1920s was also known as the “Roaring Twenties” because of its popular culture during its decade in America. It was the time more people lived in the cities than on farmland and when people listened to the same music. The 1920s is mainly known for its jazz music, flappers, and the problems on prohibition; there were also many topics that impacted the nation: mass culture and entertainment, religious and moral issues, black issues and opportunities, as well as women’s issues and opportunities. The
“ The 1920s, also known as the ‘Roaring Twenties’ or the ‘Jazz Age,’ were years of change as America recovered from World War I and embraced new ways of behaving and thinking” (Benson.) The 1920s was an age filled with revolutionary moments, along with the men and women of the time striving for excellence, and when sports became the all time high, sports stars emerging left and right. As well as the triumphs of this age, there was also pain and strife, but the good outshined the bad, with the Jazz
Fashion is always evolving; it changes each year and each season. Women’s clothing specifically has changed the most compared to men’s. The 1920s is where most of the changes in women’s clothing began, it was the decade where dresses began to get shorter and women had a little more freedom to dress as they like. Present day fashion is also always changing because people don’t have as many restrictions as they did in the past. Women now have the choice to wear a dress or a pair of jeans, compared
in either the Republican or Democratic Parties. The voluntarism category was made up of a variety of women’s organizations, labor unions, and farmer’s groups. The movement to suppress alcohol was reborn in 1873-1874 as the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. By 1890 it had 150,000 adult members and another 50,000 members in its young women’s auxiliary. It was the largest women’s protest movement in American history up to that time. By the turn of the century Americans had become comfortable with