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Week 8 Reflection: Migrating to Cruelty

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The 1920s consist of many things including urbanization, great economic growth,  great  migration of African Americans up north and modernization.    Modernization includes technological advances that resulted in mass production. Automobile production was the most popular form of mass production. At this time the US was in charge of producing almost half of the worlds manufactured goods. They were able to do this because of mass production. With the advances of technology came the rise of corporate profits. However, the wages of the industrial workers did not change. The government supported business so they provided assistance through synergy. Synergy is just the come together of two groups to create something bigger than the one group can create alone. Consumer society grew with mass production which in return increased the middle class. Now these people were buying things because they wanted them, not only because they needed them. Producers were able to cat...