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The 1920s was a decade of substantial economic, social, and cultural change. There was an increasingly vast extent to which the First World War and consumerism affected United States society during this period. Rugged individualism and an accelerated sense of American nativism were just miniscule factors of the variation that was occurring at the time.
Unlike earlier boom periods which had involved large expenditures for capital investments such as railroads and factories, the prosperity of the 1920s depended heavily on the sale of consumer products. Purchases of items such as automobiles, television sets, and furniture were made possible by installment payment credit. The availability of consumer credit expanded tremendously during the 1920s, even though the idea was not new. Consumer interest and demand was spurred by the great increase in professional advertising using newspapers, magazines, radio, billboards, and other media. It was a great period where innovation and......

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