The Twenties Ford Pioneers Mass Production The Automobile Changes America Automobile Drives Prosperity Mass production rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical products Model T reliable car for average Americans ID: 227653
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A Booming Economy
The TwentiesSlide2
Ford Pioneers Mass Production
The Automobile Changes America
Automobile Drives ProsperitySlide3
Mass production: rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical products
Model T
reliable car for average Americans
Ford Pioneers Mass ProductionSlide4
Boom in auto industry led to growth in other industries related to car manufacture or use
Auto Changes AmericaSlide5
Consumer Culture
Big Bull Market
A Bustling EconomySlide6
New affordable goods became available
Growing advertising industry
“Scientific” techniques & psychological research
Installment buying
Consumer CultureSlide7
Period of rising stock prices
Americans put $ into stocks to get rich quick
Buying on margin: another form of buying on credit
***Most people ignored the dangers of the market***
Big Bull MarketSlide8
People Flock to Cities
Suburbs Grow
Americans Face Hardships
Cities, Suburbs, & CountrySlide9
Cities grew & changed shape
Skyscraper technology caused cities to grow up
Empire State Building, 1931
People Flock to CitiesSlide10
Improved mass production & automobiles made expansion of cities easier
Middle & upper class residents
Conservative & Republican
Suburbs GrowSlide11
Farm incomes declined
Poor & outside the economic boom
Rural America’s Hardships