chapter 21-The Roaring 1920s

Question 1

What did Pres. Harding refer to his advisers as?

Answer 1

Ohio Gang

Question 2

What government officer was convicted of a government scandal?

Answer 2

Albert Fall

Question 3

What scandal did Albert Fall become involved with?

Answer 3

Teapot Dome, Wyoming Naval Oil Reserve

Question 4

Who was the very honest Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s?

Answer 4

Herbert Hoover

Question 5

Who was Pro-business Secretary of the Treasury in the 1920s

Answer 5

Andrew Mellon

Question 6

What type of economics was prevalent in the 1920s

Answer 6

Lassies-fair Eonomics

Question 7

Who was the ultra-conservative, pro-business, and most honest president in the 1920s?

Answer 7

Calvin Coolidge

Question 8

How does Calvin Coolidge become president?

Answer 8

Warren Harding dies

Question 9

Who ran for president in 1924?

Answer 9

Calvin Coolidge (winner) vs. Davis

Question 10

Who was the progressive and socialist candidate for president in 1924?

Answer 10

Robert La Follette

Question 11

Who receives a lot of blame for the Stock Market Crash in 1929?

Answer 11

Herbert Hoover

Question 12

Who created an assembly line to mass produce automobiles?

Answer 12

Henry Ford

Question 13

How were consumer goods made affordable in the 1920s?

Answer 13

Through mass production and popular advirtising

Question 14

What law was passed by Congress to aiding the building of airports?

Answer 14

Air Commerce Act

Question 15

During the 1920s, the US was primarily ________ toward world politics.

Answer 15

isolationist

Question 16

At the beginning of the Great Depression the _____ tariff was very high to protect US businesses from foreign competition.

Answer 16

Fordney-McCumber Tarrif

Question 17

The Versailles Treaty required Germany to pay huge ______ that would lead to Germany’s economic collapse.

Answer 17

reparations

Question 18

The ______ was to help Europe recover for their Great Depression in 1927 though it leads toward financial ruin in the US within five years.

Answer 18

Dawes Plan

Question 19

What countries signed the Four Power Treaty that determined the future of islands in the Pacific?

Answer 19

US, France, Great Britain, and Japan

Question 20

The _________ Conference was an attempt at arms control by setting strict levels of powerful navies.

Answer 20

Washington Conference

Question 21

Which navy was required to remain less than half the size of the US navy at the Washington Conference?

Answer 21

Japan, leading to jealousy

Question 22

What was supposed to outlaw war?

Answer 22

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 23

Which treaty guaranteed Chinese independence

Answer 23

Nine Power Treaty

Question 24

What radio network was first in the United States?

Answer 24

NBC

Question 25

What is the nickname for the 1920s decade?

Answer 25

Roaring Twenties

Question 26

Which international agreement focused most on the attached graphic?

Answer 26

Five Power Treaty from the Washington Conference

Question 27

Which president was most invovled with the event associated with this graphic?

Answer 27

President Warren G. Harding’s

Secretary of Interior Albert Fall convicted

(after Hardings death)

Question 28

What foreign policy is best associated with this graphic?

Answer 28

Isolationism during the 1920s