The cultural changes after the Great Depression

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After the First World War, the United States has experienced a boom in the United States while the proportion increased significantly on the world economy in 1920s. Prevalence of mechanization and electricity, and Ford’s factorized system for a standardized product supported the rapid growth of economic prosperity of United States. Especially, the construction and automobile industries have been the leaders in this advancement. That is, the business associated with vehicle production: the petroleum, steel, and rubber consumption has grown quickly. Plus, due to automobile road network has also been enhanced, the living quarter broadens even larger and thus the building construction has been awash in affluence.

Changes in life style also trigger variations in the life values of Americans. They have begun to disregard asceticism and Puritanism of Victorian morals, and wanted to fully enjoy the wealth that the development of capitalism has brought. Women have won the right to vote, and refused to accept the traditional morality and social norms

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