Mass Production Causing the Economic Boom in America of the 1920s

In my opinion the boom of 1920s America was caused by a number of different factors working together. No single factor could have caused the boom on the scale of what America experienced in the 1920s. The economy grew by a huge amount in a such a small space of time, it had to be several reasons why this boom was so big. The amount of cars in America had more than doubled from 9 million to a staggering 26 million. Even more so, the radios had risen from a measly 60,000 to a phenomenal 10 million. Similarly phones doubled from 10 to 20 million., and for every fridge before the boom there were 167 after. On average most sales more than doubled, this being a significant change in the economy of America. That said I do believe that mass production is one of the most important reasons if not the most important. It caused America to have goods, which normally only the rich could afford, available to many more people. These included goods such as silk stockings which, after a mass production break through with the synthetic material, rayon, was able to increase stocking sales from 12,000 to 300 million. This all clearly shows that mass production was a key element in the succession of the boom of America in the 1920s. However, as with the stockings example, natural resources would be needed for the creation of such synthetic materials, which shows that there were other contributing factors to the boom and that mass production could not have been as it was without other elements.

Natural resources were one of the main causes of the boom. America at the time was packed full of natural resources, and they were making full use of this. Oil & gas industries were thriving which had various effects such as enabling the use of the car and the...

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...ges increasing creating good living conditions for the time. This reason didn’t really boost the boom all that much but it was very important to make the citizens happy, because otherwise all the marketing, development production etc is no use if there is nobody there to buy it.

All in all I do think that mass production is very important because it kept the boom going. I think without it wouldn’t have made but that said, I don’t think It would’ve survived long with any of the other reasons. I therefore think that you can’t class any as the ‘most’ important reason, and that they were all as important. In terms of effect on the boom, mass production probably did the most, but only because of the contributing factors helped it to really get going, so I believe that I slightly disagree with the statement because I don’t think it was the most important on its own.