Monday- Went over new forum post leader topics, and moved onto talking about politics. Notes on bottom.
Tuesday- Continue note taking mainly about stock market crashing.
Wednesday- Continue watching videos- Economy/strikes.
Thursday- Continue watching videos.
Friday- Choose forum post leaders for next week, and talk about electricity. Finish one more video.
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
Causes of Stock Market Crash 1929
- Stock prices were grossly inflated, did not have real value-watered stock prices
- Overspeculation during the 1920's -led to watered stock
- "Buying on Margin"
- Led to people being in debt and watered stock prices
- Overproduction of goods
- Uneven distribution of wealth
- Too much borrowing from banks
- Federal Reserve increased interest rates
- Lack of government regulation
6.-Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case
Russia dropped out of WWI because of their own communist revolution. Red Scare was a period of time after WWI where people worried that the government would be thrown over by Communists.
- Red is the color associated with Communism
- Karl Marx invented the theory of communism
- Promoting equality-everyone is the same in participation, wealth
- Believed you had to have an industrialized society for Communism to take place
Vladmir Lenin-
- first leader of the Soviet Union. Only in power for 3, 4 years.
- Stalin takes over
- Transition where the theory went away, where Stalin took over and was in power and did everything he could to stay in power
The Palmer Raids
- Wanted to deport anarchists and people who wanted to overthrow the government
- It is legal to be communist-but illegal to overthrow government
- Announced that there would be an attempt to overthrow March 1, 1920 scaring people
Sacco and Vanzetti
- Were anarchists
- Country was very anti immigrant, catholic, anarchists/radical
- Paymaster was shot and killed
- Blamed Sacco and Vanzetti who were eventually tried and put to death
KKK
- Also anti immigrant, catholic, radical/communist, jewish
Immigration in the 20s
- Immigration Act of 24 reduced greatly immigration to US
- Law was aimed at restricting immigration of Southern, Eastern Europeans, and Jews
- Several restricted the immigration of Africans and prohibited the immigration of Arabs, East Asians, and Indians
- The purpose of the act was to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity
- WASP
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
Was not made in the 20's but became bigger in the 20's where cars went from rich people to everybody--buying on credit
Impact:
- faster transportation
- bring lower prices
- suburbs popped up
- People would go on vacation more
- Allowed people to move away
- Jobs
Route 66 "The Mother Road"
10.-Electricity in the homes and new applicances
11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhardt and the airplane
Charles Lindbergh "Lucky Lindy''
First person to fly across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart
First woman to fly across atlantic and pacific
Disappeared when trying to be the first person to fly around the world
12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial
Science vs religion
John Scopes
- Tried and found guilty
13.-Stock Market Crash-causes
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