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Question 1

year of the Eighteenth Amendment

Answer 1

1919

Question 2

year of the first commercial radio station

Answer 2

1920 (it was the KDKA)

Question 3

year of the Scopes Trial

Answer 3

1925

Question 4

year of Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic

Answer 4

1927

Question 5

president from 1921-1923

Answer 5

Warren Harding

Question 6

president from 1923-1929

Answer 6

Calvin Coolidge

Question 7

terrorist group newly organized to promote racism and radical supremacy

Answer 7

Ku Klux Klan

Question 8

organized the NAACP; supported active opposition for civil rights

Answer 8

W. E. B. Du Bois

Question 9

most notorious gangster of the 1920s

Answer 9

Al Capone

Question 10

Al Capone organized this horrible event

Answer 10

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

Question 11

organization that attempted to spread Communism in the Western world

Answer 11

Third Communist International (Comintern)

Question 12

leader in the American Communist Movement

Answer 12

William Z. Foster

Question 13

established the General Intelligence Division

Answer 13

A. Mitchell Palmer

Question 14

leader of the General Intelligence Division (later the F.B.I.)

Answer 14

J. Edgar Hoover

Question 15

raiding of Communist headquarters in 33 cities to stop Communism in America

Answer 15

Red Scare

Question 16

international court designed to solve disputes among the League of Nations

Answer 16

the World Court (Permanent Court of International Justice)

Question 17

gave the president power to raise tariff rates

Answer 17

Fordney-McCumber Tariff (under Harding)

Question 18

government organization that created and approved the national budget

Answer 18

Bureau of the Budget

Question 19

government organization that provided aid, education, medical care, etc. for military veterans

Answer 19

Veteran’s Bureau

Question 20

founded in Paris in 1919; known for patriotism, conservatism, and anti-Communism

Answer 20

American Legion

Question 21

immigration policies like _________ were created to restrict annual immigration

Answer 21

Emergency Quota Act

Question 22

occurred when government officials leased government land with oil reserves for personal gain

Answer 22

Teapot Dome Scandal

Question 23

the Teapot Dome Scandal was under which president?

Answer 23

Warren G. Harding

Question 24

period of peace and prosperity in America

Answer 24

“Roaring Twenties”

Question 25

the "Roaring Twenties" were under this president

Answer 25

Calvin Coolidge

Question 26

an organization that scheduled payments for the debt the Allies owed to America

Answer 26

War-Debt Commission

Question 27

the renegotiation of Germany’s war debt to prevent their financial collapse

Answer 27

Dawes Plan

Question 28

stated that Germany’s debt be reduced and payment period be over a longer timespan

Answer 28

Young Plan (proposed by Owen D. Young)

Question 29

a treaty signed by 62 nations banning war as a means to settle disputes (1928)

Answer 29

Kellogg-Briand Pact (Pact of Paris)

Question 30

Coolidge's major achievement

Answer 30

he established a more cordial relationship with Mexico

Question 31

forcibly take ownership of something

Answer 31

nationalize

Question 32

wages compared to buying power; increased and businesses grew during the 1920s

Answer 32

real wages

Question 33

the taking of land by mortgage holders

Answer 33

foreclosure

Question 34

proposed the establishment of a government agency to buy surplus crop and resell them on a world market

Answer 34

McNary-Haugen Bill

Question 35

the Agricultural Marketing Act established a __________

Answer 35

Federal Farm Board

Question 36

this industry grew more than any other industry or company

Answer 36

auto industry

Question 37

first to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean (1927)

Answer 37

Charles Lindbergh

Question 38

flew over the South Pole and explored the Antarctic

Answer 38

Richard E. Byrd