year ten mock history revision
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- U.S SOCIETY
- consumerism
- Demand for household goods
- Hire purchase made it easier to buy things on credit
- Half of goods sold were paid for by hire purchase
- the popularity of entertainment meant more people bought radios
- Radios sold: 1920- 60,000 1929 - 10 million
- between 2923-1929 the average wage increased by 8 %
- Labour saving devices became more popular e.g electric iron, vacuum, washing machine ext...
- Hire purchase made it easier to buy things on credit
- Demand for household goods
- entertainment
- films became a national obsession. Cinemas becoming more popular
- Hollywood became a multi million dollar industry
- Not everyone could read so the radio became very important to communicate news and give information
- Popularity of jazz increased so people could listen to it any time they wanted
- The radio was able to grow and succeed due to companies paid for advertising
- films became a national obsession. Cinemas becoming more popular
- Women
- After WW1 woman were given the vote
- Women gained a new independence
- Women wore short skirts, smoked and drank in public
- However the women were still not as free as the men
- 8 million were working
- The number of women working increased by 25%
- Divorce was made easier, divorce rates doubled as women would not fear their partners as much
- Women wore short skirts, smoked and drank in public
- Prohibition
- Brewing and selling alcohol was illegal
- Speakeasies were illegal underground bars
- Bootleggers made lots of money smuggling alcohol or illegally brewing it
- This didnt stop alcohol consumption, it just drove it underground
- Brewing and selling alcohol was illegal
- Racism
- The forty one white controlled state governments feared African Americans
- Jim crow laws
- The state government segregated African Americans from most public places
- Black and immigrant workers received less pay and lived in the worst conditions
- The KKK was becoming very popular with in 1920 they had 100,000 members
- Their violence included, burning, branding , lynching, beatings, attacks with acid ect ...
- 1919 70 black people were lynched by KKK and they were all former soldiers
- The forty one white controlled state governments feared African Americans
- Mass production
- cultural changes (domestic and leisure )
- more goods produced meant cost was decreased which meant more sales
- Cars, radios and hoovers produced in large quantities.
- Henry Ford develops assembly line, which meant other industries stimulated the products for the car which meant mass production in them too
- 45 separate operations on assembly line
- For example: operation 34 was the motor getting its petrol
- Immigrants helped with mass production as they wanted money to send home and they often worked harder than the average American and also worked for little money
- very useful in mass production if one section is slow it takes down the whole assembly line
- Henry Ford develops assembly line, which meant other industries stimulated the products for the car which meant mass production in them too
- Hire purchase - buy goods over a period of time
- cultural changes (domestic and leisure )
- The new deal
- Made by president Roosevelt, wanted more Americans to have jobs, so set up alphabet agencies to help
- 1933 13million unemployed, within 3 years 8 million worked for new deal schemes
- Opposition to the new deal
- Republicans thought democrats such as Roosevelt were trying to do too much
- The government spent too much on alphabet agencies, making taxes higher for the wealthy
- The rich turned their backs on the government which meant they lost alibis
- The government spent too much on alphabet agencies, making taxes higher for the wealthy
- Some of the jobs were pointless e.g leaf sweeping
- 11/16 of the alphabet agencies were band (supreme courts decision)
- Republicans thought democrats such as Roosevelt were trying to do too much
- consumerism
- Brewing and selling alcohol was illegal
- Speakeasies were illegal underground bars
- Bootleggers made lots of money smuggling alcohol or illegally brewing it
- This didnt stop alcohol consumption, it just drove it underground
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