Time Flies Times 1920 1920’s By Brevin Cherryholmes, Grant Anderson, Kolby Greiner, Alexis House,Samantha Nowotny and Lakin Rocha
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Prohibiton Good or Bad? Advertisment by Alexis Letter to the editor Advertisement Letter to the editor Letter to the editor Advertisement Entertainment Advertisement Isolationism in the 1920’s Advertisment by Lakin Entertainment by Lakin Isolationism in the 1920s Advertisement by Alexis Economy by Grant A changing Society! Whats Up with Crime and Prohibition? Entertainment in the 1920’s Sports of the 1920’s Interview with Babe Ruth Briefing of today Bibliography
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Prohibtion, Good or Bad? By Grant Anderson After a decade of living with prohibiton, the ban on alcohol, we need to ask ourselves if this amendment has had a positive, or negative affect on the country. Let’s start with the positives. Saloons have been closed across the country. People are no longer getting drunk in public, walking around the streets stumbling and unable to have normal conversation. Lots of families have been lifted out of poverty thanks to this law. Husbands are no longer spending what little money they already have on alcohol. Now I’ll discuss the negatives. Alcohol isn’t a lame party drink. People want it and will do a lot to be able to drink it. Making it illegal hasn’t made it so it’s not used. Alcohol is still used in secret. Controlled by gangs, it is transported from across the border, or secret breweries. The gangs pay police officers to keep their deliveries secret too. Their deliveries are to speakeasies. You’ve probably heard the term speakeasies but if you don’t live in a city, you might not know what they are. Speakeasies are places that will sell alcohol in secret, and they won’t tell you they do. Parties are common in speakeasies, but are mostly for the more wealthy. At these parties, the owners make a lot of money. It’s almost like the saloons never left. Now that you have read about both the good and bad that has come with prohibition, it is time to decide whether or not we should keep this amendment to our constitution.
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Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Dear Editor, I read your article on the 18th amendment on how it has been good for the country, but I disagree. Prohibition has brought in organized crime, and criminal activity to our cities. Making alcohol illegal doesn't make it so people can't drink it, it makes it so gangs and troublemakers have control over it. In a way, the 18th amendment has increased drinking. Saloons are being closed, but for every one closed, I've heard 4 or 5 speakeasies have been opened secretly Speakeasies, which you forgot to mention, are places that quietly sell alcohol, some are hidden, some look like regular shops. Lots of cops and other enforcers take bribes to keep those speakeasies open, and the owners out of trouble. There are some pretty wild parties that go on at those places too. Lots more drinking than what would be going on if there was no 18th amendment. I think we should get rid of the 18th amendment. The law has done more bad than good. If we can't arrest everyone who is supplying or drinking alcohol, why try to stop it at all? Things will go back to the way they were before, which was a lot less drinking and partying. There will be less crime in the cities, and life will be better.
Sincerely, Grant Anderson
I very much liked the article you had on Urban vs. Rural, but I think you could have been misled from the point. Rural towns and countrysides are clearly better than Urban cities in the 1920’s, for many reasons. Life in the City does not tend to revolve around the family, and a family is what keeps life worth living. Although parents are more strict to their children, they have better benefits like: better teaching, smaller and more secluded towns, and finally, more land. Urban cities are too busy these days, while in Rural Areas, it is rare to see a Model T roll down the gravel road near a farm. In the Rural Areas people thought of you as rebellious if you moved to the city. Because of all the new inventions and technology in the city, people thought of Urban’s as rebels. Meanwhile, the Rural life was more simple and not as challenging as life in the city. Although many houses were still heated by a boiler or a stove, many others in the city had heating from technology. But, children learned to be more proper and manors in the Rural areas due to the much needed punishments at schools. Kids were punished by either being beaten, or wearing Dunse Caps. In the Rural towns many kids had heard of Babe Ruth so they would always find time to swing the bat around after school in a nearby field. Many Rural citizens struggled to make money unlike Urban citizens, but life is better due to the simple things like: family, school, and freedom. Kids are allowed to do almost whatever they wanted in their free time because of the countryside and all of its opportunities. Even the Babe, moved out to a farm with his wife because he could not stand the city. At some point in the life of someone nowadays, they would want to get away from all the crowds in the cities.Consequently, Rural areas are
greater than Urban cities for many reasons. The general reason though, is family. Family is a key factor in the life of people in today's society and I do not believe you can find it as easily in Rural Areas. The cities are tormented with gangsters, speakeasies, and the mob. So in conclusion, remember that cities do not offer some of the many benefits that the Rural towns do. Sincerely, Kolby Greiner
