1920-1930

Question 1

Flapper

Answer 1

Middle class, white women, young, wore short clothes short hair smoked, partied, 1920’s, represented freedom

Question 2

Molly the Tenant farm girl

Answer 2

Uneducated about medical condition. Did not got to go to school very often but her brothers did. Stayed at home to help take care of mother. Found work on her own then returned home because father tells her to come home to help mother. She has children of her own and hopes they will have a better life than she did. Showed the struggle of many women during the depression.

Question 3

ERA

Answer 3

Proposed constitutional amendment outlawing discrimination on account of sex. An amendment designed to give women equal rights. Was originally written by Alice Paul. June 3, 1982 it failed to receive 38 ratifications and was not passed.

Question 4

19th Amendment

Answer 4

Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote based on sex

Question 5

Companionate Marriage

Answer 5

A new style of marriage that emphasized companionship and compatibility between spouses, as well as sex education, birth control, and easier access to divorce.

Question 6

Pink Collar Jobs

Answer 6

A type of employment traditionally held by women, especially relatively low-paying office work

Question 7

Madam C. J Walker (Sarah Breedlove)

Answer 7

African American business women. made beauty products and hair remedies for black women. First African American self made millionaire.

Question 8

Mae West

Answer 8

Provocative film star of the silent film era whose roles did not conform to societal norms for woman of the time. Night after night

Question 9

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Answer 9

Poet. Won a nobel prize for literature. “renascence” a poem she entered in a poetry contrast called The Lyric Year.

Question 10

Katherine Hepburn

Answer 10

Film star- independent. was in the film Christopher strong. Received four academy awards for best actress.