Lesson 4 Mass Manufacturing and New Industries

Mass Manufacturing and New industries

Lesson 4

Warm - Up

Warm - Up

Do you know your 1920s Presidents?

Warm up:

• Explore the Roaring Twenties and mass production's impact on economic growth and culture.
• Learn about Henry Ford and assembly lines for affordable goods.

• See industries like automobiles and textiles boost the economy.
• Examine how mass production led to more consumer goods, a rising middle class, and urbanization.
• Investigate innovations like the Ford Model T and radio that changed daily life.
• Reflect on mass production's challenges, including labor conditions and economic inequality.

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Fill in the Blank Notes

In this video, the impact of mass production, buying on credit, and advertising in the 1920s are discussed.

Consumption in the 1920s

For many middle-class Americans, the 1920s was a decade of unprecedented prosperity. Rising earnings generated more disposable income for the purchase of consumer goods.

Henry Ford’s advances in assembly-line efficiency created a truly affordable automobile, making car ownership a possibility for many Americans.

Advertising became as big an industry as the manufactured goods that advertisers represented, and many families relied on new forms of credit to increase their consumption levels as they strived for a new American standard of living.