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National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Prosperity: Crash

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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Crash. Here we examine commentary and political cartoons that illustrate the pivotal moment in American history when the stock market crashed in 1929.

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black tuesday, primary sources

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1920s, 1920s economy, 1920s history, economic collapse, stock market crash, stock market crash of 1929, 1920s america, great depression, national humanities center, beginning of depression, beginning of great depression, postwar america, primary source, stock market crash (october 29, 1929)

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Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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