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USA 1920's intro (1) (State of mind (Main Aim: (have a nice house,…

- - - - motor cars
      - telephones
      - electric lighting
    - - selling more and more of their products
      - USA & Europe & Latin America & Far East
    - - became serious problem
    - - the owe you not you owe them
  - - - The war helped rather than hindered the revolution
  - - - believed that government should interfere as little as possible in the everyday lives of ppl
        
        where prosperity came from
    - - believed in import tariffs which made it expensive to import foreign goods
        
        these tariffs protected businesses against foreign competition and allowed American companies to grow more rapidly
        
        USA also began to close its borders to foreign immigrants
    - - huge super-corporations which dominated industry
        
        they allowed the trusts to do what they wanted
        
        believing that captains of industry knew better than politicians did what was good for the USA
    - - brought some benefits to ordinary working ppl, but even more to wealthy.
        
        if ppl kept their money, they would spend it on American goods and wealthy ppl would reinvest in industries
- - - - Male workers got paid 18 and women 9 for a 70h week
- - - - had only been developed in 1890s
      - First made by blacksmiths, took a long time and were very expensive
      - In 1900 only 4000 cars were made
      - In 1913 Henry Ford set up the 1st moving production line in the world
      - Each worker had 1-2 jobs to do as the skeleton of the car moved
      - More than 15 million were produced between 1908-1925
      - In 1927 came off the production rate at a rate of 1 per 10 sec
      - In 1929 4.8 million cars were made
    - - telephones, radios, vacuum cleaners, washing machines were mass produced on a vast scale, making them cheaper so more ppl could buy
    - - Mass nationwide advertising 1st time during war
      - Many advertisers had learned skills from wartime propaganda now set up agencies to sell cars, cigarettes, clothing
      - Poster, radio advertisements & travelling salesmen
      - "Buy now, pay later"
      - 8/10 radios & 6/10 cars were bought on credit