PPT-Flappers!

a short presentation by Katie Miller WHAt iS a Flapper A Flapper was a term that was used to describe a generally new type of women in the 1920s Flappers Personalities Dress and The New Image. Chapter 20. Postwar Social Change. (1920–1929). Copyright © 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. All rights reserved.. America: Pathways to the Present. Sabrina, Noe, Vannessa, Daniela . how were women's lives different in 1920?. During the 1920's women were never considered as people but as property. It was believed that women should be at home cleaning, taking care of the children, and focused on religion while men took care of business and politics. In North Carolina opponents of the woman's suffrage claimed that women were not equal to men mentally. By 1929 women didn't have the same rights as men but they did have some. Women were finally allowed to be apart of local, state, and national political committees.. Women in the 1920s: the Flappers. Flappers are a new generation of women in the 1920s. They broke the old tradition rules. They were fashionable. . They had short hair, makeup, short skits. They had fun-loving attitude. History Project . USA in the 1920s. j. Men’s Fashion. Men . loosened the constraints of previous decades and began to acquire a more relaxed, flashier wardrobe. . Colorful . suits and patterned socks accented the wardrobe of the casually dressed. Ongoing crusade for equal rights. Most women remain in the . “cult of domesticity”. sphere. Discovery of adolescence. Teenaged children no longer needed to work and indulged their craving for excitement. Culture of the 1920’s. The three focus areas are:. You will decide if the culture of the 20’s was roaring or boring!. . . 1. Mass Media and Celebrities . . 2. During . the 1920s. Political Change. Robert Borden. Conservative Prime Minister who helped Canada become independent from Britain. Political Change. Arthur Meighen. Helped write the Military Service bill Conscription. th. Amendment? . Aim: Were the 1920s a step forward or back?. PROHIBITION AND CRIME. The 18. th. Amendment: . banned the sale and consumption of alcohol . Prohibition Support . Volstead Act:. . law enacted by congress to enforce the 18. Mass Production . **With the war over people wanted a return. . to “normalcy.”. . -Industries produced consumer goods. . -clothes, cars, . radios. , . washing . machines, . . vacuum . The Ku Klux Klan is an outlawed, racist, ultra-conservative, fraternal organization dedicated to the supremacy of an Anglo-Saxon, Protestant society. Although never successful across Canada, the Klan was briefly popular in . “Silent Cal” Becomes President. “The business of America is Business”. Coolidge believed in little government intervention in the economy. Said very little. Silent Cal Gives the People what They Want – laissez-faire!. Crush. : to like someone . Keen. : cool. Scram. : to leave quickly . Ritzy. : fancy. Screwy. : weird . Bee’s knee’s. : cool. Gatecrasher. : to attend without paying. 1920’s Women. “. The New Woman. ”. Women played an important role in jobs in WWI . – but they are forced out of their jobs after. “Flappers” represented changes in values. . Short hair, short skirts, heavier makeup, listened to jazz music, openly drank and smoked cigarettes. “. The New Woman. ”. Women played an important role in jobs in WWI . – but they are forced out of their jobs after. “Flappers” represented changes in values. . Short hair, short skirts, heavier makeup, listened to jazz music, openly drank and smoked cigarettes.