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Radios allowed for entertainment such as radio shows, music and more. News could be spread through the radio easily and America was more connected. At the beginning of 1921, there were just 5 radio stations. But by the end of the decade, more than 606 stations had sprung up.

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Overproduction and under consumption were affecting most sectors of the economy. Old industries were in decline. Farm income fell from $22 billion in 1919 to $13 billion in 1929.

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Technological advancements, mass-production, and new advertising methods helped drive the advancement of consumerism. More factories were being sprung up, products were being produced at an amazing rate, and companies were able to promote such products through new media outlets to reach the people. People's wages would increase and allow for the purchase of those products.

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Gradual increase in the 1920's leading to a massive spike in 1930's

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The introduction of credit allowed for Americans to buy even more products because now they could buy their goods over time but with interest. Eventually it leads to many Americans going into debt because they were still maintaining the "standard living".

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The 1920's seemed like a good time period with everybody having left over money to spend on themselves, buying appliances, radios, vacuums, and cars. But after the introduction of credit, it would give people the idea that they could afford something that they really couldn't. From this time period, we would shift over to The Great Depression.

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With goods becoming more prominent in American society so were the advertisements that sold them. A major business would rise and be established around driving Americans to buy their products.

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Rising earnings generated more disposable income for the consumption of entertainment and leisure.

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This meant that the economy was booming, with major figures like Henry Ford industrializing and automating the production of the Model T car.

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Invented in the 1890's, the radio wouldn't see its most successful sales until almost 30 years later, when by the end of the 1920's more than 5 million battery-powered radios were sold.

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Ford was mass-producing the Model T, the only car that Ford offered at the time. He wanted to achieve "a continuous, non-stop process from raw material to finished product, with no pause even for warehousing or storage." His idea would lead to the Rouge Complex, with 16 million square feet of factory space.

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Ford would struggle to keep his workers in the factory as most of them weren't showing up. On January 1914, he would double the pay of all the worker to 5 dollars a day. Soon, the workers assembling the cars would be able to afford the cars themselves.