SOCIAL Colleen Lierman Allie Walsh Molly Gray
W OMEN -Women’s education was also expanding. -Women made up 55% of all high school students and 60% of high school graduates. -College was becoming an option for women. -Men’s jobs were being taken over by the educated women. - If they did find jobs it was very few hours and low pay. Not only were they getting the same opportunities, they began to experiment with their own gender. They did this was to get away from the male dominance.
FLAPPERS -Women began to smoke, drink, dance, and also had the right to vote. -Short hair cuts were in style, the women wore lots of make-up, and went to parties. -These girls took risks and took the name as flappers
DANCING -The Charleston came from jazz -This dance was created by the African American communities down in Charleston, South Carolina. -The dance involves swaying arms and moving your feet fast. KDtr_RP5Q
M EN -Women became more independent during the 1920’s -Women found opportunities only in nurturing professions such as teaching, social work, medicine, nursing, and pediatrics. While men worked in factories doing manual labor.
M ONEY -The boom, was the cause of the stock market crashing in Actions in the 1920s led to the depression in the 1930s The economic cause and effect for this time period can be traced back to World War I. -The Great Depression most drastically effected national moral by eliminating jobs.
S PEAKEASY - 18th Amendment. -As a result of Prohibition, the speakeasy was a place for people to go and drink -Half dozen underground palaces sprung up. -These speakeasies were one of the many ways that people during the 1920's and early 1930's obtained illegal alcohol. -100,000 speakeasies in New York City alone. - Federal agents also reported that this area was on of the "wettest" in the country. - - little holes in the door to make sure it wasn’t the police