The boom, good or bad?

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The boom, good or bad?

In America there were a lot of improvements in housing for many American citizens. Many factors were combined so that the American civilization could boom.

These factors include many things like mass production, new industries, the policies of the republican government, the main four of these were laissez-fair (letting businesses run themselves and not getting too involved), tariffs (putting higher prices on foreign goods and less on American goods), low taxation (the government kept taxes as low as possible) and trusts (where one company was put in charge of one sector of the industry) .also America’s wealth in natural resources.

For example the fact that America was full of natural resources meant that America didn’t have to import raw materials from other countries. This meant they could use the raw materials to make products in the country and make them more affordable which meant more people wanted them, which made more jobs in companies, and with the production line things could be mass produced which made things cheaper meaning more people bought them, and it just went on and on. This happened with everything from radios to cars, including things like vacuum cleaners and washing machines which gave people more time. Not only this but people had several ideas about them and there society, for example people thought that consuming more and getting newer and better things were good and they thought Americans had the right to be well off. And the number of ‘well off’ millionaires over tripled! As well as the import rate going down and the export rate going up meaning America was spending less and bringing more money into the government.

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This all shows that the 1920s were a good time and this is what they advertised to make people think the government was doing a good job.

But they didn’t tell their citizens some of the worse things that were going on in the community.

Examples of this were things like not putting minimum wages in (so companies could pay as little as they like), there were no state health systems, state pensions, no unemployment pay or sickness pay and Trade unions were weak (partly because people could not afford the joining fee and partly because some companies would ...

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