1.
The Roaring 20’s

2.
Prohibition 1920-1933

3.
speakeasy

4.
The Stock Market Crash of 1929

5.
Stocks lost 90% of their value over 4
years

6.
The Great Depression

7.
Hooverville

8.
Unhappy times

9.
Boxcar Boys and Girls
• More than 250,000 children left home to find
work.

10.
suicide

11.
The dustbowl
Caused by years
of bad farming
and drought

12.
SEC Securities and Exchange
Commission
• In 1934 the SEC was made to help stop
another great depression.
It has made things
better, but we still
have stock market
crashes