USA KQ7

Question 1

Women before WW1

Answer 1

• few had jobs
• restrictive clothing, ankle length dresses, no make-up
• no drinking or smoking in public, chaperoned publicly
• sex before marriage and divorce both rare

Question 2

Impact of WW1

Answer 2

-90,000 women in the army, had to give jobs up after
American Red Cross and Salvation Army
-campaigning for suffrage since 1890 when Susan B Anthony formed the American Women’s Suffrage Society
-Wyoming allowed them to vote in 1869
-1918: 19th amendment- allowed women to vote

Question 3

Flappers

Answer 3

• middle-class urban women
• daring fashion
• smoke and drink publicly, no chaperone
• jazz music in speakeasies

Question 4

Opposition to flappers

Answer 4

• fined $10-$100 in Chicago for short skirts or bare arms

- mothers set up the “anti-flirt league” against their daughters

Question 5

Rise of feminism

Answer 5

-1928 women earned 39% of college degrees
-1920 1/4 of 16 year oldwomen worked
-paid less than men
-Amelia Earhart flew a plane across the Atlantic
Margaret Sanger promoted birth control

Question 6

Suffrage

Answer 6

1913- Alice paul started national women’s party
1912- Roosevelt’s progressive party supported it
National women’s party campaign to remove anti-suffrage senators in 1918
Had the vote in 6 states in 1911 e.g. California, Utah, Colorado
3 others including Arkansas followed soon after

Question 7

Drawbacks

Answer 7

1923- Supreme Court decided not to impose a minimum wage for women (violated the right of freedom to contract)
Attitudes did not change
Flappers not welcome
No protection from abuse and unsafe conditions