Politics and Prosperity
Name the three Republican Presidents from the Roaring Twenties.
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
18th Amendment (Prohibition)
The author of the Great Gatsby was?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What industry was hit hardest after World War I?
Agriculture/Farming
The first Catholic to run for president was this man who lost to Herbert Hoover in 1928.
Alfred E. Smith (NY Governor)
Warren G. Harding's group of friends were known as?
The Ohio Gang
The Prohibition Amendment was repealed in 1933 by what Constitutional Amendment?
21st Amendment
This famous poet wrote "I, Too" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers..."
Langston Hughes
The Red Scare was based on an irrational fear of what group of people?
Communists
Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean...Lucky Lindy accomplished this feat in a plane named?
The Spirit of St. Louis
Name the two most famous scandals from the Harding Administration.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Veterans Bureau Scandal
Al Capone
Who was the first woman to swim across the English Channel?
Gertrude Ederle
What happened to Sacco and Vanzetti?
They were executed
Reduction of weapons of war and armed forces is known as?
Disarmament
Name the first Cabinet official in American history to go to jail.
Albert Fall
This Constitutional Amendment granted suffrage to women.
19th Amendment
How many total home runs did Babe Ruth hit in his storied career?
714
John Scopes was arrested for teaching high school students what scientific theory?
The Theory of Evolution
This (unsuccessful) treaty outlawed war.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Calvin Coolidge believed that government should let business self-regulate by keeping its hands off of Free Markets...this economic idea is known as?
Laissez-Faire Economics
The first parklike highway in the United States was built in 1925 and located in NYC...What highway is this?
The Bronx River Parkway
My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends- / It gives a lovely light.
Who wrote this famous poem from 1920 entitled: "First Fig" ?
Which important African American leader taught Black Nationalism, "Back to Africa", and the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Marcus Garvey
The League of Women Voters was led by?
Carrie Chapman Catt