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1 Social, Economic, and Technological changes Developments in factory and labor productivity, transportation, communication and rural electrification of rural America

2 Business Booms  1921-1929 U.S. manufacturing doubled  Jobs and wages increase  People could buy more things  Products changed American lifestyle

3 Automobile  Greater mobility  Travel further  Work  Store  Vacation  More independence  Travel where you want, when you want

4 Automobile also led to jobs  Steel  For car body  Rubber  tires  Glass  Windows  Roads  Maintenance  Roadside  Gas stations, Restaurants & Motels  Mechanics & Insurance

5 Airplane  The Wright Brothers  Economical and Military purposes  Travel  Industry  Spying  Air Force

6 Industrial Innovations  Henry Ford and the Assembly Line  Allowed for cars to be made cheaply  Cut costs of material and labor?  How do you think the assembly line allowed this?  Rise of mechanization

7 Moving Assembly Line

8 Communication  Telephone  Keep in contact  Ordering goods  Radio  Broadcast news and entertainment  Movies Talkies- “The Jazz Singer”

9 Electrification  Labor saving products  Washing machine  Water pumps  Electric Stoves  Refrigerators  Vacuum Cleaners


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