2.  *25 year span between the end of World War 1 and the end of World War II. › *MS endured floods, the Great Depression, population loss, and continued political infighting.  THE MAJORITY OF BLACKS WERE STILL OPPRESSED…

3.  *AFTER WWI, THOUSANDS OF BLACKS MOVED FROM MS TO THE NORTH.  *Anyone would could afford a train ticket could escape the segregation in MS. › *The Chicago Defender, a militant black newspaper, described Chicago as a promised land.  MOST OF THE EDUCATED BLACK PEOPLE LEFT DURING THE GREAT MIGRATION.

4.  THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOOD MORE THAN 3 MILLION ACRES OF MS BECAUSE OF A LEVEE BREAKING.  The river became 70 miles wide when the levees broke.

5.  IN 1922 THE JUNIOR COLLEGE SYSTEM WAS STARTED  THIS JUNIOR COLLEGE SYSTEM GAVE AVERAGE MISSISSIPPIANS A CHANCE TO FURTHER THEIR EDUCATION.

6.  THE BIGGEST BOOM INDUSTRY IN THE 1920’S WAS REAL ESTATE  NORTHERNERS CAME TO ESCAPE THE ICY WINTERS TO THE MS GULF COAST  A CASINO WAS BUILT IN BILOXI

7.  *(1930’s) This was the worst economic disaster in modern history. › *Sales of goods slow & prices fall, manufacturing decreases, businesses close, banks fail & close their doors, most people lose their jobs. › *The unemployed attempt to find jobs whenever and wherever possible just to make ends meet.

8.  Not only did this effect Mississippi, but the entire country too!!!  For many people, the only thing they owned were the clothes they wore at the time.  ….What saved the country, you ask?

9.  *The New Deal: a series of laws designed to bring the country out of the depression.  It used a wide variety of programs to improve the economy & society and to provide federal money to stimulate businesses in the private sector.  READ PAGES 196-200.

10.  *On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed the U.S. Navy Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and war came.  *As WWII begins…. The United States recovery from the Great Depression is beginning to appear.