It is not often that an aspect of society undergoes a complete overhaul, much less in a time period of just ten years. However, such an event occurred with the women's revolution in the 1920s. At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was fully involved in the first successful women's rights movement. Seventy years earlier, in 1848, 100 activists attended the Seneca Falls Convention in support of women's rights, particularly those that would allow women to hold electoral power. Much of the rest of the movement addressed the social and institutional barriers that limited women's rights in society. However, activist groups struggled to maintain momentum and gather support after the right to vote was denied in the 1950s. At the time, the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution prohibited restrictions on voting based on race. It did not, however, include similar guarantees on the basis of gender. 1 Despite these less than favorable conditions at the turn of the century, the situation in the women's rights movement changed for the better in the early 1920s. The time that bridged the gap between these two eras was characterized by transitional ideas that blended old world views with changing ideals to guide the nation into the Roaring Twenties. Between the 1900s and 1920s, women in America struggled to escape the confines placed upon them by ancient expectations that placed them in subservient roles as the weaker sex. At the time, society, particularly female society, was governed by a pious conformism that reflected the doctrines of the church. These norms forced “respectable women” to conform to strict moral standards. They were not allowed to smoke, drink, swear... middle of paper...9. Print.Kallen, Stuart A.. ​​The Roaring Twenties. San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2002. Print.Mowry, George E.. The Twenties: Fords, Flappers, and Fanatics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963.NCPedia.org. http://ncpedia.org/history/20th-Century/1920s-women (accessed May 27, 2014).Pietrusza, David. The Roaring Twenties. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1998. Print.Tiede, Tom. American Tapestry: Eyewitness Accounts of the Twentieth Century. New York: Pharos Books, 1988. "WIC - History of Women in America." WIC - History of Women in America. http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm (accessed 4 June 2014). "The Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1920 | United States House of Representatives: History, Art, and Archives." The women's rights movement, 1848-1920. http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/No-Lady/Womens- Rights/ (accessed June 4, 2014).