The document summarizes some of the key changes in America during the 1920s. It discusses how innovations like the automobile, assembly line production techniques, electrification, and developments in communication like movies, radio, and telephones transformed life in America and led to urbanization and the rise of suburbs. The mass production of affordable cars through Henry Ford's assembly line allowed for greater mobility and the growth of industries like road construction and oil. Electrification brought labor-saving appliances and entertainment into homes, changing how people worked and lived.

1. ROARING 20’S:
LIFE IN AMERICA
CHANGES
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2. THE CENTURY: AMERICA’S TIME
 Seeds of Change (1 of 3): Start 8:00 – End 14:05
• Wright Bros., Model T & Assembly Line
 Seeds of Change (2 of 3): Start 11:05 – End 14:59
• Urbanization & Electrification
 Seeds of Change (3 of 3): Start 2:30 – End 4:33
• Cinema

3. THE CENTURY: AMERICA’S TIME
 Shell Shock (1 of 3): Start 8:30 – End 11:15
• Production, Industry, & Model T
 Boom to Bust (1 of 3): Start 14:10 to the end
• Electrification & Mechanization
 Boom to Bust (2 of 3): From the Start – End 8:00
• Electrification, Advertising, Radio, & 19th Amendment

4. AMERICA: THE STORY OF US
 “Boom”
• Start – 10:45 – Oil/Rockefeller
• 10:45 - 16:35 – Henry Ford/Car Industry
• 16:35 – 25:00 – Highways, Hollywood, LA Aquaduct
• Stop @ 25:00

5. SO, WHAT CHANGED
THE STANDARD OF
LIVING IN
AMERICA?

6. E . HOW DID AFFORDAB L E AUT OMOB IL E S
IMPROVE TRANSPORTATION?
1. Greater Mobility
2. Creation of Jobs
3. Growth of Transportation Related Industries
• Road Construction, Oil, Steel, Automobile
4. Movement to Suburban Areas
• National Museum of American History: Suburbs in
DChttp://amhistory.si.edu/onthemove/exhibition/exhibition_4_7.h
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 Results of improved transportation
brought about by affordable automobiles:

7. CITIES TO SUBURBS?

8.  The Wright Brothers:
Orville & Wilbur Wright
F. INVENTION OF THE AIRPLANE

9. 1. Henry Ford, Automobile
2. Rise of Mechanization
• Use of Machines instead of
Human Labor
• http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encycl
opedia/entries/a/ag005.html
 USE OF THE
ASSEMBLY LINE
Assembly Line at Ford Motor Co.
G. How were factories able to produce more goods in less
time and sell them for a lower price?

10. 1. Increased availability of
telephones
2. Development of the
radio and broadcast
industry
3. Development of the
movies
H. COMMUNICATION CHANGES

11. 1. Labor saving products
• Washing Machines
• Electric Stoves
• Water Pumps
2. Electric Lighting
3. Entertainment
• Radio
• Cinema
4. Improved Communication
I. WAYS ELECTRIFICATION
CHANGED AMERICAN LIFE
1st Hydroelectric Power Plant

12. WASHING CLOTHES
Before Electricity After Electricity
http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/376/the-rural-electrification-of-northeast-mississippi

13. COOKING ON A STOVE
Before Electricity After Electricity
http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/376/the-rural-electrification-of-northeast-mississippi

14. ELECTRIC LIGHTING
HD Stock Footage: Rural
America Farm Family Gets
Electricity 1930’s

15. ELECTRIC LIGHTING
Digital Resources: Photos
http://www.rexophone.com/?p=1175
J.P. Morgan’s library in NYC.
This was one of the first private
homes to have electric lighting
and it was personally installed by
Thomas Edison himself!”

16. RADIO
History Channel:
The Invention of the Radio
(2min)

17. IMPROVED COMMUNICATIONS
History Channel:
The Birth of
Telecommunications