Name: Class: Date: The Jazz Age: Guided Reading: Lesson 2 A Growing Economy
Guided Reading Activity
The Jazz Age, 1921–1929 Lesson 2: A Growing Economy
Review Questions: Recording Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How
Statements
DIRECTIONS: Read each main idea and answer the questions below. Refer to your textbook to write
the answers.
Main Idea A: The ownership of automobiles, radios, and other inventions changed how
Americans lived.
1. What method of mass production increased the supply and reduced the cost of the automobile?
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2. How did the car revolutionize U.S. society?
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3. What types of consumer goods came on the market?
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Name: Class: Date: The Jazz Age: Guided Reading: Lesson 2 A Growing Economy
4. Who completed a transatlantic solo flight in 1927?
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5. How did the radio affect people’s lives?
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Main Idea B: The use of credit and advertising helped to create a nation of consumers.
6. What was the installment plan?
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7. How did advertisers convince people to buy products?
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Name: Class: Date: The Jazz Age: Guided Reading: Lesson 2 A Growing Economy
8. How did companies change during the managerial revolution?
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9. What groups of Americans did not share in the economic boom and why?
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10. What caused the “quiet depression” in agriculture during the 1900s?
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Name: Class: Date: The Jazz Age: Guided Reading: Lesson 2 A Growing Economy
Summary and Reflection
DIRECTIONS: Summarize the main ideas of this lesson by answering the question below.
11. Why did the economy of the 1920s result in quickly expanding prosperity for many Americans, but
continued poverty for others?
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Answer Key
1. the assembly line
2. It eased the isolation of rural families and allowed workers to live farther away from work.
3. Cleaning products for the home, labor-saving appliances, and products focusing on fashion and youthful
appearance came on the market.
4. Charles Lindbergh
5. Anyone listening to a radio could hear the same news and entertainment throughout the country.
6. Consumers bought things on credit rather than paying all at once.
7. Advertisers linked products with qualities of the modern era, such as progress, convenience, leisure,
style, and success. They also preyed on people’s anxieties.
8. Many companies created divisions with different functions within their corporate structures, with each
division run by a manager.
9. African Americans were often replaced in their jobs by returning servicemen; Native Americans were
isolated on reservations; immigrants had difficulty finding work; farmers and factory workers had very
low wages
10. U.S. farm output significantly outpaced the demand for farm products, which sent crop prices down. In
addition, farmers had been encouraged to produce surpluses but couldn’t sell them overseas because
of the Fordney-McCumber Act.
11. Answers will vary but should show an understanding that the 1920s was an era of prosperity for
industry because new products were created, prices dropped on other products, and people had
money to spend. But some people, including African Americans, Native Americans, and farmers, didn’t
share in the prosperity.
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