Postwar Social Change Section 1 Society in the 1920’s.

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Postwar Social Change Section 1 Society in the 1920’s

We’re Starting to Roar! Life expectancy up Medical advances Stock market “get rich quick” Unemployment < 4% Real wages up 40% since 1914

“OLD CULTURE” “NEW CULTURE” Emphasized Production Emphasized Consumption CharacterPersonality ScarcityAbundance ReligionScience Idealized the Past Looked to the Future Local CultureMass Culture SubstanceImage

Women’s Changing Role: Joined the workforce –Employers still weary about hiring a woman for a professional position. If they married or got pregnant they were expected to leave their job. Able to vote –19 th Amendment –Not exercised by all women

Women in Politics -Lobbied successfully for Sheppard- Towner Act, welfare concerned with women and children’s health issues -ERA failed first time through (1923) -Women won seats in the House and also became Governors.

The Flapper!!! In the 1920s, a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up.

Demographic changes Rural -Urban Split –Farmers became economically stressed –Industry & commercial groups on the rise –People left the countryside for the city. –City values differed from rural values

* Growth of suburbs: -cities expanded to meet the need of their growing population: “el trains” buses

*African American’s on the move: - passed Jim Crow Laws - migrated to the North for better job opportunities - faced white hatred

Other Migration –Congress placed limits on migration from:Southern and Eastern Europe, China, and Japan. –Mexican’s and Canadians filled the labor shortages –barrio’s developed

American Heroes in the 1920’s American’s became fascinated with icons from every aspect of American life. The became the role models of the time

Lucky Lindy Charles Lindbergh 1 st transatlantic flight Spirit of St. Louis

Amelia Earhart First solo flight across Atlantic 1937 Disappeared trying to fly around the world

Jack Dempsey Heavyweight champion

Jim Thorpe Olympian

Babe Ruth

Hazel Wightman Olympic Tennis.