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Black Tuesday was the largest sell-off of stocks in American history. The date of this event was ___, 1929.

Novelist ____________ is best known for his books One Man's Initiation: 1917 (published in 1920), and Manhattan Transfer (published in <br>1925).

The Young Plan, which developed a program to settle Germany's World War I reparations debt, was designed by Owen D. Young, who was the founder of ___________.

"Which of these Associate Justices of the Supreme Court developed the ""right to privacy"" concept in a Harvard Law Review article (1890), and devoted time as an activist in the Zionist movement?"

She openly supported the concept of forced sterilization?

Fordlandia was established as a company town which would provide a secure source of rubber to the Ford Motor Company. The town was established in 1928, but nearly abandoned by 1934. Where is Fordlandia - a town of about 3,000 residents - located?

__________ was an early star in Hollywood, known for The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, and The Son of the Sheik. He died tragically at the age of 31 in 1926.

"The phrase ""return to normalcy [sic]"" is most closely associated with the Presidential Election of ________."

"Al Capone, the American gangster known as ""Scarface"" and the suspect most likely responsible for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago (1929), went to prison for ___ in 1933."

The Art Deco Movement, which influenced architecture (The Empire State Building and The Chrysler Building) as well as everyday objects during the 1920's began in ___.

This American newspaperman and writer of short stories, ___, spent much of his career working for William Randolph Hearst. Two of his stories were the inspiration for Guys and Dolls, a Broadway musical which premiered in 1950.

The revival of the KKK in the 1920's, the Palmer Raids, the 1921 Emergency Quota Act, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Sacco-Vanzetti case were all associated with ________________.

Disney's first short film release was ___ (1928). It was the third film made; the first two films were previewed in theaters but were not picked up for release by a distributor.

"Alvin ""Shipwreck"" Kelly - a stunt actor and former sailor - became associated with ___ during the 1920's"

The American inventor of the vacuum tube - a development which led to radio broadcasting - was ___________.

The ____________ was a 19th century Temperance Society, founded by alcoholics, and focused on how alcoholism affected individuals rather than on how it impacted society as a whole.

"Which of these individuals contributed to the ""yellow peril"" concept, which depicted Asians as a threat to western society?"

The 16th Amendment was passed to _______________.

"This politician was a political opponent to Franklin D. Roosevelt; served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1941; wrote books in support of ""The American Dream"" and middle-class values..."

He was a silent film actor, director, and comedian known for his pokerfaced expression and his imaginative and often elaborate visual comedy.

"____________ became active in the ""better babies"" movement as a volunteer hygiene worker in the 1910s. With Edward Young Clarke, she formed the Atlanta-based Southern Publicity Association, which promoted temperance and public health causes such as the Anti-Saloon League and Red Cross. Like Clarke and the second Klan's initial organizer William Simmons, she was active in fraternal organizations—in her case, in a women's auxiliary called the Daughters of America."

"Known for his use of ""yellow journalism"" which helped to start the Spanish American War in 1898. The movie Citizen Kane was based on his life."

__________was the first African American to be<br>elected to Congress in the 20th century as a Republican. During his three terms, he was the only African American serving in Congress.

Sinclair Lewis's satirical novel ______________ helped create a negative connotation for the term middle class.

"She was a poet, critic, short-story writer, one of the great ""wits"" of her era, friend to Robert Benchley and a member of the famed Algonquin Round Table. She was as close as America ever came to producing its own Oscar Wilde. Sample Poem: ""Resume""—""Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live."" When she did die, she donated her estate to the NAACP."

Known as the Armistice Day Riot, the Centralia Massacre was a violent and bloody incident that<br>occurred on November 11, 1919, in the state of ______________ during a parade celebrating the first<br>anniversary of Armistice Day.

"The first motel, originally known as Milestone Mo-Tel was located in ______________, and the term ""motel"" was coined as a hybrid of the terms motor and hotel."

______________ is the term for a second generation Japanese living in the Americas.

____________ was founded in 1908 under the leadership of William C. Durant, who was eventually forced out and succeeded by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. in 1920.

