Chapter 10 Notes: The 1920s and 1930s

1. Chapter 10 Notes: The 1920s and 1930s

2. Lesson 1: “A Growing Economy”EQ: What were the 1920’s like? Was it a time for change?

3. Changes in Production • In 1920, Americans elected a new president, Warren G. Harding. He believed that Americans were tired of war and wanted to get back to their normal lives. • Following the war, America’s economy experienced a boom in sales. A boom is a period of fast economic growth. The reasons for the boom was because America increased trading with other countries and after the war, many countries paid back the money they owed America. This helped America become the richest country in the world.

4. Warren G. Harding

5. The Automobile Industry • Henry Ford added to the economic boom by making cars in a new way. • He began mass production which means using machines to make many products at once. • To produce a lot of cars, Ford set up assembly lines. Assembly lines are long lines of workers and equipment.

6. Henry Ford Assembly Line Video

7. Automobile Industry cont’d. • Each person on the assembly line was responsible for only one job. • This way of organizing work is called division of labor. When a company uses division of labor, each worker or group of workers has one small task in a big project. • Using Ford’s method of production caused industries to make more money, then hire more workers. When more workers were hired, people spent more money and our economy increased.

8. Assembly Line I Love Lucy • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmAwcMNxGqM

11. How Mass Production Changes the Economy

12. Savings and Investing • Most people in the 1920s put their money into savings accounts at banks. • Other people invested their money. To invest means to use savings in the hope of earning more money in the future. • Most Americans invested in stocks. A stock is a share of ownership in a company. The place where stocks are bought and sold is called a stock market.

13. Stock Market www.nasdaq.com

14. Government in the 1920s • During the 1920s, three new presidents were elected: Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. • All three were similar because they: -encouraged economic growth in the 1920s -Were Republicans

16. Campaign Buttons

17. Differences between the Presidents

18. Lesson 2: The Roaring Twenties Stop at 1minute 50secs

19. Technology Changes Lives • During the 1920s, the U.S. became more modern and technology changed the way people lived. Cars allowed people to travel long distances more easily. • Electricity allowed people to have electrical appliances at home and make housework much easier.

21. A Changing Society • New kinds of music, art, and literature became popular in the 1920s. • Jazz became popular. Jazz is a type of music that uses a lot of improvisation. • Harlem, a neighborhood in New York, was famous for jazz and in the 1920s it became a center for Black musicians, artists, and writers. • This period was known as the Harlem Renaissance. A renaissance is a time when there is new interest in art, literature, music and learning.

22. Jazz Music • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7kqVfD7KOw&list=PL1mZeR4wTBoyJJxhnPO76S3omPhcKWxZN • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ZspdOFlj0

23. Duke Ellington • Famous musician during the Jazz Age

25. New Kinds of Entertainment • Radios became a popular form of communication in the 1920s. • Families would sit around the radio at night and listen to news reports, music, comedy shows, mystery stories, and sports broadcasts. • Movies also became popular. People crowded into theaters to watch the latest romance, adventure, and comedy films.

27. Early Aviators • The Wright Brothers made the first successful airplane flight in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. • An aviator is someone who flies an airplane. • In 1927, Charles Lindburgh became the first aviator to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. • Amelia Earhart was a woman who set many flying records. • Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman to earn a pilot’s license.

28. Wright Brothers • Kitty Hawk North Carolina was where the Wright Brothers made their first flight.

30. Problems of the 1920s • Discrimination and crime were big problems in the 1920s. • African Americans, Asian Americans, and Mexican Americans still faced prejudice. The KKK was on the rise again during this time period. • Another problem was the 18th Amendment to the constitution. This amendment made selling and drinking alcohol in the U.S. against the law. • The time that this law was in effect is called the Prohibition Era. Prohibition means the act of forbidding something.

31. Problems cont’d • During this time period, criminals still made and sold alcohol. • These illegal activities led to violence in many cities. • When the violence in cities became too bad, the government repealed, or ended, prohibition. • Prohibition ended with the 21st amendment in 1933. • Prohibition lasted from 1920-1933.

34. Brain Pop “Roaring Twenties” http://www.brainpop.com/video_tutorials/roaring_20s/

35. Lesson 3: The Great Depression

36. The Economic Depression • Economic problems in the U.S. increased after the stock market crashed in 1929. • Many people thought that the economic boom of the 1920s would last forever. So many people borrowed money and invested money into the stock market. • Unfortunately, on October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed. This means that the total value of all stocks fell very quickly.

38. Economic depression cont’d • After the stock market crash of 1929, many people began to panic and they sold all of their stocks. • The crash caused many people to feel less confident in the economy, therefore, store owners ordered fewer goods because consumers were buying fewer things. As a result, fewer orders caused factories to fire workers. • Unemployment increased. Unemployment is the number of people who are looking for a job but can’t find one. • Because people had little money to spend, businesses began to close. Within a few years, millions of people were unemployed and many businesses shut down.

39. Economic Depression cont’d • This period of unemployment was called the Great Depression. A depression is a time when people can’t find work and many businesses close. • The Great Depression lasted through the 1930s.

40. Causes of the Great Depression • Many people were in debt. Debt is money that one person owes to another. • Banks were failing and they went out of business. Because people could not pay the banks back and banks could not give loans, banks could not make any money. • The economy began to slow down because consumers were not spending money and the result was the Great Depression.

42. Hard Times for Americans • The Great Depression caused much hardship. • Charities donated free meals to hungry people. A charity is an organization that helps people in need. • People who did not have money lined up at soup kitchens and formed bread lines to wait for free bread and other food. • Additionally, many people built shacks out of cardboard boxes, broken cars, and scraps of wood.

43. Soup Kitchens

44. Shantytowns

45. Impact on Farmers • The Great Depression was especially hard on tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the south. • A severe drought on the Great Plains in the early 1930s made things worse for farmers. Little rain fell so crops could not grow. • Thousands of families living in this area, called the Dust Bowl, went to California to look for work on ranches and in orchards.

48. Lesson:4Roosevelt and the New Deal

49. The Election of 1932 • Because Herbert Hoover felt that the government should not do much to help the economy, many Americans did not approve of him. • Therefore, in 1932, Americans elected a new president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. • Roosevelt gave Americans new hope during the Depression.

50. Franklin D. Roosevelt