Week of January 18-22

[2Claire]

Monday:

• We discussed forum posts. 
• We talked about prohibition and gangsters

Tuesday: We watched more videos.

Wednesday: 

• We watched a couple of videos
• Today is an early out.

Thursday:

• We talked about the economy and strikes

1.-Prohibition and gangsters

• Prohibition- 18th Amendment 
  • alcohol was allowed for medicinal and religious purposes
  • prescriptions and sacramental wine orders skyrocketed
  • The Volstead Act- act that officially started the whole process
  • Prohibition Bureau enforced the law 
  • Prohibition failed because
    • people despised it
    • Prohibition Bureau was underfunded
    • organized crime became commonplace
  • Bootlegging- the illegal making or transporting of alcohol
    • The biggest threat to a bootlegger was hijackers
  • Speakeasies- people went underground to secret bars
    • password to get in
• Organized Crime
  • happened because of Prohibition
  • every major city had a gang
  • Al Capone's bootlegging business in Chicago made over $60 million a year
  • Prohibition was repealed in 1933 by the 21st amendment
  • Al Capone- Scar-face
    • Taken down by Tax Evasion

2.-Women’s rights and freedoms

• Women got the right to vote-19th Amendment
• Women went to college more
• Women worked outside of their home more
• Margaret Sanger- founded American Birth Control League
  • today known as Planned Parenthood
  • women could control their bodies
• Women participated in the Olympics in 1928
• The Flapper
  • to be one you need the dress, hair, makeup, and not having a corset
  • having the attitude
  • want to go to college and get a job before getting married
  • have more than one boyfriend
  • Smoke and drink in public

3.-Politics-elections, Normalcy and isolationism, President’s backgrounds and accomplishments, scandals, Republican philosophy

• PRESIDENTS/ ELECTIONS
  • Warren G. Harding
    • from Ohio
    • "Ohio Gang" 
    • had numerous affairs
    • had alcohol in the White House all the time
    • died right before end of presidency
  • Calvin Coolidge
    • believer in doing as little as possible 
    • business is what drives America
  • Herbert Hoover
    • West Branch native
    • will go down as a "bad" president
    • Era of Permanent Prosperity 
    • Became famous in WWI
      • conserving food
  • Trickle-down Theory
    • help the rich out with tax to help the other people by providing jobs
  • Teapot Dome Scandal- Harding
    • people taking bribes "taking money"
    • Rock formation in Wyoming
    • U.S. Navy had oil reserves under that land
      • given to two oil companies 
      • bribed, but went to jail for a year
  • Laissez-faire
    • "leave/let alone"
    • no government regulation 
      • they will stay away from businesses
  • Rugged Individualism 
    • it is up to you to work hard
    • don't depend on anyone else
  • Normalcy
    • United States is going to focus on ourselves

4.-Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads

• Flappers, Speakeasies, Barn Storming, 
• Famous People 
  • ACTORS/ ACTRESSES
    • Greta Garbo
    • Clara Bow
    • Mary Pickford
    • Charlie Chaplin 
      • deemed a communist
        • left the US and only came back once or twice to receive an award
    • Douglass Fairbanks
    • Rudolph Valentino
    • Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer
    • The Marx Brothers
    • Harry Houdini
  • SPORTS
    • Babe Ruth - baseball
    • Jack Dempsey - boxing
    • Bobby Jones - golf
    • Bill Tilden - tennis 
    • Red Grange - football
  • Movies 
    • F. Scott Fitzgerald 
      • Tramp movie character

5.-Economy-Booming economy and stock market, buying on credit, high tariffs

• "Roaring"
  • Gross Domestic Product
  • Buying on Credit
    • Stock Market was booming
      • buying on Margin
        • buying stocks on credit
  • Dow Jones
    • x7.67
  • Tariff
    • tax on imported goods
      • Woodrow Wilson
        • Underwood Tariff
          • reduced
      • Progressives want to lower tariffs
  • The Era of "Permanent Prosperity"
    • "As long as everyone has faith, everything will be fine."
• • Great time, but loose policies and good happenings led to the 30's

6.-Red Scare-anti-immigration, Sacco and Vanzetti case

• Red Scare-1919-1920
  • a period of time after WW1 the US was feared for communist takeover
  • Sacco and Vanzetti
    • accused of killing and robbing a paymaster (guy who gives away money)
    • Sentenced to death
    • Italian radicals
    • anarchists 
• Immigration
  • was reduced
  • aimed at specific groups from Europe and Jews- and darker people
  • WASP- White, Anglo, Saxon, Protestant 

7.-Harlem Renaissance-KKK

• KKK group that is ant-black (catholic-jew)
  • wanted to keep our country pure
• Harlem renaissance was the African Americans showing their culture
  • The Great Migration- mass migrations of African Americans moving to the cities of the North
    • Art
    • Jazz
    • The Cotton Club- where musicians played

8.-Lots of strikes-Boston Police, US Steel, United Mine Workers

People had strikes for:

• better wages
• better conditions
• better pay

9.-The Model T and the impact of the automobile

• transporting much easier
• allowed people to live in suburbs
• allowed people to drive to bigger cities to work
• vacations started
• creates jobs
• negative: 
  • pollution
  • accidents
  • people spending too much money

10.-Electricity in the homes and new appliances

• ELECTRICITY
  • 1920- 35% had electricity 
• APPLIANCES
  • electric washing machine 
  • popcorn maker

11.-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhardt and the airplane

• Charles Lindbergh
  • first person to fly across the Atlantic nonstop
  • racist and anti-Jew
• Amelia Earhart
  • first women to fly across Atlantic
  • tried to be the first person to fly across the world

12.-Scopes-Monkey Trial

• 1925- Tennessee passed the first law making it illegal to teach evolution in school
• American Civil Liberties Union said it would defend any teacher willing to break the law
• John scopes, biology teacher from Dayton
  • arrested
  • Clarence Darrow (most famous lawyer) defended Scopes
  • William Jennings Bryan was the special prosecutor
  • Scopes didn't deny teaching evolution
  • Scopes was fined $100
• science vs religion
• Christian fundamentalists believed everything could be explained by the Bible
• Scientific people disagreed with the theory of evolution 
• Charles Darwin

13.-Stock Market Crash-causes

• Causes
  • stock prices were grossly inflated, did not have real value-watered stock prices
  • Over speculation during the 1920's
    • led to watered stock
  • "Buying on margin"
    • led to people being in debt and watered stock prices
  • overproduction of goods and under consumption by consumers
  • uneven distribution of wealth
  • too much borrowing from banks
  • Federal reserve increased interest rates
  • Lack of government regulation