The mass- consumption economically, radio, films, cars, and prohibition had social and cultural impact on the American people. The mass- consumption dramatically increased the availability of consumer goods. The prohibition had a strong impact on America socially. The prohibition was supported by churches and woman, and greatly promoted in the south and west, but it was opposite in eastern cities. The Volstead act, passed by congress in 1919, implemented prohibition. The laws was unable to become enforced due to understaffed and underpaid federal and state agencies. This led to underground nightclubs, home brew, bathtub gin, and bootleggers. But economically, saving did increase and absenteeism from work decrease during the prohibition. The prohibition also spawned organized crimes and gangsters like Al Capone. These crimes and gangsters led to gang wars in the cities, and moved crime into other illicit activities, such as gambling, prostitution and narcotics. Organized crimes became one of the nations most profitable business, due to the prohibition. Cars also had a cultural and social impact on america. In 1910, there were about 69 car companies, which impacted people's lives. Henry ford was best known for, cheap, rugged and reliable cars. Production was based on standardization, interchangeable parts, and the assembly line. Dependence of the car industry on steel, made steel industry boom, and thousand of jobs support industries were created. Cars was consider a new standard of living for americans. City dwellers had a bigger variety at cheaper price, trucks provided speedy delivery to more locations, and farmers could produce more products and transfer more products to markets. The mass production of films, impacted America culturally. The flickering movie was the fruit of numerous geniuses, including Thomas A. Edison. The flickering movie was available in the 1890s, in naughty peep-show penny arcades, but the real birth of the movie came in 1903 when the first story sequence called The Great Train Robbery, reached the screen. Hollywood, in southern California, quickly became the movie capital of the world. An outraged public forced the screen magnates to set up their own rigorous code of censorship and propaganda. In 1927, a new era began with the success of the first talkie, The Jazz Singer. This caused many movies to eclipsed all other new forms of amusement in the phenomenal growth of popularity. Much of the rich diversity of the immigrants’ Old Country cultures was lost, but the standardization of tastes and of language hastened entry into the American mainstream.
The development of radios had an impact on America. Gugleilmo Marconi, invented wireless telegraphy in the 1890s and his brainchild was used for long-range communication during World War I. Then came the voice carrying radio. A red-letter day was posted in November 1920, when a Pittsburgh radio station broadcasted news for the first time. Later miracles were achieved in transatlantic wireless phonographs, radios telephones, and television, and by the late 1920s, technological improvements made long-distance broadcasting possible, and national commercial networks drowned out much local programming. The radio was drawing Americans back to the home, because radio knitted the nation together. Educationally and culturally, the radio made a significant contribution. Sports were further stimulated and politicians were now able to deliver their speeches over the radio.
Mass-consumption economy impacted America also. Prosperity put much of the “roar” into the twenties, and the economy advanced for seven years. Both the recent war and Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon’s tax policies favored the rapid expansion of capital investment and ingenious machines greatly increased the productivity. Assembly-line production reached perfection in Henry Ford’s plant, creating an automobile in 10 seconds. Mass- consumption supplying electrical power for the new machines, and it became a giant business in the 1920s. Above all, the automobile now became the carriage of the common citizen. American manufacturers seemed to have mastered the problems of production; responding to this need, a new arm of American commerce emerged, advertising persuasion, ploy, and seduction. The founder of this new “profession” was Bruce Barton. Sports became big business in the consumer economy of the 1920s, sports icons were far better known than most statesmen. Buying on credit was another innovative feature of the postwar economy for people in debt. Mass- consumption benefited people in America economically.
Due to mass-consumption, cars radio, prohibition and films, America was socially and culturally impacted. Many were able to get cars, which became a new standard of living, and the development of the radio and films put aside cultural differences. The prohibition also created the nation's most profitable business, which had impact on america.