The return to 'normalcy', 1919-32 key individuals- only from hodder book

Question 1

Name the three Republican presidents of this era

Answer 1

Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Hebert Hoover

Question 2

Who was president 1921-23

Answer 2

Warren Harding

Question 3

who’s campaign did harding ignore

Answer 3

James M cox- the democrat candidate who was a newspaper publisher and governor with an energetic campaign against Harding

Question 4

Who did Harding campaign against instead of Cox (he ignored Cox)

Answer 4

Woodrow wilson

Question 5

Who did Harding make Secretary of State

Answer 5

Andrew Mellon

Question 6

Who did Harding make Secretary of commerce

Answer 6

Hebert Hoover

Question 7

Who did Harding make Secretary of State

Answer 7

Charles Hughes

Question 8

Who was involved in the secret leasing of federal oil reserves during Harding’s presidency (The teapot dome scandal)

Answer 8

Harding’s Secretary of the Interior, Albert Bacon Fall

Question 9

Who did Albert Bacon Fall grant exclusive rights to the Teapot dome (Wyoming) reserves?

Answer 9

Harry F Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company

Question 10

Who was president during 1923-29

Answer 10

Calvin Coolidge

Question 11

Who was the Democratic candidate during Coolidge’s presidential election

Answer 11

John W davis

Question 12

Who ran as the candidate of the progressive party

Answer 12

Robert M. LaFollette

Question 13

Who did Harding leave foreign affairs in the control of

Answer 13

Charles Evans Hughes- his secretary of state who was a keen supporter of disarmament

Question 14

Who was the US Secretary of State and the French Foreign Minister who set up the Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1928?

Answer 14

Frank B. Kellogg and Aristide Briand

Question 15

What was the full name of the man behind the Dawes plan of 1924

Answer 15

Charles G Dawes

Question 16

What was the full name of the man behind the Young plan of 1929

Answer 16

Owen Young

Question 17

Which economist did the US State Department hire?

Answer 17

Edwin Kemmerer

Question 17

Which economist did the US State Department hire?

Answer 17

Edwin Kemmerer

Question 18

Who was the US diplomat that organised the Peace Treaty of Tipitapa

Answer 18

Henry Stimson

Question 19

What did the Peace Treaty of Tipitapa lead to in 1928? (the election of who)

Answer 19

The election of Juan Bautista Sacasa in 1928

Question 20

Who was Hardings Secretary of the Treasury whose tax reform scheme (the mellon plan) reduced taxes for business

Answer 20

Andrew Mellon

Question 21

Who was Frederick Taylor?

Answer 21

A mechanical engineer and one of the first management consultants. He believed in the theory of time and motion and his scientific ideas underpinned the use of the assembly line, especially in the car industry

Question 22

Who created the Model T

Answer 22

Henry Ford

Question 23

Which two women became stars of silent movies in the jazz age

Answer 23

Mary Pickford
Clara Bow

Question 24

Which three women became stars of the talkies and role models for many younger girls

Answer 24

Mae West Gloria Swanson Jean Harlow

Question 25

Who became the first woman to be elected governor in 1924

Answer 25

Nellie Tayloe Ross

Question 26

Who became the first female mayor of an American city, Seattle, in 1926

Answer 26

Bertha Knight Landes

Question 27

Who was the most popular sporting star of the 1920s

Answer 27

Babe Ruth (for baseball)

Question 28

Who was Babe Ruth's new york yankee team mate

Answer 28

Lou Gehrig

Question 29

Which 1927 boxing match between who and who did 50mn people listen to on the radio

Answer 29

Gene Tunney vs Jack Dempsey

Question 30

Name a big action hero in film in the 20s

Answer 30

Douglas Fairbanks

Question 31

who was the 'vamp' exuding a dangerous sexuality in the 1920s

Answer 31

Theda Bara

Question 32

Name the two main comic geniuses in the 20s

Answer 32

Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin

Question 33

Who was the democratic presidential candidate in 1928 who advocated the abolition of prohibition

Answer 33

Al Smith

Question 34

Who was the mayor of chicago who did little or nothing to control gangsters in his city

Answer 34

'Big Bill' Thompson

Question 35

Who was the famous italian criminal in the 1920s

Answer 35

Al Capone

Question 36

Who did Al Capone succeed who had run the illegal alcohol business in chicago

Answer 36

John Torrio

Question 37

What were the full names of the two italian labourers in the sacco and vanzetti case 1920

Answer 37

Nicola Sacco Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Question 38

Who was Sacco and Vanzetti arrested and charged with the murder of

Answer 38

Fred Parmenter

Question 39

Who founded the second KKK in Atlanta

Answer 39

The methodist preacher, William Simmons

Question 40

Who led the new KKK

Answer 40

Hiram Evans- also known as the imperial wizard

Question 41

Who did the KKK accuse of being a foreigner bc his parents were greek in 1921

Answer 41

Chris Lochan

Question 42

Which one of the klan's leaders was convicted of a sexually motivated murder after 1925

Answer 42

Grand Wizard David Stephenson

Question 43

Who refused to pardon David Stephenson (one of new KKK leaders in early 1920s)

Answer 43

The Governor of Indiana

Question 44

Six states led by who decided to ban the teaching of darwins theory of evolution

Answer 44

William Jennings Bryan

Question 45

What was the name of the biology teacher who decided to challenge this ban on teaching religion and creation story instead evolution

Answer 45

John Scopes

Question 46

In the early 20s, who was the former vegetable seller who conned thousand of gullible people into investing in his ventures

Answer 46

Charles Ponzi

Question 47

Who followed similarly conservative economic policies in the 1980s as president

Answer 47

Ronald Reagan

Question 48

Which british historian suggested hoover should not have done more but less and that the economy would have righted itself had he done so

Answer 48

Paul Johnson

Question 49

What was the name of the leader of the armed forces who razed the Hooverville to the ground in 1932

Answer 49

Douglas MacArthur, Army Chief of Staff