THE ROARING 1920’S

Technology

◻ Henry Ford’s Model-T⬜Invented 1908⬜Assembly Line⬜Affordable (under $500)⬜Efficient transportation⬜ 1926-26 million cars on the road⬜Created new jobs⬜Increased expansion

Movies Popular form of Entertainment

◻ Silent films◻ Talkies films with talking◻ Famous actors: Valentino and Charlie Chaplin

◻ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_1apYo6-Ow

Jazz Age

◻ Louis Armstrong⬜Famous jazz musician⬜Jazz: became the most

popular form of music in the 1920’s.■Jazz was influenced by African

Americans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io0uqrp9dco

Harlem Renaissance

◻ Many artists, musicians and authors moved to Harlem, New York

◻ They worked together to create great works of art, music and literature.

◻ Langston Hughes⬜Wrote about the lives of African

Americanshttp://www.sheppardsoftware.com/usa_game/harlem_renaissance/harlem_renaissance_home.htm

Sports

◻ Babe Ruth⬜Radios were

becoming common in homes, which made sports more popular

⬜Babe Ruth (famous baseball player) helped make baseball a popular sport

Prohibition

◻ Prohibition-A complete ban on alcohol◻ 18th amendment-started

prohibition◻ Why do this?◻ Why didn’t it work?

◻ 21st amendment-ended prohibition

◻ Who were Bootleggers?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixjFhOG5JzQ&index=45&list=PLUvgn1rvfmHSkR4ozbHzSqhGqf1ZKAJKf

Start at minute 33 and only show to end of prohibition

19th Amendment

◻ Passed in 1920 to give women the right to vote

◻ Women’s roles in World War I helped get the amendment passed

The Great Migration

◻ African Americans migrated north to cities like New York, Chicago, Detroit

◻ Looking to escape Jim Crow laws in the South and find jobs

◻ They still faced discrimination and racism in the North

◻ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixjFhOG5JzQ&index=45&list=PLUvgn1rvfmHSkR4ozbHzSqhGqf1ZKAJKf

Start at 26 minutes stop at prohibition

New Ku Klux Klan

◻ Targeted African Americans◻ Jews◻ Catholics◻ Immigrants

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Stock Market

◻ 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.

◻ In 1929 prices of stock began to fall

◻ People panicked and sold their stocks

◻ This dropped prices further causing a loss of a lot of money very quickly

Black Tuesday

◻ The worst day of money loss/stock selling occurred on Tuesday October 29

◻ Nicknamed Black Tuesday

Herbert Hoover

◻ President of the United States 1929-1933

◻ President when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began

The Great Depression

◻ 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

The Great Depression

◻ The Stock Market crashed and people misused credit

◻ The economy was bad

◻ Loss of jobs

◻ Less money being spent

◻ More people lost jobs

◻ The Great Depression

◻ People lost their jobs

◻ People have less money to spend

◻ More people lost jobs

◻ Economy got worse

Cause Effect

Hoovervilles

◻ 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

◻ http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt

◻ Franklin Roosevelt was elected president◻ His goal was to get the United States out of

the Great Depression◻ New Deal Programhttp://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/videos/fdr-delivers

The New Deal

◻ A group of programs designed to end The Great Depression

◻ Goals: Relief, Recovery and Reform◻ http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt/videos/the-new-deal-how-does-it-affect-us-today

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

◻ 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

Social Security Administration

◻ Gives money to the elderly, disabled and unemployed

Dust Bowl

◻ 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

Dust Bowl

http://www.history.com/topics/dust-bowl