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Week of Jan. 16-20

Posted by 1Kara on January 18, 2017 at 8:50am

Monday: no school

Tuesday: no school

Wednesday: presentations 

Entertainment 

  1. Flappers
    1. Middle class single ladies
    2. Had steady economic jobs
    3. Danced in jazz clubs
    4. Vaudeville shows 
    5. Were carefree and liberated
    6. Features
      1. Bobbed hair
      2. Heavy makeup
      3. Short Skirts
      4. Sheer Silk Stockings 
      5. Cigarettes
      6. Alcohol 
      7. Dancing
  2. Fashion and Fads
    1. Cloche hats
    2. Complex jewelry 
    3. Sky high heels
    4. Rising hemlines
    5. Floral prints
    6. Pastel colors
    7. Beads and feathers
    8. "Boyish look" 
      1. Moved away from hourglass figure 
  3. Dancing
    1. New fox-trot introduced post war
    2. The Charleston became popular after the musical Runnin' Wild
    3. Texas Tommy
      1. African American based
    4. Wall Street crash ended the jazz era
  4. Jazz
    1. Louis Armstrong
      1. Horn player
    2. Duke Ellington
      1. Piano player
    3. Big House Bands
  5. Harlem Renaissance
    1. Bessie Smith
      1. "Empress of the Blues"
      2. Signed with Columbia Records
      3. Part of swing era
      4. Very soulful and powerful
      5. Died in car accident
    2. Josephine Baker
      1. Banana dress
      2. Chorus girl
      3. Sex symbol
        1. Went on stage nude
      4. Exotic dancing
  6. Sports 
    1. Babe Ruth
      1. Baseball player
      2. Most impressive career
      3. Hard into drinking
      4. Womanizer
      5. 714 total home runs
    2. Jack Dempsey
      1. Boxer
      2. Fast combos
      3. Blazing knockouts
      4. Chewed pine gum to make jaw strong
      5. Brine-soaked face
    3. Steroids were popular among athletes
    4. Sports became pastime post war
    5. Sports writers became a popular occupation
    6. Football
      1. Pro football introduced in 1920
      2. College football was more popular
      3. Originally was APFA then eventually changed to NFL
      4. 4 original teams
        1. Akron Pros
        2. Canton Bulldogs
        3. Cleveland Indians
        4. Dayton Triangles
    7. Pro Basketball
      1. ABL created in 1925
      2. NY Celtics were popular
      3. NBA started after WW2
  7. Broadway
    1. Biggest industry in NYC
    2. There were a lot of
      1. Gamblers
      2. Gangsters
      3. Celebrities
      4. Chorus girls
      5. Salespeople 
    3. Typical hangout for people 
    4. Slang
      1. Chorus girls were called
        1. Tough broad
        2. Doll
    5. Love affairs
      1. Affairs with chorus girls
    6. Owen Madden
      1. One of biggest gangsters in area
  8. Hollywood
    1. Charlie Chaplin
    2. Gloria Swanson
    3. Silent movies 
      1. Captions and music

The Steel Strike of 1919

  1. Sep. 21, 1919 to Jan. 8, 1920
  2. Ohioan led
  3. Working conditions
    1. Long hours
    2. Low wages
    3. Poor environment
  4. Walkout of workers
    1. Failure for workers
      1. Didn't get any better conditions
      2. Most got fired
    2. Immigrants were blamed for this
      1. Thought to have been starting the strikes
      2. Stole jobs
    3. Norman Z. Foster
      1. Led violence and deaths 

