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Really good job. I read an interesting detail on Shmoop that you might want to add. Apparently, rural America was experiencing the Great Depression much earlier than 1929. The entire roaring 20s were a terrible time for them because the crop prices had crashed and they were living abject poverty. All the consumer and technological products the 1920s are famous for were absent in rural America; many did not even have electricity or telephones.