Ch20 Flashcards

1
Q

The theme of Harding’s presidential campaign was to return to …..

A

Normalcy

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2
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Belief that emphasized Christ would return at any time to establish his kingdom, was a rising influence in American Christianity during the 1920’s

A

Premillenialism

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3
Q

The main theme of America’s foreign policy during the 1920’s

A

Isolationism

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4
Q

King of Chicago’s underworld

A

Al Capone

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5
Q

Theory of Relativity

A

Albert Einstein

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6
Q

Claimed to promote “100% Americanism”

A

Ku klux klan

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7
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Effort to settle the war debts-reparations cycle.

A

Dawes plan

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8
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First solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic.

A

Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.

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9
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Prevented European trade with the United States

A

Fordney-McCumber Tariff

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10
Q

Looked like a president; head of the “Ohio gang”

A

Warren G. Harding

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11
Q

“The business of American is business”

A

Calvin Coolidge

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12
Q

Agreement to limit the number of battleships a nation could have?

A

Washington Naval Conference (Japan)

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13
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First commercial radio station.

A

KDKA

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14
Q

Making small monthly payments until the item is paid for

A

Installment plans

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15
Q

Murder trial tainted by prejudice.

A

Sacco-Vanzetti case

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16
Q

Austrian psychologist who opposed self-restraint.

A

Sigmund Freud

17
Q

Teacher convicted of teaching evolution.

A

John T. Scopes

18
Q

Agreement to make war legal.

A

Kellogg-Braid Pact

19
Q

Defended the Bible against theory of evolution.

A

William Jennings Bryan

20
Q

Scandal involving the secretary of the interior.

A

Teapot Dome

21
Q

The purchase of something at a low price by someone who hopes to resell it later a higher price to make a profit.

A

Speculation

22
Q

Theological battle with modernist over doctrine, and control of the major denominations’ school, mission boards and institutions.

A

Fundamentalism modernist controversy

23
Q

Legal quotas restricting immigration.

A

National Origins Act

24
Q

“Wet” Roman Catholic presidential candidate

A

Al Smith

25
Q

Time of near panic caused by wave of leftist bombings.

A

Red scare

26
Q

President’s administration closely associated with the Great Depression.

A

Herbert Hoover

27
Q

1929-Sudden drop in stock prices.(~Stock marker crash)

A

Black Tuesday