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.

11. suicide

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

13. 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