Monday- Go over forum post topics and continue working on our videos. Quiz is today.
Tuesday- Work day.
Wednesday- Start presenting videos. Notes on bottom.
Thursday-
Friday-
1.-Prohibition and gangsters
Prohibition
- Banning of selling and making alcohol
- Prohibition bureau-tried to find people who would not be bought off because police officers they usually participated in drinking or were bought off
- Women normally pushed for this
- Public drunkenness went down
- Brought down crimes
- 18th amendment (1920-33)
- Supporters believed alcohol brought down corruption, crime, wife and child abuse and accidents
- Supporters came mostly from rural south and west (areas with a lot of protestants)
- Alcohol was allowed for medicinal and religious purposes
- Prescriptions and sacramental wine orders skyrocketed
- 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 1500 people to supervise the county
- Organized crime became commonplace
Bootlegging in the 1920's
- Illegally making or distributing alcohol
- Named because people carried liquor in the legs of boots
- Most imported alcohol came in from Canada, Cuba or West Indies
Speakeasy
- To obtain alcohol illegally, people went underground to secret bars called speakeasies (people spoke easily or quiet about it)
- Speakeasies could be anywhere
- To be admitted a card or password had to be given
St Valentine's Day Massacre
- Capone's people dressed as police officers to kill other gang's members to make more money
- Capone was eventually taken down by Tax Evasion
Women in the 1920s
Cult of Domesticity
- Developed through 1800s
- The ideal of womanhood had four characteristics-Piety, Purity, Domesticity, Submissiveness
WWI
- WWI interrupted the campaign for woman suffrage
- Women took the men's jobs in WWI showing the country that they could do hard work
The Roaring 20s
- The 1920's were ra 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
- Women were 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 1920's-1970's
- Gave women a taste of the work world
- Low paying service occupations
- Made less money than men did doing the same jobs
The Flapper
- Short hair
- Short dresses
- Shapeless dresses eliminated corsets
- Smoke, drank in public and earn their own money
2.-Women’s rights and freedoms
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
6.-Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case
7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK
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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