1. The 1920’s and the 3R’s What do you know about it?
Roaring, Rebellious, and Reactionary

2. Read the story you were just given then answer the following: why did she bob her hair?
Changing Status of Women
Dating
Equality
Suffrage
Sexuality
Work
What do the following ads tell us about the status of women?

3. What factors do you think led to women demanding a change in their legal, economic and social lives?
Industrialization?
New Inventions?
Family Planning?
Urbanization?
Modernity?
1920s- style- flapper- dress, hairstyle
Reaction?

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7. Why I bob my hair
How does Mary view her hairstyle as an extension of her views?
How does she differentiate it from a “fad”
What are her views on change?
Individuality?
Based on what you learned about Mary, If she lived today what do you think would be her hairstyle? Dress? Attitude?

8. Historian Fred. L. Allen younger generations
How and why does he bring up Lenin and Bolshevism?
What was the old “code” for women?
How did the Code change in the 1920s?
Who and what rang the alarm for parents?
What did the morality police demand?
What if any code would you accept at DHS
How did parents react?
Could this be written today?

9. Beautiful White Girls sold into Ruin
In what ways did the WCTU advocate on behalf of women?
How did society react to “sexuality”?
What was Comstock’s policy regarding sexual liberty?
What factors played a role in Margaret Sanger’s viewpoint toward contraceptives and abortion?
How did Government react to Margaret Sanger