1. THE ROARING TWENTIES
Created by Lisa Bremer

2. KEY VOCABULARY OF The Roaring Twenties
Economic Boom: A time of quick economic growth.
Economic Bust: A time of quick economic decline.
The U.S. Stock market boomed in the 1920’s.
Life was good for American’s during The Roaring 20’s and it was a time of economic boom.

3. Installment buying/credit
Installment buying: the buyer makes payments, or installments, every month until the full price of the product has been paid.
People were buying consumer goods like washing machines, vacuum cleaners, & automobiles.

4. NEEDS vs. WANTS Food Clothes Shelter WANTS Automobile Toys Computers
CD Players
Game Boy

5. The Automobile Industry

6. The Automobile Industry
Henry Ford changed the automobile industry by developing the assembly line.
At first cars were banned from city streets because they scared horses.

7. $ Automobile Prices $
1907 average price of a car was $2, Ford automobiles $ Ford $ Model T $350

8. Impact of the car on: Industry Oil Rubber Steel
*These industries increased in order
to meet the demand for the products.
*To most, the car provided freedom,
adventure, opportunity and status.

9. The Impact of the car on:
Society 1. Cities got bigger/suburbs 2. Greater distance between homes. 3. Business and education transformation. 4. People no longer want to ride the train due to the automobile and new roads being constructed. 5. Tourism became a major industry.

10. AVIATION

11. Aviation Facts 1903 Wright Brothers 1917 WWI Mail across the country.
Airlines delivering passengers and mail.

12. President Herbert Clark Hoover
Large towns of shacks began appearing all over the United states. These towns were named Hoovervilles after the President.
President Hoover was blamed for the hard times people faced during The Great Depression.
The areas that

13. Hoovervilles were homes/areas where poor people lived during The Great Depression

14. Children living in Hooverville

15. The Stock Market Crash

16. Black Tuesday
October 29, 1929 the Stock market crashed. This day is otherwise known as BLACK TUESDAY!
Banks went out of business and the money people had placed in the banks for savings was lost overnight.
Black Tuesday began The Great Depression.

17. THE GREAT DEPRESSION
banks go out of business
1930 – 1,000 more banks went out of business.
1931 – 2,000 more banks went out of business.

18. Life During The Great Depression

19. Making baskets was one way to make money during The Great Depression.

20. Washing Clothes during The Great Depression

21. Cooking Dinner

22. Christmas Dinner during The Great Depression

23. A man and his horse

24. Family walking 30 miles to visit other family members

25. Homeless family walking down a road during The Great Depression

26. Sharecropper wife & children during The Great Depression

27. Loss of farms during The Great Depression

28. Auctioning off a farm during The Great Depression

29. An Alabama School during The Great Depression

30. Unemployment During The Great Depression

31. Unemployment line during The Great Depression

32. Unemployed Man during The Great Depression

33. The Great Dust Storm

34. 1930’s Dust Bowl
"Dust Bowl" was a term born in the hard times from the people who lived in the drought-stricken region during the great depression.

35. The "Dust Bowl Days", also known as the "Dirty Thirties", took its toll on Oklahoma and other Great Plains states. The decade was full of extremes: blizzards, tornadoes, floods, droughts, and dirt storms.

36. Boise City, Oklahoma Dust Storm

37. The Storms
In 1934 to 1936, three record drought years were marked for the nation. In 1936, a more severe storm spread out of the plains and across most of the nation. The drought years were accompanied with record breaking heavy rains, blizzards, tornadoes and floods.

38. Boise City, Oklahoma Dust Storm

39. Another Dust Storm

40. In 1935, the weather in the Dust Bowl again made the national headlines. This storm was followed by another and yet another in rapid succession. In late March a severe storm lashed Boise City so hard that many people were stranded for hours. No one dared to leave a store and head for home although it might be less than a block away.

41. Mother & Children During the Dust Storms

42. During 1936, the number of dirt storms increased and the temperature broke the 1934 record high by soaring above 120 degrees. On one pleasant June day in 1936, the ground began to tremble. A sharp earthquake shook the land from Kenton to Perryton and from Liberal to Stratford.

43. The clouds appeared on the horizons with a thunderous roar
The clouds appeared on the horizons with a thunderous roar. Turbulent dust clouds rolled in generally from the North and dumped a fine silt over the land. Men, women and children stayed in their houses and tied handkerchiefs over their noses and mouths.

44. When they dared to leave, they added goggles to protect their eyes
When they dared to leave, they added goggles to protect their eyes. Houses were shut tight, cloth was wedged in the cracks of the doors and windows but still the fine silt forced its way into houses, schools and businesses. During the storms, the air indoors was "swept" with wet gunny sacks. Sponges were used as makeshift "dust masks" and damp sheets were tied over the beds.

45. Oregon or Bust

46. Leaving Oklahoma during The Dust Storm era

47. Husband & Wife leaving Oklahoma during The Dust Storm period

48. Heading for California away from the Dust Storms