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Warren G. Harding
was the Republican candidate for President in 1920.
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Calvin Coolidge
was the Republican Vice Presidential candidate in 1920.
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James Cox
was the Democratic candidate for President in 1920.
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F.D Roosevelt
was the Democratic Vice Pres. candidate in 1920.
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KDKA
radio station in Pittsburgh broadcast the results
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women
1920 was the 1st election for____ vote
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“return to normalcy”
Harding wanted a________
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Laissez Faire
economics is when the government stays out of business affairs
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League of Nations
Harding also wanted to stay out of the______
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Charles Evan Hughes
was Harding’s Sec. of State.
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Herbert Hoover
was Harding’s Sec. of Commerce
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Andrew Mellon
Harding’s Sec. of Treasury,________was considered to be one of the best ever.
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Henry Wallace
was Harding’s Sec. of Agriculture
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Harry Doughtery
owned interests in tobacco and meatpacking
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Albert Fall
had many friends who were oil executives.
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Fordney-McCumber
The_______Tariff was highest tariff in U.S. History up to that time.
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$12.5 billon
European countries owed the U.S._____after World War I
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Germany
still had to pay their war reparations
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Charle Forbes
was the head of the Veterans Bureau
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Blood clot
Harding died of a
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John Calvin Coolidge Sr.
was sworn into office by his father
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Al Capone
of Chicago, was the biggest gangster in the U.S
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Dion O’Banion
Capone had his biggest rival,_______ killed
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St. Valentine's Day
Capone had 7 men awaiting a shipment of alcohol, killed on___________
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Speakeasies
were clubs where liquor was sold illegally.
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10,000
Capone controlled________ Speakeasies at one time
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1. Lowered taxes on profits by businesses
2. Cut gov’t spending, which gave very little need for the gov’t to raise taxes
3. Lower the tax rate for the upper class
2. Cut gov’t spending, which gave very little need for the gov’t to raise taxes
3. Lower the tax rate for the upper class
Name the 3 policies that Andrew Mellon implemented that favored big business:
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11,000
There were _____ Am. millionaires in 1926
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Herbert Hoover
ran for President in 1928 and had never run for public office before
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Alfred Smith
was the 1st Catholic Presidential candidate
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The “Good Neighbour” Policy
________ Policy tried to treat Latin American countries as equals
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farmers
During the 1920’s, _____ were the only ones who did not prosper.
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The Installment Plan
______ were when people would buy goods with little money down and then make payments.
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credit
Many people bought stock on _____ only paying a small portion of the cost of the stock
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warehouses
By the late 1920’s, companies were stockpiling products in_______
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Roger Babson
was a well known economist who warned that a crash was coming
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"Black Thursday”
The ticker on Wall Street stopped working on______
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“Black Tuesday”
16 million shares of stock were sold on______
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October 29th, 1929
_______ was the date that the Stock Market Crashed.
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W.E.B Du Bois
helped start the NAACP.
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Marcus Garvey
______ had the famous quote of “Black is beautiful”.
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Louis Armstrong
______ was the famous jazz trumpet player who had the song, “What a Wonderful World”.
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Duke Ellington
_______was the famous jazz band leade
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George Gershwin
______had the song, “Rhapsody in Blue”
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The Charleston
______ was the famous dance of the 1920’s
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Charlie Chaplin
______was the famous silent movie star
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Laurel and Hardy
_______ was famous comedy duo
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Douglas Fairbanks
________ was the original actor to play “Robin Hood”
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Rudolph Valentino
________ was the 1st American heart-throb
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Al Jolson
___________ was the 1st motion picture with sound
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Vaudeville
was the traveling entertainment shows with music, comedy and magic
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Ernest Hemingway
wrote “A Farewell to Arms”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
wrote “The Great Gatsby”
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Babe Ruth
was the greatest baseball player for the New York Yankees
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Red Grange
was known as “The Galloping Ghost”
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Ohio
Stadium was built in 1922 and was the largest football stadium at that time.
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Columbus, Ohio
The NFL’s headquarters were in
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Jack Dempsey
was the early great heavyweight boxing champion
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Bobby Jones
was the 1st golfer to ever win the “Grand Slam”
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Mildred “Babe” Didrikson
was the 1st great American female athlete
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Charles Lindbergh
was the 1st man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
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“The Spirit of St. Louis”
Lindbergh’s plane was called the
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Amelia Earhart
was the 1st female to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.