His book, Prohibition Agent No. 1, tells the tale of his career as an agent in the Federal Prohibition Unit.

___________, a journalist coined a phrase at the onset of the Great Depression naming the shanty towns that housed the homeless after President Herbert Hoover.

"The Act specified that ""no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act."" It did not specifically prohibit the purchase or use of intoxicating liquors. Despite Wilson's veto, Congress overrode his veto."

Steamboat Willie, Mickey Mouse's debut short film was designed and animated by ______________.

Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong were most directly associated with which time period in US History.

Warren G. Harding ran a successful _______________ campaign from his hometown of Marion, Ohio during the 1920 election.

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

"The most famous incident of the ___________ occurred on February 14, 1929, in the ""Saint Valentine's Day Massacre,"" during which four assailants dressed as police officers executed seven members of the North Side Gang in a garage with ""Tommy guns."""

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

A famous American attorney, two of _________'s highest profile cases were the Leopold-Loeb murder trial and the Scopes Trial.

____________ was an early American filmmaker who is often credited with turning film into an art form by pioneering new innovations. One of his most famous films was The Birth of a Nation (1915).

Which of the following figures is NOT part of the Harlem Renaissance? Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, A. Philip Randolph

The Washington Naval Conference was held in Washington, D.C., between 1921 and 1922 to discuss ways to reduce tensions in what part of the world?

Invented by ______ in 1894, the vitascope is best described as a motion picture projector.

Figure of the temperance movement; Advocated women's suffrage; famous for using a hatchet to destroy saloons.

Marcus Garvey was a proponent of Black nationalism and founded the _________ in 1914.

It was the first long-distance highway in the U.S. running from Chicago to Los Angeles.

What did Mary Hanchett Hunt campaign for in the 1920s?

Who led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successful Black American labor union?

____________ was a leader of the national Prohibition Party and the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

"She was known as the ""Empress of the Blues during the Harlem Renaissance."

The ___________ players were involved in the 1919 scandal that planned to throw the World Series for money.

The first _____________ opened in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1916. It was the first self-service grocery store and the first to feature checkout stands, provide nationally advertised brands and price mark all items.

Who was the first female governor of Texas?

_______________ was known for her role in repealing Prohibition.

"______________carefree young women with short, ""bobbed"" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts. The flapper symbolized the new ""liberated"" woman of the 1920s. Many people saw the bold, boyish look and shocking behavior as a sign of changing morals. Though hardly typical of American women, the image reinforced the idea that women now had more freedom."

"Based off a character in one of his novels, Sinclair Lewis is credited with coining the term ""Babbitt."" What does it mean?"

The Columbine Mine massacre took place in which state in 1927? Gov. William Adams refused to recognize the Industrial Workers of the World, and six people died in the violence between miners and the state militia.

The ____________ took place in Arkansas in 1919 as a result of race tensions. Hundreds of Black Americans died.

Democratic convention nominee in 1924 against Coolidge was ___________. He was a wealthy lawyer connected with J.P. Morgan and Company. Coolidge easily defeated his opponent.

The progressive movement was a period of political reform and activism from the 1890s to the early 1920s. Which candidate ran for the Progressive Party as President of the U.S. in 1924.

In the 1920s, Time magazine's purpose was to provide readers information about what was going on in the world. ____________, one of its founders, became an influential opinion maker in the U.S.

The writer whose stories inspired the musical Guys and Dolls.

She helped to promote the Negro Project and the use of abortion within the African American community.

The Centrailia Massacre was an incident that took place in 1919 between members of the _______________ and the American Legion. The conflict resulted in the deaths of six people.

The Federal Highway Act of _____________ limited federal aid to a system of federal-aid highways.

______________ died of cardiac arrest in 1947, but his decline began earlier. After his transfer to Alcatraz prison, his mental and physical condition deteriorated from paresis (a late stage of syphilis). He was released in November 1939 and was sent to a Baltimore mental hospital before he retired to his Florida estate.

