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The term that means someone who opposes any form of government?
What is an anarchist?
In the early 1920s, there was a police strike in this city where all the police were fired and replaced.
What is Boston?
President Harding motto included a "Return to ______________________"
What is normalcy?
This President fit into the pro-business spirit in the 1920s.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
What word means to stay out of conflicts and moving away from all foreign affairs
What is Isolationism?
This type of immigration system passed in 1921 and updated in 1924 limited the amount of immigrants to 2% of their current population.
Buying goods on credit meaning having this, allowing people to buy goods over an extended period
What is an Installment Plan?
A political and economic system based on a single-party government with ownership by the government ruled by a dictatorship
What is Communism?
John L. Lewis became a leader of protesting low wages and long workdays in this industry
What is coal mining?
The name given to President Harding's cabinet that meant they were poker-playing cronies that would be an embarrassment
What is the Ohio Gang?
He became a worldwide hero after flying his plane the "Spirit of St. Louis" across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
A word that means to be fearful of immigrants or outsiders
What is Nativism?
This group saw membership surge to over 4 million people based on keeping "blacks in their place," keeping unions and communists out, and forcing Catholics, Jews, and immigrants out of the country.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
President Harding was the only President to be inaugurated......
On his birthday
This invention became accessible to the masses as prices came down because of Henry Ford's development of the assembly line.
What is the automobile?
A word that means cities spreading in all directions
What is urban sprawl?
The Red Scare started in the United States in 1919 after revolutionaries overthrew the government in the country
What is Russia?
Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall sold oil land to friends and was a scandal called this.
What is the Tea Pot Dome Scandal?
This was the name of the legendary road that many people would use trying to get from Chicago to California.
What is Route 66?