1. Chapter 21 section 2 and 4 question/answers

2. Chapter 21.2

3. 1. Define consumer economy
An economy that depends on a large amount of buying by individuals

4. 2. Explain the idea of buying on credit
Instead of paying the full price at once people arranged installment plans

5. 3. Define installment plans.
System that let customers make partial payments at set intervals over a period of time until the total debt was paid

6. 4. What caused the increased demand for the electric power in the 1920s?
The widespread use of new home appliances

7. 5. Name 8 new products that were offered to consumers during the 1920s?
Electric toasters
Ovens
Sewing machines
Coffee pots
Irons
Vacuum cleaners
Telephones
cosmetics

8. 6. Explain how Henry Ford’s assembly line worked.
Each worker did 1 specialized task in the construction of final product
One worker might install windshield on all cars, tires or weld certain parts in place
Made it more efficient and product moved not people
Used interchangeable parts

9. 7. What was Henry Ford’s dream?
To sell cars ordinary people could afford

10. Chapter 21.4

11. 1. How did the growth of radio and other mass media change America in the 1920s?
a national culture

12. 2. What social changes were brought about by mass media?
With people sharing the same information and being influenced in the same ways a common culture emerged.

13. 3. Who brought Jazz to northern cities?
Southern African Americans

14. 4. Where in New York City was the hottest place to listen to Jazz?
Clubs in Harlem

15. 5. Define the lost Generation.
Group of writers of the 1920s who shared the beliefs that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values.

16. 6. Define Harlem Renaissance.
African American literary awakening of the 1920s centered in New York City Harlem.