Monday: no school
Tuesday: no school
Wednesday: classroom rules and set up website
Thursday: classroom rules
Friday: Decades in Contrast project (1920's)
1920's Topics
- Prohibition and gangsters
- Women’s rights and freedoms
- Right to vote; 19th amendment
- Other freedoms
- Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy
- 1920 election
- 1924 election
- 1928 election
- Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads
- Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs
- Why was it booming
- Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case
- Harlem Renaissance-KKK
- History and how it started
- What it ties into
- Lots of strikes-Boston Police, US Steel, United Mine Workers
- Encouraged people to not go on strike because of the war
- The Model T and the impact of the automobile
- Electricity in the homes and new applicances
- Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhardt and the airplane
- Scopes-Monkey Trial
- Stock Market Crash-causes
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