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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by mass communication,

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pick-up lines for priests.

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All right, how did the technology shown in the image impact

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the American people?

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And here are your potential answers.

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[ mumbling continues ]

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All right. The early 1900s was a period

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flooded with new inventions that rapidly

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changed the way Americans lived their lives.

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Let's see what role the radio played

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in broadcasting this change to the world.

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Did the technology shown in the image

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impact the American people B -

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by decreasing overseas travel times?

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Huh.

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Well radios certainly helped with communication

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during travel, but it didn't really have

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a significant on transportation as a whole.

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That drives away B and D.

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Did radios alter the American way of life

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C - by allowing for the construction of taller buildings?

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Well, actually, that was elevators,

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which allowed people to access higher floors

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much more easily, not radios.

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So it's not C, either.

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Which means that radios most impacted the American people

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A - by improving mass communication.

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Duh.

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With its ability to transmit information

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and entertainment over vast distances,

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the radio was a major improvement

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to contemporary methods of mass communication.

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So A is the right answer.

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Before the radio was invented, most information

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would still have been spread by that guy,

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that word of mouth. Yeah. Like that.

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Talk about developing a taste for the unknown.

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