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1920's
Question | Answer |
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What is Fundamentalism? | The literal understanding of the bible. |
What was the bill, that led to the Scopes trial, about? | Any teaching that didn't follow the bible wasn't allowed in schools |
What did the prohibition do? | Prohibited the sale of alcohol |
What did the Ku Klux Klan support? | The idea of fundamentalism |
Who were proud of being black and resisted mistreatment and white idea? | New Negro |
What did the city of Harlem become? | A city within a city, the Harlem Renaissance |
Get prices down for everyone to be able to buy, pay employees more than others do, Who was the man that achieved these things? | Henry Ford |
The teapot dome scandal was about....? | Albert Fall leasing government land to private oil companies and that Doheny had lent Fall $100,000 in cash. |
Who was Coolidge and how did he defuse the scandals of his predecessor's? | Vice President, he replaced Harding's attorney General. |
The United States renounced its right to intervene in _____________ affairs. | Cuban |
What did the Comstock Act do? | banned the distribution of contraception through the mail |
Which country was expected to pay for the war? | Germany |
What was said to have reached a "permanently high plateau" ? | The Stock Market |
What were some effects of the depression? | most were unemployed but everyone took it differently, some were happy and made due others were scornful, |
WHo won the election in 1932, after the depression? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Who did President Hoover incorrectly charge that the Bonus Army were? | Criminals and Radicals. |
How many foreign born residents did the U.S. quota system allow in each year? | 3% |
In the 1920 census it revealed that for the first time the majority of the population was living where? | Urban areas |