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Week of Jan 23-27

Posted by 1Kara on January 23, 2017 at 8:50am

Monday: presentations

Politics Continued 

  1. Teapot Dome
    1. Secretary sent to prison
    2. Navy oil reserves sent to operators
    3. Oil companies drilled on federal land
    4. Hundreds of thousands of dollars
    5. Teapot Dome is a place in Wyoming
    6. Government allowed oil companies to get the oil and sell for their own profits 
  2. Calvin Coolidge
    1. Vice president for Harding
    2. Wins 1924 election for president
    3. No connection with scandals 
    4. "The business of America is business"
  3. Democratic Nominee
    1. William Gibbs McAdoo (rural)
      1. Wanted prohibition
    2. Alfred E. Smith (urban)
      1. Against prohibition
    3. End up with John W. Davis
      1. Only strong in the South
  4. Robert La Follette
    1. Against bribes
    2. Hated corrupt government
    3. Helped expose Teapot Dome scandal
    4. Progressive movement--very progressive guy
    5. Died in 1925
  5. Calvin Coolidge's Accomplishments
    1. Kept US out of League of Nations
    2. Cut more taxes
    3. Kept government out of the way
  6. Alfred Smith
    1. Democrat in Urban states
    2. Wanted to repeal prohibition
    3. Cost him votes because of the anti-Catholics
      1. America was anti-Catholic
      2. Cost him southern states
  7. Herbert Hoover
    1. Never ran for office before
    2. From Iowa
    3. In food administration
    4. Part of WWI relief efforts 
    5. Republicans took credit for 1920's prosperity 
  8. Hoover's Accomplishments
    1. Known for Stock Market Crash
    2. Blamed for Great Depression
      1. Did his best to stop it
    3. Started more public projects
    4. Lending institutions put in place 

Economy

  1. GDP 6,500-8,700
  2. Companies
    1. Dow Jones 30
      1. 30 companies that make up Dow Jones
      2. 30 of largest companies in America 
      3. Chrysler Co
      4. General Electric
      5. General Motors
      6. Standard Oil Co. 
  3. Electricity impacted inventions
  4. Automobile impacted lifestyle
    1. Created a lot of jobs because of 
      1. Mass production of automobiles and appliance
  5. Buying on credit
    1. "Buy now, pay later"
    2. Consumers could buy all new appliances
    3. Debt doubled between 20's and 30's 
  6. Tariffs
    1. Tax on imported good
    2. High protected tariff
      1. Protects farms and factories
      2. Forces people to buy American made products
    3. Emergency tariff
      1. European demand plummeted
    4. Fordney-Mccumber Tariff
      1. Raised taxes to protect farms and factories
  7. Stock Market Crash
    1. In 1929 production began to decline
    2. Unemployment had risen
    3. Stock prices didn't reflect this
    4. Causes
      1. People had too much debt (buying on credit)
      2. Businesses didn't have the money
      3. Tariffs didn't allow enough money in 

Tuesday: presentations

Economy continued 

  1. Stock Market Crash
    1. Causes
      1. Overvalued stock prices
      2. Investors- 10% installments
      3. Foreign investors started leaving because of
        1. Businesses and people in debt 

Harlem Renaissance and KKK 

  1. Harlem Renaissance
    1. Rebirth of African American culture
    2. African Americans got rights during this time 
    3. Langston Hughes- 1st African American Author
    4. Harlem
      1. African American part of NYC
  2. KKK
    1. Went after Jews, Catholics and labor organizations 
    2. Had secret gatherings in fields outside of town
    3. Only native born people could join the KKK
    4. Started in 1800's 

The Red Scare

  1. The Immigration Act (Johnson-Reed Act)
    1. An act for limiting numbers of immigrants entering the US
    2. Wanted to stop immigration because immigrants took jobs and kept wages low
  2. Red Scare
    1. Nationwide fear of communists, socialists, anarchist, and others who oppose official policy
      1. Anarchist
        1. One who doesn't believe in government
      2. Socialist
        1. One who works for equality 
      3. Communist
        1. Wanted all power in government
    2. Why did it happen?
      1. Fear of communist revolution was the core of the Red Scare
      2. We feared community takeover so we made it not happen
    3. Palmer Raids
      1. FBI would go into houses and businesses to find anything associated with communism
      2. Immigrants who had recently arrived in the country were mostly arrested
      3. Alexander Palmer's house was bombed by an anarchist which started the FBI
    4. Effects on America
      1. Fear and paranoia
      2. Hostility towards immigrants

