Chapter 21 section 2 and 4 question/answers

Chapter 21.2

1. Define consumer economy

• An economy that depends on a large amount of buying by individuals

2. Explain the idea of buying on credit

• Instead of paying the full price at once people arranged installment plans

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

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

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

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

7. What was Henry Ford’s dream?

• To sell cars ordinary people could afford

Chapter 21.4

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

• a national culture

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.

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

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

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.

6. Define Harlem Renaissance.

• African American literary awakening of the 1920s centered in New York City Harlem.