Consumerism
The practice of buying goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.
What is consumerism
Businesses use this to persuade people to buy products.
What is advertising?
This invention made travel faster and allowed people to live farther from work.
What is the car?
This device brought news and entertainment into millions of homes in the 1920s.
What is the radio?
This car, produced by Henry Ford, made automobiles affordable for many Americans.
What is the Model T?
This 1920s buying method allowed people to purchase items now and pay later.
What is buying on credit
This new medium in the 1920s allowed companies to advertise directly into people’s homes.
What is radio
This type of road system expanded in the 1920s to support growing car ownership.
What are highways?
These silent films made stars like Charlie Chaplin famous.
What are movies?
The Model T was made affordable because of this production method.
What is mass production?
This appliance, along with washing machines and vacuum cleaners, became common in 1920s homes.
What is a refrigerator?
Famous athletes and movie stars were used in ads to increase this.
What are sales
Air travel became possible after this war increased airplane technology.
What is World War I?
This form of print media included stories, ads, and photographs for mass audiences.
What are magazines?
This company produced the Model T.
What is the Ford Motor Company?
This decade is often called the first great era of modern consumer culture in the U.S.
What are the 1920s?
Bright signs and large roadside displays designed to catch drivers’ attention are called this.
What are billboards?
This industry grew rapidly as Americans traveled more by car.
What is the tourism industry?
This famous aviation hero became a media celebrity after his 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
In 1903, these two brothers made the first successful powered airplane flight.
Who are the Wright brothers?
This economic problem, caused partly by overproduction and overspending, led to the Great Depression.
What is underconsumption (or overproduction)?
This psychological strategy made consumers feel they “needed” products instead of just wanting them.
What is emotional appeal?
This system allowed factories to produce goods faster and cheaper.
What is the assembly line?
This term refers to media sources reaching a large national audience at the same time.
What is mass media?
This 1927 flight made Lindbergh an international hero.
What is the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight?