The 1920s was filled with a lot of progression among society. This progression did not leave the women of the 1920s out. Women became more sexually liberated, more women began to work, and women were also given the right to vote. The 1920s are one of the most stereotyped decades in America. Not only were the 1920s stereotyped as a whole, but women we hugely stereotyped.
“The League of Women Voters was founded in 1920 by members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) as a nonpartisan organization dedicated to helping women use their newly established right to vote to influence the public policy arena” (Shulte 1). Though women had gotten the right to vote their fight was not over, they still had much to do. The League of Women Voters opted to become a government organization that focused on the issues of all citizens instead of just women (Shulte 1). Women were not the only people that needed a step up in the world and the League tried to help all of the minorities. Gender provided a useful category for the League’s member activism in the mid-twentieth century.
Women Suffrage movement began more active after 1894. For example, “In New York City, Josephine Shaw Lowell and Mary Putnam Jacobi formed the Woman Municipal League." (Dubois, 189) This organization was primary focusing on the corruption of public. “By the early 1900s, moreover, the spirit of political reform in New York City spread beyond the elite.”
“The “new women”, included flappers, embraced new fashion, embraced freedom, and challenged the old ways of the modern women. ”(Mckay, Nellie). The “modern women”, believed that partying , smoking, and disobeying your husband was horrifying, and unacceptable. Women were impacted by the Harlem Renaissance, because they were produced with the idea of mass advertising. With mass advertising women were able to be the voices on radios, the faces on magazines, and the author of books.
The term flapper originated in Great Britain, where there was a short fad among young women to wear rubber galoshes (an overshoe worn in the rain or snow) left open to flap when they walked. The name stuck, and throughout the United States and Europe flapper was the name given to liberated young women. The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. The nation's total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, and this economic growth swept many Americans into a prosperous but unfamiliar “consumer society.” Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
Women at this time had many advantages, they were becoming free. Now they were able to vote which was a good turning point for them. Birth control was becoming more available for them as well, which meant fewer children. Although women had many rights in the 1920s many were identified as a sexual icon, the “flapper”. Flappers were described as outspoken, unladylike, free spirited, females.
On August 18th, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified and women were granted the right to vote. The 19th Amendment began the expansion of women’s rights throughout the 1920’s, which gave way to the popular group of women known as “Flappers”. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1925, includes the story of Daisy Buchanan, a flapper who displays the freedoms and experiences that women had throughout the 1920’s. “‘Herstory’ and Daisy Buchanan” by Leland S. Person, Jr. discusses how Daisy embodies many different roles throughout the story. Fitzgerald uses Daisy to show how the dreams and American dream of the 1920’s changed due to the altered expectations of women.
When we think about men and women prior to the 1920’s, we think of their typical roles; the woman as the housewife and the man as the worker. We also think of the man having more freedoms and opportunities than the woman. Through out the 1920’s, despite their differences, equality slowly became part of the big picture. The role of women in society had taken a huge turn. From the right to vote to having new personal freedoms, the 20’s were a time of the “new women.”
Overall the main events of the 1920s included America’s economic prosperity following World War I which became a period of artistic experimentation, the Harlem Renaissance and the 19th amendment allowing women to vote. A great example of this was Susan B. Anthony who wrote and gave 75-100 speeches in a year and would continue to do so for 45 years. Famous modernist writers at the time were all able to reflect the ideas, values and themes of the period between 1915 and 1935, allowing the public to read texts about social issues of the
Roaring Twenties In America, the 1920’s was remembered as a decade of great social and political change. The prosperity of the twenties seemed to temporarily fix the nation’s problems, but by the end of this flourishing time period the nation hit an emotion of pessimism as a crash of the economy took place. The “Roaring Twenties” consisted of a change fashion, social and political life, the fight for and against prohibition, and the rise and collapse of the economy. There were also many influential people who helped shape the everyday lives of those now in urban areas.
The Dust Bowl was a terrible experience during a horrible time. In the 1930s post World War I America had a total collapse of the stock market causing the Great Depression affecting the economy on a global scale, but hitting hardest at home in the United States. However, the economy wasn’t the only thing that was hit hard during this time; seemingly unstoppable dust storms ravaged farming land from the west to east coast hitting hardest in the great plains in the middle section the the US became known as the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was not entirely a causation of bad luck on nature, it was caused by an increasing demand for crops, advancements in farming technology, while the final nail in the coffin was a lack of rain. During World War
While the 1920s were a period of optimism and innovation, it’s underlying problems made it a decade of decline that ultimately weakened America. A very notable change during this period was the increase in crime. A large portion of this can be credited to Prohibition. It was originally passed in January
It is no secret that the Great Depression radically impacted the lives of those who lived in the United States in the 1930’s. The depression began in 1929, and continued to worsen until 1933 where the employment rate was over 20% (Hubard and O’brien). By the 2000’s economists believed it to be very unlikely that the U.S Economy would ever plummet in the same way that it did during the Great Depression but in 2008 the United States experienced its greatest economic crisis since the 1930’s. The subprime mortgage lending and the bursting of the housing bubble brought on the 2008 financial crisis. This resulted in long-lasting effects that have shaped the economic world we see today (White).
First of all, one of the most diversity factor of the economic was the Stock Markets. During the 1920, the nation stock growth bringing an increased demand for American goods and speedy industrial growth. Things were looking good for the United States during the roaring twenties. The Stock Market crash of 1929, led to the ruin of many Americans and was followed by the great depression. The Great Depression witnessed the end of the economic boom in the 1920 's. crash of the stock market in 1929 causes a lot of damage to businesses and other.
The Dust Bowl Dust clouds, filthy homes, sickness, death, and migration were none other than the Dust Bowl. In the 1930s some of the toughest people survived this era. It wasn’t just the worldwide depression that made a lasting impact on the United States, the Dust Bowl changed the nation’s perspective on conserving soil and protecting the Earth.