics
- Others said that physical competition was "injurious" to women
- "Pink Collared" Jobs-1920's-1970's
- Gave women a taste of the work world
- Low paying service occupations
- made less money than men did going the same jobs
- Examples of jobs
- Secretaries
- Teachers
- Telephone operators
- Nurses
- Examples of jobs
- The Flapper
- Short hair
- Short dresses
- Shapeless dresses- eliminated corsets
- Smoked, drank in public and earned their own money
- Cult of Domesticity
- Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy
- President- Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
- Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads
- Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs
- Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case
- Harlem Renaissance-KKK
- Lots of strikes-Boston Police, US Steel, United Mine Workers
- The Model T and the impact of the automobile
- Electricity in the homes and new applicances
- Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhardt and the airplane
- Scopes-Monkey Trial
- Stock Market Crash-causes
Friday-
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