SWBAT: Describe the changes women experienced during the 1920s both inside the home and in society.
Homework: Response: what a flapper?
Do Now: How would you describe this woman?

Vocab Review
▪ Nativism
▪ Communism
▪ Palmer Raids (not bolded, p. 619)
▪ Sacco and Vanzetti
▪ KKK (not bolded, p. 621)
▪ Emergency Quota Act of 1921
(not bolded, p. 621)
▪ Calvin Coolidge
▪ Installment Plan
▪ Prohibition
▪ Fundamentalism
▪ Flapper
▪ Harlem Renaissance
▪ Marcus Garvey

Women of the early 20 th Century
▪ Traditionally stayed in the home to cook and clean.
▪ Expected to have children and be a good mother.
▪ Dressed conservatively and were to behave as virtuous women should.
▪ Married young and were to be loyal and faithful wives.

1890s 1920s

Reason 1: World War I and its aftermath
▪ World War I and its effects:
– Questioning religion
▪ What effect could war have on religion and a person’s beliefs?
– “We could die tomorrow” mindset
▪ How could this change your behavior and ideas?

Reason 2: Changes in the Home
▪ Time saving appliances meant women had to spend less time cooking and cleaning.
▪ Readymade items that could be purchased in the store (i.e sliced bread, clothing, etc.) freed women from making these items themselves.

Reason 3: Changes in the Workforce
▪ The economic boom of the 1920s meant women had the opportunity to work in “womanly professions”.
– Teachers, nurses, secretaries, typists, and librarians.
– Kept women out of the house and at their jobs.
▪ However, this is the beginning of gender discrimination and inequality for women in the workplace.

Reason 4: Changes in the family
▪ 1870s: birth control was made illegal.
▪ People like Margaret Sanger brought birth control and family planning to national attention.
– Opened the first birth control clinic in 1916.
– Was arrested. Judge ruled women did not have "the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception."
▪ By the end of the 1920s, doctors recognized the benefits of birth control and clinics were more common.
▪ How might birth control change the way women understand and feel about sex and child-bearing?

All of this led to the flapper
▪ Flappers changed the way women were perceived by society.
▪ Challenged and then redefined social roles for women.
▪ But what is a flapper?

Activity- Illustrate a Flapper
▪ In your group, first read A Flapper's Appeal to Parents
▪ Then on a separate sheet of paper, draw what you imagine a flapper to look like from Ellen Welles Page’s description.
▪ Your illustration should include:
– An appropriate look (hair, clothing, shoes, etc.)
– A setting that has the flapper engaging in an activity that a flapper might be involved in.
– A thought or speech bubble that a flapper might think or say.
▪ At the bottom answer the question: what does Ms. Page want parents to do?
You may want to highlight or underline these as you read.

Helpful hints…
Bobbed hair
Peter Pan Collar Rouge