1. Social Change and Conflict
The Roaring Twenties
Social Change and Conflict

2. Post War Period
Period after WWI witnessed social change in the United States
Woman’s Suffrage
The New Negro
Disillusionment
Change in American morality: “The New Morality”
Enactment of Prohibition and rise in crime
Response to changing social conditions

4. The New Morality Prevalent among younger generation
Jazz age, theater, radio, Freud
Sex openly discussed between men and women
Women began to dress and act differently
Flappers, the “New Woman”
Skirts go from 6 in. above ground to women’s knees
Bobbed hair, rolled stockings, cigarettes, drinking, lipstick, sensuous dancing

6. Myth of New Morality
The twenties only “roared” for a small portion of the population
By 1930, the rebellion was over
Extreme expressions led to doubts about liberation
Half of college women had pre-marital sex, but ¾ was with their future husbands.

7. Reaction to Prohibition
Eighteenth Amendment (1919) banned manufacture, sale, or transport of intoxicating liquors nationwide.
Not adequately enforced
Bootlegging, speakeasies, hip flasks, cocktail parties
Organized crime in big cities
Al Capone, machine gun, automobile

9. Reaction to New Morality
Nativism
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Emergency Immigration Act (1921)
Ku Klux Klan, revised and remodeled
Fundamentalism
Reaction against “modernism”
John T. Scopes and evolution
William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow