Weekly Blogs 1/22-1/26

MONDAY- no school

TUESDAY- 

"Pink Collared" Jobs 1920-1970

-gave women a taste of the work world

-low paying service occupations

-made less money than men did doing the same job -secretaries, teachers, nurses, telephone operators

Houdini -escape artist/magician

Gene Tunney vs Jack Dempsey

Bobby Jones- golfer

Bill Tilden- tennis

Red Grange- football

Scott Fitzengerald- the great gamsey

The Harlem Renaissance- America was reborn (Harlme NY) African American was reborn - culture took off -spread off to other countries

WEB DuBois- leading African American speaker (Martin Luther King)

James Weldon Johnson -NAACP -leader 

Marcus Garvey- Jamacian American 9promoted black -feel good about being black)

The Cotton Club -in Harlem -speakeasy -white people attended -rich people -black people could perform

WEDNESDAY- palmer raids- rated people for communist and deported them
go over test

US fall to communist

Republican Philosophy- low taxes, high tariffs, and less government, lower immigration, trickle-down thoery, laissez-farie, rugged individualism (up to you/rely)

laissez-faire- hands off (less government interest)

THURSDAY- test

FRIDAY-

FDR's New Deal Programs (For A New Deal)- promised a new/fresh start to help us get out of the great depression

Relief, Reform, and Recovery-

-relief for the needy

-economic recovery

-financial reform

WWII got us out of the Great Depression

When did it start? What did it do? Was it successful? Give examples when and why did it end? Is it still around today? Include pictures, sources

Home Owners Loan Corporation

 

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