_____________ was an American novelist who used his works as mediums to critique society. His most prominent novels include Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), and Arrowsmith (1925).

____________ was bought by millions of people, had no gas pump or top, the affluence had caused an increase in the economy, demand rose, job openings grew because of making roads

______________ was a representative from Missouri, who proposed a(n) anti-lynching bill in Congress in 1922. It was the first of its kind to pass both houses was the first of its kind to pass both houses.

Founded by ______________, the first issue of The New Yorker was released in 1925. It initially focused on cultural and social life in New York City.

____________ was a place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during prohibition.

United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United States films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954) and member of the Ohio maje

______________ was relocated to the U.S. to escape Nazi Germany, Won the Nobel Prize for Physics in1921

"_____________ was a novelist who wrote of WWI and its impacts on art and civilization. He was a conservative, pessimistic and had disillusion to post-war urban America. He viewed the U.S. as 'Two nations."" His U.S.A. trilogy critiques American society."

He was the first Roman Catholic to run for the U.S. presidency; He served four terms as governor of New York. He opposed Prohibition.

______________ was a Jamaican-born novelist who moved to the U.S. in 1912. His novel Home to Harlem (1928) was the most popular book written by a Black American at the time.

"Edward ""Duke"" Elligton is often hailed as the best jazz composer and bandleader. He played what instrument."

_____________ was known as the first Black American female millionaire in the U.S. who produced hair care products for African American women.

"Alvin ""Shipwreck"" Kelly is credited for starting what craze in 1924?"

What was the significance of Disney's 1928 Steamboat Willie?

"The Art Deco movement, also known as ""style moderne,"" was bold and characterized by simple and clean lines and shapes, mixed materials, and geometric or stylized forms. The _______________ is an example of this style."

The ______________ plan was created to settle Germany's World War I reparations to the Allied countries.

"The Chicago ""Beer Wars"" between rival gangs took place in the 1920s. Organized crime emerged as a result of the ________________ act."

It banned Asian immigrants and their American-born children from owing land.

The Scopes Trial centered on the _______________.

He was the first Black American elected to Congress in the 20th Century.

"James ""Gene"" Tunney defeated Jack Dempsey in 1926, becoming the world heavyweight boxing champion. Tunney served in what U.S. military branch."

_______________ was a controversial American Pentecostal evangelist and early radio preacher whose International Church of the Foursquare Gospel brought her wealth, notoriety, and a following numbering in the tens of thousands.

Which two candidates ran against each other in the 1920 presidential election?

The ____________ was composed of thousands of WWI veterans and their families, assembled in Washington, D.C., in 1932.

In 1913, Adolphus Busch teamed up with Eberhard Anheuser and cofounded ______________ brewery, one of the largest in the world.

Who attended the Atlantic City Conference of 1929?

In 1928, ______________ immigrated to the U.S. and signed an acting deal with Keystone Pictures. He went on to become arguable the most famous silent film comedian.

______________ was the Democratic Party nominee for the presidential election of 1920.

He was elected to four terms as president. He spearheaded the New Deal legislation. He led the U.S. through the Great Depression and World War II.

The Ford Motor Company built _____________ in Brazil, which served as a source for what material?

Red Grange popularized what sport in the 1920s?

Which plan was created to settle Germany's World War I reparations. It cut Germany's reparation payments from 6.6B to 2B (not US dollars).

The first baseball commissioner, he was a federal judge known for honesty and toughness. He said that no player who even thought about throwing a game would ever be able to play pro baseball. He banned several White Sox players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, from ever being inducted into the Hall of Fame. His words and tough actions led to people having confidence in their heroes once again. He and Babe Ruth together brought back baseball's popularity.

This is the first organization to promote eugenic research in the US.

Andrew Mellon served in which of the following U.S. government positions?

The Indian Citizenship Act of _________ said all American Indians born in the U.S. were granted citizenship.

She was associated with the Harlem Renaissance? Her most famous work, Their Eyes Were Watching God, was published in 1937.

