During the 1920s, consumers became able to buy "big ticket" items which were previously only affordable to the wealthy. which factor played the greatest role in consumers' ability to buy refrigerators, washing machines, radios, and cars?

Back then, the companies that provided those product offer a lot of affordable installment plants ,  which make those big ticket items available to the consumers in the middle and lower class since they're allowed to make a small monthly payments for the product

The correct answer here is buying on credit that is "installment buying".


It is in the 1920s that the practice of buying on installments that is credit began in earnest. Before that you had to have a fixed amount of money and buy things in cash for the full price. With the credit buying, many items then become affordable to regular people. This brought products to much larger costumer base and resulted in increased sales.

The Supreme Court is most likely to be accused of judicial activism in cases involving:  protection of individual rights.

Writing for the conservative group, The Heritage Foundation, Elizabeth Slattery defines judicial activism as "when judges fail to apply the Constitution or laws impartially according to their original public meaning, regardless of the outcome, or do not follow binding precedent of a higher court and instead decide the case based on personal preference."

Cases involving individual rights are likely to elicit charges of judicial activism because the Constitution does not spell out each and every sort of right citizens may have.  New questions come up that were not considered or specified at the time the Constitution was written.  For instance, Roe v. Wade (1973) addressed the question of abortion and an individual's right to privacy.  Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) addressed the legality of same-sex marriage.  Both are cases of individual rights, where the Constitution did not give direct instruction on the issues at stake.  The decisions on those issues, to allow abortion and to allow same-sex marriage, both are criticized by conservatives as instances of judicial activism.