1. The Roaring 20s Why were they “roaring”?

2. Gross Domestic Product

3. Do wages rise with inflation? Wages: $21/week in 1921 $25/week in 1925 National Income $58 Bill in 1921 $83 Bill in 1929

4. Electricity 1920 = 1/3 of all Americans had access to electricity 1929 = 90% of Americans had access to electricity Whose still “left in the dark”?

5. Stock Speculation Buy stock on installment plan (buy now pay later) You’d put up 10% and your broker would cover the rest

6. New Technology: Phonograph & Vacuum

7. Washing Machine, Sewing Machine and Radio

8. 1920s Advertising

12. Spirit of St. Louis – Charles Lindbergh 1927: First solo flight to Paris Believed flight to Paris couldn’t be “much more dangerous” than air- mail flights he made from St. Louis

13. Writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Earnest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis

14. Harlem Renaissance

15. Prohibition: Volstead Act / 18 th Amendment