"It operated during the Prohibition era and racial segregation. It was operated by gangster Owen ""Owney"" Madden. Black performers entertained a white-only audience. It was located in NYC"

Secretary of the Treasury, had the idea for Liberty Bonds, by selling war bonds to Americans he raised more than \$20 billion. He also served as a senator of California and lost the U.S. presidential nomination twice.

A turf war between Chicago mobsters related to the bootlegging trade culminated in the ____________ of 1929.

American lawyer William Jennings Bryan supported the efforts of the ____________.

They are first generation Japanese immigrants.

____________ was first published in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Acheson Wallace. It was one of the largest circulations in the world.

He was the head of the Motion Picture Producers and distributors of America.

Who is the author of the following books: Tender Is the Night; This Side of Paradise; The Great Gatsby

He was known for profiting from a scheme involving mail fraud in the early 1920s.

32nd US President elected in 1932 - He began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII

He served in the U.S. House of Representatives, advised Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and was the Democratic Party nominee in the 1924 U.S. election.

___________ opened in New York City in 1914, and it was considered the first movie palace.

"The burial place of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, known as ""King Tut,"" was uncovered by British Egyptologist ______________."

She conducted experiments aimed at improving household efficiency, as well as arguing for women's vital role as consumers in a mass-production economy. She wrote books on these subjects, the best-known of which is probably Selling Mrs. Consumer, which offers an early justification for planned obsolescence as a necessary feature of the industrial economy.

Robert La Follette ran as a nominee of what political party in the 1924 presidential election?

____________ was an American inventor who developed a form of radio tube used for radio broadcasting and other systems.

A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921.

During the 1920s, _____________ made significant advancements in American advertising.

He was known for his studies of human intelligence, and he became associated with the eugenics movement in the early 20th Century.

Put the following in chronological order:<br>1. Calvin Coolidge<br>2. Warren G. Harding<br>3. Herbert Hoover

_____________ served as director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1924 to 1972.

"After receiving a law degree from the University of ________________ in 1881, Harry Daugherty returned to his birthplace and set up a legal practice. He served as U.S. attorney general from 1921 to 1924. It was Daugherty who predicted a deadlock at the Republican national convention that year, to be resolved, in his words, by a small group of men ""in a smoke-filled room"" who would pick Harding as the nominee."

_______________ joined the Anti-Saloon League in 1893 because he was inspired by the organization's cause.

Who discovered penicillin in 1928?

A person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the United States during Prohibition was known as a _____________.

He was best known for his exploration of Antarctica in the 1920s. Congress passed a special act on December 21, 1926, promoting him to the rank of commander and awarding both Floyd Bennett and him the Medal of Honor.

T. S. Eliot's poem loosely follows this legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King combined with vignettes of contemporary British society. Eliot employs many literary and cultural allusions from the Western canon, Buddhism and the Hindu Upanishads.

Who was the first Jewish U.S. Supreme Court justice appointed to the Court in 1916?

Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism.

In 1878 this physician marketed Granola, a wheat-oat-corn mixture advertised as healthier than the standard breakfast of sausage, eggs, and potatoes. In the next three decades he would also introduce wheat flakes, shredded wheat, and corn flakes.

An artistic movement of the 1920s and 1930s that attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior and delighted in outrageous conduct. Some of the artists included Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Kurt Schwitters.

From 1893 to 1933, the ____________ was a prominent force in influencing American Politics by lobbying against the manufacture and sale of alcohol.

In 1920, _________________ established his bootlegging business in Cincinnati. He chose the location because most of the whiskey in the U.S. was within 300 miles.

The Bureau of Public Roads commissioned _____________ to create a topographic road map of the U.S. to understand which roads were the most important in the event of war.

_______________ was an advertising executive for the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1920s in Louisiana.

Bessie Coleman was the first Black American and first woman of American Indian decent to hold a ______________ license.

This trial involved two men accused of murder who were both anarchists with radical political affiliations and were executed despite the fact that much of the evidence brought against them was disproven.

