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The Roaring Twenties - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Industrial wages, salaries, profits, dividends --> rise substantially
        
        Consumer credit, consumption level of the average American family rise substantially
  - - - Lured by lucrative wartime jobs
        
        Mainly as sharecroppers
    - - Worst paid jobs due to mixture of racism and poor education received
        
        Forced to do menial labour for very poor wages
  - - - Overproduction: exacerbated by fall in demand after 1929
  - - - Women role: supplementary wage-earners
        
        Poorly paid, low- status, menial occupations
  - - - It was either discouraged or employers forced to sign “yellow dog” contracts
        
        Big business supported by republican government and judiciary system
  - - - High rates of alcoholism and crime, low life expectancy
        
        High infant mortality
  - - - Deepened divisions between rural and urban areas
        
        Impact of all their actions were limited rather than beneficial
- - - - High tariffs on foreign-made goods, laissez-faire philosophy
  - - - Effective internal transportation system
        
        Abundance raw materials --> basis industrial revolution
  - - - Led millions to cross the Atlantic: search of wealth
    - - Immigrant population: hard-working & cheap labour
  - - - Introducing new industrial methods --> led to mass production
    - - Government responsibility for building roads
        
        Average 10,000 miles of road per year
      - Technological innovation
        
        Assembly line speeded up manufacturing
        
        Americans industrialists chance to make large profits
        
        American industry world’s leading industrial nation
  - - - Growth and development of the large corporation
        
        Rapid growth of advertising and marketing
  - - - Demand for armaments --> growth of American industry
  - - - Hire purchase --> consumer buy goods small proportion of the price
        
        Cheap credit: to increase significantly their spending