1920´s and 1930´s

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  • Birth-control devices

    Made posible for women to have fewer children.

  • Federal Volstead Act

    Closed every tavern, bar and saloon in the United States

  • The 19th Amendment

    Woman could vote.

  • 19th Amendment

    Woman could vote.

  • First commercial radio station in the U.S.

    People began to spend in customer goods, Specially the radios became popular.

  • Vacuum cleaner

    Intruduction of technologies that made it easier the house hold for the women.

  • Ford Model T cost just $260

    The most important customer product that became a necessity.

  • National Origins Act

    "A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians." (Dictionary.com, 2020)

  • 100 million phonograph records where sold

    It was the Jazz Age, the younger generation loved the freedom it gave by hearing it in the car and dancing in the dance floors.

  • 1 car for every 5 Americans

    The economy for automobiles was born so businesses like: service stations and motels were born too.

  • Black Tuesday

    Its the stock market crash that caused the Great Depression.

  • Broadcasts, Swing music and movies.

    Such was the culture as this offered the audiences an escape of the everyday struggles.

  • “Hoovervilles”

    The economic crisis worsened, people where loosing their Jobs, houses and "Between 1930 and 1933, more than 9,000 banks closed in the U.S., taking with them more than $2.5 billion in deposits" (History.com Editors, 2010) With all of this, the president Herbert Hoover persisted with hands-off policies.

  • 15 major laws

    By this time, they had already passed 15 major laws to try to reshape the American economy.

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes president

    He promised a change, and to use the power to halp the economy crisis.

  • Second New Deal

    Second set of federal programs to attempt to end the depression.

  • End of the depression

    As the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the U.S. entered World War II, this stimulated American industry ending the depression.