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READING STUDY GUIDE
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SECTION
The Jazz Age and Popular
Culture
• Before, You Learned During the 1920s,
most Americans were eager for a "return
to normalcy" and prosperity.
• Now You Will Learn Changes in the
roles of women and in popular culture led
to new attitudes and lifestyles, but also to
conflicts in society.
AS YOU READ Take notes listing causes and effects for events in this section. Use
the cause-and-effect graphic organizer on both pages of this worksheet.
EFFECTS
More women drive cars and play sports:
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1.
CAUSE
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Women have more job opportunities.
More rights and freedoms
for women
2.
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EFFECT/CAUSE
CAUSE
Fundamentalism gains
many new followers.
EFFECT/CAUSE
States pass laws
outlawing the teaching
of evolution.
5.
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5.
Fundamentalists do
not accept the ruling,
and the controversy
continues.
7.
MARK IT UP! Circle each
term where it appears in
your notes and be sure you
understand its meaning.
If a term does not appear,
write the term outside the
box where it best belongs.
.
flapper
popular culture
Jazz Age
Prohibition
mass media
speakeasies
SK!LLBU!LDER
Transportation & 2.6%
Communication
Trade 7.9%
Professional 11.9%
8. MARK IT UP! Circle the industry that
created jobs for women as a result of the
invention of the typewriter.
9. MARK IT UP! Underline the. percentage
of women employed by the transportation
and communication industries.
Agriculture 12.7%
Clerical 16.6%
Source: Fogal and Engerman, Time on the Cross, 1974
The pie chart shows women's employment in 1920.
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