Chapter 20 - The "Roaring Twenties" Brings Changes to the Nation

Which of the following are reasons for the prosperity that took place during the 1920s?

• Demand for automobiles increased

• European immigration stopped

• New inventions quit being inventented

• Installment buying and buying on credit

Which of the following were changes to American life that took place during the 1920s?

• A decline in consumer spending on big-ticket items

• The growth of radio and magazine advertising

• The increase in buying through magazines and catalougues

• The decline of spending on home consumer devices

How did the growth of the automobile industry after World War I change the United States economy?

• It stimulated the development of other new industries

• It decreased employment opportunities for assembly-line workers

• It increased the number of railroad passengers

• It encouraged government operation of major industries

"It will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men, after the simplest designs that engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one..."

-Henry Ford, 1909

Which innovation helped Ford realize this vision?

• providing various models of airplanes

• creating a business monopoly

• downsizing the labor force

• using assembly-line production methods

What explains the reason for the rise of a "consumer culture" in the 1920s?

• The federal government encouraged labor to unionize

• Enforcement of anti-trust laws resulted in higher prices

• Minimum-wage laws expanded buying power of consumers

• Advertising and installment payments encouraged buying

A significant contribution to the industrialization of the United States was Henry Ford's use of

• electric-powered vehicles

• a new process for making steel

• the conveyor belt

• the first U.S. corporation

What was the primary cause of the economic boom of the 1920s?

• new economic policies of the League of Nations

• development of new consumer goods industries

• use of advertising on radio

• elimination of barriers to international trade

Which factor played the largest role in fueling the economic boom of the 1920s?

• government subsidies paid to farmers

• tariff reductions on imported European goods

• the increasing ownership of automobiles by families

• the federal government's war on organized crime

During the 1920s, many of the problems facing American farmers were due to

• installment buying of crops

• strikes by farm workers

• overproduction of farm crops

• rising taxes on farm crops