The Roaring Twenties

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The Roaring Twenties
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The Boom Economy

• More and more consumer goods!!

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The Boom Economy

• Installment buying allows buyers to take home a
  product after only paying part of the price.

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Economic Slump for Farmers

• Farmers produced a lot of food during World War 1
• End of war other countries producing their own
  food
• Farmers now had too many crops

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Industries that caused Boom

• Automobile
• Rubber
• Oil
• Steel
• Electric Power
• Aviation
• Commercial

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Automobile Industry

• Henry Ford used the assembly line to lower costs
  to build a car
• Result More people could afford cars

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Interesting Fact!!!!

• In 1925, a person could buy a car for 260.

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How did Henry Fords idea change America?

• More people could buy cars
• Cars allowed people to travel more
• People could live outside the city in which they
  worked
• People could take vacations

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What other industries flourished because of the
Automobile Industry

• Rubber (needed for tires)
• Steel (needed to build cars)
• Gasoline (needed for the cars to run)

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Aviation

• Orville and Wilbur Wright made first flight in
  1903.
• Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

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Charles Lindbergh

• Goal to be the first person to fly
• around the Atlantic
• 34 hours after flying out of New York, he landed
  in Paris.
• Result more people interested in air
• travel.

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Interesting Fact!!!

• Between 1920-1930, the number of people traveling
  by plane grew from 6,000 to 400,000!!

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Popular Entertainment during the 1920s

• Listening to the radio
• Playing sports
• Going to the movies

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The Harlem Renaissance

• During the 1920s, Harlem became the center of
  African American artists
• Renaissance (rebirth) a time of great interest
  in the arts (music, writing)