THE ROARING TWENTIES

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THE ROARING TWENTIES
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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 1920s.
• Life was good for Americans during The Roaring
  20s and it was a time of economic boom.

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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.

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NEEDS vs. WANTS

• NEEDS
• Food
• Clothes
• Shelter

• WANTS
• Automobile
• Toys
• Computers
• CD Players
• Game Boy

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The Automobile Industry
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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.

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1907 average price of a carwas 2,0001908 Ford
automobiles 8001914 Ford 5001925 Model T
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Automobile Prices
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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.

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Society1. Cities got
bigger/suburbs2. 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.
The Impact of the car on
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AVIATION
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Aviation Facts

• 1903 Wright Brothers
• 1917 WWI
• Mail across the country.
• 1930-1943 Airlines delivering passengers and
  mail.

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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
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Hoovervilles were homes/areas where poor people
lived during The Great Depression
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Children living in Hooverville
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The Stock Market Crash
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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.

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THE GREAT DEPRESSION

• 1929 - 600 banks go out of business
• 1930 1,000 more banks went out of business.
• 1931 2,000 more banks went out of business.

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Life DuringThe Great Depression

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

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Washing Clothes during The Great Depression
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Cooking Dinner
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Christmas Dinner during The Great Depression
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A man and his horse
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Family walking 30 miles to visit other family
members
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Homeless family walking down a road during The
Great Depression
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Sharecropper wife children during The Great
Depression
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Loss of farms during The Great Depression
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Auctioning off a farm during The Great
Depression
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An Alabama School during The Great Depression
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Unemployment During The Great Depression
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Unemployment line duringThe Great Depression
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Unemployed Man duringThe Great Depression
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The Great Dust Storm
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1930s 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.

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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.
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Boise City, Oklahoma Dust Storm
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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.

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Boise City, Oklahoma Dust Storm
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Another Dust Storm
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• 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.

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Mother Children During the Dust Storms
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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.
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Oregon or Bust
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Leaving Oklahoma during The Dust Storm era
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Husband Wife leaving Oklahoma during The Dust
Storm period
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Heading for California away from the Dust Storms