America’s HistorySixth Edition

CHAPTER 23

Modern Times1920–1932

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Henretta • Brody • Dumenil

The Business-Government

Partnership of the 1920s• Politics in the Republican “New Era”• Corporate Capitalism• Economic Expansion Abroad• Foreign Policy in the 1920s

A New National Culture• A Consumer Society• The World of the Automobile• The Movies and Mass Culture

Redefining American Identity• The Rise of Nativism• Legislating Values: Evolution and Prohibition• Intellectual Crosscurrents• Culture Wars: The Election of 1928

The Onset of the Great Depression,

1929–1932• Causes and Consequences• Herbert Hoover Responds• Rising Discontent• The 1932 Election

Chapter 23 Modern Times, 1920–1932

• Map 23.1 Ku Klux Klan Politics and Violence in the 1920s (p. 708)

• Map 23.2 The Spread of Radio, to 1939 (p. 717)

• Map 23.3 Presidential Election of 1928 (p. 727)

• Map 23.4 The Great Depression: Families on Relief, to 1933 (p. 729)

• Map 23.5 The Presidential Election of 1932 (p. 733)

• Figure 23.1 A Statistical Index of Boom and Bust (p. 728)

• Figure 23.2 Unemployment, 1915–1945 (p. 729)

• Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), Famous Aviator (p. 704)

• The League of Women Voters (p. 709)

• Ku Klux Klan Women Parade in Washington, D.C. (p. 719)

• The United States Border Patrol, Laredo, Texas, 1926 (p. 720)

• Defining Beer (p. 722)

• The Breadline (p. 731)