The Roaring Twenties

The end of WWI lead to a time of prosperity in the U.S.

Factories that had previously produced supplies for war began making consumer goods

Americans had electricity and many invested in time saving consumer goods like refrigerators and vacuum cleaners.

People began buying cars and shopping in department stores.

The middle class grew. Men worked as doctors, lawyers, small business owners and company managers.

Modern Women

Families began shrinking and house work became easier with new technology.

The 19th Amendment passed giving women the right to vote.

Women began to work outside of the home. At this point 25% of the workforce was women.

However, most women who worked outside of the home worked in occupations like domestic service and teaching.

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Prosperous Times

By the middle of the 1920's the country was as prosperous as it had ever been.

Manufacturing was becoming more efficient.

Henry Ford created the Assembly Line.

Workers were more could produce more goods with less effort and time.

Therefore companies could sell more and had money left over to pay their workers increased wages.

Stores began offering credit and installment payments to encourage people to buy.

The Stock Market Booms

When companies want to raise money they sell shares of their business on the Stock Market.

Investors were so eager to buy stocks that they used "margin buying."

This means that they paid for a portion of the stock and borrowed the rest from stockbrokers.

The stockbrokers in turn were borrowing from banks.

The great Migration

• It was a time when more than 6 million African-Americans moved to different states in the US.
• They moved from the rural south to all over the US.

Harlem Rennasaince

• It was time wheere African-Americans were a lot of famous black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars.
• Harlem was a cultural center.

Prohibition (ban on alcohol 1920-1933) (Lots of Crime and less alcoholisim)