Modern Era Of The 1920s

Question 1

Warren Harding

Answer 1

Republican presidential from Ohio who died two years into presidency

Question 2

Charles Evan hughes

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Served in Supreme Court, Secretary of State, and 11th chief justice. He lost narrowly to Woodrow Wilson in presidential race of 1916

Question 3

Albert Fall

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Senator from New Mexico involved in Teapot Dome scandal

Question 4

Teapot Dome

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Albert Fall took bribes from private oil companies to to release navy petroleum reserves

Question 5

Fordney-McCumber Tariff

Answer 5

Congress promoted business by giving loans to Europe to bring in more goods

Question 6

Calvin Coolidge

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30th U.S. president who restored public confidence in the white house after previous scandals

Question 7

Herbert Hoover

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31st president who failed to prevent Grew at depression with his volunteer efforts

Question 8

Henry Ford

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instituted regular hours and pay for his workers with his assembly line process of making Model-T’s

Question 9

Open Shop

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A job that does not require a worker to be apart of the Union

Question 10

Assembly Line

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A system that increased worker productivity and product outcome

Question 11

Closed Shop

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A job that does not give a worker an option to not be apart of the Union

Question 12

Jazz Age

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Young adults rebelled to older people and traditions by dancing to this type of music

Question 13

New inventions

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Inventions that made life easier in the 1920s

Question 14

Margaret Sanger

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Leader of movement to legalize birth control

Question 15

Lost Generation

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Phrase made popular by author of the Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

Question 16

Harlem Renaissance

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Refers to African American “rebirth” of intellectual life

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Great Migration

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African Americans move to the North during WW1 for jobs in factories

Question 18

Marcus Garvey

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Founder of the Universal Negroe Improvement Association

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Fundamentalism

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Belief that the Bible was inspired by God and is literally true

Question 20

Modernism

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Belief that people could accept Darwinism and still believe in the bible

Question 21

Amy Semple McPherson and Billy Sunday

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Radio revivalist who condemned drinking, gambling, jazz, communism, and dancing

Question 22

Scopes trial

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Case of teaching evolution in schools

Question 23

Volstead Act

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Enforced the 18th amendment of abolishing alcohol

Question 24

Spanish Influenza

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WW1 soldiers spread a deadly flu

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21st amendment

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Repealed the 18th amendment

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Quota Laws of 1921 and 1924

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Limited the annual number of immigrants allowed into the country

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Italian immigrants who are speculated to have been framed for murdering a guard and robbing a shoe factory

Question 28

Birth of a Nation

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1915 silent film about the south before and after the civil war

Question 29

Dawes plan

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Plan to give Germany loans so they can pay other European countries who would then pay back America for previous goods

Question 30

Nine-power China Treaty

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Countries agreed to abide by the open door policy of China

Question 31

Kellogg-Briand Treaty

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Bill passed to protect domestic production from foreign competitors

Question 32

Washington Conference

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Called for defortification of U.S. and British Fat East possessions

Question 33

Five-power Naval Treaty

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limited the naval armaments of ships to a ratio