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While serving as attorney general during the Harding administration, Harry Daugherty was implicated in a scandal involving the _____________.

____________ gained recognition for his novel Main Street which established a new way of looking at small-town America. The satire of American life was hotly debated in 1919.

The Federal Highway Act of 1916 was the first piece of legislation to _____________.

_____________ was the first U.S. president to leave the Western Hemisphere while in office. He travelled to France in 1918 for a WWI peace conference.

What city became the center of literary activities and the birthplace of the Lost Generation in the 1920s?

Which President in 1919 supported the Boston police strike.

From 1922 to 1925, what state saw thousands of Americans purchase land and sell it at an inflated price? Massive advertising campaigns advertised buried treasure.

In the early 1920s, what discovery inspired a wide interest in the U.S. for Egyptian-style decor and clothing?

Which piece of legislation banned the use of contraceptives in the late 19th century?

Elliot Ness, a special agent of the U.S. Department of Justice, headed a team to ____________. The U.S. press deemed them the Untouchables for their efforts.

Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were both deported to which country?

Who was Time magazine's first Man of the Year in 1927?

In 1929, Charles Lindbergh convinced the Guggenheim family to finance the experiments of ____________ at a location in Roswell, New Mexico.

Sigmund Freud was known for making what idea popular in the U.S. in the 1920s?

He refused to answer questions during the Senate investigation into Teapot Dome. He provided Albert Fall with gifts, such as a large herd of livestock. He obtained exclusive oil rights to an oil reserve.

The Johnson Act of 1924 _____________.

The Scottsboro Boys were most identifies as ___________.

What company was known for posting rhymes along U.S. roadways to advertise its products in the 1920s into the 1960s?

"___________ describes the Prohibition term ""rum row""."

Henry Ford owned the Dearborn Independent newspaper which faced criticism for publishing _______________.

The Bonus Army of 1932 consisted of _____________.

He was the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator from Massachusetts, and opposed the Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations.

Who was the Democratic candidate in the 1928 presidential election?

Which famous lawyer acted for the defense in the Leopold-Loeb trial, securing them life in prison instead of execution?

He headed the United States Postal Service, Republican National Committee, and the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America.

His magazine empire included Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, Fortune magazines.

The __________ became widely popular in the U.S. in 1924 after it was featured in the Black Broadway musical, Runnin' Wild

David Curtis Stepheson was a ___________ in the 1920s.

The Snyder-Gray trial captured national attention in 1927. Ruth Snyder was convicted of what crime?

He started a popular tabloid known as the New York Evening Graphic, he also joined William Randolph Hearst's tabloid, the Daily Mirror, and he helped to create the idea of a celebrity in American culture.

He was a special assistant to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, oversaw deportations of anarchists after WWI, and served as director of the FBI from 1924 - 1972.

"Who said the following, ""My purpose in taking over Muscle Shoals is not to benefit us or our business...My one purpose is to do a certain thing that will benefit the whole world."""

Starting in 1928, Augusto Cesar Sandino led a six-year guerrilla campaign to expel Americans from ____________.

"Woodrow Wilson was reelected as president in 1916 with the campaign slogan ""_________________""."

What did the Comstock Act of 1973 do?

He gave up his career playing for the Chicago White Stockings, now the White Sox, to become a traveling evangelist in 1896.

Elbert H. Gary was the head of ____________ in the early 1900s. The city of Gary, Indiana, was named after him in 1906.

She left her nursing career to advocate for birth control, she founded the American Birth Control League, she supported the anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman.

General William Mitchell was known for advocating for a(n) __________________.

Which President of the United States is best characterized as quiet and stingy with money?

The strongest possibility for the Democratic nomination in the election of 1920 was Woodrow Wilson's treasury secretary, ______________.

______________, a Methodist preacher, revived the Ku Klux Klan in 1915 in a ceremony near Atlanta, Georgia.

"The term ""flapper"" originated in what country? It referred to women in the 1920s who wore short dresses, bobbed their hair, and were active in urban nightlife."

"Herbert Hoover said the following about what part of life in the United States? ""....a social and economic experiment, noble in motive."""

In 1901, Spindletop exploded in what state? It was producing more oil than the world combined within a year.

Who helped Thomas Edison build the General Electric Company and eventually became president of the Chicago Edison Company?

Isador Einstein and Moe Smith were _____________.

Rin-Tin-Tin, a _________, was a popular star in the mid-1920s. He was insured for \$100,000 and had his own chef and driver.

