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Assignment:

1. Explain how the 1920s was a decade of contradictions. What does the relationship between mass immigration and the rise of the Second Ku Klux Klan tell us about American attitudes? How might we reconcile the decade as the period of both the flapper and prohibition?
2. What new opportunities did the 1920s provide for women and African Americans? What new limitations did this era impose?
3. Discuss what the concept of "modernity" meant in the 1920s. How did art and innovation in the decade reflect the new mood of the postwar era?
4. Explain how technology took American culture in new and different directions. What role did motion pictures and radio play in shaping cultural attitudes in the United States?
6. Discuss how the politics of the 1920s reflected the new postwar mood of the country. What did the Harding administration's policies attempt to achieve, and how?
7. Identify the causes of the Great Depression.
8. Why did people feel so confident before the stock market crash of 1929? What were some factors that led to irrational investing?
9. What principles guided President Hoover's response to the Great Depression, and how did this restrict his ability to help the American people?
10. How did the cultural products of the Great Depression serve to reflect, shape, and assuage Americans' fears and concerns during this volatile period? How do our cultural products-such as books, movies, and music-reflect and reinforce our values in our own times?
11. To what extent did the Great Depression catalyze important changes in Americans' perceptions of themselves, their national identity, and the role of their government? What evidence of these shifts can you find in the politics and values of our own times?
13. Why is Herbert Hoover so often blamed for the Great Depression? To what extent is such an assessment fair or accurate?

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