• Negative impact: there was an increase in African - American workers, this caused there to be race riots.

  
  

• Positive impact: there were more natural resources, transport and consumer goods.

  
  

• What this meant for the US: there was a 35% increase in production, this meant that factories had enough to sell.

• Negative impact: there were more and more farmers taking out loans and they were struggling to pay those loans back. The loan taken out was for tractors, increasing it's sales.

  
  

• Positive impact: production on the US farms had grown rapidly as Europe needed supplies from America. This had caused the farmers income to increase by 30%. 30% from wheat and 55% from cotton.

  
  

• What this meant for the US: the US had an abundance of resources.

• Negative impact: American soldiers had returned home causing women to fall into unemployment.

  
  

• Positive impact: there was less unemployment thanks to the need of workers, this caused the amount of workers to increase by 1.3 million during the last 2 years of the war as there were more opportunities for women and African - Americans in . workplaces.

  
  

• What this meant for the US: the US became more progressive with the idea of working women.

In 1926, Henry Ford had introduced mass production to America, this helped deal with production time and costs. The way mass production worked was that workers would line up along a conveyor belt and as the item travelled along the belt, each worker would specialise in each part of the item, adding on each material. Due to this "new" way of production, statistics claimed that in every 10 seconds, one T model car was produced.

Credit: a bank loan for a fixed period of time (repaid by instalments and interest)

• a new production method that allows factories to produce goods at a faster rate
• the availability of credit to buy new things
• advertising that encouraged people to buy newly available consumer goods
• the increased popularity of investing in stocks and shares
• average income increased whilst the number of work hours decreased and the percentage of unemployment was below 3.7%

• used to overwhelm consumers with images of their product
• posters were used
• there were sponsors on radios - this caused people to watch advertisements for leisure
• by 1929, $2 billion were used on advertisements
  this helped boost the economy by a lot due to consumers being encouraged to buy products
• 600,000 more people were employed in industries
  

Credit agencies made it easier for people to get the products they wanted without having to save up

• companies manipulated consumers into thinking that buying a variety of branded materials was normal
• varieties of products were introduced ie. hair dye
• due to all the products being introduced, shopping became a leisure activity
• people began to compete with their neighbours about the products that they had
  by 1921, 5,000 refrigerators were sold and by 1929, there were 1,395 department stores
• large amounts of money were spent on home entertainment, $850 million were being spent on radios per year
• people were buying things they didn't have a decade ago

• between 1927 - 1929, 1.5 million ordinary people became involved in buying shares in American stock markets i.e wall street
• shareholders hoped to sell their shares as demand increased causing the seller to gain profit
• in 1925, there were around 500,000 shares available to buy being sold on the stock market
• more and more businesses began to have more and more money available to them
• profits became greater

• only choose ONE of the two topics given
• you then need to write two paragraphs - one of each key feature of the topic that you have chosen
• a key feature is simply any relevant aspect of the topic
• provide 3 - 4 lines of detailed information to support this feature
  your mark depends on the quality of knowledge and understanding of the key features discussed
  use clear sentence starters for each paragraph: "one key feature of x was..." "a second key feature of x was..."
• stick to no more than 9 minutes

Mark 1 - 2 (level 1):

• simple comment about feature/s with no supporting information
  Mark 3 - 4 (level 2):
  features of the period are identified and information about them is added (max of 3 marks for only one feature)
  Mark 5 - 6 (level 3):
  features of the period