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Required Reading
Foner Chapter 20
Zinn Chapter 15
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Assignment
Reading Quiz #1
Who benefited and who suffered in the new consumer society of the 1920s?
In what ways did the government promote business interests in the 1920s?
Why did the protection of civil liberties gain importance in the 1920s?
What were the major flash points between fundamentalism and pluralism in the 1920s?
What were the causes of the Great Depression, and how effective were the government’s responses by 1932?
How did consumerism and the idea of the "American way of life" affect people's understanding of American values, including the meaning of freedom, in the 1920s?
Which groups did not share in the prosperity of the 1920s and why?
How did business practices and policies lead to a decline in union membership in the 1920s?
President Calvin Coolidge said that "the chief business of the American people is business." How did the federal government's policies and practices in the 1920s reflect this understanding of the importance of business interests?
Who supported restricting immigration in the 1920s and why? Why were they more successful in gaining federal legislation to limit immigration in these years?
Did U.S. society in the 1920s reflect the concept of cultural pluralism as explained by Horace Kallen? Why or why not?
Identify the Causes of the Great Depression.
What principles guided President Hoover's response to the Great Depression, and how did this restrict his ability to help American people?
What issues were of particular concern to religious fundamentalists in these years and why?
In what ways did the ideas about (and the reality of) proper roles of women change in these years?