Surprisingly, the impact of the 19th amendment led to more than just a change of the political rights of women. It bled into their culture, their life choices, and their perspectives.

Now, women were more educated. They knew more, and they knew how to do more with that knowledge. No longer were they so far behind the men, and they knew that this was only the beginning of what they thought would be a bright future. The League of Woman Voters was born, created by Carrie Chapman Cat, a major leader in the suffrage movement. This League planned to use the power they received in government to better their country, and were strongly against all forms of female discrimination. They were just as good as men in every way, and they may have even believed that they were better.
But these women did not now what they were getting themselves or the generations after themselves into. No longer was the female population addressed by the term of "lady". They were dubbed "women". The ability women had to vote had changed America's view of females. Previously, women had been "ladies", with strict moral obligations and even stricter behaviors. They were thought to be morally superior to men. But this began to change. Women were in the field now; they were no longer "untouchable." If they wanted to be in the field, they had to be okay to get dirty. And dirty they got. Skirts got shorter, wine and cigarettes were seen more and more in the hands of women, and sex, no longer a taboo subject, was accepted outside of marriage. These were flappers, and they didn't care about how they got freedom. All they knew was that women were now almost equal to men, and they wanted to flaunt that. This irritated the suffragist, the woman who had risked reputation and had sacrificed much of her life to gain this freedom, and it was being ungracefully thrown out of the window. Carrie Chapman Catt held major disapproval of these flappers. But her husband reminded her: "You did all this, you know. You wanted independence, you wanted rights. Now you've got 'em, and you can't complain if women didn't choose to use them as you thought they would." (Stalcup, 193)
When women got the vote, everything changed. They believed that it would be honorable, that politics was a simple game where they could put their moral foot down and everything would be fair. But politics is dirty. It runs deeper than that. The women were not prepared: there was nothing that could've prepared them.