"Three weeks before the 1920 election, the U.S. press circulated an ""October surprise"" that claimed presidential candidate Warren G. Harding was ____________."

The Industrial Workers of the World, also known as ____________, was a labor organization that opposed capitalism and U.S. participation in WWI.

The Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 favored immigrants from what part of the world?

He has known for paving the way for serious drama in American theater in the 1920s.

"Workers on the Model T Ford automobile assembly lines often developed ""Ford Stomach"". Which was best described as ________________."

A flapper who challenged traditional values in the 1920's.

"During the mid-1920s, _____________ was arrested 49 times for operating speakeasies. She greeted newcomers with the phrase, ""Hello, sucker!"""

William McAdoo oversaw the creation of the ____________ under the Wilson Administration.

This American and British citizen did not support the League of Nations.

What was the alleged reason why Calvin Coolidge did not seek reelection in 1928?

What was the historical significance of the Leopold-Loeb case?

The Gastonia Strike of 1929 was the most severe ___________ labor struggle in the history of North Carolina.

the Socialist Party nominee for the presidential election of 1920 was ____________.

In what resulted in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929, members of Al Capone's gang ________________.

Preacher Aimee Semple McPherson went missing from a California beach in 1926. After she reappeared, what explanation did she give for her disappearance?

Put the following in chronological order:<br>1. Great Mississippi Flood<br>2. Teapot Dome scandal<br>3. Palmer Raids

In 1920, Warren G. Harding appointed Charles Forbes as president of the newly formed ____________.

Secretary of Treasury under President Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, who instituted a Republican policy of reduced government spending, lower taxes to the wealthy and higher tariffs

He was the Secretary of Commerce for the Harding Administration

He was Secretery of the Interior during Harding's administration, and was a scheming anti-conservationist. He was convicted of leasing naval oil reserves and collecting bribes, which was called the Tea Pot Dome scandal.

"U.S. Attorney General and a member of Harding's corrupt ""Ohio Gang"" who was forced to resign in administration scandals"

What was the outcome of the Scopes Trial of 1925?

Who was appointed as a special agent of the U.S. Department of Justice to lead the Prohibition bureau in Chicago in 1929?

"George ""Tex"" Rickard is known for his contribution to the acceptance of what sport in the U.S.?"

Herbert Hoover's name would forever be linked to _________________.

KDKA, a radio station in Pittsburgh, PA, was the first to announce __________ in 1920.

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points was an outline of principles used for ______________.

Who was the Democratic presidential nominee who ran against Warren G. Harding in 1920?

Charles Ponzi was known for profiting from a scheme involving ___________ in the early 1920s.

Calvin Coolidge allegedly agreed to support Henry Ford's plan to ______________ if he abandoned plans for the U.S. presidency.

Members of the IWW and what group were involved in the Centralia Massacre in 1919?

What was the main goal of the National Origins Act of 1924?

What evidence implicated Nathan Leopold in the death of Bobby Franks?

Calvin Coolidge appointed _____________ as the chairman of the Mississippi Flood Committee and gave him wartime powers to deal with the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.

As a result of ___________ theories, psychoanalysis became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s.

Charles Lindbergh named his craft the Spirit of St. Louis in honor of his ______________.

Calvin Coolidge held all of the following positions EXCEPT: Mayor, Senator, Governor, Vice President

Who provided great influence over the Federal Reserve and helped reduce interest rates in the early 1920s?

Who was the interior secretary during the Harding Administration? He was implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal.

"Warren G. Harding was the first U.S. president to visit ____________ in which he ventured on a two-month ""Voyage of Understanding"" ahead of the 1924 election."

In the early 1920s, what Chinese game gathered wide interest in the U.S.?

Following a large wage increase at Ford Motor Company in 1914, inspectors from the Sociological Department ____________.

What is marathon dancing?

Name the Attorney General, Secretary of the Interior and American Oil Tycoon who were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal.

_____________ was the world No. 1 amateur tennis player for six consecutive years, from 1920 to 1925, and was ranked as the world No. 1 professional by Ray Bowers in 1931 and 1932 and Ellsworth Vines in 1933.

United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (1895-1983)

American amateur golfer who, in 1930, became the first man to achieve the golf Grand Slam by winning in a single year the four major tournaments of the time: the British Open (Open Championship), the U.S. Open, and the British and U.S. amateur championships. From 1923 through 1930 he won 13 championships in those four annual tournaments.

"______________ was nicknamed ""the Galloping Ghost"" and ""the Wheaton Iceman"", was an American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and the short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the National Football League."

