Week of Jan. 30-Feb. 3

Monday: notes

Airplanes in the 1920's

Used for
1. Mail carrying
2. Transporting small groups of people
3. Military
4. Entertainment
5. Major feats
  1. People being the 1st to do something
Charles Lindbergh
1. First person to travel across Atlantic Ocean
Amelia Earhart
1. First woman to travel across Atlantic Ocean
2. Tried to be first person to travel around the world
3. Disappeared over the ocean

Life in the 1920's

Rural vs Urban
1. More people lived in cities than the country
Urban Scene
1. Largest cities
  1. NYC
  2. Chicago
  3. Philadelphia
2. Cities tolerated
  1. Drinking
  2. Gambling
  3. Casual dating

Prohibition

Why it failed...
1. People despised it
2. The Prohibition Bureau was underfunded
  1. Had 1500 people to supervise the country
3. Organized crime became commonplace
Moonshine
1. Alcohol made secretly in home made stills
2. Several hundred people a year died from drinking moonshine
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1. Al Capone killed off opposing gangs members

The Era of "Permanent Prosperity"

"As long as everyone has faith, everything will be fine."

Cult of Domesticity

Developed throughout 1800's
The ideal of womanhood had four characteristics
1. Piety
  1. Religious
2. Purity
  1. Saving yourself for marriage
3. Domesticity
  1. Stay at home
4. Submissiveness
  1. Becoming property of their husband

Education

By 1928, women were earning 39% of the college degrees given in the US
In 1900 it was 19%
Today it is almost 60%

"Pink Collard" Jobs

Gave women a taste of the work world
Low paying service occupations
Examples
1. Secretaries
2. Teachers

Tuesday: watched video

Wednesday: notes

Flappers

Clara Bow
1. Famous flapper girl
Not all women in the 1920s were flappers
Most were traditional stay at home, do the housework, etc.
Flappers were mostly Northern, urban, single, young, middle-class

Famous People/Places of the 1920's

Gene Tunney
1. Famous boxer
Jack Dempsey
1. Famous boxer
Babe Ruth
1. Famous baseball player
Clara Bow
1. Famous flapper
Bobby Jones
1. Famous golfer
Bill Tilden
1. Famous tennis player
Red Grange
1. Famous football player
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1. Wrote The Great Gatsby
W.E.B DuBois
1. Famous Civil Rights Leader
James Weldon Johnson
1. Famous Civil Rights Leader
Marcus Garvey
1. Back to Africa movement
Harlem Renaissance
1. Lois M. Jones
Louis Armstrong
1. Famous trumpet player
The Cotton Club
1. Club in Harlem
Duke Ellington
1. Famous jazz musician
Cab Galloway
Bessie Smith
1. Famous singer

Stock Market Crash

Dow Jones 30
Causes of the crash
1. Stock prices were grossly inflated
  1. Did not have real value-watered stock prices
2. Over speculation during the 1920's
  1. Led to watered stock
3. "Buying on margin"
  1. Led to people being in debt and watered stock prices
4. Overproduction of goods
5. Uneven distribution of wealth
6. Too much borrowing from banks
7. Federal Reserve increased interest rates
8. Lack of government regulation
  1. Led to pooling

Thursday: presentations

1930's

Causes of the Great Depression

Before Great Depression we had largest economy
Stock market crash
Domino effect
1. Depression Cycle
  1. Factories produce less
  2. People lose their jobs
  3. People cannot buy things
  4. Stores go out of business
  5. Stores do not order from factories
  6. Factories do not get orders
  7. Factories produce less

Entertainment

Baseball
1. Favorite sport
2. Less fans cause people couldn't afford it
3. Negro League gained attention
4. George Herman Ruth Jr.
  1. Known as Babe Ruth
  2. Played for Red Sox before Yankees
  3. 714 home runs in 22 seasons
5. Lou Gehrig
  1. Triple Crown Batting title in 1934
Basketball
1. Rules changed so game would go faster
2. American Basketball League fell during the depression
  1. People couldn't afford to go to games
3. National Basketball League formed in 1938
4. Women's basketball was popular
5. Glenn Roberts
  1. Known for the jump shot
  2. Scored 2,013 points in 104 games
Boxing
1. 2nd most popular sport
2. Heavy betting
3. Joe Louis
  1. World heavyweight title
  2. Major fight against Max Schmeling
4. Henry Armstrong
  1. Featherweight title
  2. Lightweight and Welterweight titles
5. Weight classes
  1. Featherweight
    1. Around 126 pounds
  2. Lightweight
    1. Around 135 pounds
  3. Welterweight
    1. Around 147 pounds
  4. Heavyweight
    1. Anything greater than 200 pounds
Football
1. Broadcasted on tv for first time in 1939
2. NFL decreased by 10 teams because of Great Depression
3. Idea of drafting adopted from Bert Bell
4. The first draft took place in 1936
5. Bill Hewitt
  1. 1932-1941 Chicago Bears
  2. 1st NFL player to earn all NFL honors with 2 teams
6. Wayne Millner
  1. 1936-1941
  2. Redskins
  3. Caught two long touchdown passes to win over Chicago Bears in NFL championship game in 1937
Radio and Music
1. Radio
  1. Comedies were broadcasted
  2. Soap operas
  3. Sports
  4. Horse races
  5. News
  6. Free for people to listen to
2. Music
  1. Musicals were big
  2. Talkies were a common thing
  3. Jazz music was common
  4. Bands normally consisted of 15-20 players
  5. Hillbilly music (country music)
    1. Becoming popular
Movies
1. Gave glimpse into glamorous lives of the rich
2. Smaller towns had free movies
3. Sound was new so it didn't always work
4. 1st drive in movie (1933)
5. Golden age of Hollywood
6. "Gone With the Wind" (1939)
7. Walt Disney's Snow White (1937)
8. Wizard of OZ
  1. Box office winner
  2. Technicolor fantasy film from MGM
  3. 1st aired on tv in 1959
9. Shirley Temple
  1. Started acting at the age of 3
  2. 1st major film was "Stand Up And Cheer"
  3. Remembered by the song "On the Good Ship Lollipop"
Dancing
1. Bands would change so the dancing would change
2. Swing
  1. Originated from African American community
3. Charleston
4. Lindy Hop
  1. AKA the Jitterbug
5. Dance Marathons

Friday: watched video

Blogs

Week of Jan. 30-Feb. 3

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