This inquiry kit features Library of Congress sources focused on the rise in consumer culture and advertising during the 1920's.

Thinking Questions

• Name two reasons that America became a country of consumers in the 1920s.
• Americans became big buyers in the first half of the 20th century. What made them become consumers and why was it important to them?
• Compare and contrast the ways companies made people want to buy things in the early 20th century with what you know about advertising today.