Jazz-Age

** American History ** = The 20th century has been the most prolific or productive century for human invention. Individuals who were lucky enough to have been born at the beginning of the century (20th Century starts in 1900) have seen telegraphs transform to satellite phones, horse-drawn carriages give way to trans-continental flight, and common deaths from diseases which we now treat as medical oddities. = The decade after the first world war is in many ways the beginning of the century for many Americans. The 20's saw new rights for women, the rise of radio entertainment, a continued pattern of discrimination towards non-whites, and a struggle between science and faith in the courts. **Please place a summary (Complete sentences, comprehensive description and three relevant pictures) of each of these events or issues on OUR wikispace Jazz Age Page(final page will be placed in your wikispace page)** : //[|Prohibition:]// The government banned the production, transportation, and consumption of alcohol from 1920-1933. The passage of the 18th Amendment was to improve the health of the nation. Now, men would bring home their pay checks, but instead of lose all their money at the bar Friday night. Many Americans got angry because they still desired alcohol. Drinking laws turned normal Americans into criminals. Individuals would make moonshine and bootleggers would transport it to bars called SpeakEasys. But soon the end of prohibition came with the making of the 22ed Amendment in 1933. Alcoholism was cut down but not stopped. The death rate from alcoholism was cut by 80 percent by 1921. Just like today many young kids and adults use alcohol against the law, but it was nothing like the 1920s. //[|Scopes Monkey Trial:]// The Scopes Monkey Trial was one of the most historic trials in all of American history. It showed the conflict between science and theology, faith and reason, individual freedom, and majority rule. In 1925, John Scopes was put on trial because he was teaching evolution in a school located in Dayton, TN. William Jennings Bryan was the attorney to testify as a Biblical expert because the judge had prohibited to use scientists as witnesses. Clarence Darrow was defending Scopes. Darrow had gotten Bryan to say that Creation wasn’t completed in a week but over a period of time which could have consisted for over a million years. Bryan opposed Darwinism as justification of war and imperialism. The textbook Scopes taught with said that there were five different races and that Caucasian was superior of them all. Bryan also said he was upset about Darwin believing that the entire evolutionary process was purposeless and not a product of larger design. The day after the exchange, Darrow changed Scopes’ plea to guilty and Scopes was convicted and fined $100. However, the fine was thrown out by the Tennessee Supreme Court.
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[|//Women's Liberation://] After struggling for 72 years, in 1920 women received the right to vote. When the 19th amendment was finally passed, reformers talked about female voters uniting to improve society, end discrimination, and clean up politics. In the beginning, male politicians aggressively tried to court the women’s vote. Congress passed legislation to put together a national system of women’s and infant’s health care clinics, along with constitutional amendment prohibiting child labor. This amendment was highly supported by many female groups. The major issue that split feminists during 1920 was a proposed Equal Rights Amendment, outlawing discrimination based on sex. Many feared that the amendment would prohibit “protective legislation” that stipulated minimum wages and maximum hours for female workers. Women’s movement also faced mounting external opposition. Opposition from many Southern states and the Catholic Church defeated the amendment outlawing child labor. Congress failed to fund the system of health care clinics while The Supreme Court struck down a minimum wage law for women workers. Women did not win new opportunities in the workplace. The American workforce had eight million women in 1920; more than half were black or foreign-born. The largest occupation remained was domestic services, followed by secretaries, typists, and clerks, all low paying jobs. The AFL, (American Federation of Labor) remained very hostile to women. It did not want females competing for a man’s job. Female professionals make very little progress, receiving less pay than their male counterparts. Traditionally female occupations were much considered as teaching or a nursing. The organized women’s movement declined in influences, mainly due to the rise of the new consumer culture that made the suffragists and settlement house workers of the Progressive era seem old-fashioned. Advertising companies argued that the modern economy was filled with exciting and liberation opportunities for consumption. They tried to popularize smoking among women. Advertisers put together parades that ran down through New York’s 5th Avenue, imitating the suffrage marches of the 1910’s. Which in that time period, young women carried “torches of freedom”, cigarettes. 

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Harding had an affair with Nan Britton and had a daughter Elizabeth Ann. Harding and Mrs. Phillips also had an affair, Mr.Phillips was Harding's friend. Their affair lasted 15 years. During those days, Harding had writed many love letters to Mrs.Phillips. They had been discovered, but, they are under protection till 2023.

Teapot Dome Affair There was no abusolute evident shows that Harding is involve in this affair; however, this event happened during his presidency, and most of the people involved had relationship with Harding. Harding said: "I had no problems with my enemy, but my friends brings me a lot of headache."

 //Tulsa Race Riot://

Tulsa Race Riot: race riot took place in Tulsa Oklahoma took place in 1921 called the night Tulsa died.

 40 city blocks leveled, 23 African American churches and thousands homes also businesses where destroyed. Booker T. Washington called the area “The Black Wall Street” the whole event started a 19 year old African bootblack was arrested for supposed assaulting a white, female teenager working as an elevator operator.

 The police report sats that the black man stumbled into the women as he was getting off the elevator the government report sats that 26 blacks and 10 whites had died and 317 were injured.

[|//Charles Lindbergh://] Charles Lindbergh, an American aviator, would become the first man to ever fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. Starting his journey from New York, Lindbergh would fly his single engine, single seated monoplane, named “The Spirit of St. Louis” across the Atlantic and land in Paris France. Six other well known aviators would attempt to complete this same feat before Lindbergh, losing their lives in the process. In all, it took Charles Lindbergh a painstaking thirty-three hours to make a flight from New York all the way to Paris, France.