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Between 1929 and 1930, unemployment in the United States increased by what number (from 1.5 million) ?

A) 900,000
B) 1.5 million
C) 1.9 million
D) 2.7 million

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Explain the collapse of Progressivism in the 1920s.

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Discuss the failure of Prohibition. Many have argued that Prohibition proves that there are limits to what a government can effectively legislate. Intoxicating beverages were illegal in the 1920s, yet as a leading Prohibition agent testified, it took only eleven minutes to procure a drink in Pittsburgh, and only thirty-five seconds in New Orleans. Why did Prohibition fail? Could it have worked, or was it doomed to failure? If it could have worked, how? If it was doomed to failure, why? Many unpopular laws remain on the books and continue to be enforced. In many parts of the United States today, illegal drugs such as cocaine are as easily procured as a drink in New Orleans under Prohibition, yet cocaine remains illegal. Was Prohibition somehow different from other unpopular or apparently unenforceable laws? If so, how and why?

Talk About: -organized crime

Politicians in 1920s America believed that U.S. economic power would prevent future wars.

Talk About: -Dawes Plan

Talk About: -Black Thursday

Warren G. Harding won the presidency by a narrow margin.

What was the "culture clash" of the 1920s? How did it play out across various spheres, such as the law, politics, education, private life, and race relations? Was it peculiar to the 1920s, or did it follow from prior decades and continue into subsequent decades?

Talk About: -Margaret Sanger

The 1920s saw a drop-off in U.S. involvement in the affairs of Latin American nations.

"I like silence and success better than socialism and sovietism" was the slogan of what political party in the 1924 presidential election?

The New York Stock Exchange crashed in what year?

The Supreme Court supported Harding and Coolidge's business-friendly governmental policies.

Who won the 1920 presidential election?

The United States loaned over $5 billion abroad between 1925 and 1929.

During Prohibition, the U.S. government attempted to impose taxes on bootleggers.

Talk About: -Scopes trial

Fiorello H. La Guardia served as a congressman from what state?

Why did the Ku Klux Klan reemerge in the 1920s, and why were they so widely supported?