Monday: Started working on the video part of our project. Mr. Bruns went around the classroom and started the small quizzes throughout the group.
Tuesday: Worked on 1930's project video.
Wednesday: Absent
Thursday: Absent
Friday: Absent
Received notes from Cassie Riley
Prohibition- Ban of selling, transportation, and making of alcohol. Women and factory owners really pushed for prohibition.
18th amendment- (1920-1933)
-Supporters believed alcohol brought about corruption, crime, wife and child abuse, and accidents
-Supporters came mostly from rural South and West(areas with a lot of Protestants)
-Anti-Saloon League and Women's Christian Temperance Union led the attack on alcohol
- Alcohol was allowed for medical 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 3 reasons
- People despised it. Saw it as government meddling in people's lives
- The Prohibition Bureau was underfunded. Had 1,500 people to supervise the country
- Organized crime became commonplace
Bootlegging in the 1920's
- Illegally making or distributing alcohol
- Bootleggers
- People that made or transported alcohol
- Named because people carried liquor in the legs of boots
- Most imported alcohol came in from Canada, Cuba or the West Indies
Speakeasies-
- To obtain alcohol illegally, people went to underground to secret bars call speakeasies (people spoke easily or quietly about it)
- Speakeasies could be anywhere
- To be admitted a card or password had to be given
Organized Crime-
- Came about as a result of Prohibition
- Every major city had it's gang
- Al Capone's bootlegging business in Chicago made over $60 million a year
- Due to gang violence, only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition by 1925
- Prohibition was repealed in 1933 by the 21st Amendment
St. Valentine's Day Massacre-
- He had his people dress up as police officers and met up with another gang. The "police officers" shot down the other gang and won the "gang war"
Women's in the 1920's
Cult of Domesticity-
- Developed throughout 1800's
- The ideal of womanhood had four characteristics
- Piety- religious figure of the family
- Purity- save yourself for marriage, one man, no smoking or drinking
- Domesticity- stay home, clean the house, cook, take care of the kids
- Submissiveness- your husband is the leader of the family, what your husband says goes.
World War 1-
- World War I interrupted the campaign for woman suffrage
- Women took the men's jobs in WWI showing the country that they could do hard work
Aug. 20, 1920- women got the right to vote
The Roaring 20's
- The 1920's were a 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
- Today known as Planned Parenthood
- Women were then 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 the the US
- In 1900, is was 19%
- What % do you think it is today?
- Almost 60%
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 mean did doing the same jobs
- Secretaries
- Teachers
- Telephone operators
- Nurses
The Flapper-
- Short hair
- Short dresses
- Shapeless dresses- eliminated corsets
- Smoked, drank in public and earned their own money
- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald described flappers as "Lovely, expensive and about 19"
- "In the 1920's, a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. She was a flapper"
- Speaking to 1,500 students at Wellesley College in 1921, Mrs. Augustus Trowbridge condemned "the vulgarity and revolting badness of petting parties."
- She said that these "loose-moraled gatherings, along with jazz music, unchaperoned dancing and lipstick- were symptomatic of a decadent society."
- Snuggle-pupping was common in high schools and colleges
- "Girls like to be called snuggle-puppies," one school administrator told a news reporter. "They grant the boys liberties. Encourage them to take them and if the young chaps do not, they are called 'sissies' or a 'flat tire'"
- Eventually spread to cars
- Died out by the end of the 1930's
Clara Bow-
- Became THE flapper of the 1920's
- She appeared in 58 films between 1922 and 1933
- Seen as the leading sex symbol of the 1920's
Flappers-
- Not all women in the 1920's were flappers
- Most were traditional-stay at home, do the housework, etc.
- Flappers mostly were Northern, urban, single, young, middle class
The biggest threat to the bootlegger was not the Prohibition Bureau or police but.. Hijacking
Moonshine-
- Alcohol made secretly in home made stills
- Several hundred people a year died from drinking moonshine during the 1920s
- In 1929 it is estimated that 700 million gallons of beer were produced in American homes
Harlem Renaissance- Changing of the way people like to do things in Harlem (African Americans) Art, music (jazz), literature. "Proud to be black"
Politics in the 20's
- Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
- Harding
- Known for drinking in the white house (during prohibition)
- Known for having women snuck into the white house
- Coolidge
- "Silent Cal" "Cool Cal"
- Had a "do nothing attitude" said "99% of the world's problems would go away if everybody sat still
- Hoover
- The blame was put on him for the great depression and the stock market crash
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