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Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Dear, editor
I disagree with your anti-prohibition article. Alcohol is leaving families penniless and starving on the streets. When alcohol is made it uses a lot of our supplies. It uses enough grain to make 10 million loaves of bread each day. The prohibition was enacted during the war to save the grain, now it’s doing the opposite. Alcohol is dangerous and we need to get it off the streets! If we don’t get alcohol off the streets we will have lots of families living on the streets. The families will be hungry with no money and no place to live. Alcohol is a big problem right now and we need to get rid of it. sincerely, Brevin
I believe the 190s where fun crazy time but the questions for the 1920s was How did people inhabit the world we lived in? That was the question that people asked in the 1920s. the scientific way was that humans were monkeys and by time began to be human. but the people of the 1920s did not believe that because in the 1920s people went by what the bible said.Tennessee denied him of his freedom of speech and the government approved of a particular religion. Christians fundamentalists in the united states rejected darwin's theory , because it couldn't be true because it disagreed with what the bible said explanation of human life some christians felt that it could be true. The verdict was that he was guilty on july,21 the two sides summed up their case for the jury at 11:14 A.M the jurors left the courtroom to begin considering the case 8-9 min later he was found guilty Sincerely, Alexis
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Samantha’s Letter to the Editor
Dear, Editor The youth today is changing dramatically. Old traditions are being broken and not listening to to adults since the war is over. Girls all around are cutting their hair and wearing short dresses. Traditionally you are suppose to wear long dresses with long hair and when you dated someone new the you are suppose to meet the parents and have a chaperone go with you to a dance but right now the teens are going to parties without anyone knowing.
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Drink Orange Crush the Drink of The 20s!
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Entertainment
The radio had a great impact on the 1920s. The sales of radios soared from $60 million in 1922 to $426 million in 1929. The first commercial radio station started broadcasting in 1919. During the 1920s the nation's radio stations were filled with musical variety shows and comedies. The phonograph was also a great impact on the 1920s. The sales of phonographs rose from just 190,000 in 1923 to 5 million in 1929. popularity of jazz, blues, and "hillbilly" music was played frequently on these phonographs. Movies were also part of entertainment. The people attending movies were from 50 million a week in 1920 to 90 million weekly in 1929. Americans spent 83 cents every entertainment dollar when they went to go see a movie. Spectator sports attracted audiences in the 1920s. The country strived for heroes.
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Isolationism in the 1920’s(post WW1) by Kolby Greiner
WWI the United States dramatically changed. Isolationism was one of the changes. After the casualty count, many soldiers grew angry and the Anti-European Sentiment began. The generation after WWI started to become less like the “Woodrow Wilson” styled America. The League of Nations was forgotten and the United States separated themselves from the outside world because of all of the frustration that had been lifted over from WWI. Earlier, before WWI in 1823, President James Monroe created the Monroe Doctrine. The Doctrine stated no Europeans could colonize in the Western Hemisphere anymore. That was one of the few but earliest signs of Isolationism from the United States to any other country around the globe. It also stated that the United States would not interfere with any other foreign conflicts containing Europe. All in all, Monroe was hoping to show Europe that the United States was now going to start to become a more independent country. Meanwhile, the Europeans accepted and ended up using Wilson’s League of Nations idea. But the United States closed many of its doors that had previously been opened to immigrants. The Quota Act of 1921, stated that immigration countries would be limited by 3% from the number in 1910.
Post WWI, Europe is in debt with America for all of the aid, weapons, and men the United States provided. In fact, the total debt amount that Europe was in with the United States, totaled to 10$ billion U.S. dollars in today's economy. Even worse, Germany never actually payed the United States back for what they did. The United State never truly helped the Germans, but due to the damages that Germany caused all other countries, a small portion of the debt (or profit) would have gone to the United States. Many Europeans stated they had “worked or fought” harder in WWI than the United States, therefore they not need to pay the debt. To sum ep, the United States did not want to be involved with all of the post WWI foreign affairs, so the isolated themselves by closing doors to immigrants and leaving the League of Nations. All of this credit for Isolationism should go to Warren Harding (the elected president of the United States in WWI). Harding forgot about all of Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policies that he had tried to apply in Europe at the Treaty of Versailles.
