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Postwar Social Change

Postwar Social Change. Section 1 Society in the 1920’s. We’re Starting to Roar!. Life expectancy up Medical advances Stock market “get rich quick” Unemployment < 4% Real wages up 40% since 1914. ....or are we. Women’s Changing Role:. Joined the workforce

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Postwar Social Change

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  1. Postwar Social Change Section 1 Society in the 1920’s

  2. We’re Starting to Roar! • Life expectancy up • Medical advances • Stock market “get rich quick” • Unemployment < 4% • Real wages up 40% since 1914 ....or are we.

  3. Women’s Changing Role: • Joined the workforce • Employers still weary about hiring a woman for a professional position. If they married or got pregnant they were expected to leave their job. • Able to vote • 19th Amendment • Not exercised by all women

  4. Women in Politics • Lobbied successfully for Sheppard-Towner Act, welfare concerned with women and children’s health issues • ERA failed first time through (1923) • Women won seats in the House and also became Governors.

  5. The Flapper!!! • In the 1920s, a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up.

  6. Demographic changes • Rural -Urban Split • Farmers became economically stressed • Industry & commercial groups on the rise • People left the countryside for the city. • City values differed from rural values

  7. * Growth of suburbs: -cities expanded to meet the need of their growing population: “el trains” buses

  8. *African American’s on the move: - passed Jim Crow Laws - migrated to the North for better job opportunities - faced white hatred

  9. Other Migration • Congress placed limits on migration from: Southern and Eastern Europe, China, and Japan. • Mexican’s and Canadians filled the labor shortages • barrio’s developed

  10. American Heroes in the 1920’s American’s became fascinated with icons from every aspect of American life. The became the role models of the time

  11. Lucky Lindy • Charles Lindbergh • 1st transatlantic flight • Spirit of St. Louis

  12. Amelia Earhart • First solo flight across Atlantic • 1937 Disappeared trying to fly around the world

  13. Jack Dempsey • Heavyweight champion

  14. Jim Thorpe • Olympian

  15. Babe Ruth

  16. Hazel Wightman • Olympic Tennis.

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