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100

This economic system is based on private property and free enterprise, which the Bolsheviks urged workers to overthrow.  

What is Capitalism?

100
  •  This massive population movement saw 500,000 African Americans move to northern cities for jobs.

What is the Great Migration?

100
  •  Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge won the 1920 election by promising a return to this. 

What is Normalcy?

100
  • This policy involves a nation staying out of the affairs of other nations.

What is isolationism?

100
  •  This total value of all goods and services produced by a nation rose to $100 billion by 1929.

What is the Gross National Product or GNP?

200
  •  This term describes a person who believes there should be no government at all.

What is an Anarchist?

200
  • This Jamaican-born leader founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the "Back to Africa" movement.

Who is Marcus Garvey?

200
  • Symbol of corruption in Harding's administration involving the illegal leasing of oil reserves.

What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?

200
  •  Harding and Coolidge both refused to join this international organization, fearing foreign alliances.

What is the League of Nations?

200
  • This manufacturing method, pioneered by Henry Ford, increased productivity and cut costs.

What is the assembly line?

300
  •  This was the period when the government went after "Reds" and others with radical views.

What is the Red Scare?

300
  •  Steel companies crushed the 1919 strike by accusing workers of being these.

What are "Red Agitators"?

300
  •  This Secretary of the Interior was the first cabinet official to ever go to prison.

Who is Albert Fall?

300
  •  In 1922, five nations signed this treaty to limit the size of their navies and begin disarming.

What is the Five-Power Treaty?

300
  • This "age" stimulated the economy and led to the need for new highways and gas stations.

What is the Automobile Age?

400
  •  Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and this deputy ordered the arrest of 10,000 suspected radicals.

Who is J. Edgar Hoover?

400
  •  After these public employees went on strike in 1919, the entire force was fired.

Who are the Boston Police?

400
  •  Known as "Silent Cal," he took a hands-off approach to government and was a friend to business. 
  • $500: She was one of the first women to win a governor's race, specifically in Wyoming. (Who is Nellie Tayloe Ross?)

Who is Calvin Cooledge?

400

 This 1928 pact signed by 62 nations essentially "outlawed war," though it lacked enforcement. 


What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

400
  • This new way of purchasing products allowed consumers to "buy now and pay later" in small regular amounts.

What is installment buying?

500
  • To be expelled from a country, as happened to several hundred aliens during the Red Scare. 

What is deported?

500
  •  He started the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to represent African American railroad workers. 

Who is A. Phillip Randolph?

500
  •  She was one of the first women to win a governor's race, specifically in Wyoming. 

Who is Nellie Taylor Ross?

500
  •  In the mid-1920s, the U.S. withdrew troops from Nicaragua and this Caribbean nation after they held elections.

What is the Dominican Repubilic?

500
  •  To discourage unions, companies used this system of providing health insurance and safety programs to workers. 

What is Welfare Capitalism?