Jan 25th-Feb 1st

~1920’s~

Automobiles and Airplanes

What were some impacts of Cars?

What did Lindbergh Accomplish?

What was the main Purpose of planes?

  • Impact of Cars
    • Ford was the big name
    • Helped women get to jobs and change the way they live
    • New roads and gas stations
    • More job opportunities
  • Types of Cars
    • Chrysler Model B-70
      • 70-75 mph
    • Renault 6 CV NN
      • Convertible
      • Luxury Car
    • Ford Model A
      • Better Model T
      • 50-60 mph
  • Charles Lindbergh
    • First Solo non stop flight across the ocean
    • He was in the army and then went to fly mail
    • He flew from NY to Paris in 33.5 hours
    • Was a barnstormer
      • Entertainment and then explained what his plane was all about
  • Kidnapping/Death
    • March 1932
      • Charles Lindbergh’s son was kidnapped and killed
      • Bruno Hauptmann was convicted in 1936
      • Lindbergh Law was then created to outlaw kidnapping
      • August 26th 1974 Charles died of Cancer
    • Amelia Earhart
      • 5 years after Charles she sent off across the Atlantic Ocean and accomplished the flight
      • She was trying to fly around the world
      • 7,000 miles left in the flight and she disappeared
      • Possibly found Earhart's airplane wreck in New Guinea  
    • Plane Uses
      • Most planes were used for transporting mail
      • Military reasons
      • Entertainment
      • Great feats
    • Nascar
      • Started with bootleggers
      • Runners - Running form the law
      • First ever race was in Daytona Florida. February 15th 1948
      • Red Byron won the first race in a Ford

Causes of Stock Market Crash

What are the causes of the Stock Market Crash

How did the stock market crash influence the public?

  • What is a stock
    • Small part of company that people can buy and sell
    • When stock is good money is good
  • Before the Crash
    • Everything was good for many Americans
      • Had jobs
      • Cars
    • People were buying on credit
    • Stock Market plateaued
      • Didn’t know what the market was going to do up or down
  • Stock Market Crashed October 29,1929
    • Rich men buying stock for lot less then then were selling them
    • Buying on margin
      • Buying from a broker to buy stocks
      • Buying on credit from broker basically
      • Huge problem - Overvalued stock prices
      • No Government laws regulating stock market
    • Pooling
      • Rich people pool money and then buy all the stock of the company.
      • Make the prices of the stock skyrocket
      • Pay off newspaper reporters to say that they need  to get into the stock
    • The people were paying on credit
      • Huge debt
    • People took out loans from the bank
  • Influence after crash
    • People tried to get out, selling stock when it started going down
    • 30% unemployed after crash
    • People lost hope after the crash
      • Suicide rates went up
    • Many couldn’t provide for families Copied From 7Jacob as I missed when we took the notes 
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