The Roaring 20s - Textbook
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Who won the 1920 presidential election?
Warren G. Harding
What did Harding promise voters in 1920?
"Normalcy"
A 1921 meeting where major powers agreed to limit warships and disarm
Washington Naval Conference
Raised taxes on U.S. imports to 60 percent
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
American investors loaned Germany $2.5 billion to repay war debts to Britain and France
Dawes Plan
Harding's corrupt poker-playing cronies in his cabinet
Ohio Gang
What was Coolidge's economic philosophy? (2)
minimize government involvement
let private enterprise flourish
How much did U.S. productivity rise during the 1920s?
About 45 percent
Buying goods over time with small payments and low interest rates
installment plan
The acquisition of goods in ever-greater amounts
consumerism
Limited immigration by establishing maximum numbers from each foreign country
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
A Protestant movement based on literal interpretation of the Bible
fundamentalism
A 1925 case where a Tennessee teacher was convicted for teaching evolution
Scopes Trial
A liberated young woman who embraced new fashions and rejected 19th-century values
flapper
made the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight in 1927
Charles Lindbergh
Who founded the Negro National League?
Andrew "Rube" Foster in 1920
Who was the most influential musician in jazz history?
Louis Armstrong
A plan encouraging African Americans to return to Africa and build an independent nation
Marcus Garvey's "Back to Africa" movement
