USA boom 1920s

• By 1929 how many Americans owned a car>


  One in five
• The car industry employed how many people?

  Up to half a million
• This led to a fall in prices and was adopted by Henry ford with the use of the assembly line to produce cars

  mass production
• The republican government set what on imports

  high tariffs
• Provide three ways in which the republican government took a laissez-faire approach favourable to business

  Low taxation, high tariffs and absence of regulation and intervention
• By 1929 how many cars were sold

  26 million
• In 1920 60,000 radios were sold but what was figure was reached by 1929


  10 million
• How many telephones were sold by 1930

  20 million
• By 1928 how many Americans bought goods from mail order shopping


  one third
• Two reasons why consumerism increased

  Cost of living fell

  Wages increased

  Prices fell

  Affordability
• Why type of car did Henry ford focus on making

  Model T
• The car industry relied upon what four resources in particular

  Steel coal oil leather
• For every one worker in the motor industry there were how many part makers?

  10
• By 1927 how many million cars where on American roads

  20 million j
• Two ways in which Ford affected American society

  5 day working weeks

  Three times higher wages for important people
• The republican government followed a policy of...

  Isolationism. Eg. Didn't join the League of Nations
• Name the three Republican presidents of the 1920s

  Calvin Coolidge, Warren Harding, and Herbert Hoover
• In the election of 1920 the Republican Party had what percent of the popular vote


  60%
• The republicans believed in the idea of

  Rugged individualism
• In 1922 Harding introduced the...which made imported food expensive in USA


  Fordney-McCumber Act
• US farm income went from X in 1919 to X by 1928.

  From $22 billion in 1919 to $13 billion in 1928.
• Name the five reasons why agriculture failed

  - falling prices

  - over production

  - new competitors

  - declining exports

  - prohibition
• How many million rural Americans were forced off their land in they 1920s

  6 million
• What two synthetic fabrics decreased the demand of cotton and wool?

  Rayon and celanese
• The majority pf Americans pay per week remained below how many dollars

  48 dollars a week
• The average income in New York for a black family was how much compared to white families $1,930

  $890
• Life expectancy for black Americans increased by 1920 from 45 to?

  48
• In what year were women given the right to vote

  1920
• By 1929 how many million women were employed outside the home

  10.6 million
• Between the years 1920 and 1930 around how many million acres of farming land was abandoned


  13 million