Postwar Social Change

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Postwar Social Change

• Section 1
• Society in the 1920s

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Were Starting to Roar!

• Life expectancy up
• Medical advances
• Stock market get rich quick
• Unemployment lt 4
• Real wages up 40 since 1914

....or are we.
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OLD CULTURE NEW CULTURE
Emphasized Production Emphasized Consumption
Character Personality
Scarcity Abundance
Religion Science
Idealized the Past Looked to the Future
Local Culture Mass Culture
Substance Image
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Womens 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

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

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The Flapper!!!

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

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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

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• Growth of suburbs
• -cities expanded to meet the need of their
  growing population
• el trains buses

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• African Americans on the move
• - passed Jim Crow Laws
• - migrated to the North for better job
  opportunities
• - faced white hatred

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• Other Migration
• Congress placed limits on migration
  from Southern and Eastern Europe, China, and
  Japan.
• Mexicans and Canadians filled the labor
  shortages
• barrios developed

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American Heroes in the 1920s

• Americans became fascinated with icons from
  every aspect of American life. The became the
  role models of the time

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Lucky Lindy

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

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Amelia Earhart

• First solo flight across Atlantic
• 1937 Disappeared trying to fly around the world

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• Jack Dempsey
• Heavyweight champion

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• Jim Thorpe
• Olympian

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• Babe Ruth

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• Hazel Wightman
• Olympic Tennis.