Modern Times

Chapter 22 Learning Goal: Report on how the nation reacted to change in the 1920s

22.3 Explain economic factors that create prosperity. 

1. Define Prosperity: a successful or BOOMING economy

2. Mass Production Assembly Line

               a. Advantages for consumer

               b. Advantages for producers and labor

               c. Disadvantage for laborers  

Clips from Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936).  This comedy remarks on the effects of a modern, industrial economy...with a little help from The Killers?               

3.  Application of mass production techniques to Consumer Goods leads to...