the roaring 20s

Question 1

What was the Harding Administration?

Answer 1

President Harding appointed his friends to his cabinet

Question 2

What was Hardings goal?

Answer 2

a “return to normalcy”

Question 3

What was the name for the group of men Harding appointed?

Answer 3

the Ohio Gang

Question 4

Who was Charles Forbes?

Answer 4

• head of Veterans Bureau
• defrauded taxpayers out of millions

Question 5

Who was Albert Fall?

Answer 5

Secretary of Interior

Question 6

What scandal was Albert Fall a part of?

Answer 6

• Teapot Dome Scandal
• allowed private companies to drill for oil on US Navy land

Question 7

Who was the Attorney General?

Answer 7

Harry Daugherty

Question 8

What was Harry Daugherty investigated for?

Answer 8

taking bribes

Question 9

When did Calvin Coolidge become president?

Answer 9

when Harding died in 1923

Question 10

What kind of President was Coolidge?

Answer 10

• distanced himself from Harding and kept government out of business
• “cool cal”

Question 11

What happened while Coolidge was president?

Answer 11

• country prospered
• economy improved
• became best industrial country

Question 12

Who was Charles Evans Hughes?

Answer 12

Secretary of State

Question 13

Who was Andrew Mellon?

Answer 13

Secretary of Treasury

Question 14

What and who was a debtor nation?

Answer 14

• owed more money than they brought in
• the United States was a debtor nation before WWI

Question 15

What happened the the US after WWI?

Answer 15

• went from debtor to creditor
• WWI brought in $10 billion
• more intertwined with international trade
• worlds dominant economic power

Question 16

What was the myth of isolationism?

Answer 16

• many Americans favored isolationism
• traded with too many countries to be isolated

Question 17

What did the United Sates promote?

Answer 17

peace based on economics and arms limitations

Question 18

What was the goal of the US?

Answer 18

increased trade

Question 19

What was the Daws plan?

Answer 19

• former allies and Germany had difficult time laying off war debts
• 1924, Charles G. Dawes made an agreement that the US would give loans to Germany
• Britain and France would accept less in reparations and pay back more on their war debts to the U.S.

Question 20

What limited new warships?

Answer 20

Washington Conference and the London Naval Treaties

Question 21

What was the Kellogg-Brand Pact?

Answer 21

US and 14 other nations agreed to anandon war and settle all disputes by peaceful means

Question 22

What started to prosper in the 1920s?

Answer 22

automobile, aircraft, radio, consumer products

Question 23

What benefits did the assembly line provide?

Answer 23

• 12hr —> 1.5hr to make a car
• cut down costs of cars and to make cars

Question 24

What was the role of the radio in the 1920s?

Answer 24

• advertised consumer products
• connected Americans to live audio entertainment and news
• NBC

Question 25

What caused a boom in consumer products?

Answer 25

- higher wages, shorter work days, consumer credit - credit was easy to obtain

Question 26

What are examples of products part of the consumer economy?

Answer 26

refrigerator, toaster, waffle maker, washing machine, iron

Question 27

What was the farm crisis?

Answer 27

- farmers suffered a “silent depression” - borrowed equipment during the war because of the demand of food - new technologies produced, but the demand was lower - prices decreased and it was harder to pay off debts - Coolidge vetoed legislation to help the farmers

Question 28

How was prosperity uneven?

Answer 28

- wealthiest Americans made over $10,000 a year - $2,500 was “necessary” to live - 60% of families made under $2,000 - black sharecroppers averaged $350 a year - Native Americans less than $200 a year

Question 29

What was changing in the 1920s?

Answer 29

- women won the right to vote, flappers, wanted to break free of traditional roles - religious fundamentalists rejected the idea of evolution

Question 30

What was the 18th Amendment?

Answer 30

- outlaw of alcohol - cause production of bootleg alcohol, increasing federal police to enforce prohibition - led to rise of mafia

Question 31

What was and what caused the Red Scare?

Answer 31

- fear of communism - immigration from communist nations

Question 32

What is nativism?

Answer 32

the belief that one’s native land must be protected from immigrants

Question 33

What was an example of nativism?

Answer 33

- Sacco-Vanzetti - executed despite probably not being guilty - they were italian

Question 34

How was the Ku Klux Klan different than before?

Answer 34

- before they were located in the south - Great Migration caused the klan to become nation wide - anti immigration - anti black - anti semitic - anti catholic - favored immigrants from northern Europe

Question 35

Who started the KKK again in the 1920s?

Answer 35

Nathan Bedford - he eventually thought it got too violent

Question 36

How did art and literature affect the 1920s?

Answer 36

- artists, musicians, and artists expressed American freedoms and challenged traditional ideas

Question 37

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 37

period of African American racial pride

Question 38

What were African American politics?

Answer 38

- organizations such as the NAACP fought segregation and discrimination

Question 39

Who led a movement of African American pride?

Answer 39

Marcus Garvey

Question 40

What happened to Marcus Garvey?

Answer 40

- Coolidge had him deported - Garvey inspired hope for later civil right movements