1. What was life like during ?

2. 1920’s Culture The flapper Short hair for women Hats for men and women
Dancing
Silent movies
“The Jazz Age was wicked and monstrous and silly. Unfortunately, I had a good time.” Heywood Broun

3. What was life like in the 1930’s?

4. What was the Great Depression?
The worst economic crisis of the century
Over 13 million people unemployed
“Dust bowl” as a result of drought
Farmers lost crops
Many lost their homes

5. What caused the Great Depression?
Unequal distribution of wealth
Stock market crash of 1929

6. Unequal Distribution of Wealth
No middle class
Supply not equal to demand
Credit cards created false demand

7. Stock Market Crash Many stocks purchased Stock prices fell
Huge sums of money lost
Thursday, October 24, 1929

8. The Results
Bank Failure

9. Unemployment

10. Loss of homes “Hoovervilles” Here were all these people living in old
rusted-out car bodies. ... One family ... [was]
living in a piano box. This wasn't just a little
section, this was maybe 10 miles wide and 10
miles long. People living in whatever they
could junk together. ..."

11. Dustbowls
A traveler noticed a nice new hat by the side of the road, and he stopped to pick it up.
Under the hat was a man, buried up to his neck in the dust! As he dug the poor fellow out,
the traveler asked if he wanted a ride into town. "No, I'll get there myself,"
the man replied, "I'm on a horse."
(Excerpt from THE DUST BOWL by Tricia Andryszewski, p. 33.)

12. Depression

13. So What?