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President Woodrow Wilson, at the right Immigrants being sent home, above
Treaty of Versailles 1918, above President Harding at the left
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Economy by Grant Anderson The U.S. economy in the years after the war was an interesting one. The demand for war weapons and the economic boom with it had just disappeared. Factories were forced to lay off workers, and change equipment for other uses. But the hard times did not last for long. Changes how products are made, lowered prices and made them affordable for most every citizen. Henry Ford invented the assembly line, which made automobiles affordable for average citizens, not just the wealthy. It wasn't just the automobile that accounted for the economic growth in the past decade. The country's gross national income increased by huge amounts in the early 20s. From 1921 to 1924 the gross national product rose from $69 billion per year to $93 billion per year. Many more jobs became available too. Unemployment dropped from 11.7% to 3.7% in those same three years. Electricity for everybody made new home appliances practical. The refrigerator, washing machine, toaster, every family had to have them. They made life easier, and involved less labor. Companies figured out how to advertise in the most effective way to get the most profit.
You may have felt like you needed a certain thing but didn't know why, that was most likely advertising done right. The stock market was also a huge part of the economic growth. At the beginning of the decade, stock was only bought by the rich. This soon spread to the middle class. Popularity in buying stocks rose rapidly. At the beginning of the decade only 2.5% of Americans invested in stocks. That number changed greatly during the building boom. As companies competed to build the tallest buildings in the world, their stocks rose. RCA stock rose from $67 to $420 in four years. Without the stock market, we would not have seen the amount of growth that we saw in the 1920s. All of these subjects I covered contributed to a great economic decade. Further innovation and business strategies should help make the 1930s just as successful.
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A Changing Society! by:Samantha Nowotny The youth today is changing women and children are not following their role. They have more time to do what they want instead of taking hours to clean house. Cars are giving them the sense of freedom and thinking they can do whatever they want. Flapper girls are a new thing know the typically a woman would have long hair with a long dress but the flappers are cutting their hair short and wearing skimpy dresses that show a lot of skin. The KKK is a group called the Ku Klux Klan. They wore white robes with white pointed masks.They are strongly against republicans and black. They lynched blacks and burn down houses of people who say they won’t join.
KKK lynching
They started in California and spread quickly through the south. They started in California and spread quickly through the south. The 18th Amendment and other new laws like the literacy test made it a lot harder to immigrates to get into the United States of America a lot harder. There were also Certain times the immigrants from a country could enter and if they were only a bit late they would be sent back home. Those few who did make it to the United States face discrimination that made finding work and a home hard.
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Whats up with Crime and Prohibition? The 18th amendment put a ban on the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the United States. The law forced saloons to close, the brewers of alcohol to close. The dry point of view wanted prohibition to be a law. They thought there were too many drunk people on the streets, making life worse. Many men who drink too much have families in poverty because lots of the money tapplehey make goes to drinking. They also thought drinks cause crime and violence. What actually happened when the law was enforced was more drinking. Speakeasies opened where alcohol we sold secretly. There were big parties in those speakeasies that made lots of money for the owners. Crime actually increased too. Now that alcohol needed to be smuggled around, gangs controlled it. When rival gangs got in disagreements, there was lots of fighting and other crimes. What the drys thought would help America actually hurt it in some ways. The saloons are going underground. There was half a dozen underground drinking places or speakeasies. There were 100,000 speakeasies in New York City alone. It was said that you can get alcohol in any building on 52nd street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. This was the wettest street in the country. Now that prohibition has begun saloons are shutting down. Breweries and distilleries are shutting their doors and have switched to making different beverages. The Eighteenth amendment is to prohibit the “manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors” The bootleggers are people who make and sell alcohol illegally, since it is illegal and hard to get they get lots of profit off of it. Know it is taken over by gangs, but in chicago Al Capone’s gang rules. The gangs are getting into trouble and is often involved in violence. The reason for this ban is because they think it will reduce in the and increase efficiency in work setting.
