1920s

Question 1

What was Harding’s election based on?

Answer 1

• Return to normalcy
• Exhaustion from war and progressiveness
• Isolationism

Question 2

Who is Charles Forbes?

Answer 2

• Member of the “Ohio gang”
• Used funds intended for the veterans
• Sold hospital supplies to friends
• Used bribes against hospitals

Question 3

What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?

Answer 3

• Albert B Fall secretly leased oil reserves
• Fall was convicted of bribery

Question 4

What did Andrew Mellon do economically?

Answer 4

• Supported laissez faire
• Cut taxes and reduced federal spending
• Used high tariffs and minimal regulation

Question 5

How was Coolidge as a president?

Answer 5

• “Silent Cal”
• Conservative promoting laissez faire
• Isolationism
• Supported installment buying

Question 6

What did Amity Shales argue for?

Answer 6

• New Deal policies prolonged the Great Depression
• Lower taxes and less intervention is better

Question 7

What is the Dawes plan?

Answer 7

• Rescheduling German reparations to ease internal debt
• US loans to Germany, Germany gives Britain and France, Britain and France pay back US

Question 8

What is the Kellogg Briand Pact?

Answer 8

• Rejection of war
• Preferred settling disputes peacefully
• Failed to prevent WWII

Question 9

Who is Clara Bow?

Answer 9

• Original “It Girl”

Question 10

What was popular during the Roaring 20s?

Answer 10

• Cosmetic products
• Music industry
• Cigarette industry

Question 11

What was the Cotton Club?

Answer 11

• Club owned by white people
• Only black performers
• Only light skinned black waiters

Question 12

What was the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act?

Answer 12

• Established quotas to 3% in total
• Banned Asian immigration
• Banned Jews and Italians