Unit+Six

=DANCE HALLS: 652-653=
 * changed the rules/inhibitiions of traditional public culture in the 1920-30s-- replaced freedom with excitement and release
 * Causes
 * African American migration brought new forms of jazz popularized through the phonograph and radio
 * increase in youth culture-men and women interactions (sexual entertatinmnet)
 * prohibition--led youth to seek excitment elsewere
 * Wore fancy clothes, hair styles, went to New York, Chicago, Boston, ect.
 * In 1924 New York city 6 million people attended dancehalls, over 10 percent of men an women between 17 and 40 went dancing once a week
 * showcased popular music that encourage althletic and sensual dancing that was looked down upon as morally wrong ( for women)
 * "taxi dance" ballrooms-- popular for drugs and alcohol, and prostitution which high class ballrooms attempted to avoid by enforcing dress codes[[image:batgung-moddsey-1950s-Percival-St-New-York-Cinema_preview.jpg width="269" height="289" align="right"]]
 * popular amongst working class/immigrant men and women-- gave them a chance to freely interact amongst other races

=The Cinema=
 * ======there were laws passed the restricted/prohibited certain styles of dancing======
 * 1920s- The U.S. was the first country to create the film industry
 * 70 percent of films are seen in France
 * 80 percent of films are seen in Latin America
 * 95 percent of films viewed in Canada were all made in the United States
 * 700 featured films each year/every year--10 times more than any other nation
 * competition began to develop between other countries and America when they saw the penetration of the American movies into their culture
 * The U.S. continued to have over 40 percent of the worlds cinemas and movies were Americas most influential export at that time and even today
 * other notable film industries: India and Asia

=The Decline of the Self Made Man=
 * Main Idea:** The idea that success was no longer possible without education and training, and that people were becoming more dependent on rules and norms of society
 * that their were set social standards-- social immobility unless you were talented, and educated, as well as trained
 * Oppurtunity and taking advantage of those presented to you
 * **ambivalent-**- confuse, conflicted, unsure

=Chapter 24: Five Main Ideas of the 1920's=
 * 1) America sees a significant rise in consummerism which meant more people were buying things which helped the economy of the United States as a whole-- a time of affluence and economic prosperity.
 * 2) America developed a new culture as a result of the rise in new leisure times such asf the cinema, the dancehall,cultural trends, and the development of new arts.
 * 3) Religious fundamentalism arises
 * 4) Battlees between consumerist and liberals become more profound.
 * 5) Women start to become less domesticated, and begin to par take in more leisure activities

=Stock Market & Chapter 25 Preview= - prices for shares change depending on the company -regulates the flow of money -causes of the great depression -- stock market crash

=Hoover Adminstration- During the Depression= - Chapter 25 Questions-- Class Review -- ( see binder for questions) 1-- very bad-- high umplyment rates 2- alot of women who would enter the workforce were forced out of the work force-- unemplyoment rates for women were high 3- 4-attempts to contain the problems but they were insufficent and ineffective for the majority of the time- very limited attempts 5- major beatdown an landslide fdr took the presidency from underneath hoover by a big number banking crisis was baddd very very bad -- first thing fdr deals with when he comes into office
 * Agricultural Marketing Act-- aid to farmers to keep them in business-- farmers get subsides to not make stuff
 * Reconstruction Finance Corporation
 * Glass Segal Act
 * stop spending money to create government jobs-- conserve the government budget
 * * Hoovers downfall was sealed by what happened with the bonus army --picture 687
 * tarrif--Holy Smoote tarrif-- farming agricultural imports -raise tarifs on imports exports were declining and they began to decline even more

=The Great Depression= media type="custom" key="8388836"

=Chapter 26 Main Idea=
 * 1) The new deal did not end the great depression
 * 2) The New Deal was critized by both sides: liberals, radicals/extremist
 * 3) Longest serving president served for 12 years- four terms-- 1933-1945 and died in office
 * 4) America was helping win the war by 1944-- when FDR dies just before the end of World War Two
 * 5) WW2 is what really ended the great depression


 * Movie Notes
 * first thing FRD addressed was the banking crisis-- shutting down the banks for four days
 * idea of "action" --come to office and start taking action- called Congress into special session
 * both houses of office were Democratic--same as president --allowed them to do basically anything they wanted
 * allowed alcohol back into America
 * agricultural adjustment act -- farmers were on the verge of revolution/anarchy--paid farmers to grow less and sluaghter animals a through government subsidies
 * turned federal government in the nations larlgest employer-- i.e. CCC
 * NIRA
 * planned economy: communism and socialism
 * Francis Perkins-- first women to ever serve in a Presidents Cabinet-- labor secretary
 * Propaganda

=The Legacy of the New Deal= Electoral Realignment- a new coalition for the democrats-- African American votes shifted FDR was able to sway African Americans to vote democratic-- ever since Federal Housing Social Securtiy WPA buildings FDIC- federal deposit insurance company -- if you loose your money the government will give it back to you FCC- regulate stock market Deficit spending-- keynesian economics-- spending borrowed money-- Keynes said that the government could utilize government spedning to benefit the economy-- that it was not a bad idea if the government went into debt Did virtually nothing for African Americans & Women Left a new philosophy of the American government-- they had a responsibility to ensure protection of American people Indians were acknowledged through the New Deal-- got a minority of the change through the administration through the Indiana Reorganization Act
 * Focused more so of fixing the economy rather than social change-- there were some symbolic changes ( Black Cabinet, first women in Cabinet, ect..)