1. The Roaring 20s “The Jazz Age”
Society in the 1920s

3. Many women felt more free to experiment with bolder styles and lifestyles
New! 

4. The 1920s is a time of social change.

5. 1920s women
The “new woman”
Not bound by traditional dress or behavior codes of “being a lady”
Style was copy of Jazz club dancers
Perpetuated by media; small minority of women were flappers
Flappers favorite dance was “The Charleston”

7. “New morality” encouraged by media, such as novels, plays, and movies.

8. 1920s women
Working women
Could be nurses or secretaries; not doctors or lawyers
Paid less than men for same jobs.
Why?

9. 1920s women Voting women? In 1920: Why? Suffrage granted
Only 35% voted
Why?
Many lacked interest
Many felt that women should not vote.

10. Americans moving Rural / Urban split
Majority of Americans now lived in cities.
Split is more than geographical.
Young vs. Old

11. Americans moving Urban growth
Farmers passed over by post-WWI industrial boom
6 million migrated
Blacks head to northern cities during WWI
Booming industrial jobs
Great Migration

12. Americans moving North Americans
Congress limited European immigration during WWI
Canadians - Northeast
Mexicans – Southwest
Barrios
Puerto Ricans – NYC

13. Americans moving White flight
Influx of newcomers + transportation improvements
Busses replace trolleys and subways
Continued growth of the suburbs

14. American HEROES Charles Lindbergh 1st person to fly from NYC to Paris
Huge media event
Symbol of traditional American values
Son kidnapped & later found murdered

16. American HEROES Amelia Earhart 1st woman to fly across Atlantic
1st person to fly solo from hawaii to California
Tried to be 1st person to fly around world
Disappeared mysteriously over Pacific

17. American HEROES Jack Dempsey Jim Thorpe Top 5 all-time boxer
Pro football player
Pro baseball player
Olympic gold medalist
Native American

18. American HEROES Gertrude Ederle
Olympic gold medalist age 17
Symbol of “new woman”
1st woman to swim the 35-mile English Channel
14 hours, 31 minutes (2 hours faster than previous record)

19. Gertrude Ederle’s “ticker tape” parade down Broadway in NYC in 1926

21. American HEROES Babe Ruth Possibly greatest baseball player ever
714 HR lifetime
60 HR in a single season
94-46 (2.26 ERA) as a pitcher

22. American HEROES
Our admiration for our national heroes came from our longing for “old fashioned virtues”
They represented “the good old days”