African American leader during the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. Was deported to Jamaica in 1927.

_____________ was an American politician who served as the 14th governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and as the 28th director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953. She was the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state, and remains the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming.

Warren G. Harding served as lieutenant governor for which state before becoming a US Senator from that same US State in 1914?

What major shift in the US population was shown in the 1920 census?

the purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest usually from a bank.

Under the leadership of Frances Willard in 1879, the ____________ expanded its platform to advocate for prison reform, labor laws, and suffrage.

____________, a home economist, worked to improve aspects of the household and promoted women's role as consumers in the American economy.

___________ led campaigns to rid suspected anarchists from the U.S. which fueled the Red Scare of 1919 and 1920.

______________ patented a number of techniques for flash-freezing in the 1920s.

What was the nickname given to Louis Armstrong, the outstanding trumpet and singer during the 1920s Jazz Age.

"William ""Jack"" Dempsey was known as the ______________. From 1919 to 1926, he reigned as the world champion in boxing."

W. E. B. Du Bois was a co-founder of what Progressive organization in 1909?

The 100% Americans concept stemmed from the ideologies of what organization?

"Who served as the assistant attorney general of the U.S. during the Prohibition era? She earned the nickname ""First Lady of the Law"" and enforced the 18th Amendment."

______________ is the tendency to take a mental diversion from aspects of daily life.

Which of these designers, who lived from 1883 to 1971, introduced styles that didn't utilize corsets, which resulted in garments that were both easier to make and easier to wear?

"Elizabeth ""Bessie"" Coleman was know for her contribution to ___________."

The owner of the Boston Red Sox, _____________, sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for 125,000 and \$300,000 in loans to finance his Broadway production.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was founded to defend the constitutional rights of individuals. One of the key events that led to the founding of the ACLU was ___.

The _____________ General Strike of 1919 was the first in a series of labor conflicts following World War I. The peaceful unions ignored threats of martial law, and the city mayor resigned to spread the word of the Red Peril.

_________________ was the first radio station that broadcasted the Presidential election returns of 1920.

"Which of these literary talents penned ""The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock"" and ""The Waste Land""?"

The Great Depression began with what incident in 1929?

KDKA began broadcasting in 1920 in what city/state?

The Women's Temperance Christian Union (WCTU) was founded in 1874 and came to prominence during the Progressive Era. By 1890, it was the largest organization of women in the world; it claimed about 350,000 members in the 1920's. Which two individuals served as presidents of the WCTU?

"Who coined the term ""Jazz Age""?"

FBI directer who urged HUAC to hold public hearings on communist subversion to find communist sympathisers and fellow travelers to isolate them and their influence. FBI sends agents to infiltrate groups suspected of subversion and wiretap telephones.

In 1878 this physician marketed Granola, a wheat-oat-corn mixture advertised as healthier than the standard breakfast of sausage, eggs, and potatoes. In the next three decades he would also introduce wheat flakes, shredded wheat, and corn flakes.

"During the first years of the alcohol Prohibition era he became notorious for his success in shutting down speakeasies and similar illegal drinking establishments that were supposed to be ""ungettable."" He operated between 1920 and 1925 in New York."

The most influential of the state-level progressive governors and a presidential aspirant in 1912.

"William Jennings Bryan rand for President of the United States three times (1896, 1900, and 1908). He served as Secretary of <br>State for ___; in 1925 he was a prosecutor in the Scopes Trial. He is often called ""The Great Commoner."""

Following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, __________ became the dictator of the world's first communist state.

American-born children of Japanese immigrants; second generation Japanese Americans.

leader of Anti-Saloon League; involved in drafting 18th amendment

American fundamentalist minister; he used colorful language and powerful sermons to drive home the message of salvation through Jesus and to oppose radical and progressive groups.

