People Part I
$100 – This president’s administration was rocked by scandals such as the Teapot Dome.
Answer: Who is Warren G. Harding?
$100 – He wrote The Great Gatsby and captured the spirit of the Jazz Age.
Answer: Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
$100 – This president believed the government should not provide relief after the Mississippi Flood of 1927.
Answer: Who is Calvin Coolidge?
$100 – This production method increased worker output by 40% but led to repetitive, boring work.
Answer: What is the assembly line?
$100 – This 1927 film starring Al Jolson was the first feature-length “talkie.”
Answer: What is The Jazz Singer?
$200 – This aviator became a global celebrity after flying solo across the Atlantic in 1927.
Answer: Who is Charles Lindbergh?
$200 – This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote about the struggles and dreams of African Americans.
Answer: Who is Langston Hughes?
$200 – This scandal involved the secret leasing of federal oil reserves for bribes.
Answer: What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
$200 – This raised import taxes to protect American industry in the early 1920s.
Answer: What is the Fordney-McCumber Tariff?
$200 – The 1920s saw a boom in this new medium, beginning with reporting Harding’s election on November 2, 1920.
Answer: What is radio?
$300 – This baseball star symbolized the decade’s sports craze and hit record-breaking home runs.
Answer: Who is Babe Ruth?
$300 – He introduced Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie, launching a new era in animation.
Answer: Who is Walt Disney?
$300 – This act restricted immigration to 2% of a nationality’s representation in the 1890 census.
Answer: What is the National Origins Act of 1924?
$300 – Farmers suffered in the 1920s mainly because European agriculture revived and this dropped sharply.
Answer: What are grain prices?
$300 – Increased automobile use gave women more independence but also created new anxieties in this key social institution.
Answer: What is the family?
$400 – He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and promoted Black pride and economic independence.
Answer: Who is Marcus Garvey?
$400 – These two Italian immigrants became the center of a controversial murder trial reflecting 1920s nativism.
Answer: Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
$400 – Harding and Coolidge followed this foreign policy approach that prioritized U.S. economic interests while avoiding political entanglements.
Answer: What is independent internationalism?
$400 – Buying consumer goods with “buy now, pay later” installment plans was called this.
Answer: What is buying on credit (or buying on margin, when referring to stocks)?
$400 – This cultural movement in New York celebrated Black art, literature, and music.
Answer: What is the Harlem Renaissance?
$500 – This Tennessee teacher was put on trial for teaching evolution in 1925.
Answer: Who is John T. Scopes?
$500 – This musician became one of the leading jazz orchestra leaders of the Harlem Renaissance.
Answer: Who is Duke Ellington?
$500 – The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact attempted to outlaw what as a tool of national policy, signed by over 60 nations?
Answer: What is war?
$500 – What was the McNary-Haugen Bill? Hint: This unsuccessful proposal was vetoed by Coolidge 4 times
Answer: would have required the government to buy surplus farm products to stabilize prices.
$500 – This major social conflict reached a public climax in a Tennessee courtroom over the teaching of evolution.
Answer: What is the Scopes Trial?