Chapter 24 "Roaring 20's"

Question 0

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 0

Republican Governer from Massachusetts
“Silent Cal”
Became 30th President when Harding died
Reelected 1924

Question 1

Warren G. Harding

Answer 1

Republican Senator from Ohio
29th President
“Return to Normalcy”

Question 2

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 2

Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall

Excepted bribes in exchange for control of the governments oil reserves

Question 3

Coolidge’s ProBusiness Administration

Answer 3

1. Raised taxes on foreign goods
2. Harding died of heart attack
3. Kellogg-Briand Act

Question 4

Business Booms

Answer 4

1. In 8 years, manufacturing doubled
2. Model-T (Tin Lizzie) a sturdy and reliable car built by Henry Ford
3. Moving assembly line-conveyor belts moving parts to other workers

Question 5

Installment Plan

Answer 5

Let’s people pay a small amount of the cost every month until the entire car was paid for

Question 6

Herbert Hoover

Answer 6

Elected president in 1928

Question 7

Trickle down theory

Answer 7

Idea that tax cuts for rich Americans would “trickle down” to poorer people

Question 8

Henry Ford

Answer 8

Inventor and business leader in Detroit

Question 9

L2

Flapper

Answer 9

Young women who cut their hair short, wear makeup, and short dresses

Question 10

L2

Red Scare

Answer 10

A time of fear of communists (a.k.a Reds)

Question 11

21st Amendment

Answer 11

Ended Prohibition

Question 12

L2

Fundamentalism

Answer 12

Characterized by the belief in a literal, or word by word interpretation of the Bible

Question 13

L2

Scopes Trial

Answer 13

John Scopes, a high school Science teacher was put on trial for teaching evolution

Question 14

L2

Great Migration

Answer 14

African Americans left the South to go North to get factory jobs

Question 15

L2

Marcus Garvey

Answer 15

Encouraged African Americans to be proud of their culture, build their own businesses and communities