What Is The Rise Of The Car Boom In The 1920s

In what is often referred to as the most debatable decade in American history, the roaring twenties featured a society drunk on its own success. The United States was a thriving economy, the stock market was booming and The New York Stock Exchange sat in the middle of it all. The American people were riding a money train, then without wearing the world was turned on its head. The prodigious New York Exchanged crashed and resulted in astounding finical loses across the country. The United States just came out of a recession from 1921-1922, and it started a time period of economic expansion and prosperity for the United States..

The economic boom started with many different events but the most important event was the improvement of technology. The automobile started to boom with the new assembly lines and other inventions. During this time period it became the most significant industry. This made other industries boom as well, because the need of materials to make the automobiles. The industries that were needed for make the automobile were the steel, rubber, glass, tool companies, oil corporations and road construction. The need for these materials made them boom because the automobile industry was producing many cars at that time. Since there was an increase in the automobile industry this made it possible for an increase of suburban housing, fueling and an increase in the construction industry. “Electronics, home appliances, plastics and synthetic fibers, aluminum, magnesium, oil, electric power, and other industries fueled by technological advances-all grew dramatically” (citethisshit). One in every six Americans owned a telephone by the late 1930s and they were about 25 million telephones in the United States. “...

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