... for minority groups. It was a period of great contradiction: of high hopes yet endless despair, of optimism yet cynicism, of social advances but moral decline and of happiness for some yet widespread sadness for others. Political developments during the 1920's contributed to a large extent in creating the statistics President Hoover claimed were proof that Americans were a "happy people". Between 1920 and 1929 the American people elected three republican Presidents, each ... wheat sharply declined. Farm income dropped from 22 billion in 1919 to 13 billion in 1928 (d). The most significa...

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