1. America The roaring 20s More Americans living in the city than country
Consumer society
Mass culture
Woman’s vote 1920
Prohibition

2. The Great Depression 1930 Stock market crash 1929
Consumer spending dropped
1933, 13 to 15 million American (20% of pop. )unemployed
4,6% today
Half the banks failed

3. The Great Depression 1930
Bread lines, soup kitchens, hunger

4. The Great Depression 1930 President Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal
Hoover Dam
End prohibition
1939 WW2

6. 1930s Black Civil Rights
Roosevelt administration actively appealed to African-Americans
April 1937, anti-lynching bill took place in the House of Representatives.
The wake of a gruesome double lynching in Mississippi (only one of more than a hundred which had taken place since 1930