1. What Was the Foreign Policy of the Presidents of the 1920 S?
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US History 1920’s Study Guide 1920’s Study Guide 1. What was the foreign policy of the Presidents of the 1920’s?
2. What was their domestic policies?
3. How did Republican presidents attempt to protect business in the 1920’s?
4. Name and explain the major scandal that occurred in the Harding administration.
5. How did Coolidge become President?
6. Who succeeded him?
7. What did the Fordney-McCumber & Hawley Smoot tariffs do?
8. What was the Dawes Plan?
9. What was the Red Scare?
10. Who was the Attorney General that sought to eliminate communism in the US?
11. What was the famous case as a result of the Red Scare?
12. Who were they and where were they from? What were they charged with? How did business use the Red Scare to their benefit?
13. What group experienced a resurgence in the 1920’s due to an influx of immigrants?
14. What was a nativist?
15. What was the name of the movement to outlaw liquor?
16. What were three results of the 18th amendment?
17. What city would have been the crime capital during the 1920’s?
18. Why did the US economy experience a brief recession after WWI?
19. What industry kick started the economy into a period of growth? US History 1920’s Study Guide
20. What man is synonymous with the automobile?
21. What inventions were making American’s lives easier in the 1920’s?
22. What were they doing for entertainment?
23. What became America’s pastime?
24. Who was Charles Lindbergh and what did he do?
25. How were they able to purchase these items? (two answers)
26. What were women called who cut their hair and wore short dresses?
27. What did Margaret Sanger promote?
28. What other name was the 1920’s referred to as?
29. Where did this music get its start?
30. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
31. Who was Marcus Garvey & what did he promote?
32. Who was the most black writer of this period?
33. What type of economic market did the US experience in the 1920’s?
34. How was the average American able to purchase stock? Explain it
35. Who was John Scopes?
36. What was the Scopes Monkey Trial about?
37. Who were the two attorneys and what side were they on?