Week of 18-22

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1.-Prohibition and gangsters -

18th Amendment - the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal
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 unfunded. Had 1,500 people to supervise
  - Organized crime became commonplace
Bootlegging - Illegally making or distributing alcohol

2.-Women’s rights and freedoms -

1920 - the 19th amendment was passed which gave women the right to vote
The New Age Women - more went to college, started to work more
- Jobs - clerk, cleaning, waitress, teaching, nursing
By 1930 most women had a well paying job
The ideal of womanhood had four characteristics:
- Piety
- Purity
- Domesticity
- Submissiveness
World War I interrupted the campaign woman suffrage
Women took the men's jobs in WWI showing the country that they could do hard work
The 1920's were a good decade for women's rights
Margaret Sanger - In 1921, she founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL)
- Today known as Planned Parenthood
In 1928, women were earning 39% of the college degrees given in the United States
- In 1900, it was 19%
The 1928 Olympics were the first Olympics that women were allowed to compete in
The Flapper
- Short hair
- Short dresses
- Shapeless dresses - eliminated corsets
- Smoked, drank in public and earned their own money

3.-Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy -

4.-Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads -

5.-Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs - high taxes on imported good to help American products

6.-Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case -

1919/1920,
A period after WWI was fearful of communist takeover,
Soviet Union was in the middle of becoming communist,
Guy that came up with communism is Karl Marx,
communism - government has total control over the people,
Vladimir Lenin - first Soviet leader,
The Palmer Raids - Mitchell Palmer; attorney general at the time,
The Immigration Act of 1924 greatly reduced immigration to US (feared they were communists),
The law was aimed at restricting immigration of Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, and Jews,
Severely restricted the immigration of Africans and prohibited the immigration of Arabs, East Asians, and Indians,
The purpose of the was "to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity

7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK -

Harlem Renaissance was when the African American culture start to rise/flourish
Cotton Club - white people were going to a black community where only white people were allowed and famous black musicians would perform for them such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and etc.
Wanted to keep our country pure,
Anti-black, anti-Catholics, anti-immigrants

8.-Lots of strikes-Boston Police, US Steel, United Mine Workers -

9.-The Model T and the impact of the automobile -

Many uses of the Model T/car

10.-Electricity in the homes and new appliances -

11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and the airplane -

Used for: war, airmail, transportation (not very often), entertainment purposes, feats (who can do this first type of thing)
Charles Lindbergh - first person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart - was the first woman to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic,
- Was going to be the first person to fly nonstop around the world, but crashed in the southern pacific
  - People believe she ran out of gas and drowned

12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial -

13.-Stock Market Crash-causes -

Stock prices were grossly inflated, did not have real value-watered stock prices
Overspeculaltion during the 1920's
- Led to watered stock
"Buying on margin"
- Led to people being in debt and watered stock prices
Overproduction of goods
- Underconsumption of the consumers
Too much borrowing from banks

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