Unit 5: Concept Checkpoint #1 (Consumer Culture)

In the 1920s more people flocked to:

• Rural areas (the country/farms)

• Urban areas (the city)

What in another word for the culture of buying things in the early 1920s, that happened after the voluntary rationing of WWI?

• Installment Plans

• Consumerism

• Normalcy

What helped products be able to be created faster & then therefore, be sold for cheaper prices?

• Mechanized farming equipment

• Credit

• Electricity

• Assembly Line

Select THREE ways American life was made easier during the 1920s

• Cars

• Electricity in homes

• Buying using credit

• High interest rates

• Imports from Britain

Mass marketing campaigns were launched in the 1920s to convince people to purchase new products such as those that ran on electricity

• True

• False

Access to electricity was rare in U.S. homes in the 1920s.

• True

• False

Select THREE effects of the automobile on the American society

• More gasoline & gas stations needed

• Less vacation opportunities

• Decrease in the construction of paved roads

• Urban sprawl

• Freed the isolated rural family

What is the urban sprawl?

• African Americans moved from the North to the South in the US

• Americans moved from rural areas to urban areas only

• Cars only were used in NYC

• People could live in different cities than where they worked

What helped increase the growth of suburbs?

• Airplanes

• Electricity

• Automobiles

• Trains