APUSH Chapter 25 Part 1

Question 1

How was the economy post war

Answer 1

Flourishing baby

Question 2

What was the economy focusing on

Answer 2

Selling consumer goods

Many new products and modern conveniences became available to all classes of people, not just wealthy

Question 3

Model T

Answer 3

Produced by Henry Ford 
Assembly line 
Black only 
1925 Model T cost $260 
Down $800 from 1908 
Cars affordable for the masses

Question 4

Allied Businesses

Answer 4

Increased employment 6 mil by 1930
Industries flourish around cars
(Rubber, glass, fabrics, road construction, petroleum, service stations)
What about railroads

Question 5

Social effects of automobiles

Answer 5

Connected rural roads
Family vacations 
Promoted urban sprawl 
Independence for women/young people
Cars became status symbols

Question 6

Airplane industry

Answer 6

Mail carriers
Passenger planes
Lindbergh–>nonstop over Atlantic–>solo

Question 7

Electrical conveniences

Answer 7

Radios
Cars pull people away from home
Radios bring them back
Families huddle around radio each night for national programming

Question 8

Early films

Answer 8

Vulgar, racist, silent 
"The Birth of a Nation" 1915
Booms during WWI
anti German propaganda 
1927- first "talkie"
alters American beliefs about celebrities 
Improved assimilation of immigrants

Question 9

Appliances

Answer 9

Toaster
Refrigerator
Vacuum cleaners
Impact on women?

Question 10

Advertising

Answer 10

Competition for customers
Creates modern advertising
Use of psychology
Convince people that they NEED it

Question 11

The American economy status of living

Answer 11

Became highest in the world
Prosperity superficial
People were buying credit (installment plan) and going into debt
“Possess today and pay tomorrow”

Question 12

Changing ways of life

Answer 12

1920 census shows for the first time more Americans live in urban areas than in rural areas
Differences between city and country life