1920s and 1930s Test

Who was Warren G Hardin

Republican known for his “return to normalcy” and being the president during the Teapot Dome Scandal

Return to Normalcy

Presidential Campaign slogan promising a return to pre-WW1 life. To end Progressive Era reforms, labor unrest, racial tension, foreign involvement, and promising stability and less government intervention

Teapot Dome

Albert Fall secretly sold federal naval oil reserves in Wyoming and California to private oil companies for personal loans, cash, and cattle.

Who was Calvin Coolidge

President during the “Roaring Twenties”. Wanted tax cuts, reducing federal debt, and low regulation, which helped fuel economic growth during his "Coolidge Prosperity"

Who was Alice Paul

American Quaker, suffragist, and feminist who was as a primary strategist in the final fight for women’s voting rights.

Who was Ida B. Wells

Wrote about the lynchings that were taking place and did investigative journaling on companies. Co-founded NAACP

Molasses Flood

A treasurer designed and engineered the tank that would contain a crazy amount of Molasses. Due to poor engineering skills and cheap materials, the tank broke and the city was covered in Molasses.

What was “Red Summer”

White-supremacist racial violence across the United States, featuring riots, lynchings, and massacres in over two dozen cities

What was the Red Scare

The fear that communists were taking over the country and led to anti-immigrant feelings.

Marcus Garvey

Wanted establishments settlements in Africa where African Americans can return to Africa

Prohibition

Making thee sale and manufacture of alcohol illegal

Henry Ford

Made hella cars and didn’t like jews

Babe Ruth

Baseball Player and hit hella home runs

Who said “The business of American is business.”? What did this mean?

Calvin Coolidge, he believed the most important thing was business and that the government should interfere as little as possible.

Who were the first to protest and carry signs in front of the White House

American suffragists known as the "Silent Sentinels," led by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party (NWP)

What is Installment buying

Buying big appliances like cars, fridges, houses, and paying for it in small increments over a long period of time.

What helped Henry Ford keep prices low on the Model T

Had a moving assembly line allowing him to make 10000 cars a day and keeping prices $300

How many Model T cars could Ford produce in a day in the 1910s

10000

How many Ford F-150s are made in a day today

1000

What is a bull market

Stock go up/increase (like how a bull flings you up)

What is a bear market

When stocks go down/decrease (like how a bear pins you down)

What is buying on the margin

When you borrow money to put into the stock market and depending on how your investment goes you’ll be down for or profit greatly.

What is installment buying

When you buy big appliances like cars, fridges, houses, and pay for them in small increments over a great period of time.

What was the stock market crash

When people bought overvalued stocks with borrowed money; signaled the start of the great depression

What is a Bank Run

When many people run to the bank to withdraw money at the same time

Who was Herbert Hoover

“Great Humanitarian” President during the Great Depression

Bonus Army March

WWI veterans that marched in Washington D.C wanting their early bonus payment for their service

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Elected 4 times, president during the great depression, and had polio

What was the Election of 1932

FDR wins against Hoover in a massive landslide: Hoover only wins 6 North eastern state

What was the New Deal

Series of U.S. federal programs, public work projects, and financial reforms made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939

What was the “First Hundred Days”

FDR pushed an unprecedented amount of legislation through Congress to combat the Great Depression

What did the NRA do (National Recovery Administration)

Set minimum wages, maximum hours, abolished child labor, and protected collective bargaining

What did the AAA do

Boost depressed farm prices by reducing agricultural surpluses. It paid farmers subsidies to limit production of staple crops and reduce livestock, financed by a tax on food processor raising income

What did the CCC do

Employed over three million young, unmarried men in environmental conservation work. It improved national parks and forests, planted over 3 billion trees, and constructed thousands of miles of trails, firebreaks, and roads, while providing workers with housing, meals, and $30 a month