1. First (Review): The Roaring 20’s 1920’s
Increased Industrialism & Robber Barons
The Great Migration (Black Migration)
Harlem Renaissance (Black Culture)
Increase in Educational Levels
Women’s Suffrage & Rights Movement
Jazz Clubs
Prohibition

4. The Automobile Henry Ford, Model T Assembly Line
Faster Production of Goods in Factories
Created Jobs for Unemployed

5. Harlem Renaissance Rise of Jazz
Celebration of African American Culture in America
Songs, Spirituals, Poetry, Literature, Dance

6. Women’s Suffrage 19th Amendment = Women Can Vote
Women get involved in Government
Flappers

7. A “Flapper” was a woman in the 1920’s who rebelled against how women were “traditionally” supposed to behave
This included finishing their education, running their own businesses, and being “promiscuous” on purpose

8. Prohibition Alcohol is Illegal Speakeasies Erupt Bootleggers Rise
Rise of Gangsters
Ended by 21st Amendment

9. Bad Credit
Americans were spending money they did not have by using credit and accumulating massive amounts of DEBT.

10. New Learning: The Great Depression

11. 1929: It all comes CRASHING down!

12. The Great Depression

13. The Great Depression
The Great Depression was an economic DEPRESSION when millions of Americans lost their jobs, homes, investments and savings.
It lasted for over 10 years
1929 Stock Market Crash showed the problem

14. What is the Stock Exchange/Stock Market?
Video:
The Dow Jones is an example of an indexes which measures how our (US) economy is doing
U.S. Stocks in companies are sold on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
Click Here for an example

16. The Party Ends Citizens were spending money they did not have
Helped cause the stock market crash
Banks Folded--people took out savings so banks had no $$
No Federal (Govt) Backing of Banks Leads to Huge Loss for Many Citizens
Extreme Unemployment
Soldiers Do Not Receive War Pay
March to Washington

17. Hoovervilles
President Hoover pulls federal money out of programs that help citizens
Instead helps businesses & railroads
Slums of unemployed people form outside cities

19. “Hoovervilles” 33% of the United States was unemployed in 1933.

20. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
One of America's most popular Presidents in HIstory
Famous for his leadership during WWII and “The New Deal”

22. The New Deal
The New Deal established important government programs we still have today
Often credited with beginning the process of economic recovery

23. The New Deal “Economic” Bill of Rights
The idea was that the GOVERNMENT was helping provide these opportunities

24. Roosevelt’s New Deal Sought to Restore Confidence in Nation’s Banks
Sought to Create Federal Jobs for Unemployed
Dams Give Electricity to Many Houses for the First Time
AAA Helps Boost Farm Industry

25. Major New Deal Programs
> The New Deal programs created millions of jobs and government sponsored public works projects rebuilt the infrastructure of America.
The Public Works Administration (PWA) completed 34,000 heavy construction projects, improving the infrastructure of America, building highways, airports, bridges, dams, irrigation and sewage system
The WPA became the nation's biggest employer and provided light construction jobs for millions of unskilled workers who built schools, hospitals, libraries, post offices and houses
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) employed young men who produced impressive conservation achievements planting over three billion trees, building 97,000 miles of forest trails and roads, stocking  rivers with nearly a billion fish which resulted in an increase of wildlife population.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) rejuvenated the region bringing cheap, hydroelectric power (electricity) into rural areas

26. Impact of the American Great Depression
Divorce Rates Soar
Marriage and Birth Rates Fall
Men Left Looking For Work, Some Never Return
Children Drop Out of School to Work
Many Immigrants Deported to Preserve Jobs
Minorities Struggle Most

29. Closing: After WWI...
The Stock Market crashes in America, causing the Great Depression, when millions lost their jobs, homes, investments and savings
A Global Depression occurs in Europe; especially Germany because of reparation payments
FDR is elected by running for his “New Deal” plan
People were scared, and looking for answers to these complex issues...