In the decade after the stock market crash of 1929, both marriage and birth rates ________. 

Henry Ford’s emphasis on cheap mass production brought both  ________ to its workers.

In___________ Thomas Edison received the patent for his incandescent light bulb. This development quickly became common in homes as well as factories, transforming how even lower- and middle-class Americans lived.

By the end of World War I, the total military death toll was ________, as well as another million civilian deaths attributed to military action, and another six million civilian deaths caused by famine, disease, or other related factors.

The financial outcome of the stock market crash of 1929 was devastating. While only ________of households had investments, over 90 percent of all banks had invested in the stock market. 

________  was no rags-to-riches hero. He was born to wealth and became much wealthier as an investment banker, making wise financial decisions in support of the hard-working entrepreneurs building their fortunes.

Republican President Herbert Hoover became president at a time of ________ in the country. 

Beginning at the end of the nineteenth century, immigration into the United States rocketed to never-before-seen heights. Many of these new immigrants were coming from eastern and southern Europe and, for many English-speaking, native-born Americans of northern European descent, the growing diversity of new languages, customs, and religions triggered ________.

From 1870 through 1900, the number of women working outside the home ________.

________ drew public attention to some of the most glaring inequities and scandals that grew out of the social ills of the Gilded Age and the hands-off approach of the federal government since the end of Reconstruction. These writers by and large addressed a White, middle-class and elite, native-born audience, even though Progressive movements and organizations involved a diverse range of Americans.