1. WWI Republican Other new
Car industry
policies industries
For each of the factors You need to get down any facts about it during the
1920s, how it helped the boom, other industries that benefitted from it, how it
benefitted form other industries
Make it as visual as possible for revision purposes

2. ‘One of the oldest and perhaps the
noblest of human activities [aims] has
been the abolition of poverty ….we in
America today are nearer to the final
triumph over poverty than ever before
in the history of any land.’
Herbert Hoover

3. Dear US Government.
I am writing to you today to plead with you for help! I am an extremely hard working
farmer and father of four living in Tennessee. Before the war I was one of the most highly
respected farmers within the state and as a result I had lots of business both at home and
abroad. I was selling more crops and vegetables than I could produce. I had to hire extra
help just to keep up with the demand!
You are the agricultural minister for the US government.
However since the war the demand has completely dried up and has left me with a massive
amounthave received a letter from a very has gone bad and I have lost a
you of stock that I have been unable to sell and now it unhappy farmer at
fortune on it. I evenhas changed forgoods worse get rid of 1920s practically
how his life halved the price of my the to try and in the it, I was and
giving it away but this still didn’t help the situation! I have had to get rid of my workers as I
cant afford to pay the governments to going bankrupt myself. I hear all this talk
would like them and I am very close help to improve the situation.
about people now living the American Dream and earning fortunes in the cities but this is
not what it is like for us farmers.
You and the rest of the government thought that everyone
Please can you help us farmers get back to what life was like before the to otherwise our
was profiting from the 1920s so you now have war,
families and us farmers will never get out of our American Nightmare!
investigate what is going on with farmers and submit a
Please don’t letthe government.
report to us down!
Mr John Sanders

4.  Can you match the statements with other
statements that are linked to them in some way
 Think carefully! They are quite tricky…but lets
see who can work them all out?
 You need to justify why you have linked them
together
 Now create a spider diagram in your books
with the statements – use a double page

5.  Chicago was one of USA’s
biggest cities.
 It was the centre of
Steel, meat and clothing
industries, which employed
many unskilled workers.
 Such industries had ‘busy’
and ‘slack’ periods. In slack
periods workers would e
seasonally unemployed
 Only 3% of semi-skilled
workers had cars – in richer
areas 29% owned cars. It was
the middle classes not the
workers in industry that
owned the cars.
 Most workers in Chicago
didn’t like to buy big items
on credit – they only brought
smaller items like radios on
credit

6.  Poor whites did not benefit much from the new chain stores. These
stores sold the same goods all over the country but they were mainly in
middle class areas
 Poor whites preferred to shop at local grocers where they could haggle
over the price
 However the poor did join in with the movie craze!
 There was hundreds of cinemas in Chicago with four showings a day
Working people spent more than
half their leisure budget on
movies. It only cost 10 or 20 cents
to see a movie.
The poor went to local cinema’s
because they couldn’t afford the
$1 admission to the more
luxurious cinemas in town
By 1930 there was 1 radio for
every 3 households in the poor
districts in Chicago. Those who
didn’t have one went to friends
houses or sops to listen.

7.  In groups you need to find out what these words are referring to. Once
you have found what they mean you will have to present to the group so
that they fully understand what each of the words is referring to.

8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kFOtvy0Izs
Make notes of the points made in the guidance video as you are going to have
to answer the question in your books after the video.
The answer as always need to give both sides of the argument and end with an
overall conclusion as to what you think is the answer to the question
We will be peer marking each others answers at the end

9.  Introduction:
Explain what the boom was in the 1920s and some of the changes that
occurred in 1920s USA
Paragraph one:
Explain the changes that occurred for the good – including the people
who benefitted from the boom – explain how they benefitted
Paragraph 2:
Explain the negatives of the 1920s – including those that did not
benefit- explain why they did not benefit
Paragraph 3:
Conlcude as to how prosperous was USA in the 1920s – refer back to
the original question