MONDAY- no school
TUESDAY- present presentations
Entertainment
Jazz, sports, radio, dance, illegal drinking, hairstyles, fashion, movie theatres, boxing
Flapper- girls who had feathery dresses, fancy outfits, nice headbands/hats/feathers, jewelry, farming
WEDNESDAY- go over presentations
THURSDAY- go over presentations
FRIDAY-
Charles Darwin- people came from monkeys then evolved from them
The Scopes Monkey Trial-
-In 1925, Tennessee passed the first law making it illegal to teach evolution in school
-The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said it would defend any teacher willing to break the law
-John Scopes, biology teacher from Dayton, accepted
-Scopes taught evolution and was arrested
-Clarence Darrow was hired by the ACLU to defend Scopes
-William Jennings Bryan was the special prosecutor
-Scopes did not deny teaching evolution
-Trail was really about evolution in schools
-Darrow called Bryan to the stand ans asked him questions abou the Bible
-Darrow made Bryan look foolish
Buying on Credit- "buy now, pay later" stock market was booming, buying on margin, turned into massive debt
High Tariff Policy-
tariff- tax on inported goods
companies kept loosing money, stock market kept going up
The Era of "Permanent Prosperity"
-"As long as everyone has faith, everything will be fine." -Teddy Roosevelt
Cult of Domesticity
-Developed throughout the 1800's
-Ideal of womanhood had four characteristics
1. Piety -make sure their kids go to church, pray everyday
2. Purity -saving yourself for marriage
3. Domesticity -take care of kids, clean the home, cook food
4. Submissiveness -you take his name
Women took men's job in WWI showing the country that they could do hard work
19th Amendant- Women's right to vote
Maragaret Sanger- 1921 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 exsisting birth control methods
-Gave women more options
By 1928, 39% of college degrees given in the United States (1900 19%) Almost 60%
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