1. Warm Up # 29
Please describe the two opposing arguments that are reflected in the Scopes trial.
Use evidence from the excerpts to support your claim.

2. Changing Roles of Women
Pg. 12

3. Analysis
Using this image, answer the first three questions on your paper.

4. Women and the Vote The 19th Amendment was passed in 1920
This is referred to as women’s suffrage (aka enfranchisement)
Answer the prediction question on your paper.

5. Background
The 1920s were a time of rapid social change in which many people – particularly women – adopted new lifestyles and attitudes.
Women started:
entering the job market and the political arena in greater numbers
redefining marriage, motherhood, and "womanliness" for a new era

6. Document Analysis
Using Documents A and B, compare and contrast fashion in the early 20th century and the 1920’s
Answer the two questions that follow the table.

8. The Flapper
Wore shapeless dresses that were shorter than their mothers.
No longer wore corsets.
Had short hair and hats to show off short hair
Bobbed hair
Wore make up
Drank (even during prohibition) and smoked in public
This rejection of social norms shocked society, particularly those groups and individuals fighting for tradition.

9. The Flapper Not many women were full flappers.
But changes were happening.
Parents didn’t like it!

10. The Flapper
Breezy, slangy, and informal in manner; slim and boyish in form; covered in silk and fur that clung to her as close as onion skin; with vivid red cheeks and lips, plucked eyebrows and close-fitting helmet of hair; gay, plucky and confident.
[Preston Slosson, The Great Crusade and After, 1930]

11. Fashion Trends of the 1920s
What do these fashion trends tell us about the culture of the 1920’s?
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12. “Them Days are Gone Forever”
Alvah Posen made his debut in the comic strip world with Them Days Is Gone Forever, a lighthearted view-of-the-times that was syndicated in American newspapers from 1921 to Its innovative format featured modern scenarios in four frames—the first three progressing with rhyming lyrics, the fourth delivering the climactic refrain: "Them Days Is Gone Forever."
After reading the comic examining the comic strips in your packet answer numbers 4 and 5
At the bottom of your paper is a comic strip with the dialogue erased. Based on everything we have done today, think of a conversation between the three characters that epitomizes the changing role of women in the 1920’s. Your comic strip does not have to rhyme, but if you think you can, go for it!

13. Women working in the 1920s 15% of women were professionals
20% had clerical jobs
By 1930, 29% of the workforce was women
Scholars are at odds as to just who these newly working women were. Alice Kessler-Harriscontends both single and married women found roles in the workforce, because women’s work during wartime opened their eyes to the possibility that marriage and work weren’t mutually exclusive. David Kennedy acknowledges that while more women were working (twenty-two percent of all workers by 1930), “the typical woman worker was single and under the age of twenty-two, she was unlikely to work again for wages, particularly while she had children at home. Only one mother in ten worked outside the household. Likewise, Lois Scharf argues that women were only accepted as workers with the assumption that they would move back into the home after marriage.

14. Women working in the 1920s BUT… Business was prejudiced against women
Seldom trained women for jobs beyond entry level
Did not pay same wage as men
Married or pregnant often meant you were fired