American Decades

Important Events in Lifestyles and Social Trends, 1920–1929

The U.S. Census reports that the population of the United States is 105,710,620. For the first time in census history, the U.S. population is less than 50 percent rural; and the population earning their living through farming is less than 30 percent.
In this year 80 percent of all women in their thirties are married.
Women make up 23.6 percent of the American workforce, and 8.3 million women work outside their homes.
Thirteen percent of Americans are first-generation immigrants.
The median size of the American family is 4.3 people, a drop from 4.7 in 1900. Average life expectancy is 54 years, up from 49 years in 1900.
Birth control advocate Margaret Sanger campaigns for birth control as a means to women's personal and economic freedom.
Prohibition results in increases in sales of coffee, tea, soft drinks, and ice cream sodas.
Silk stockings are out and rayon...

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