Nickname for the International Workers of the World labor union, headed by Daniel Haywood. Known for their reputation for violence and class warfare.

"This comedian noticed the President was in attendance during his theater show Animal Crackers, so he asked President Coolidge, ""Isn't it past your bedtime, Calvin?"""

This Chinese game was the rage in America for about two years in the 1920s.

He was nominated by the Democrats in the 1920 Convention in San Francisco as their Vice-Presidential candidate.

When a levee broke on the Mississippi River in 1927, Calvin Coolidge appointed _____________ to organize the disaster relief.

He was an editor of The New Republic and columnist in 1920 that thought Franklin Roosevelt was no crusader.

"Alain Locke in an article in the Survey Graphic discussed the Harlem Renaissance and his boundless optimism about the future, stating: ""We are witnessing the resurrection of a people."""

He was a Chicago banker who served as President Harding's director for the Bureau of the Budget and later VP for Calvin Coolidge.

"He was said to have introduced more people to psychoanalysis ""thank all the scientific books put together"" by Kansan psychoanalyst Karl Menninger."

Which city did Al Capone nearly monopolize with his bootlegging, gambling, and prostitution?

He was the Senate Majority Leader and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee from Massachusetts in opposition of the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles.

He was a Republican from the state of ____________ who primarily worked on the National Origins Act of 1924. He built his career as a Red-baiter and on his blatant appeals to the anti-Japanese prejudices of his constituents.

Who was the author of the book The Man Nobody Knows, which made Jesus Christ into a modern go-getter businessman?

She composed songs and san to keep up morale during a textile strike near Gastonia, North Carolina. She will be eventually shot and killed riding in a truck and no one will be charged with her murder.

American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up in ___________.

Which American Indian maiden was related to Edith Bolling Galt, who became the second wife of Woodrow Wilson?

____________ received nearly a million votes as the Socialist candidate for president in 1912; later, he was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for opposing the U.S. entry into World War I.

The 1920 census revealed that for the first time in the nation's history, ______________

Surprisingly, _____________ attended the funeral services of Warren G. Harding in 1923.

Following a confrontation with President Warren G. Harding, Director of the Veterans' Bureau Charles Forbes _____________.

What was Calvin Coolidge's response when asked how he felt when he learned he would be president?

Which state, with a total population of 850,000 in 1923, had over 100,000 people registered as members of the KKK?

Who was chosen to head up Al Smith's 1924 presidential campaign?

Columbia University psychologist Harry L. Hollingsworth noted that average American men who were Democrats were more likely to be _____________, while Republicans tended to be Baptists.

What term was associated with some of the best-known literary figures of the 1920's who moved to Paris, France?

The American Mercury was a magazine founded by _____________ and George J. Nathan in 1921. The publication covered politics, social criticism, the arts, science, medicine, and literature.

The flapper girl - Zelda Fitzgerald was a quintessential example of the type - was unlike anything the establishment had ever seen. Prior to this, the _____________ had been the feminine ideal, dating from the 1890's.

"Which individual allegedly ""fixed"" the 1919 World Series?"

Charles Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris in 1927 on the _______________.

_________________ served as Secretary of Commerce in both the Harding and Coolidge administrations and was a troubleshooter with a voice on foreign trade, agriculture and labor.

In 1914, _________________ made a decision to double his assembly line workers' wages and shorten the shift by an hour as long as production line sped up, trips to the toilet were limited to three minutes, and lunch breaks were not to exceed 15 minutes.

As President, Woodrow Wilson was lest likely to support causes that would benefit ________________.

Rene Fonck, Noel Davis, Stanton Wooster, were all unsuccessful rivals to ______________.

The _____________ was a labor organization prominent in the 1920s that opposed capitalism and U.S. participation in WWI.

Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee developed a plan to deport foreign-born radicals and to exile native-born radicals to a penal colony in ___________.

This future president during the 1980s admired Calvin Coolidge so much that in 1981 he ordered a portrait of Thomas Jefferson removed from the Cabinet Room and replaced by Coolidge.

_______________ was a U.S. shaving cream company known for their use of posting rhymes along U.S. roadways.

Warren G. Harding once worked as a/an ___________ for \$30 a month. He later claimed it was the hardest job he had ever had.

John T. Scopes was a 24 year-old science instructor at _________________ HS who doubled as an athletic coach and substitute biology teacher.

