Chapter 24 HOMEWORK SHEET

AP U.S. History

Ms. Rosenberg

Chapter 24: The New Era of the 1920’s


HW #31 DUE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11th

Read pages 689-692

Read and outline pages 692 ("A Business-Minded Presidency") - 695

1. How did conservative presidents foster the growth of big business?


HW #32

Read and outline pages 695-701 (start with "Materialism Unbound" & end with "New Rhythms of Everyday Life")

1. How did the automobile change the U.S.?

2. How did immigration and urbanization help lead to the suburbanization of the U.S.?


HW #33

Read and outline pages 701-709

1. How did the dimensions of paid female labor change?

2. How does the Scopes Trial reflect clashing values?

3. What does the Sacco and Vanzetti case show about the U.S. in the 1920’s?


HW #34

Read pages 709-712 and answer these two questions:

1. Why were the movies, sports and heroes popular in the 1920’s?

2. Why didn’t local officials enforce Prohibition all that much?


HW#35

Read and outline pages 712-714

1. How did Jazz represent change in the 1920’s?


HW #36

Read and outline pages 714-717

1. Why did the stock market crash in 1929?

2. What was Hoover’s view of the role of the federal government?