WorksheetsRole of Women USA 1910-29
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What was introduced in the Nineteenth Amendment?
Prohibition
Votes for women
Direct election of senators
Gun control
How many women in the USA were working by 1929?
500,000
40 million
10.6 million
2 million
How were young women of the 1920s referred to?
Bootleggers
Flappers
Dancers
Jazz fans
What went out of fashion among young women during this time?
A bob haircut
Make-up and jewellery
The corset
Who portrayed a flapper in the 1927 film, The Unknown?
Clara Bow
Joan Crawford
Mary Pickford
Nellie Tayloe Ross
What did flappers do at petting parties?
Kiss men in public
Dance in clubs
Sell alcohol and cigarettes
Listen to heavy metal music
Which women embraced the new freedoms and fashions?
Young women
Rural women
Black women
Older women
Which of these groups were outraged by the new way of life and wanted to protect young women and girls?
Older Generation Union
No More Flappers
Anti-Flirt Club
Anti- Saloon league
What did Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming do in 1924?
Starred in Paris as a flapper
Became leader of the Anti-Flirt League
Became a governor of state
Starred in the film 'Shes got IT!'
What did flappers use as a slang word for alcohol?
Handcuff
Big cheese
Moonshine
Hooch