_________________ were both Prohibition agents known for shutting down speakeasies.

In 1923, _______________ agreed to reduce the working day for most employees from twelve to eight hours per day, thanks in part to pressure from Herbert Hoover.

On May 24th in Chicago, IL Nathan Leopold Jr was tried in the first so-called _________________.

Who offered his services to the prosecution for the Scopes Trial in 1925.

"______________ was part of Warren G. Harding's Ohio Gang - died of a gunshot wound to the head under mysterious <br>circumstances, prompting Alice Longworth (the eldest child of Theodore Roosevelt) to quip that he had died of ""Harding of the arteries""?"

In September 1929, ________________ was an astrologist who forecast that the stock market could climb to Heaven. The Dow did reach a record high of over 386 points, a peak not seen again until November 1954.

Which of the following departments was NOT implicated in a scandal while Warren G. Harding was serving as president?<br>a. Alien Property Bureau<br>b. Navy Department<br>c. Veterans' Bureau<br>d. Interior Department

In 1915, Calvin Coolidge was elected to serve as the lieutenant governor of ______________.

"Warren G. Harding delivered his ""Return to Normalcy"" address at the _______________ club, in Boston, Massachusetts."

"_______________ was described by some as ""A Puritan in Babylon who had all the virtues of a small-town New England bank clerk."

In 1927, actress _________________ and cast members of her play were arrested in New York City for putting on an indecent performance.

Who defended Leopold and Loeb for the 1924 murder of Bobby Franks?

"Which suffragette leader said concerning WWI, ""The greatest thing that came out of the war was the emancipation of women, for which no man fought."""

In 1928, _______________, president of the Chicago Crime Commission, approached Al Capone to seek assurances that violence would not occur in Chicago during the November general election.

Henry Ford, who built motorcars for the multitudes, introduced the Model T in 1908. It was produced until ________, by which time it was being handily outsold by more-stylish competitors.

_______________ was a sales agent for Annie Turnbo, the founder of the Poro Company. After moving to Denver in 1905, she worked as a cook for a pharmacist, from whom she learned the basic chemistry that allowed her to perfect an ointment that healed dandruff and other hygiene-related ailments that were common during a time when most Americans lacked indoor plumbing.

He is considered the Father of the modern day Air Force. He openly criticized the War and Navy departments and was suspended from military service in 1926.

T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and James Joyce's _______________, both published in 1922, had more influence on the postwar generation of literary writers than any other works.

"________________ announced that he would vote ""unhesitatingly"" for Robert LaFollette despite rumors that his pockets were ""stuffed with Soviet gold."""

"Who said the following quote to Ernest Hemingway?<br>""You are all a lost generation. All of you young people who served in the war. You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death."""

Who founded the Church of the Foursquare Gospel?

Benjamin Strong was the most influential member of the _______________, this New Yorker helped reduce interest rates beginning in 1921.

For a number of years ______________ barnstormed with stage companies and rodeos, and she had already made and broken two marriages when she arrived in New York City in 1905. There she won parts of increasing importance in a series of musical comedies and revues, including Miss Bob White, The Hoyden, The Gay Musician, and The Passing Show of 1913. She also entertained troops in France during World War I. She had a successful career as a film actress in perhaps as many as 200 silent two-reelers, in which typically she portrayed a blunt, aggressive, blond Western heroine in the dime-novel tradition.

John Dewey was a social reformer whose ideas had the greatest impact on ___________.

The movie ______________ was shown in the White House and supposedly hailed by President Wilson.

Al Capone's gang members committed a mass killing after the leader of the North Side gang ______________. The incident became known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.

Warren G. Harding released ______________ from an Atlanta penitentiary in 1921. Woodrow Wilson had the socialist leader imprisoned for opposing U.S. entry into WWI.

The discovery of oil at Spindletop, near ___, occurred in 1901. This established the U. S. as the leading producer of oil, a<br>development that was crucial to the economic boom experienced during the 1920's

American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood. She was sent to prison for promoting birth control.

The _____________ district attorney summoned Aimee Semple McPherson before a grand jury in in 1926 to determine if she was telling the truth about her kidnapping.

"Who recorded ""The St. Louis Blues"" with Louis Armstrong in 1925?"

To comply with limitations imposed by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, two battlecruisers - the ___ and the ___ - were<br> converted into aircraft carriers and commissioned in 1927.

What year was the Model T introduced to the American public?

The May Day riots occurred on May 1, 1919, in Cleveland, Ohio. What caused the unrest?

Which of these Latin American republics was virtually ruled by American marines from 1912 to 1925?