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THE ROARING TWENTIES - Coggle Diagram

- - - - In the early twenties, the agrarian and reforming lobby of both parties in Congress combined in an effort to relieve the suffering of the farmers. government action only aggravated the situation
    - - Their politics prevented any government intervention to help industrial workers on inadequately low wages.
    - - Some of the wealth that was being created would be used for poor relief in some form. But this did not happen.
    - - Some states established departments of public or social welfare and increased their spending on welfare to the benefit of the elderly and young mothers. And the impact of these actions was rather limited.
  - - - Most women remained in poorly paid, low- status, menial occupations, with the exception of teaching and nursing.
    - - They occupied the lowest economic position in a relatively poor region of the country.
    - - Was usually anti-union. Union membership was either discouraged or employers were forced to sign “yellow dog” contracts in which employees agreed not to strike.
    - - For them the decade was marked by poverty, hardship, and an endless struggle against debt.
    - - Many Indians endured truly miserable conditions in squalid reservations.
- - - - Henry Ford revolutionised car manufacture by introducing new industrial methods which led to their mass production.
    - - Advertising and marketing were aided at the same time by the technological developments of the radio, the motor car & the cinema.
    - - . The demand for armaments stimulated the growth of the American industry. The US emerged from the war as the world’s major industrial power
    - - , The federal government helped to create the conditions for a business boom. The Republican Party was associated with laissez-faire economics.
    - - Self-made millionaires such as A. Carnegie and J.D. Rockefeller epitomised the American Dream.
    - - New technological and management techniques allowed American manufacturers to produce more goods at a lower unit cost per item.
    - - Not only was the population large, but it also had considerable purchasing power.