UNIT VII THE JAZZ AGE,

THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND

THE NEW DEAL

THE JAZZ AGE Also called the Roaring 20s Took place 1920 After World War I America economy was

booming Euphoria

Good times, things are going to get betterNot based in reality

People wanted to be happy and hopeful New Ways of behaving and acting

THE CHARLESTON PARTY As you listen to the music – write down

in your note book your impressions of the music

List as many words and phrases that come to mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5y0hSqO48U

Young women called Flappers enjoy dancing at a Speakeasy

during the Roaring 20s

THE GREAT DEPRESSION Things were not that great in the 1920s Many people were having hard times 1929 when the “Stock Market” crashed things

got very badPeople lost jobsLost homesWent hungryFamilies broke up

Took place in the 1930s President Herbert Hoover was the president

Not his fault

BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? As you listen to the

music – write down in your note book your impressions of the music

List as many words and phrases that come to mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaZ04GL6gNw

Apple for Sale: Unemployed man sells apples for 5 cent during Great

Depression

THE NEW DEAL Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President in 1932 President Roosevelt promised people a “New Deal”

He would end the Great Depression He would provide relief, recovery and reform

Relief to the people by finding them jobs Recovery programs that would help end the Depression Reform programs to make sure this would never happen again

The New Deal did not end the Depression It created “THE” federal government May have saved Democracy in America Provided hope for millions of Americas Some of the New Deal Programs are still around today

Did not end until World War II

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN

As you listen to the music – write down in your note book your impressions of the music

List as many words and phrases that come to mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH01FhqMdc8

Yes, you remembered me.