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Home dishwashers, home refrigerators, radio, sliced bread, insulin, penicillin, the bandaid, etc.
Name one invention from the 1920s
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credit
This allowed consumers to buy products and pay for them later.
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Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover
Name the 3 presidents that held office during the 1920s.
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Herbert Hoover
Who was the president during the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
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The "Roaring Twenties"
The 1920s are often referred to as [blank] because of the economic boom and growing party scenes.
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Penicillin
What invention launched the "age of antibiotics" in 1928?
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consumer products
The American economy had shifted from heavy industry to [blank] during the early 20th century.
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Republican
What party held the Presidency for most of the 1920s?
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Warren G. Harding
Which president died in office during the 1920s?
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True
True or False: the 1920s saw a shift away from traditional conservatism.
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1923
What year was the traffic signal invented?
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It prevented Europe from exporting good to the United States to stimulate their economy after the war.
What did the Fordney-McCumber tariff do?
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A feeling that people have of being loyal to and proud of their country.
What is nationalism?
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Calvin Coolidge
Which president decided not to run for a second term in 1928?
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Each country's annual immigrant quota was 2% of the number of persons from that country in 1890.
What were the terms of the Immigration Act of 1924?
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5
By the end of the 1920s, how many national radio networks did America have?
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overproduction
This is the economic practice of supplying more goods than are demanded.
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The belief that a country should not be involved with other countries.
What is isolationism?
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Warren G. Harding
Which president's campaign slogan was "A return to normalcy"?
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1921
When did Congress pass the Emergency Quota Act?
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Insulin
What invention in 1922 helped save those suffering from Diabetes?
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The practice of purchasing stocks based on expected future earnings from already-owned stocks.
What is "buying on the margin"?
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The Teapot Dome Scandal
This scandal was a bribery incident that took place during Harding's presidency.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Who replaced Herbert Hoover as president in 1932?
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact
President Coolidge signed [blank] with other nations to "outlaw war" in an effort keep another world war from ever happening.
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