Monday- Work day on video presentation due Wednesday and went over Forum Posts.
Tuesday- Work day on video presentations due tomorrow
Wednesday- Started video presentations
Thursday- went over prohibition, women of the 1920's
Friday- went over women and the Harlem Renaissance-KKK. Watched video over the presidents
1920’s Topics:
1.-Prohibition and gangsters
- Prohibition was the banning of selling, making, transporting of alcohol.
- Police didn't do much about it because they got bought off or just didn't care about.
- women mostly pushed for it because their husbands were drunk and same with factories workers and thought that it caused more crime
- The 21 amendment got rid of the 18th amendment because there was more crime because of it.
- "The Noble Experiment"
- supporters came mostly from rural South and West (areas with a lot of Protestants)
-Alcohol was allowed for medicinal or religious reasons
- Three reasons why prohibition failed
1.) People despised it. Saw it as government meddling in people's lives
2.) The prohibition Bureau was underfunded. Only 1,500 people to supervise the country
3.) Organized crime became commonplace
Bootlegging - illegally making or distributing alcohol
bootleggers- are people who made or transported alcohol
-The biggest threat to the bootlegger was not the Prohibition Bureau or police but by hijacking.
- A lot of alcohol came in the the country illegally from Canada, Cuba or the West Indies
speakeasies- illegal bars underground and they were always moving. Had to have a card or password to get into.
-Al Capone was the biggest bootlegger in Chicago
-Al Capone was caught on Tax invasion
- A lot of gangs during the 20's
- St. Valentines Day Massacre Al Capone's men dressed up as police officers and went and killed a different gang so that Al Capone was the biggest gang leader in the area
- Moonshine Alcohol made secretly in home made stills, Several hundred people a year died from drinking moonshine during in the 20's. estimated that 700 million gallons of alcohol was made out of people's home.
2.-Women’s rights and freedoms
- The 20's was the biggest era for women.
- Women got the right to vote in 1920 the 19th amendment became part of the constitutions
Cult of Domesticity
- The ideal of womanhood had four characteristics: Piety- religious leader in the family , Purity, Domesticity, Submissiveness- the husband is the leaders of the family
- WWI and Women- WWI interrupted the campaign for woman suffrage, women took the men's jobs in WWI
- The Roaring 20's- Women started going to college more, working more outside the home, Flapper girls
- Margaret Sanger- in 1921 she founded the American Birth control League. Women were than able to control their own bodies. This movement educated women about existing birth control methods.
Education
- by 1928 women were earning 39% of the college degrees given in the United states. In 1900 it was 19%
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-
Gave women a taste of the work world, low paying service occupations. Made less money than men did doing the same jobs. - Examples= secretaries, Teachers, Telephone operators, nurses
Flapper
- short hair, short dresses, shapeless dresses, pumps, wore makeup, eliminated corsets. Smoked, drank in public and earned their own money. Went to petting parties, started dating, petting parties - more popular in high school and college did die out in the the late 1930's.
- Not all women in the 20's were flappers. Most were traditional-stay at home, do the housework, and girls from the cities, single, young, middle- class
Clara Bow
- Became THE Flapper of the 20's. She appeared in 58 films. She was seen as the leading sex symbol of the 20's
3.-Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy
Presidents- Harding, Coolidge and Hoover all republicans
Warren G Harding- Had many scandals such as drinking, and bringing in mistresses
Coolidge- had a philosophy don't do anything
Herbert Hoover- went down as one of the worst President in history.
4.-Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads
5.-Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs
6.-Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case
7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK
The Harlem Renaissance- the changing of the way African Americans did things, such as art, music, jazz. "Proud to be Black" The rebirth of African Americans. Because of the Harlem Renaissance the KKK came about. The KKK was was a group of people who went against African Americans and other people such as, Catholic, immigrants or others. They would
8.-Lots of strikes-Boston Police, US Steel, United Mine Workers
9.-The Model T and the impact of the automobile
10.-Electricity in the homes and new applicances
11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhardt and the airplane
12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial
13.-Stock Market Crash-causes
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