USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

1920S AMERICAN CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What were flappers rebelling against?
A
Social norms for women at the time.
B
WWI
C
The expectation that the U.S. should be imperialistic.
D
Women going to college.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms. They challenged the previously accepted mores of society in every regard.

Detailed explanation-2: -Flapper feminism rejected the idea that women should uphold society’s morals through temperance and chastity. The rebellious youth that these girls represented hailed materialism and the flappers were the ultimate consumers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Flappers from the 1920s are described as young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and danced, smoked, drank illegal alcohol, and partied throughout the Roaring Twenties.

Detailed explanation-4: -The flapper-with her short skirts, short hair, noticeable makeup, and fun-loving attitude-represented a new freedom for women. The old restrictions on dress and behavior were being overthrown.

Detailed explanation-5: -Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes in public, driving automobiles, treating sex in a casual manner, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.

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