- Vast country filled with natural resources
- Extremely high population increases at this time
- Most of the population at the time lived in cities, worked in large industries
- Coal, oil, iron, and gas just a few of the resources America had to offer
- AMERICAN INDUSTRY IS GROWING VIGOROUSLY
- By the time of WWI USA had led world in most areas of industry
- New Technology: Motor-vehicles, electric lighting, and telephones
- Film and Chemical industry high as well
- America tried to stay out
- Gave a lot of money of money and weapons to the allied group
- By end of WWI America stripped Germany of chemical power
- Car/automobile
- Trucking
- Road making
- Building in the cities (skyscrapers and buildings)
- Laissez-Faire - interfere as less as possible in affairs
- Tariffs - import tariff = good
- Low Taxation - benefits to working people = happy
- Trusts - huge "super-competitions" which dominated the industry
- Most beneficial thing for any prospering nation
- America had growth state of mind
- Helped them in the long run with the "boom"
2.) I completely agree with the statement that the boom in industry would have been almost impossible without the mass production in automobiles. This is because the purchasing of automobiles contributed greatly to rising industries (car industry) and it provided new businesses. New businesses included roadwork/road making and truck driving/truck building. All of these industries were a huge factor of the increase in industry during this time.
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