USA KQ7 Flashcards

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Women before WW1

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  • 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
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Impact of WW1

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-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

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Flappers

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

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

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

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Rise of feminism

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-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

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Suffrage

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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

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Drawbacks

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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

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