cor Station Analysis Worksheet Age: Location: Cen aad CE acy COST CLs Dee crt Array Pd 18th Amendment 19th Amendment ‘Consumerism Employment Flappers Wer War and the United States Between WarsStation 1: 18th Amendment To Drink or Not To Drink The 18th Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919, prohibiting the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol within the United States. For the next 13 years, starting in 1920, people (men and women) would drink in secret, Starting a hundred years earlier, women protested the drinking of alcohol for a variety of reasons. Women felt that the Temperance Movement, rooted in America’s Protestant churches, first urged moderation, then encouraged dhinkets to help each other to resist temptation, and ultimately demanded that local, state, and national governments prohibit alcohol outright. Woman's Holy War. Grand charge ACUTE UIC RCo Cnc} WDMANS HOLY WAR. “atl Chr on ns rn Work! War | nthe United States Between Wars. H f gStation 2: 19th Amendment Yes We Can! The 19th Amendment was officially ratified on August 18, 1920. Even though some states chose not to accept the amendment, ‘on November 2nd of that same year, mote than eight million women across the U.S. voted in elections for the first time. It took over 60 years for the remaining states to ratify the 19th Amendment. Mississippi was the last to do so, on March 22, 1984. Victory Map) IB sien demo SeHEAS PAWN us PUP | JER BLOM, g 3 HlStation 3: Consumerism New Inventions and the Middle-Class Woman ‘The 1920s was a decade of increasing conveniences for middle-class women. ‘Access to electricity and indoor plumbing in the cities made way for new products that made household chores easier and led to more leisure time. Products previously too expensive became affordable. Household work was ( = y revolutionized. Electric refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and irons saved hours of extra work. New methods of canning and freezing made. eis VACUUM CLEANER store-bought food cheap and effective. 5 2 2 2 2 Mass production and the development of synthetic fabrics granted almost ‘everyone access to beautiful clothing and shoes. Off-the-rack clothing became more and more widespread. More time for play —with Frigidaire re . A Christmas Gift that Brings Less Work ‘and a Cleaner House You can go away for days— eee and your meats, vegetables, ee and other foods will not spoilStation 4: Flappers The New Woman of the 1920s Following World War |, not only did the world undergo various shifts, but the role of women in American society would forever be changed, BUC Mot un Rm UC ecg During WWI, the deat rate in the trenches left most young men without hope that they would survive the war and return home. They found themselves inficted with “eat-cink-and-be-memry-for- tomorrow-we-may-die” spirit. While the boys were away, the girls were brought into patriotic fervor and aggressively encouraged to enter the workforce, often taking what used to be thought of as “male” jobs, ‘Additionally, a whole generation of young men had died in the war, leaving nearly a whole generation of young women without potential husbands. Young women decided that they were not wiling to waste away their young lives waiting idly for spinsterhood; they were going sien usomon sone to enjoy life. ‘The newfound freedom that women found was put on visual display through a change in acceptable fashion trends and mindsets. Traditionally, a proper woman would always wear her hair long, but this new woman, or “flapper,” had a bobbed or short haircut. She wore makeup, and might have possibly applied it in public, which would have previously not been acceptable. The dress of this modern woman was also altered into a baggy, shapeless dress, which would have revealed her arms and her legs from the knees down. Young women often smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol. They also drove automobiles, once thought to be only for men, and would initiate casual dating, when previously women would marry after seriously dating only one suitor. One of the most popular past times of the flappers was going to clubs and parties where they would dance. ‘These young women were often thought of as a little fast and brazen, but they also embodied the Jazz Age spit Hl Re eetSe aia Cug Clerical workers, mainly typists, stenographers, secretaries, bookkeepers, telephone operators Factory workers and laborers Household workers-maids, housekeepers, cooks, laundresses Professional workers, mainly teachers, nurses, social workers, librarians Service workers (nonhousehold), such as waitresses, beauticians, hospital attendants, cleaning women, practical nurses Farm workers Sales workers, mainly etal trade Managers, officials, and proprietors, such as postmasters, store owners, buyers, executives HE 1900 [1920 0 2 4 6 @ 10 12 14 16 18 20 2 D4 26 28 90 Craftsmen and foremen, such as carpenters, mechanics, electricians Ml Women Workers, 1900-1930 total number of employed women total number of employed women 5,319,000 10,752,000 ere Werla War | and the United States Between Wars