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The Great Depression
Post War Declining Economy
• Post War = Large Debt and Not Enough Jobs• Low Pay• Workers Demand Higher Pay and Shorter
Hours• Labor Unions
1920’s
• Inflation = Fast Riches• Investments and Credit• Move to Urban Areas• Increase in High School and College• Increase in Women’s Rights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coB4WYjzAzA
Women’s Rights
• 19th Amendment = Women Vote• Women get involved in Government• Flappers
Prohibition
• Alcohol is Illegal• Speakeasies Erupt• Bootleggers Rise • Rise of Gangsters• Ended by 21st
Amendment
The Automobile
• Henry Ford, Model T• Assembly Line– Faster Production of Goods in Factories
• Created Jobs for Unemployed
Harlem Renaissance
• Rise of Jazz• Celebration of African American Culture in
America• Songs, Spirituals, Poetry, Literature, Dance
The Party Ends
• Stock Market Crash• Banks Fold• No Federal Backing of Banks Leads to Huge
Loss for Many Citizens• Extreme Unemployment• Soldiers Do Not Receive War Pay– March to Washington
Hoovervilles
• President Hoover pulls federal money out of programs that help citizens
• Instead helps businesses and railroads• Villages of Unemployed People Form Outside
Cities
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
The Second New Deal
• WPA Sought to Employ Workers to Fix Roads, Hospitals, Parks, and Schools
• Social Security Act– Helps Elderly and Disabled Who Cannot Work
Impact of the 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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ_lizW5zSI