Ch 31 P2

• Objectives- students will understand…

– Analyze how mass production and new

technologies created new prosperity and a new

American landscape by identifying 3 new

technologies or lifestyles and explain the impact

of each on America’s prosperity or landscape.

– Analyze how radio, movies, literature, and sports

created a national popular culture by explaining

one way each changed the American way of

thinking in the 1920’s.

• ID- Babe Ruth: The Sultan of Swat

• Summary 1- What does this photo imply about sports in America and who Babe Ruth is?

– Sports became a national obsession, Babe Ruth most popular athlete

• OI- Mass Consumption Society

• 1) How quickly could Henry Ford’s assembly line finish a car?

– every10 seconds (higher output meant more products and lower prices)

• 2) What was the new problem that companies had to solve in the Twenties (think about the increase in the production of goods.)

– Overproduction (too many products, too many companies)

• 3) How did business solve this new problem and what techniques were used?

– Advertising (convincing people that happiness can only be achieved in buying the newest product, pointing out new problems they never knew existed)

• 4) Who were the two most famous athlete’s of the twenties and what sport

did each play?

– Babe Ruth (Baseball), Jack Dempsey (Boxing)

– Notre Dame (College Football), Gertrude Ederle (Swimming)

• Radio/journalism- allowed people in far away places to follow

sports and players in other cities (players became hero’s)

• Baseball, College Football, Boxing- most popular sports

– Why was USC beating Notre Dame so important for LA?

• 5) What new way of buying, that is common today, was made available to

buyers who could not afford all the goods they wanted to purchase?

– Credit (people could borrow money and pay later)

• How will this help increase purchasing and spending in US?

• What is the problem with relying on this type of spending?

• ID- Henry Ford in His First Car (733)

• Summary 2- What was Henry Ford’s contribution to the American economy?

– Model T (first affordable automobile)

• Summary 3- Identify several (3) ways this would change America?

– Mobility, jobs, new landscape and environment

– Provide examples of how each of the above will be seen and change America?

• ID- Cost of a Model T Ford (734)

• Summary 4- How did the Model T change the availability of the automobile?

– Lowered cost of automobile ownership

• Summary 5- In 1908 how many months of work did it take a person to afford a Model

T? How was it different in the 1920’s? What was the result on automobile

ownership?

– 20 months, 3 months, increase in ownership by ordinary Americans

• OI- Putting America on Rubber Tires

• 6) What did Frederick Taylor try to eliminate?

– Wasted motions (bring work to workers)

• 7) How did Henry Ford change automobile production?

– Assembly line (workers had 1 task while car traveling on conveyor

belt)

• 8) How much did a Model T cost?

– $260

• 9) How many Model Ts were built in 1914 compared to 1930?

– 1914-400k, 1930- 20 million

• ID-Gas Station

• Summary 6- Besides Gas Stations, think of three new businesses that would be created with the rise in popularity of the automobile?

– Car sales dealerships, car repair (mechanics), road construction, tire industry (rubber), oil industry, glass (windshields), car theft/robbing banks/ rum running

• OI- The Advent of the Gasoline Age

• 10) What industry was helped the most by the automobile and what industry was hurt the most? – Oil industry (gasoline), Railroads

• 11) How did the automobile change the lives of ordinary

Americans for the better? (2 examples)

– Fresh foods (fruit), paved streets, transportation (live outside city, away

from work), road trips (travel), women (mobility), school buses

(higher attendance),

• 12) What were the negative impacts of the automobile? (2

examples)

– Death (more people died on roads by 1951 than all wars combined), sex

(young people have a private place away from parents), crime (get

away)

• ID- Lucky Lindy

• Summary 6- What stunning achievement did Charles

Lindbergh accomplish?

– 1st solo flight across the Atlantic ocean (33 hours)

• Summary 7- Explain how this would change the

public’s perception of the airplane?

– That flight is safe and air travel is possible

• OI- Humans develop Wings

• 13) Who invented the Airplane?

– Wright Brothers (1903)

• 14) What was the name of Lindbergh’s plane and what do you

feel was the hardest part about his journey?

– Spirit of St. Louis, staying awake

• 15) How did Lindbergh’s accomplishment change the world?

– Created a new industry (Airplane- LA center, WHY?), hurt RR

– Legitimized a new form of transportation

Radio and Movies- most popular forms of entertainment • Radio- invented in 1902 (1920- KDKA first

station)

– NBC (1926), CBS (1927)

– Programs- radio dramas and comedies

• Radio is called the most visual of all mediums, WHY?

• Movies- B+W, silent, Hollywood center of film production (WHY?)

– The Great Train Robbery (1903) 1st movie (nickelodeon)

– Birth of a Nation (1915) 1st blockbuster (glorified the KKK)

– The Jazz Singer (1927)- 1st talking picture

– Steamboat Willie (1927) 1st talking cartoon (Mickey Mouse)

• How would national forms of entertainment change the American culture? How do celebrities influence us?

• ID- The Guardian of Morality

• Summary 8- Why is this man checking the bathing suits of the women?

– To insure she is not showing too much leg

• Why is America so concerned about how much skin women show?

• OI- The Dynamic Decade

• 16) Who was Margret Sanger?

– Advocated women using birth control

• What does using birth control imply about new freedom’s women have? Why are some so angered by birth control?

• 17) What is a “Flapper”?

– Party girl (young women who want to have fun for themselves, short hair, loose fitting and revealing clothing)

• 18) What was the music of the 1920s

– Jazz (uniquely African/American music f. the South)

• 19) What did Marcus Garvey promote?

– Back to Africa movement and Black Pride

• Harlem Renaissance- revival in black literature and art where Af/Am. made themselves known as a talented group within the US but different from white America

– Langston Hughes, Zora Neale, Claude McKay- most famous authors

» What type of a movement for all minorities are African/Americans are the forefront of?

• OI- Cultural Liberation

• 20) Identify one idea written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

– Having fun in life (party on!!!)

– New vs. Old Money- even if you bring yourself up from nothing, the “Old Money” rich will still look down on you (there is no real upward mobility)

– People are driven by shallow materialism

• Identify a show today (reality TV) and critique it a Fitzgerald

• 21) Identify one idea written by Earnest Hemmingway

– React against patriotic propaganda and told of horror of war

– Simple style of writing Americans could understand

• 22) What was the “New Negro”

– That Af/Am are equal to whites