Changes In American Culture

Growing up as an Immigrant in America, you grow to learn social conformity is prevalent and plays a key role in the systematic oppression of free thinkers. Social conformity does not only dictate the way you view issues but also makes you shy away from letting your own beliefs be heard. There are many ways people conform, television and social norms being the predominant forces. By having observed these behaviors at an early age, I’ve grown to develop my own moral judgment and have met like-minded individuals who share the same outlook on the ills of society.

The Homestead Act is a special Act that promoted migration to the western part of US. Public lands were made easily accessible to settlers with a small filing fee in exchange for 160 acres of land to be used for farming. Homesteaders received ownership of the land after continuously residing on the land for five years. Homesteaders also had an alternative of acquiring the land from the government by paying a specified amount per acre, after six months of residency. The Homestead Act resulted in the distribution of million acres of public land (Library of Congress n.p). The Act made it possible everyone, including, women from the middle and lower classes of the society to gain financial freedom and independence. In the early twentieth century,

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1twtYoqJjB2v5b_wC87fSq87fpEdfmHaFGY3VBqJwPLQ/ediThe early 1900s are known as a time in history where there was a massive change in cultural views which had led to rash and progressive changes in women’s rights along with the creation of mass produced apparel and cosmetics. This period however pale in comparison to those radical changes of today's society and it is clear that twenty-first century concepts of women's rights , marriage legislation and various other topics which had once been considered taboo are much more accepted and widely discussed.

The culture during the 1860s in the United States of America has changed many times and is still changing today. Look back to the times during the Civil War. Clothing was being morphed throughout the decade into different styles and fashions depending on the location of where the people lived such as towns or rural areas. Architecture in the 1860s also had varieties of styles such as the Victorian style. Agriculture and transportation were also, a major part in the culture of the 1860s and they were closely connected to each other and the root of the country’s economy. The Native American's teachings long ago may account for the success of the people’s agriculture in the 1860s.

Since the beginning of time the world has changed in many ways, one major way that the world has changed is the way we act socially. During the late 1980s our culture has plummeted yet went through the roof because of new technologies. How has our behavior as a culture changed since the 1980s? Our culture has changed drastically because our culture is so dependent on technology.

One of the biggest factors that caused the roles of women in the united States to change during the 1920’s was the work they did during World War I. While the men were serving overseas, the women stepped into the men’s jobs and made up the majority of the labor force at that time. This allowed women the chance to show that they can do some of the same jobs that men could do. After the war, the number of women in the workforce increased by twenty-five percent. This opened up more opportunities all over the country to earn their place in providing for their families.

Factories and defense plants needed workers, so women were available to take those jobs. Not only did jobs in the labor force open, but also positions in office as well. “As white women, many of whom had been in the workforce before the war, moved into these highly paid positions, African American women… took over white women’s lower-paying position in factories.” Responsibilities of women changed because of this as well. Not only did women have to do the cooking, cleaning, and supporting the children, they had to also do their responsibilities at work. Looking at the short story written by Meridel Le Sueur, women were struggling trying to find work. Women constantly waited, sat there “hour after hour, day after day, waiting for a job to come in.” When World War II started, it gave women the opportunity they have been desperately waiting for and it benefited the nation greatly. Women worked in all types of jobs ranging from ammunition to being welders and shipbuilders. Even though women faced inequality and gender segregation, women continued to push and demonstrate their competence in the workforce. Expectations for women expanded and displayed the idea that women should not be frowned upon in the workforce because they could do any job that was typically only set out by men. As more women joined the workforce, this would change the

The fight against women’s oppression has gone through many challenges throughout the decades, one of the most iconic changes being the flapper era. Flappers are well known for embracing their new freedoms such as; drinking, smoking, dancing, being more sexually promiscuous, and not adhering to the expectations that their previous feminist mothers had recently laid just a decade earlier. As flappers gained and used these new freedoms and advancements, many of their conservative elders started to worry about the implications of their new carefree actions. To deal with the flapper's new behavior, the elders began describing flappers as a phase in life that was okay for young adults to go through , while still expecting them to settle down and become a wife and care for the home later in life.

America has gone through a lot as a country. Without its past, it wouldn’t be what it is today. The main point of learning our history is to be knowledgeable of what has constructed our present, such as America’s wars, segregation, slavery, and everything that has molded the United States of America into the country that it is today. Our founding fathers took great care in giving us a Constitution, to make sure we all have equal rights and responsibilities. History has molded our present and determined our future as a country.

President Truman took note of this and stated that “if the United States were to offer the ‘peoples of the world’ a ‘choice of freedom or enslavement’ it must correct the remaining imperfections in our practice of democracy”. In the early 1950s, this new view brought about: fair employment commissions which brought about more job opportunities for minorities, it also lead to laws banning discrimination and to top it off more African Americans were registering to vote! This attempt at equality didn’t stop with just African Americans; many women also saw the cold war as time that gave them a sense self-worth and freedom. Similar to WWII, women were once again in the workforce while the men were off to war, but this time many women were keeping their jobs even after the war was over. This was a fairly new practice in American society where the woman was usually just a

Before World War I, women were not seen as equals to men. Until only recently, women being treated like garbage was nothing out of the ordinary. Their only significance in society’s view was to have children, clean the house, and cook for the family. Women were rarely found living without a husband because they were thought to be unable to support themselves financially. These oppressing ideas were only tiny sparks to the flame women would unleash once World War I began. No longer would the role of women be to care for the family. Women would overcome these struggles by working at the jobs left by the men fighting in the war, supporting the war behind and on front lines, and protesting for the improvement of their lives.

Nobody wants to talk about the women's reform movement and Nobody wants to be reminded about it. Nobody wants to be reminded of how devoted women were to gain their right to vote in order to achieve a reform. The women's reform movement began in 1848 and went on until 1920. The women's reform movement consist of peculiar reform movements pertaining to women's rights, such as abolition, suffrage, temperance, and education. History was greatly impacted by this reform movement, essentially when women gained their right to vote. Accordingly, the women's movement had social, economic and political effects on todays society.

Imagine a time of war when alcohol is prohibited, jazz music fills the streets, and people think women should be laboring in the kitchen rather the workforce. It’s difficult to grasp this, because society has come such a long way. However, the roaring twenties was an age of dramatic social

Before World War II, the traditional role of the women in American of mainstream culture has been the wife and mother of the family. However, the role of women in American society after World War II has changed greatly.

Following the event of World War Two, America during the 1950s was an era of economic prosperity. Male soldiers had just returned home from war to see America “at the summit of the world”(Churchill). Many Americans were confident that the future held nothing other than peace and prosperity, so they decided to start families. However, the 1950s was also a time of radical changes. Because most of the men in the family had departed to fight in the war, women were left at home to do the housework. Even after the war, women were urged to stay at home to take care of the children. On the other hand, males would deal with financial businesses to keep their family out of poverty. These gender roles were embedded