THE ROARING 1920’S

Technology  Henry Ford’s Model-T  Invented 1908  Assembly Line  Affordable (under $500)  Efficient transportation  million cars on the road  Created new jobs  Increased expansion

Technology  Charles Lindbergh  First person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean  Left New York City on May 20, 1927 and landed in Paris, France 33 ½ hours later  His airplane was called The Spirit of St. Louis

Jazz Age  Louis Armstrong  Famous jazz musician  Jazz: became the most popular form of music in the 1920’s. Jazz was influenced by African Americans

Harlem Renaissance  Many artists, musicians and authors moved to Harlem, New York  They worked together to create great works of art, music and literature.  Langston Hughes  Wrote about the lives of African Americans

Sports  Babe Ruth  Radios were becoming common in homes, which made sports more popular  Babe Ruth (famous baseball player) helped make baseball a popular sport

Prohibition  Prohibition-A complete ban on alcohol  18 th amendment-started prohibition  Why do this?  Why didn’t it work?  21 st amendment- ended prohibition Who were Bootleggers?

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Stock Market  People can buy stock in a company  If the company is making money, stock prices will increase, and the people who own stock will make money.

 In 1929 prices of stock began to fall  People panicked and sold their stocks  This dropped prices further causing a loss of a lot of money very quickly

Black Tuesday  The worst day of money loss/stock selling occurred on Tuesday October 29  Nicknamed Black Tuesday

Herbert Hoover  President of the United States  President when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began

The Great Depression  A time of high unemployment and financial struggle in the United States  What caused the Great Depression?  Stock Market Crash  Misuse of credit  Run on the banks

The Great Depression  The Stock Market crashed and people misused credit  The economy was bad  Loss of jobs  Less money being spent  More people lost jobs  The Great Depression  People lost their jobs  People have less money to spend  More people lost jobs  Economy got worse CauseEffect

Hoovervilles  Many people blamed President Herbert Hoover for the Great Depression  Homeless people grouped together and made homes out of cardboard and other supplies  These became known as Hoovervilles

Franklin D. Roosevelt  Franklin Roosevelt was elected president  His goal was to get the United States out of the Great Depression  New Deal Program

The New Deal  A group of programs designed to end The Great Depression  Goals: Relief, Recovery and Reform

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)  Work camps for men ages  Men received housing, food and $30 month salary  Planted trees, created new parks, repaired parks, and built roads

Works Progress Adminstration (WPA)  Employed people to build roads, schools, bridges, parks and airports  Created millions of jobs Road construction project

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)  Employed people to build 50 dams along rivers in the South  Built power plants to provide electricity to home in the South for the first time

Social Security Administration  Gives money to the elderly, disabled and unemployed

Dust Bowl  A severe drought (a long period without raid) occurred in the Great Plains  This made soil very dry, creating dust storms  This area became known as the Dust Bowl  The severe drought hurt farmers became they were unable to farm

Dust Bowl

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