Econ 101
Harding and Coolidge both generally agreed with this economic philosophy.
What is laissez-faire?
The political party of Warren G. Harding?
What is Republican?
America's sole unique art form.
What is Jazz?
Outlawed war forever, also not a cereal.
What is Kellogg-Briand Pact?
These new women symbolized the Jazz Age.
Who were Flappers?
This was the standard measure of the strength of an economy during the 20s. It accounted for all the goods and services bought or sold by citizens of a country.
What is GNP?
The first Catholic to run for president in the US.
Who was Al Smith?
"Great" author of the Lost Generation. He wrote on of the "Great" American novels about the 20s talking about parties, liquor, bootlegging, and materialism.
Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Stated goal of US foreign Policy during the 1920s.
What is isolationism?
This mammoth scandal led to the fall of SecInterior Fall.
What is the Teapot Dome Affair?
This animalistic term describes a period of fear in the market. In other words NOT the 1920s.
What is a bear market?
US Attorney General given the task of chasing communists in the 1920s.
Who was A. Mitchell Palmer?
Leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who was Langston Hughes?
The Washington Naval Conference Established these ratios for capital ships. (Yes, I want all of them but I don't need the countries)
What is 5-5-3-1.75-1.75?
Law-man who was most responsible for eventually captured Al Capone.
Who was Eliot Ness?
During the 20s this sector of the US economy was weak, although most didn't realize it.
What is agriculture?
The Immigration Act of 1924 created a tighter one of these.
What is a quota system?
Biggest dance fad of the 1920s.
What was the Charleston?
American intervention in Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, and such places during the 1920s and 1930s can be summed up neatly with this tasty phase.
What are banana wars?
This eponymously named plan temporarily stabilized the German economy. It won its creator a Nobel Peace Prize.
What was the Dawes Plan?
This act, vetoed four times, was an attempt to promote parity between farm and non-farm goods. It would have made the government by unsold American farm products.
What is McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill?
America's 2nd best treasury secretary. Helped lower the National Debt by $6 Billion in less that 6 years.
Who was Andrew Mellon?
The Greatest Jazz Composer of the era.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
This was the cause of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1933. Looking back it really was the first action of World War II.
What was the Mukden Incident?
First woman elected to the US House of Reps, then she voted against war...twice.
Who was Jeannette Rankin?