Check your notes: (1 pt ea) Henry Ford mass production assembly lines Model t consumer Revolution Installment Buying Bull Market Stocks Buying on Margin Cities Suburbs check your understanding

Study Guide 1920s America: begin on pg. 660 _______/ 27 pts.

A Booming Economy: (2 pts ea)

1. 
   Describe life in America after WWI:
   

2. 
   Automobile Industry:
   
   1. 
      How did the automobile contribute to the growing American economy?
      

2. 
   How did the Automobile change America ? (Ex. Freedom)
   

3. 
   A Bustling Economy:
   
   1. 
      What was responsible for the new American Consumer Culture?
      

2. 
   What was the new “get rich quick scheme”?/What were the problems (risks)?
   

4. 
   Cities, Suburbs, and Country:
   
   1. 
      How did the American urban and suburban areas change during the 1920s?
      

Henry Ford mass production assembly lines Model T Consumer Revolution

Installment Buying Bull Market Stocks

Buying on Margin Cities Suburbs

How did the booming economy of the 1920s lead to changes in American life?

Name: ____Key___________ Date: ______________

Study Guide 1920s America: begin on pg. 660 _______/ 27 pts.

1. 
   Describe life in America after WWI:
   

2. 
   Automobile Industry:
   
   1. 
      How did the automobile contribute to the growing American economy?
      

• 
  Ford – mass production to larger products
  
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  This makes larger products more affordable
  
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  Model T – avg American can afford
  
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  Scientific management to study mass production – brought assembly line to car industry (12 hrs to 90 mins) = produce more ; also reduced price ($350-$290)
  
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  Ford doubled wages )changed working conditions in the hopes that his workers would become his customers
  
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  Cars increase growth of related industries (oil; gas stations)
  
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  Cars = need for highway system
  
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  Cars = increase advertising industry
  
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  Cars – increase vacation industry
  

2. 
   How did the Automobile change America ? (Ex. Freedom)
   

3. 
   A Bustling Economy:
   
   1. 
      What was responsible for the new American Consumer Culture?
      

2. 
   What was the new “get rich quick scheme”?/What were the problems (risks)?
   

4. 
   Cities, Suburbs, and Country:
   
   1. 
      How did the American urban and suburban areas change during the 1920s?
      

• 
  Everyone heads to the cities (jobs)
  
• 
  Suburbs increase because travel into cities is accessible (mass transportation/cars affordable)
  

• 
  Farmers = debt; falling farm prices
  
• 
  Everyone moved out of the countryside!
  

Henry Ford mass production assembly lines Model T Consumer Revolution

Installment Buying Bull Market Stocks

Buying on Margin Cities Suburbs

How did the booming economy of the 1920s lead to changes in American life?