Friday - The 1920's
Nicknames - "The Roaring 20's" , "Republican Era" , "The Jazz Age" , "The Lost Generation(1883-1900)" , "Boom to Bust" , "Decade of Normalcy" , "Prosperity Decade" , "Prohibition Era" , "The Advertising Age" , "The Golden Age of Sports" , "Era of Permanent Prosperity"
The Red Scare - Scared of becoming communist
5 Countries that are currently communist - China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba
USSR - Union Soviet Socialists Republics
Monday - The Palmer Raids - series of raids conducted by the Department of Justice to capture and arrest suspected radicals and deport them from the U.S
Raids started after strikes were getting national attention. More than 500 foreign citizens were deported during the raids.
Sacco and Vanzetti - In 1920, 2 men robbed and murdered a paymaster and his guard as they transferred $15,776 from the Slater and Morrill Shoe Factory. Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted on circumstantial evidence of capital murder and sentenced to death. Sacco and Vanzettie appealed their convictions but they lost and were executed.
In the 1920's they wanted to limit immigration.
The Immigration Act of 1924 - reduced immigration to US (The law was aimed at restricting immigration of Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, and Jews)(Severely restricted the immigration of Africans and prohibited the immigration of Arabs, East Asians, and Indians) The purpose was "to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity"
President Harding, Coolidge and Hoover
Tuesday - Republican Philosophy - Conservation as opposed to?
Low taxes, high tariffs and less government
Lower immigration
Trickle-down theory - benefits for the wealthy trickle down to others, tax cuts on businesses
Laissez-faire
Rugged individualism - working hard, independent
A return "Normalcy"
Albert Fall - Teapot Dome Scandal
Warren Harding's Death and Funeral
President Calvin Coolidge
What impact did automobiles have on the United States? Moved more, more jobs, more money, freedom
Wednesday - Airplanes in the 1920's - Mail carrying, transporting small groups of people, military, entertainments, major feats
Rural vs. Urban - 1920 Census - 51.2 people lived in cities of 2,500 or more
1922-1929 - more than 2 million people moved from farms to the cities each year
Rural areas tried to hold on to moral values and close social relationships
Prohibition "The Noble Experiment"
- 18th Amendment(1920-1933) - The manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal
Supporters believed alcohol brought about corruption, crime, wife and child abuse and accidents
Alcohol was allowed for medicinal and religious purposes. Prescriptions and sacramental wine orders skyrocketed
1. People despised it. Saw it as government meddling in peoples lives
2. The Prohibition Bureau was underfunded. Had 1,500 people to supervise the country.
3. Organized crime became commonplace
Bootlegging - 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
The bootleggers biggest threat was hijackers
Moonshine - Alcohol made secretly in home made stills, several hundred people a year died from drinking moonshine, It is estimated that 700 million gallons of beer were produced in American homes
Speakeasies - to obtain alcohol illegally, people went underground to secret bars called speakeasies (people spoke easily or quietly about it)
To be admitted a card or password had to be given
Organized Crime - Came about as a result of Prohibition, Every major city had its 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
Thursday - No School
Friday - Worked on projects
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