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The Roaring TwentiesSocial Change and Conflict
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Post War Period
• Period after WWI witnessed social change in the United States– Woman’s Suffrage– The New Negro– Disillusionment– Change in American morality: “The New
Morality”– Enactment of Prohibition and rise in crime– Response to changing social conditions
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The New Morality• Prevalent among younger generation• Jazz age, theater, radio, Freud• Sex openly discussed between men and
women• Women began to dress and act differently
– Flappers, the “New Woman”– Skirts go from 6 in. above ground to women’s
knees– Bobbed hair, rolled stockings, cigarettes,
drinking, lipstick, sensuous dancing
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Myth of New Morality
• The twenties only “roared” for a small portion of the population
• By 1930, the rebellion was over
• Extreme expressions led to doubts about liberation
• Half of college women had pre-marital sex, but ¾ was with their future husbands.
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Reaction to Prohibition
• Eighteenth Amendment (1919) banned manufacture, sale, or transport of intoxicating liquors nationwide.
• Not adequately enforced
• Bootlegging, speakeasies, hip flasks, cocktail parties
• Organized crime in big cities
• Al Capone, machine gun, automobile
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Reaction to New Morality
• Nativism– Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti– Emergency Immigration Act (1921)– Ku Klux Klan, revised and remodeled
• Fundamentalism– Reaction against “modernism”– John T. Scopes and evolution– William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow
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