Social And Cultural Developments (1920-1941) Flashcards
What areas did social change for women mainly occcur?
In urban and and educated areas
What individuals broke the traditional social restrictions in women roles?
• Frances Perkins: first female cabinet minister (1933)
• Mary bethane: campaign for African American women rights
• Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady in white house
What was the image of the New women in America?
Young, socially liberated, not following traditions
Able to get jobs (shop assistant ) wear short skirts. Smoking in public
(Was reinforced by newspapers)
What was the flapper?
Adventurous young women in tune with trends and fashion
What opposition was there to the change in women’s roles in the US?
• flapper was Alian and distant role from traditional roles in women
• poor working class and women in rural areas maintained traditional values of loyal wife’s and mothers
why did prohibition fail?
-producing, importing , distributing alchohol taken over by US gangs
-increased production of homemade moonshine
-‘bootleggers’ & ‘speakeasies’ on the rise
-law enforcement workers on a small budget
-presidant Harding had own bar
-corrupt officials accept bribes
-Al Capone gained power (gang boss) who became glammorised
What success were there to enforcing prohibition?
(1924) burea of investigation set up
(1931) al Capone sentenced for tax evasion
(1932) corrupt New York mayor, jimmy walker, forced out of office
How did prohibition end?
(1933) beer-wine revenue act loosened restrictions on milder alcohol
(1933) 18th amendment voted down by congress meant it was repealed
What was the jazz age?
Mainly urban Revolution in US cultural through developments in:
-Music: jazz rose in popularity , originated from black slaves, popular with middle class youth, (IDV: duke Ellington)
-Cinema: silent cinema, talking pictures, music soundtracks. (1927) first sound film “the jazz singer”
-celebrity: promote by print & radio media, (IDV: Al Capone. Babe Ruth )
-leisure: ford & General Motors allows car ownership by ordinary people via mass production. Sports rise, babe Ruth baseballer & (1926) 145,000 attend to watch boxing match between jack dempley and gene turning. (1927) 33% all furniture spent on radio
-architecture: art deco design, Empire State Building New York
[intensified American dream]
Who opposed the new social values?
Rural and small towns, religion by churches, radio evangelists, political movement leaders like hue lang and KKK
What had ended the progressive movement?
, rise in consumerism and conformity
