General Facts 1
Eighteen strikers died in what industry's strike in 1919?
steel workers
Which item became a symbol of corruption in the Harding administration?
Teapot Dome
economic system based on free enterprise
Capitalism
founded Universal Negro Improvement Association
Marcus Garvey
True or False: An accidental discovery of mold on a petri dish led to the discovery of antibiotics
True
Who won the presidential election of 1928?
Herbert Hoover
An economic downturn is called what?
Recession
promised a return to "normalcy"
Warren G. Harding
1920s "liberated" women
Flappers
True or False: Capri-Sun, Nutella, and Covergirl were all brands of the 1920s.
False (Kool-Aid, Welch's, and Maybelline)
The study of how goods can be produced more quickly is called what?
scientific management
More often than not, people used the installment plan to buy what mode of transportation?
Car
blend of ragtime and blues
jazz
believed in having no government
anarchists
True or False: Wall Street was bombed in 1929.
False (1920, killing 30 and injuring over 300 and the perpetrators were never caught)
In the 1920s, what Hollywood industry became one of the country's leading businesses?
Motion pictures
Who was the baseball player whose record of 60 home runs in 1927 would stand for 34 years?
Babe Ruth
Bolsheviks
Communists
Warren G. Harding's friends
Ohio Gang
True or False: Children were sent through the postal service in the 1920s.
True
Who was a writer and an expatriate?
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The law that established a quota system for immigration was what?
National Origins Act
calls for outlawing war
Kellogg-Briand Pact
evolutionists versus fundamentalists
Scopes Trial
True or False: The invention of sliced bread was an instant hit in 1928.
False (people hated it)