Thursday: presentations

Prohibition and Gangsters  

  1. Ban of alcoholic beverages (18th amendment)
    1. Production 
    2. Importation
    3. Transportation 
    4. Sale 
  2. Start 
    1. Alcohol and intoxication
      1. Crime
      2. Murder
      3. Health problems
      4. Other negative parts of society 
  3. Movements and Acts
    1. Temperance Movement
      1. Social movement against consumption of alcohol 
      2. Promotes abstinence 
      3. Movements were mostly run by women
    2. Volstead Act
      1. Written to enforce the 18th amendment 
      2. Provided penalties for abuse of law
  4. Gangsters
    1. Often Controlled 
      1. Liquor sales 
      2. Gambling
      3. Prostitution 
    2. Illegally organized 
      1. Bootlegging
      2. Speakeasies 
    3. Prohibition
      1. Instead of reducing crime it created a black market
    4. Al "Scarface" Capone
      1. During Prohibition Era
        1. Leader of Chicago mafia 
        2. Ran a multi-million dollar Chicago operation
          1. Bootlegging, prostitution, gambling
      2. Start of becoming a gangster
        1. Got expelled at 14 and never went back
        2. Met Johnny Torrio
          1. Was the leader of the Chicago Mafia before Al Capone
          2. Led Capone into becoming a gangster
      3. Got arrested in 1931
        1. Income-tax evasion 

United Mine Workers Strike 

  1. When?
    1. November 1, 1919
  2. Where?
    1. Nationwide
  3. Why?
    1. Low wages
    2. Long work days
  4. Achieved
    1. 27% wage increase
    2. Shorter workday
    3. 5-day work week
  5. John L. Lewis
    1. Became leader of United Mine Workers in 1920
    2. Got 27% wage increase for mine workers
    3. Led campaign for the 1st Federal Coal Mine Safety Act
      1. Inspections
      2. Fines on violations
      3. Training program
      4. Benefits 

Friday: presentations 

Women's Rights 

  1. Women's Suffrage Movement (1848-1920)
    1. In 1920 19th Amendment was ratified
  2. The 'New Women'
    1. Were able to
      1. Vote
      2. Go to college
      3. Work
      4. Travel
  3. Divorces during 1920's doubled because women were becoming more independent 
  4. First birth control clinic opened in 1916
    1. Women no longer had to have babies if they didn't want
    2. Clinic was opened by Margaret Sanger 
  5. Women's New Dress
    1. Flappers
      1. Unconventional attitudes
        1. Clothing
          1. Corsets
          2. Big dresses
        2. Hair
          1. Bobs
        3. Wore a lot of makeup
    2. Average Women
      1. Lose restrictive clothing
      2. Hair-bob
      3. Cloche hat

Boston Police Strike

  1. September 9, 1919
    1.  Higher Pay
    2. Shorter hours
  2. Police were expected to act more professional
    1. Previous practices are not allowed
  3. What happens?
    1. Promoted property damage
    2. False reportings
    3. Spread of communism 
  4. In the end they were allowed to form unions
    1. Protects and furthers rights and interests

Politics 

  1. Returned to isolationism
    1. Focus on ourselves 
    2. Don't make alliances 
  2. World War 1 ended
  3. Democrats dominated the South
  4. Republicans dominated the elections
  5. Prohibition started
  6. Women fight for rights 
  7. Leadership styles
    1. Autocratic
      1. Told what to do and you do it
      2. Like a dictator
    2. Laissez-Faire
      1. Do whatever you want
    3. Democratic
      1. Which is better?
      2. Choose what you want and vote over it
  8. Republican Platform
    1. Lassez-Faire
      1. Hands off
      2. Basically let things go
      3. Government stays out of business
    2. Rugged individualism
      1. Fend for yourself
    3. Help businesses
    4. Dominated in the 1920's
  9. Trickle Down Theory
    1. Benefits American businesses
    2. Gives tax break to investors and businesses
    3. Supposed to help everyone
  10. James Cox
    1. Democratic candidate in 1920
    2. From Ohio
    3. FDR was his vice president
    4. Still wanted League of Nations
    5. Tried to help education
    6. Wanted to help women
  11. Warren Harding
    1. Republican candidate in 1920
    2. Won the 1920 election
    3. From Ohio 
    4. Administration bribed him
    5. Open about what he could do
    6. Republican party kept him out of public
    7. Harding's Accomplishments
      1. Returned US to normalcy
      2. Lowered taxes
      3. Raised tariffs
      4. Lowered unemployment
      5. Established Veteran Bureau
      6. Died in 1923 from stroke
      7. Reveals Teapot Dome oil scandal
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