Methodist minister who was inspired by the motion picture, The Birth of a Nation, to recreate a white supremacist terrorist organization (KKK) that had existed in the south during the mid 19th century

"This former criminal lawyer was called the ""Titan of the Bootleggers"""

____________ allowed consumers during the 1920s to make major purchases with only a down payment.

"Known as the ""First Lady of Law,"" US Assistant Attorney General between 1921 and 1929. Mainly handled cases related to the Volstead Act. Served as the U.S. Assistant Attorney General during the Harding and Coolidge administrations"

_____________ was the Anti-Evolution Leagues official periodical with Dr. J. W. Porter as their first president.

Someone who breaks the law is considered a _______________

1922<br><b>Increased tariff schedules<br><>Tariffs were raised on farm produce to equalize American and foreign production<br><b>Gave the president the power to reduce or increase tariffs by 50% based on advice from the Tariff Commission<br><>Connected to American feelings toward isolationism

_______________ became the 36th state to ratify the 18th Amendment and officially making it an amendment to the US Constitution.

_______________ is credited with being the first person to televise pictures in motion.

Which individual is ranked as one of the most corrupt mayors in American history, primarily because of the open <br>alliance he maintained with Al Capone? Interestingly, he is the last Republican to have served as a mayor of Chicago; when he died, almost \$2 million in cash and bonds was discovered in two safe-deposit boxes belonging to him.

After the publication of _____________, T.S. Eliot became a literary critic and eventually seen as a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry.

United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951).

In 1924, founded The American Mercury, which featured works by new writers and much of his criticism on American taste, culture, and language. He attacked the shallowness and conceit of the American middle class.

Before joining the automobile industry, General Motors was the largest seller of ______________.

Who was Catholic, anti-Prohibition, and associated with the legacy of Tammany Hall in New York - all factors which contributed to a lopsided loss in the 1928 presidential election?

_____________ was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the brand, she was credited in the post-World War I era with popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style.

Entrepreneur who was the first African American woman to become a millionaire.

"Known as the ""Latin Lover, ""_____________ was a popular actor in the 1920s. Promoters had paid people to attend his funeral in an effort to boost his final film, The Son of the Sheik."

Al Capone was sent to prison not for the many killings he had ordered, but for tax evasion. Originally confined to the Atlanta <br>U.S. Penitentiary in 1932, he eventually served most of his sentence at _____________. Upon release, he lived in Miami, Florida, and was in poor health until his death in 1947.

Herbert Hoover was the ______________ when he demonstrated a one-way videophone between him and officials from AT&T in New York City.

_____________ solicited fund that promised returns from exchange rates. used gullible investor's money to pay back other investors so that people quickly invested.

"""Nobody else knew what he knew and with him dead there was nobody to tell the story - so Jesse Smith was murdered,"" said Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama. Smith had strong ties to which presidential administration?"

When it became apparent that railroads alone could not meet the logistical needs of the U.S. Army during World War I, a plan <br>was developed to improve infrastructure in the U.S. Most of the plan involved the creation of roads that could serve convoys of trucks carrying military equipment. Eventually, this plan became the basis for the Interstate Highway System. Which individual reported directly to Congress in 1922 about his infrastructure plan?

Mammoth Oil Company in Wyoming saw Harry Sinclair gain exclusive rights to _____________ reserves when President Warren Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil reserve lands from the Navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921.

The Federal Highway Act of 1921 _______________.

A prohibition repeal leader and Republican party official who was pictured on the cover of Time magazine in 1932.

RCA was founded as Radio Corporation of America by the General Electric Company in 1919 to acquire ___________________ (incorporated in 1899). A subsidiary of a British-owned company at that time was the only company capable of handling commercial transatlantic radio communications, and General Electric took it over with the assistance of the U.S. Navy Department, which was eager to keep the technology in American hands. For the following 50 years the company was led by David Sarnoff, who built the company into a modern communications conglomerate.

general interest family magazine founded in 1922 by the DeWitt and Lila Bell Wallace; known for its compactness with pages half the size of most magazines; edited by Liz Vaccariello.

The Jim Crow laws were upheld in what U.S. Supreme Court case in 1896?

