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Worksheets1920s inventions and economy
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 2hrs 15mins
What is the main reason for Americans economic boom?
Stock market was booming
Monopolistic companies were successful
USA position after World War I
Minimum wage was raised
What is credit?
the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment
A way to get more money
The ability to buy goods and services for cheaper prices
How did credit help economy?
Helped to increase production
Opened up consumer goods market to people who never could have bought such prouducts
Helped to bring America out of a huge debt we had concurred
Gives America a feeling of power after a time of turmoil
Who invented the assembly line
Henry Ford
Andrew Carnegie
John D Rockefeller
Alexander Graham Bell
Why was the assembly line such a revolutionary invention
It helped to create more jobs in factories
goods could be made the same way in all factories
helped to rise prices of goods prouduced in factories
Goods could be mass prouduced quickly and cheaply
What percentage of Americans lived below the poverty line
50%
20%
60%
5%
Who benefited from the economic boom
Rich
Poor
Middle class
the governments
Which invention brought about the greatest change in American life-styles in the 1920s?
Automodlies
Steam engine
Computers
Railroad
According to the graph, the greatest increase in automobile sales occurred between
1921 and 1923
1923 and 1925
1925 and 1927
1927 and 1929
