How did automobiles shape the society and culture of the 1920s?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Automobiles enabled Americans to make connections across regions.
2. The automobile encouraged the expansion of suburban communities.
3. Automobiles stimulated the tourist industry.
4. Automobile production revolutionized the consumer industry by introducing the concept of planned obsolescence.
5. The automobile was part of a consumer society increasingly focused on leisure, pleasure, and intimacy.
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a. democracy b. slavery c. the idea of natural rights d. the notion of deference
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a. Pinkerton. b. Dewey. c. Pershing. d. Perry.