the roaring 20s / women Flashcards
what did scott fitzgerald say about girls in the 1920s?
“none of the mothers had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to be kissed”
name 2 female hollywood stars
theda bara , clara bow
name a male hollywood star
rudolph valentino
give an example of a popular film from the 1920s
when a woman sins
how many states worried by the deluge of sex
36
what was introduced to inforce censorship and when?
the hays code
1930
how many radio stations by 1922?
508
how much was NBC making by 1929?
$150 million per year
how many $millions worth of radios were purchased in 1920 and then in 1929?
$2 million
$600 million
give an example of a famous dance from 1920s
charleston
name a famous club in Harlem
Cotton Club
name a famous baseball team from 1920s
New York Yankees
how much was Babe Ruth paid each year?
$80,000
name a famous boxer
jack dempsey
name a famous golfer
bobbie jones
name 2 famous cinema stars
charlie chaplin
buster keaton
when was the first “talkie” made?
1927
give 3 things about a typical rural women in the 1920s
no make up
plain clothes
chaperones
controlled relationships
restricted lives
when did women gain the vote?
1920
give 3 things about typical young urban women
wore more daring clothes
drank / smoked in public
went out with men without chaperones
how many female workers by 1929?
10 million
what did ford do to his cars to make them appeal to women?
produced them in different colours
what happened to the divorce rate in 1929?
doubled to 200,000
how much percent did the number of women working increase during 1920s?
25%
name 3 groups of women who didn’t benefit in 1920s?
black women
old / religious women
poor women
name a anti -flapper league
anti - flirt club
by 1927 what happened to the hems of skirts?
went up to knee-level
name a famous flapper
joan crawford
what does NAWSA stand for?
national american woman suffrage association
who was the first woman to swim the english channel and break the male record in 1926?
gertrude ederle
