The roaring twenties was a time of great growth and prosperity. Full of fun times, great music, and amazing dancers. People came up with new terms such as “green door” which meant “having a good time”. Young women who wore skirts, had short hair, and listened to jazz music were nicknamed “flappers. However, all great things must come to an end. After the roaring twenties came the Great Depression. Economically, the United States shrunk by a third compared to the beginning. Unemployment rates skyrocketed because of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, consumer prices fell, and the collapse of the World Trade Center due to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff. (Richardson, The Great Depression. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.) says that “The Depression was the longest and deepest downturn in the history of the United States and the modern industrial economy.” Constitutionally, what The Great Depression did for the economy, it did …show more content…
Roosevelt made a plan to do just that and he called it The New Deal. This plan made unemployment rates go down because it gave out jobs to over one quarter of a million people. In president Roosevelt’s New Deal plan was a program called the Travel Bureau, which gave Americans and foreign travelers a chance to come and ‘See America’. Roosevelt used emergency funds to establish the Travel Bureau and he placed the headquarters in Washington D.C. and New York. Roosevelt gave Harold Ickes the authority to run the office which was placed within the National Parks. (Lisa Thompson, The Living New Deal, November 18th, 2016) states that “Congress finally passed legislation giving the Travel Bureau a firm statutory footing, which President Roosevelt signed on July 19, 1940. Ickes and his department noted that ‘for the first time since its establishment in 1937, permanent existence of the Bureau was assured and long range planning made