Mass Production and Consumerism

Use the diagram to answer the question.

Which trend completes the missing portion of the diagram?

• Decreasing crime rates following the start of Prohibition

• Increasing access to electricity at affordable prices

• Increasing influence of progressives such as Ida B. Wells

• Decreasing tariff rates to encourage international trade

What significantly increased consumerism in the 1920s?

• A very low level of wealth inequality led to the growth of the middle class.

• Aircraft greatly reduced the cost of transporting goods across the country.

• The expansion of credit allowed people to purchase expensive items.

• Women entering the workforce allowed companies to produce more goods.

Which diagram illustrates how the development of mass production techniques affected the US economy in the 1920s?

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How did industrial production in the United States change following World War I?

• Factories, free from wartime restrictions, began focusing on the production of consumer goods.

• Factories, struggling after declines in consumer demand, manufactured goods for the government.

• Factories, which mainly served the domestic population during the war, began producing goods for European markets.

• Factories, unburdened by government regulation, lowered the quality of goods they produced to earn higher profits.

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the Red Scare in the United States following World War I?

• labor strikes in the US by workers seeking higher wages

• Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in which Communists, led by Lenin, seized power and called for world wide revolution

• Immigration Quotas and Restrictions

• bombing of Wall Street