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100

This US President succeeded Woodrow Wilson and had the slogan "Back to Normalcy."

Who is Warren G. Harding?

100

This payment method allowed buyers to pay for goods on credit instead of the full price up front.

What is installment buying?

100

This scandal involved a Cabinet member secretly leasing government property to oil executives.

What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?

100

This was an association of nations that formed after World War I under President Wilson's Fourteen Points plan.

What is the League of Nations?

100

This term refers to the rapid economic growth caused by President Coolidge's pro-business policies.

What is "Coolidge Prosperity"?

200

This US President followed President Harding and was sometimes known as "Silent Cal." His pro-business policies contributed to a period of rapid economic growth.

Who was Calvin Coolidge?

200

Businesses sold these shares of ownership to investors.

What are stocks?

200

This scandal involved the head of the Veterans Bureau embezzling money from the bureau and is rumored to have contributed to the president's sudden death.

What was the Forbes Scandal?

200

This nation sent observers to the League of Nations but refused to formally join.

What is the United States of America?

200

This is an economic slump where many people may lose jobs or companies may stop producing some materials.

What is a recession?

300

This was the Secretary of the Interior, and he was involved in a scandal where he secretly leased government property to two oil executives. He was the first Cabinet official ever sent to prison.

Who is Albert Fall?

300

This is a period of increased stock trading and rising stock prices. 

What is a bull market?

300

This scandal involved President Harding having a fifteen year affair with Carrie Fulton Phillips—the wife of one of his best friends from his hometown of Marion, Ohio.

What was the Harding's Hush Scandal?

300

This union, created by V. I. Lenin, was the world's first communist state.

What is the Soviet Union?

300

This is an economic system in which all wealth and property are owned by the community as a whole as opposed to each individual person.

What is communism?

400

This man, a wealthy financier, became the Secretary of the Treasury on Warren G. Harding's Cabinet.

Who is Andrew Mellon?

400

This marketing method boosted sales of consumer goods by making people believe that their happiness depended on owning new products and electronics.

What is advertising?

400

This is the government position that Albert Fall of the Teapot Dome Scandal held.

What is the Secretary of Interior?

400

This treaty, which was signed by 62 nations in 1928, outlawed war but had the fatal flaw of providing no means to keep the peace.

What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

400

This is the reduction of armed forces and weapons of war.

What is disarmament?

500

This man, an old friend of President Harding, was on Harding's Cabinet as the head of the Veterans Bureau. He was later convicted of stealing millions of dollars from the Bureau.

Who was Charles Forbes?

500

This invention's sales caused about 4 million Americans to owe their jobs to it, directly or indirectly.

What is an automobile/car?

500

This is the government position held by Charles Forbes, who embezzled money from the government.

What is the head of the Veterans Bureau?

500

A revolution in this Central American country broke out in 1926. Americans owned plantations and railroads here, so President Coolidge sent marines to oversee new elections.

What is Nicaragua?

500

This term refers to someone who wants the United States of America to stay out of world affairs.

What is an isolationist?