20s

Question 1

What percentage of furniture was bought on instalment plans

Answer 1

60%

Question 2

What percentage of radios were bought on instalment plans

Answer 2

75%

Question 3

What fraction of American households had electricity by 1930

Answer 3

2/3

Question 4

What percentage had telephones by 1930

Answer 4

50%

Question 5

Cars in 1919 vs cars in 1929

Answer 5

6.7m to 27m

Question 6

How many Americans owned cars in 1929

Answer 6

1 in 4.
60% bought them on credit

Question 7

Why was the American standard of living in the ’20s an illusion

Answer 7

The majority of big purchases were made with the hire purchase mentality, and people would spend more than they had to maintain their lifestyles

Question 8

Improvements in Black Americans’ lives

Answer 8

Harlem Renaissance after the Great Migration

Question 9

Improvements in women’s lives politically

Answer 9

1920 19th Amendment

Question 10

Changes in the workplace

Answer 10

Fordism: Assembly lines to maximise efficiency and output. Adopted by other companies
Taylorism: Specialising individuals so they work faster on a smaller scale

Cheapened labour and therefore cheapened products, allowing for mass consumerism to become the widely accepted culture

Question 11

Volstead Act 1919

Answer 11

18th Amendment
Prohibited production, sale and consumption of alcohol on a federal scale