___________ were émigrés who left Russia, primarily between 1917 and 1920, because they opposed the Russian Revolution. Welcomed in the U.S. at first, they were eventually the targets of xenophobia.

"Which Governor of Massachusetts declared, ""There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime."""

____________ the Secretary of the Treasury during the Harding Administration. He felt it was best to invest in tax-exempt securities rather than in factories that provided prosperous payrolls. He believed in trickle down economics. (Hamiltonian economics)

The Holland Tunnel began construction in 1920 and opened in 1927, becoming the longest underwater tunnel in the world at the time. It is located under what river?

N. Amer. informal a place where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally

"Al Smith was the first Roman Catholic nominated for the presidency and was known as the ""______________"" who failed to defeat Herbert Hoover in 1928."

_____________ was an American political figure. He was also the longest-serving head of New York City's Tammany Hall, a position he served from 1902 to 1924.

______________ was a Governor of Ohio, U.S. Representative from Ohio and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920.

_________ was a microbiologist who profoundly changed the future of medicine with his discovery of penicillin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945.

"____________ was founded in 1916, is credited with the creation of the ""self-service"" grocery store?"

Harry Daugherty, Albert Fall and Charles Forbes were all part of the ________________ during the Harding Administration.

____________ served as the first and longtime editor of the NAACP's The Crisis.

_____________ was the first African American to be elected to Congress in the 20th century, serving in the House of <br>Representatives from 1929 to 1935, during which time he introduced anti-lynching legislation?

The route from Chicago to Los Angeles was designated U.S. Highway 60. Various states raised objections to this designation. For example, ______________ protested that the plan left that state out entirely and that, based on the placement of the other proposed east-west roads, a highway numbered 60 logically should run through this state. _______________ subsequently received the route number 60, and the original Route 60 was changed first to 62 and then to 66 in the final version of the plan, approved on November 11, 1926.

"The term ""_______________"" was used in the 1920s to describe women who embraced the flapper lifestyle."

"The ""Roaring 20's"" are sometimes seen primarily as a backlash against the social mores of _____________."

Coco Chanel was known for her contribution to the fashion industry and was the first major designer to introduce ___________.

People who violated Prohibition for commercial gain violated the ______________ Act.

Located in New York City, the ______________ embodied the Art Deco skyscraper and briefly claimed the honor as the tallest building in the world in 1929.

____________ replaced the Chrysler Building as the worlds tallest building in 1931.

The 18th Amendment language called for Congress to pass enforcement legislation, and this was championed by Andrew Volstead, chairman of the House _____________________, who engineered passage of the National Prohibition Act (commonly referred to as the Volstead Act). The act was conceived by Anti-Saloon League leader Wayne Wheeler and passed over the veto of Pres. Woodrow Wilson.

The book ________________, written by Sigmund Freud, it marked a major turning point in the formulation of his drive theory, where Freud had previously attributed self-preservation in human behavior to the drives of Eros and the regulation of libido, governed by the pleasure principle. Revising this as inconclusive, Freud theorized newly considering the death drives (or Thanatos, the Greek personification of death) which refers to the tendency towards destruction and annihilation, often expressed through behaviors such as aggression, repetition compulsion, and self-destructiveness.

The __________________, written by Sigmund Freud is an analytical study of the human psyche outlining his theories of the psychodynamics, which is of fundamental importance in the development of psychoanalysis. The study was conducted over years of research and was first published in the third week of April 1923.

"1) Written by Sigmund Freud in 1927 <br>2) Explains that religious belief comes from the need to be protected as a child. Adults look to God much like children look to their father. <br>3) He concedes that religion cannot be disproved, but argues that ""ignorance is ignorance"" and that religion has not and will not solve society's problems."

The ___________________, is a book that explores what Freud sees as the important clash between the desire for individuality and the expectations of society, the book is considered one of Freud's most important and widely read works, and was described in 1989 by historian Peter Gay as one of the most influential and studied books in the field of modern psychology.