20's

** 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 women were concerned about the alcohol’s that made the women’s men beating and the child abuse and industrialists. Henry Ford was concerned about it too because the impact on labor productivity. The alcohol came from German Americans. Wayne Wheeler was the leader of the Anti-Saloon League. The amendment was passed by congress, which made the 18th amendment. Alcohol was limited to 2.75% content, and then was only aloud to hold 70% of alcohol the previous year. Since the Government banned alcohol it made more criminals because the people wanted their alcohol. The brew industry argued the fact that the taxes on liquor could help with the war effect than were liberty bonds. Beer, wine, gin, and whiskey was legally sold to people that wanted it. Enforces notice that bootlegging and smuggling was spreading fast then what they wanted it to. This resulted in New York arresting 7,000 people for liquor convictions. Prohibition created bootlegging, speakeasies, moonshine, bathtub gin, and rum runners who were smuggling supplies to make illigal alchohol. Since the government took the alcohol away it resulted in gang wars, and an increase of drunkenness. December 5, 1933, the end of Prohibition came because Utah made the 21st amendment to repeal the Prohibition.
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[|//Women's Liberation://] White American women received the right to vote with the passing of the 19th Amendment. This is a historic time for women all across the nation. Not only are they receiving the right to vote, women are also beginning to dress more provocatively, and it is being tolerated. Women deserved the right to vote and voice their opinions after years of suppresion by men. They were tired of men overstepping their boundaries and they did something to change it. At first, many women were prosecuted for their actions, but then women began to gain respect and started to get results. They started getting some small rights, and eventually gained the right to vote; their ultimate goal.

//Harding Scandals: Warren G. Harding was the 29th President of the United States. As many President's have great accomplishments, Harding had many issues to deal with while in presidency. He was involves in the 1921 Teapot Dome Scandal, where his secretary of interior, Albert B. Fall leased Elk Hill oil fields and the Teapot Dome fields to men who offered him money. The money was then pocketed and Harding knew all about it but took no action. Once the story came out, Fall was convicted of accepting bribes and conspiracy. President Harding was also involved in sexual scandals, from his best friend's wife Carrie Phillips, to a teenager named Nan Britton. Britton bore Harding's child in 1919 while he was still a senator. Relations between them continued when he was President.// //[|Tulsa Race Riot:]// Some may ask, why did the Tulsa Race Riots ever arise? Well, to be honest, a false accusation. Dick Rowland, a black man, walked into the elevator at the Drexel Building on May 30th, 1921. The woman operating the elevator, white woman Sarah Page, had screamed, and many thought she was assaulted. When Rowland was arrested, the headlines ticked off white people and black people. The white people were talking now of lynching… which of course made the blacks furious. People were growing more and more angrier, knowing something needed to be done. On the night of May 31, many whites and blacks gathered outside of the courthouse where Rowland was being held. While a white male was trying to disarm a black male, the gun had discharged… shoving the incident into a much greater racial conflict. Because of people’s fury, early on June 1st, black homes and businesses were burned into flames, and items were stolen from their homes. Unfortunately, the black population was greatly outnumbered. Though the black population was outnumbered 10:1, they started forming battle lines and trenches, because many of them were World War One veterans. The Tulsa police department was too small to end the rioters. Because of this, the mayor himself, T.D. Evans asked the governor to finally send in the National Guard. Smoke polluted the skies of the northern region of Tulsa. The final stand of the conflict finally came on foot of Standpipe Hill. According to the Tulsa Tribune, “the National Guard mounted two machine guns and fired into the area. The black groups surrendered and were disarmed. They were taken in columns to Convention hall, the McNulty Baseball Park, the Fairgrounds and to a flying field. Some survivors later alleged that planes were involved in the destruction of Greenwood City.” Many of the black people were forced into imprisonment, whereas many whites were allowed to return home. When it comes down to the question, how many lives were lost, it is very debatable. Estimates have ranged from 27 lives all the way to more than 250 lives. It took almost 10 full years to recuperate from the destruction of the riots. This particular part in our history is barely mentioned in text books, especially absent in Oklahoma text books. The documentation from the riots mysteriously ended up vanishing, unfortunately the actually memory survived. A survivor of the riot, George Monroe, had said, “I want people to know [about the riot], I want my children to know, that their daddy went through something.” You may ask, so what ever happened to Dick Rowland? Well, the charges that were up against him were never brought. The Tulsa Race Riot Commission was formed in 1997 to investigate and find out more about the riot of 1921.

//[|Charles Lindbergh:]//

May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field, near New York City at 7:52 am. He landed at Le Bourget Field, near Paris, on May 21 at 10:21 pm. He had flown more than 3,600 miles in 33 ½ hours. Finally a man has made it across the Atlantic Ocean. Lindbergh’s heroic flight thrilled people throughout the world. He was honored with awards, celebrations, and parades. Charles Lindbergh led to airports, traveling to different places in the world in a minimum of 12 hours. And now we have flying cars, space ships, and we can send people to the moon.


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