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Suffrage Parade for women's right to vote in Manhattan attracted 10,000 marchers
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Margaret Sanger opens the doors of the first birth control clinic in America
The clinic was soon shut down and Margaret was sentenced to 30 days in jail #2 chap 14, pg 326 -
Alice Paul began a hunger strike during her 6 month jail sentence to protest the prison conditions.
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Prohibition became the law of the land
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1920's brought in Flapper Girls. They were energetic, daring, and self-absorbed. They bared their arms, wore their skirts up to their knees, and sometimes rolled down their stockings.
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Charlotte Woodward cast her first vote for president of the United States after women gain the right to vote
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The radio starts making it's way into homes
2 chap 15, pg 340 -
The first successful sanitary napkin went on sale
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The Captive, a play about lesbianism, became a critical and popular hit on Broadway
chap 15 #4, pg 334 -
A survey found that 50% of women wore rouge and 90% wore face powder
Chap 15 #3, pg 331 -
Electricity in two-thirds of American homes
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The fall of the stock market
3 Chap 16, pg 352 -
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The Great Depression
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NBC radio moved into the new Rockefeller Center
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The Begining of Soap Operas. More than half of NBC radio's daytime programming was made up of long-running melodramas, in which characters wrestled with domest woes and occasionally commented on the sponser's laundry detergent.
2 Chap 16, pg 350 -
Scarlett O'Hara stars in the movie Gone with the Wind
5 Chap 16, pg 368 -
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World War II
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The House voted 388-1 to declare war on Japan after the Pearl Harbor bombing. Jeanette Rankin was the one opposing vote.
Chapter 17 #1, pg 373 -
America entered into World War II
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Unemployment was almost nonexistent and the government projected a need for 3 million more workers in the next year
Chapter 17 #4, pg 383 -
Congress appropriated money for federal day care centers
Chapter 17 #5, pg 383 -
Under heavy pressure from Eleanor Roosevelt, black women were welcomed into the military
Chapter 17 #2, pg 393 -
Three million women left the workforce as men returned from war and reclaimed their jobs
Chapter 17 #3, pg 394 -
The child star of the 1940's, Elizabeth Taylor, married at the age of 19
Chapter 18 #2 pg 404 -
The television show I Love Lucy debuted. She was the only tv wife that didn't seem entirely content at home and was always trying to find work or be a part of her husband's show.
Chapter 18 #5, pg 410 -
Playboy magazine was founded and carried the theme that said women were unproductive leeches that were trying to trap men into marriage and deprive them of their swinging bachelorhood.
Chapter 18 #3 pg 404 -
Disneyland opens driving home the idea that vacations should be taken as a group
Chapter 18 #1 pg 402 -
Teenages had an average weekly income of $10.55
Chapter 18 #4 pg 409 -
The FDA approves "The Pill" for contraceptive use.
Chapter 19 #2, pg 424 -
Ernest Evans (aka: Chubby Checker) became famous with his version of the song "The Twist"
Chapter 19 #1, pg 421 -
The first wave of baby-boom children was getting ready for college
Chapter 19 #5, pg 437 -
The March on Washington - where Martin Luther King delivered his "I have a dream" speech.
Chapter 19 #3, pg 429 -
The National Organization for Women (NOW) was born
Chapter 19 #4, pg 436
