THE ROARING 1920’S
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Technology
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Henry Ford’s Model-T
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 Invented
1908
 Assembly Line
 Affordable (under $500)
 Efficient transportation
 1926-26 million cars on the road
 Created new jobs
 Increased expansion
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Technology
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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
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Jazz Age
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Louis Armstrong
 Famous
jazz musician
 Jazz: became the most popular
form of music in the 1920’s.
 Jazz
was influenced by African
Americans
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Harlem Renaissance
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Many artists, musicians and authors
moved to Harlem, New York
They worked together to create
great works of art, music and
literature.
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Langston Hughes
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 Wrote
about the lives of African
Americans
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Sports
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Babe Ruth
 Radios
were becoming
common in homes, which
made sports more
popular
 Babe
Ruth (famous
baseball player) helped
make baseball a
popular sport
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Prohibition
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Prohibition-A complete
ban on alcohol
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18th amendment-started
prohibition
Why do this?
Why didn’t it work?
21st amendmentended prohibition
Who were Bootleggers?
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THE GREAT
DEPRESSION
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Stock Market
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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.
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In 1929 prices of
stock began to fall
People panicked and
sold their stocks
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This dropped prices
further causing a loss
of a lot of money very
quickly
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Black Tuesday
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The worst day of
money loss/stock
selling occurred on
Tuesday October 29
Nicknamed Black
Tuesday
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Herbert Hoover
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President of the United States
1929-1933
President when the stock
market crashed and the
Great Depression began
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The Great Depression
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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
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The Great Depression
Cause
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The Stock Market
crashed and people
misused credit
The economy was bad
Loss of jobs
Less money being spent
More people lost jobs
Effect
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The Great Depression
People lost their jobs
People have less
money to spend
More people lost jobs
Economy got worse
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Hoovervilles
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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
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Franklin Roosevelt was elected president
His goal was to get the United States out of the
Great Depression
New Deal Program
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The New Deal
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A group of programs designed to end The Great
Depression
Goals: Relief, Recovery and Reform
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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Work camps for men ages 18-25
Men received housing, food and $30 month salary
Planted trees, created new parks, repaired parks, and
built roads
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Works Progress Adminstration (WPA)
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Employed people to build roads, schools, bridges,
parks and airports
Created millions of jobs
Road
construction
project
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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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
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Social Security Administration
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Gives money to the elderly, disabled and unemployed
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Dust Bowl
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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
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Dust Bowl
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