Calvin Coolidge became the president and was in favor of industry and business growth. He and the next president, Herbert Hoover, wanted to keep taxes down, and they wanted to keep the government from interfering with private industries. Tariffs were still high on foreign imports, but this helped America's industry. Incomes were increasing due to advancement in technology and efficiency.
The Impact of the Automobile
The Impact of the Automobile
- Highways were created, like Route 66 which ran from Chicago to California
- Garages were added to houses along with gas stations, traffic lights starting in Detroit, and even underwater tunnels connecting New York and New Jersey
- Rural families were able to travel for work, shopping, and entertainment
- Urban Sprawl, cities spreading in all directions, began to occur
- Economy grew as cities like Detroit became automobile industry bases
- States with oil grew in population
- Late 1920s: 80% of registered vehicles were in the U.S.
- Even though the first attempt was a disaster, the U.S. Post Office began to use airplanes to transport mail
- Planes carried equipment for newly developed weather forecasting
- Henry Ford invented a trimotor plane
- Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart flew across the Atlantic, which promoted commercial airlines
- 1927: Pan American Airways flew the first transatlantic passenger airplanes