Equipment and Tools
|The Ford Model T
- Electricity was one of the most important tools during the 1920's.
- Ford's use of the assembly line made Model T cars easier to make
and cheaper to sell. This meant the average skilled worker could
afford to buy one.
- Cadillac, Buick, Chevrolet, Pontiac, and Oldsmobile joined to
form General Motors.
- The steel, rubber, and glass industries were all affected by
the increase in car sales.
- Other industries that grew because of the increase in automobiles
1.) New construction of roads
2.) More gas stations, restaurants, and motels
- The increase in automobile sales changed people's lives by speeding
up life activities and allowing people to travel.
- The Wright Brothers made the first motorized flight in 1903.
- The first passenger flight was in 1923.
- Charles Lindbergh was known as the man who made the first non-stop
flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Mass Culture: groups of people who behave in many of the same ways
because they have listened to or watched the same events.
- The popularity of movies increased when sound was combined
with the motion picture.
- Movies helped create a mass culture in the U.S. by advertising
all of the most current fashions.
- Radios also helped create a mass culture by bringing people music,
news, entertainment, and advertising.
- Jazz was a new form of music that became popular in the 1920's
because its exciting fast pace reminded people of city life.
- Famous American Writers of the 1920s:
1.) F. Scott Fitzgerald
2.) Ernest Hemingway
3.) William Faulkner
4.) Langston Hughes
Women in the 1920s
- Flappers: women who didn't behave according to "societal standards."