KQ7 - The Role of Women

• How many women served in the US army in Europe during WWI?

  90,000
• How many women enlisted as clerks, fingerprint experts, journalists and translators during WWI?

  Over 21,000
• In what year were women granted the right to vote?

  1920
• What amendment granted women the right to vote in America?

  19th Amendment
• What was the name of the first female congresswoman?

  Jeannette Rankin
• In what year did Mary Howard and Bertha Knight Landes become the first female mayors?

  1924
• Who were the three most famous flappers and what films did they star in?

  Joan Crawford - Our Modern Maidens (1929)

  Louise Brooks - A Social Celebrity

  Clara Bow - It (1927)
• What was the name of the groups organised by the older generation in protest of flappers?

  Anti-Flirt Leagues