Postwar Social Change

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.

4. 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

5. 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.

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

9. 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

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

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

12. 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

13. 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

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

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

16. Jack Dempsey • Heavyweight champion

17. Jim Thorpe • Olympian

18. Babe Ruth

19. Hazel Wightman • Olympic Tennis.