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This man revolutionized manufacturing with the moving assembly line for cars.
Who is Henry Ford?
The spread of electricity transformed homes by enabling this wave of products.
What are home appliances?
This invention was the first mass communication device to reach to millions of citizens.
What is the radio?
This California city became the center of the film and entertainment industry.
What is Hollywood?
This was the year the Model T was invented, five years after Ford founded the Ford Motor Company.
What is 1908?
Henry Ford's practice of paying workers higher wages to increase productivity was known as this.
What is Fordism?
The ability to purchase goods by paying small amounts over time rather than all upfront was known as this.
What is installment buying OR What is easy credit?
The 1920s rise of transmitting programs was often referred to as this kind of revolution.
What is the broadcasting revolution
Early films of the 1920s were silent, but by the decades end, movies referred to as this introduced sound and revolutionized the film industry.
What are "talkies"?
The spread of this technology allowed homes to use appliances.
What is electricity?
By the mid-1920s, this industry surpassed steel and railroads to be the largest in the U.S.
What is the automobile industry?
The expansion of easy credit encouraged Americans to take on this growing financial burden
What is personal debt?
The 1927 Radio Act created this body to regulate frequencies and station licenses.
What is the Federal Radio Comission?
What are movie palaces?
This phrase captured how the automobile reshaped American life and created a car-centered society.
What is "A Nation on Wheels"?
This management practice, which offered benefits like pensions and bonuses, aimed to promote worker loyalty and prevent unionization.
This strategy influenced advertising shifting from listing product features to appealing to customer emotions and desires.
What is persuasive advertising OR What is emotional advertising?
Radio allowed politicians to speak directly with millions of Americans, creating a new level of this feeling with viewers.
What is intimacy?
Released in 1927, this movie introduced synchronized sound.
By this year, over half of American households owned a radio.
What is 1929?
What is the "Tin Lizzie"?
The belief that economic prosperity depended on continuous consumption.
What is the "Gospel of Business"?
This term was used to refer to the culture with accessible music, news, and national events through radio in what was called this "constitution of the air."
What is a shared nation culture?
This sport became wildly popular with audiences, generating revenue and demand for media broadcast and arenas in universities.
What is college football?
Rising incomes and lower prices created this kind of economy.
What is a consumer economy?