Amelia Earhart and the Airplane 

  1. Amelia Earhart
    1. Earhart was on a round world flight when her plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean
    2. People assumed she crashed 
    3. First female to fly over Atlantic Ocean
    4. She was an American aviation pioneer and author
  2. Airplanes
    1. Airplane Uses
      1. Fighting in wars
      2. Transportation
      3. Exporting
      4. Importing

Wednesday: presentations

The Scopes Monkey Trial 

  1. John  Thomas Scopes
    1. Born and raised in Kentucky
    2. Taught high school science in Tennessee (substitute teacher)
    3. Conspired to violate the Butler act 
  2. The Butler Act
    1. Law in Tennessee prohibiting any public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of man's origins
    2. Taught instead that we descended from a lower form
  3. The ACLU
    1. American Civil Liberties Union
    2. Advertised in newspaper that they would defend anyone who went against the Butler Act
    3. Clarence Darrow
  4. George Washington Rappleyea
    1. Main instigator in challenging the anti-evolution law
    2. Thought a trial would bring publicity to the town
    3. Convinced Scopes to break the law and had him arrested
  5. William Jennings Bryan
    1. Politician from Nebraska
    2. 3 time democratic nominee for president
    3. Joined the prosecution in Scopes trial 
  6. The Trial
    1. Each day proceedings opened with prayer
    2. Scopes started with the Butler Act violating his teaching rights
    3. Switched to say that the theory of evolution didn't conflict with what the bible says
    4. On 7th day of the trial the defense called Bryan to testify
    5. Clarence Darrow asked him questions that showed his ignorance of science
  7. The Verdict
    1. Only took 8 minutes of deliberation to find him guilty
    2. Judge ordered him to pay the minimum fine of $100
  8. After the Trial
    1. 5 days after the trial, William Jennings Bryan died
    2. People started challenging the Butler Act
    3. The law was repealed in 1976

Thursday: presentations

Model T and the Automobile

  1. Model T
    1. First came out on October 1st, 1908
    2. Cost was $850
    3. Cheapest ever sold was $260
    4. Before Model T there were letter cars
    5. More than 15,000,000 Model T's were made
    6. Last day of production for Model T was May 26th, 1927
  2. Model A
    1. 1927-1931
    2. Lots of riots because of how great the Model T was
    3. Lots of different styles
    4. 1930-1932 Model A truck 
  3. Other cars
    1. Rolls Royve
    2. Duesenberg
    3. Dodge
    4. Buick
    5. Cadillac 
  4. Route 66
    1. Route stretching from Chicago to Los Angeles
    2. Plan started in 1916
    3. Got revised in 1921
    4. Government got involved and helped in 1925
    5. Started the highway system
    6. Still very popular today 

Electronics

  1. No more hand washing or using a washboard (invention of washing machine)
  2. Vacuum was invented ($30-$50)
  3. Electric refrigerator with ice cube compartments ($350)
  4. Mangle Boards used as irons or to flatten things 
  5. Box/ charcoal irons 
  6. Gas irons, electric irons, hotpoint irons
  7. Electricity
    1. 1924- 2/3 of homes had electricity
    2. Electric light bulb invented by Thomas Edison
    3. Edmund Germur invented fluorescent lamp
    4. Harvery Hubbell invented electric socket in 1904
    5. Philip Labre- 3rd ground prong 

Mr. Brun's 20's powerpoint 

  1. What the 20's were called
    1. The Roaring 20's
    2. Republican Era
    3. The Jazz Age
    4. The Lost Generation 
    5. Boom to Bust
    6. Decade of Normalcy 
    7. Prosperity Decade
    8. Prohibition Era
    9. The Advertising Age 
    10. The Golden Age of Sports 

Friday: notes

The Red Scare

  1. Sacco and Vanzetti
    1. Accused of murdering two people
    2. Were shot and killed
    3. No proof that they killed the people 
    4. Were anarchists and immigrants

Immigration in the 20's

  1. Immigration Act of 1924 reduced immigration to US
    1. Law was aimed at restricting immigration of 
      1. Southern Europeans
      2. Eastern Europeans
      3. Jews
    2. Restricted the immigration of 
      1. Africans
    3. Prohibited immigration of
      1. Arabs
      2. East Asians
      3. Indians
    4. Purpose was "to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity"
    5. WASP
      1. White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

Republican Philosophy 

  1. Trickle-down theory
    1. Gave tax breaks to the wealthy and big businesses
    2. Trickles down and gives more jobs
  2. Laissez-faire
    1. Hands off
    2. Government stays out of business
  3. Rugged individualism
    1. Don't rely on government handouts
    2. Rely on yourself 
  4. Normalcy 
    1. Be more isolated
    2. Focus on America first 
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