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STEP 3: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

CHAPTER 23 STUDY GUIDE

PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

Now, take a step back and try to explain the big picture. Remember to use specific examples from the chapter in your answers.

POSTWAR DEVELOPMENTS What place did big business hold in the politics and culture of the 1920s? How did the economic changes of the 1920s contribute to challenges to social, cultural, and ethical norms?	THE CRASH AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION What underlying weaknesses in the American and world economies led to the Great Depression? How did Herbert Hoover respond to the economic crisis that engulfed his presidency? Why were his efforts unsuccessful? What was the “human toll” of the Great Depression?
RESISTANCE TO CHANGE What explains the rising anti-immigrant mood of America in the 1920s? What cultural divisions between rural and urban America were highlighted by the election of 1928?	LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING AHEAD Were the 1920s truly a New Era? Why or why not? How were American life and culture challenged by the economic collapse of 1929? How did economic disaster make political change possible?

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