Fill in missing words. The Rise of New Industries/Technologies
The Automobile –
, or large-scale manufacturing done with machinery, made changes possible by increasing supply and reducing costs.
Mass production greatly reduced the of goods as well.
Henry Ford’s usage of the to make the made the price of it very affordable to Americans. Millions of Americans owned cars by 1924.
Cars revolutionized American life. A new kind of worker appeared; the .
Radio –
In 1926, the set up a network of stations to broadcast daily radio programs.
Sales of radio equipment grew from in 1921 to in 1929.
National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sold and hired , , and to appear on their shows.
The Consumer Society
Easy Consumer Credit –
Credit had been available before the 1920s, but most Americans had considered debt .
Many Americans heard the idea of “ and pay in easy .”
Some Americans started buying on credit at a rate that was than their .
Mass Advertising –
Advertisers linked products with qualities associated with the modern era, such as , , , , and .
Advertisers also preyed on consumers’ fears and anxieties, such as insecurities about one’s or .
Nativism and Immigration Policies
Nativism –
Many Americans blamed , , and of the postwar years on immigrants.
Ku Klux Klan wanted to restrict .
The return of the KKK targeted , , , and other groups said to be “-.”
Immigration Policies –
By 1921, majority of immigrants came from and Europe.
Many believed immigrants were taking jobs that would otherwise have gone to returning home from the war.
In 1924, the made immigration restriction a permanent policy.
Changes for Women
Many working-class women were able to break away from and establish independence.
became more common, and the concept of a marriage, a marriage based on mutual and between partners, developed at this time.
Public-health nurse Margaret Sanger believed that families could improve their standard of living by limiting the number of they had. She founded the .
Religious Fundamentalism
While many Americans embraced the new of the 1920s, others feared the country was losing its values.
They viewed the , , and changing roles of as evidence of the nation’s moral .
Fundamentalists believed that the Bible was literally and without .
Rejected .
Believed in —the belief that God created the world as described in the Bible.