1. Dennis Shultz and Katie Fuszner

2. • In the decade after WWI, the younger generation’s
abandonment of innocence and decency—which
consisted of scandalous dressing and inappropriate
mannerisms—created the beginning of a moral
revolution that would have negative repercussions in
the future society.

3. • The younger generations reasons for destroying the
old moral code were the same reasons why they
never replaced it with a new one; their
disillusionment with the world kept them from
building a new moral code, thus they fell into a state
of sexual promiscuity, bad manners, and
unhappiness.

4. The Dethronement of
Romance

8. Born of
Disillusionment

9. • Chicago Police Arrest Female Bathers for Indecent Exposure. 1922. Photograph.
Collection of Roland Marchand, Chicago.
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• Frederick Lewis Allen, “The Revolution in Manners and Morals,” Only Yesterday:
An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties. New York: Harper & Row
Publishers, 1931, pp. 73-101.
• Held, John. "Insatiable Neckers." Cartoon. The American Heritage History of the
Automobile in America. 1977. 167. Print.
• Old Woman Observing Young Flappers. Digital image. Image & Lifestyle.
Oklahoma State University. Web. 7 Mar. 2012.
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index.htm#LifestyleImages>.
• Thompson, J. Walter. Modernizing Mother. Digital image. Don't Fuss, Mother,
This Isn't So Fast. Assumption College. Web. 7 Mar. 2012.
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