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Chapter 24: The New Era


Main Themes

Main Themes

1. How the automobile boom and new technology led to the economic expansion of the 1920s.

2. That most workers and farmers failed to share equitably in the decade's prosperity.

3. How a nationwide consumer-oriented culture began to shape society and how the "new woman" emerged.

4. How the changing society disenchanted some artists and intellectuals and led to broad cultural conflict over ethnic and religious concerns.

5. That Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, despite their dissimilar personalities, presided over ardently pro-business administrations.


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