The Roaring Twenties

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The Roaring Twenties

• Social Change and Conflict

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Post War Period

• Period after WWI witnessed social change in the
  United States
• Womans Suffrage
• The New Negro
• Disillusionment
• Change in American morality The New Morality
• Enactment of Prohibition and rise in crime
• Response to changing social conditions

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The New Morality

• Prevalent among younger generation
• Jazz age, theater, radio, Freud
• Sex openly discussed between men and women
• Women began to dress and act differently
• Flappers, the New Woman
• Skirts go from 6 in. above ground to womens
  knees
• Bobbed hair, rolled stockings, cigarettes,
  drinking, lipstick, sensuous dancing

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Myth of New Morality

• The twenties only roared for a small portion of
  the population
• By 1930, the rebellion was over
• Extreme expressions led to doubts about
  liberation
• Half of college women had pre-marital sex, but ¾
  was with their future husbands.

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Reaction to Prohibition

• Eighteenth Amendment (1919) banned manufacture,
  sale, or transport of intoxicating liquors
  nationwide.
• Not adequately enforced
• Bootlegging, speakeasies, hip flasks, cocktail
  parties
• Organized crime in big cities
• Al Capone, machine gun, automobile

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Reaction to New Morality

• Nativism
• Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
• Emergency Immigration Act (1921)
• Ku Klux Klan, revised and remodeled
• Fundamentalism
• Reaction against modernism
• John T. Scopes and evolution
• William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow

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