Another reasoning for this is the new information telling the affects of alcohol when driving.Positive effects of prohibition.He positive effects was that alcohol was decreased cirrhosis of the liver went down 66% in men, and public darkness was halved. Asserts Sabel “ organized crime was emboldened, but the mob was powerful before the prohibition. We believe prohibition was a good thing for the poor because paychecks wouldn't go to the saloon. ban on drinking would reduce absenteeism and increase efficiency of the workplaces Al Capone came from a very foreign background in a Italian community. During a childhood brawl, Al Capone earned the name “Scarface”. Capone was only 14 years old when he left school and worked for his Uncle. Later in life he fled to Chicago where he is today bootlegging with his gangs. He fled because he was about to be busted for a murder trial, but in a last minute attempt he hooked up with a ride from one of his gang members.When the previous gang leader: Torrio, left the gang, Capone was made lead Right now “Bootlegging” is used alot in Chicago. Although it is illegal, it is second-nature to most. One who makes product off of it is Al Capone. Capone started a fire in Chicago when he sent some of his men to shoot 7 of “Bugsy’s” gang in the events of St. valentine's Day. President Hoover would very much like to jail Capone as of right now, but Capone is thought of as a kind in Chicago. Will Capone ever be stopped? The world may never know.
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Entertainment of the 1920s By Brevin Cherryholmes
The Glamour of the Films. Out of all the celebrities movie stars are the most glamorous. Now 35 million Americans are going to movies at least once a week. The top movie personalities are cowboys, vamps, flappers, comedians, cops, robbers, and swashbucklers.
People are at home with radios all over America. In November in 1920 the 1st radio broadcast was heard in America. 12 million American families are listening to radios at home. All that Jazz! Jazz is the new form of music. Jazz moved North with the migration of the African Americans. Jazz migrated into the cities of Chicago, New York, St. Louis, and Kansas City. Jazz is being heard through radios, gramophone records, and Jazz clubs.
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Babe Ruth is someone very famous in the 1920s. He came to New York to play for the Yankees in 1920. There was a big scandal that had recently ended before Babe started playing for the Yankees. During Babe Ruth’s career he hit 54 home runs. Art and Architecture is something that is big in the1920s. American Artists and Architects experimented with new art forms and materials. America adapted into a unique style in the 1920s.
The Jazz Kings
A Nation of Hero Worshipers. Mainstreet is being watched by a whole bunch of busybodies. Robert Benchley is sufficiently voguish or offbeat to get the public's attention. The Intellectual Movement is what is bringing American letters or age. The capital of the movement is New York.
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Sports of the 1920s by.Alexis House BASEBALL thirty acres in Jerry City in 1921,while its first baseball game to be broadcast live. Babe Ruth a amazing baseball player is making $80,000 He was making jokes about Herbert Hoover who never drew his presidential salary. Babe Ruth owned 1920s Sports. He was a hard swing hero of the Yankees. Babe Ruth was a beloved American hero throughout the 1920s. He broke numerous records.
CROSS COUNTRY Cross country is now a popular olympic sport and the events have belonged to a European named Paavo Nurmi. He was the first to apply scientific principles to his training, and has won 9 gold and 3 silver medals at the olympics.
On Sunday, August 20, 1922, history was made in women's track and field at an international meet in Paris, France. Not only were there eighteen world records set, but the team of women from the United States made history by competing at all. Never before had a team of women from the US competed in track and field on the international level. The daunting effort to bring a team to Paris was headed by Dr. Harry Eaton Stewart. Thirteen US women competed in eleven events against competition from Great Britain, France, Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia. The United States also demonstrated the hop, step, and jump,
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Interview with Babe Ruth By Brevin Cherryholmes
1. When did you come to play for the Yankees? Babe: I came from New York in 1920 to play for the Yankees. 2. When did you hit your first home run? Babe: September 5th in Toronto. 3. When did you play your first game? Babe: July 11th, 1914. 4. How many homeruns did you hit? Babe: 714 home runs. 5. When was your best year? Babe: 1921, I hit 59 home runs and we lost in game 7 of the world series. 6. What positions did you play? Babe: Outfielder and pitcher. 7. Do you bat left handed or right handed? Babe: I bat left handed. 8. Do you throw left handed or right handed? Babe: I also throw left handed. 9. What is your full name? Babe: George Herman Ruth 10. When was your last game? Babe: May 30th, 1935
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Briefing by Sam
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The has three - eight million klan memberships Babe Ruth has had 54 home runs and 137 runs batted in Radio broadcasting just began The GPN per capita is 4.2% and is growing by 2.7% per year
“Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fish women blush!”- Agatha Christie “the New Woman boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date—to work her own property, to live free of the strictures that governed her mother’s generation.- Joshua Zeitz "History writ with lightning, and my only regret is it's all so terribly true."-Henry Ford, speaking of immigrants "Scopes isn't on trial, civilization is on trial." President Woodrow,commenting on the pro-KKK film Birth of a Nation
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