Pedal to the Metal
Pedal to the Metal: The Meteoric Rise of Vehicular Fatalities in the United States During the 1920s J.M. Rogers The 1920s were a time of historical paradigm shifts that dramatically changed how Americans interacted with each other and the world. As suffrage ended, long-held views of gender comportment decayed, revealing a budding need for co-ed engagement and individual expression. Families that had once spent their evenings in sleepy inactivity now found their rituals disturbed. Daughters, who had formerly been stashed away like fine China, took off with reckless abandon, eager to show that their long-fabled fragility was greatly exaggerated. American nightlife expanded rapidly during The Flapper Revolution, and for the first time in U.S. history, masses of single women packed into speakeasies and local taverns alongside their male counterparts. [1] Similarly, the men of the 1920s found themselves in the midst of a societal shift, one that saw their market va...