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The average income per head increased by 27%

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Treasury secretary Andrew Mellon, lowered the top marginal income tax rate for the wealthiest Americans from 75% to 25%

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Native Americans were confined to reservations, often inland so poor that it was impossible to make a living from it

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1920: 568 tonnes of coal mined
1930: 518 tonnes of coal mined
It fell even though the population increased at this point

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Big cotton crop in 1926 but little demand for cotton- price dropped and many farmers in the southern states went bankrupt and lost their jobs

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Americans spend $1.8 billion more on leisure activities in 1929 than ten years earlier

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By the end of the 1920s farm workers made up only a fifth of the labour force, which had decreased by around 1million in 10 years

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1929: Car sales have fallen by a third

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There were 40000 beauty parlours by 1930 meaning women had more money they were able to use to spend on them

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In the decade of the 1920s economic output increased by a staggering 50%.

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750,000 black farm workers lost their jobs during the 1920s

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People lacked purchasing power to buy luxury consumer goods and new houses

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Combined value of shares traded on Wall Street rose from $34 billion in 1925 to $64 billion in 1929

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Stock prices rose by 39%.

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In 1910 visits to national parks were 198000 people and due to the cars it raised to 2.7million in 1930

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By 1929 around 60% of all families lived below the poverty line

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By 1929, more than 26 million cars were registered in the USA.

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Cotton prices fell by as much as two-thirds which led to 600,000 farmers losing their farms in 1924 alone

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In 1924 40million cinema tickets were sold each week however in 1928 that figured had doubled

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The number of airline passengers grew from less than 6000 in 1926, to approximately 173,000 in 1929

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The number of people filing income tax returns for earnings of more than $1 million a year rose from 65 to 513

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More than 3 million farming families earned less than $1000 a year

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Shares had lost around $26 billion in value

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The number of households with a radio rose from 60,000 to 10 million

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1.5 million Americans became shareholders between 1927-29

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America's gross national product (GNP) grew from $78 billion to $103 billion

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Company share prices reduced drastically: Woolworths- March 1928- $1.81 however November 1929- $0.52

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Wheat went from $2.50 per bushel to less than $1 per bushel

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Farm income dropped from $22 billion in 1919 to $13 billion in 1928

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71% of Americans were on low incomes of below $2,500 a year