How Did Consumer-Based Industries Change the Everyday Lives of Americans

question 59

Multiple Choice

How did consumer-based industries change the everyday lives of Americans?

• A) Canning, chemicals, synthetics, and plastics allowed for new mass-marketed products that were available to millions of Americans.
• B) By paying higher wages to their workers, they made it possible for more Americans to afford the goods they produced.
• C) By committing themselves to thorough self-regulation, they assured the safety of American consumers.
• D) By relying on American raw materials only, they helped boost American agriculture and mining industries.

Appreciate the complexities involved in ticket scalping and its relation to market prices.

Understand how government interventions, such as subsidies and taxes, influence market outcomes.

Understand the concept of selective attention and its impact on perception.

Recognize the role of eye movements and positioning in orienting to stimuli.

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