Chapter 22 - The New Era

Commercial aviation

________ developed slowly in the 1920s, beginning with the use of planes to deliver mail.

popular technology

Radio began to become a(n) ________ even before commercial broadcasting began in 1920.

US Steel

________ made conspicuous efforts to improve safety and sanitation in its factories.

Henry Ford

________, for example, shortened the workweek, raised wages, and instituted paid vacations.

Welfare capitalism

________ affected only a relatively small number of workers in any case.

1920s

The "new professional woman "was a vivid and widely publicized image in the ________.

Jazz Singer

The addition of sound to motion pictures- beginning in 1927 with the first feature- length "talkie, "The ________ with Al Jolson- created nationwide excitement.

American life

The automobile affected ________ in countless ways.

American industrial workers

________ experienced both the successes and the failures of the 1920s as much as any other group.

Mexican immigrants

________ formed a major part of the unskilled workforce throughout the Southwest and California.

commercial radio station

The first ________ in America, KDKA in Pittsburgh, began broadcasting in 1920; and the first national radio network, the National Broadcasting Company, was formed in 1927.

Welfare capitalism

________ brought many workers important economic benefits, but it did not help them gain any real control over their own fates.