THE ROARING TWENTIES KEY VOCABULARY OF The Roaring

THE ROARING TWENTIES

• • 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.

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.

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

The Automobile Industry

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.

$ Automobile Prices $ 1907 average price of a car was $2, 000 1908 Ford automobiles $800 1914 Ford $500 1925 Model T $350

Impact of the car on: Industry 1. Oil 2. Rubber 3. Steel 4. *These industries increased in order to meet the demand for the products. *To most, the car provided freedom, adventure, opportunity and status.

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.

AVIATION

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

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

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

Children living in Hooverville

The Stock Market Crash

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.

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.

Life During The Great Depression

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

Washing Clothes during The Great Depression

Cooking Dinner

Christmas Dinner during The Great Depression

A man and his horse

Family walking 30 miles to visit other family members

Homeless family walking down a road during The Great Depression

Sharecropper wife & children during The Great Depression

Loss of farms during The Great Depression

Auctioning off a farm during The Great Depression

An Alabama School during The Great Depression

Unemployment During The Great Depression

Unemployment line during The Great Depression

Unemployed Man during The Great Depression

The Great Dust Storm

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

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.

Boise City, Oklahoma Dust Storm

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.

Boise City, Oklahoma Dust Storm

Another Dust Storm

• 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.

Mother & Children During the Dust Storms

• 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.

• 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.

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.

Oregon or Bust

Leaving Oklahoma during The Dust Storm era

Husband & Wife leaving Oklahoma during The Dust Storm period

Heading for California away from the Dust Storms