The Roaring Twenties

________ was elected in 1920 to return America to "normalcy" after the massive reforms of the Progressive Era and World War I.

• Warren G. Harding
• Calvin Coolidge
• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

The _______ Scandal, in which oil companies illegal drilled oil from public lands, illustrates the return of laissez-faire during the Harding administration and the 1920's.

• Teapot Dome
• Watergate
• Credit Mobilier
• Whiskey Ring

The Teapot Dome scandal inspired the political career of ______ who vowed as a boy to clean up the corruption in Washington, DC, graduated from the first class of Duke's new law school, and entered politics after serving in WWII.

• Richard M. Nixon
• John F. Kennedy
• Gerald Ford
• Ronald Reagan

_________ became president upon the death in office of Warren G. Harding.

• Calvin Coolidge
• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Harry S Truman

The FBI was formed to combat communism and prohibition organized crime.  ______ was appointed as its first director and would become one of the most powerful men in Washington, D. C. until his death in 1972 due to his secret files he kept celebrities and politicians.

• J. Edgar Hoover
• A. Mitchel Palmer

Silent Calvin Coolidge's quote, "the business of America is business" illustrates the commitment of government in the 1920's to _______.

• laissez-faire economics
• Keynesian economics
• socialism
• reformed capitalism

What caused the stock market to crash in 1929 which ended the The Roaring Twenties and kicked off the Great Depression?

• Buying stocks on margin
• The farm crisis
• too much credit and easy money in the 1920's
• all of these

_____ was the first woman to swim the English channel.

• Gertrude Ederle
• Babe Ruth
• Red Grange
• Hanna Klein

Why was jazz considered a culturally innovative, rebellious, and wild form of music in the 1920s that would have been hated by your parents?

• Jazz is the first form of uniquely American music
• Jazz is rooted in the African American culture and rhythms of the deep south cities such as New Orleans
• Jazz breaks many traditional rules of music such as it is played off beat, allows musicians to improvise instead of following strict forms, and causes new "immoral" forms of dancing
• all of these

The election of _______ in 1928 symbolizes America's happiness with progressive reforms such as prohibition and laissez-faire economics.  He was as self-,made man after being abandoned/adopted, worked his way through Stanford, and becoming a millionaire as a brilliant mining engineer.  

• Herbert Hoover
• Calvin Coolidge
• Warren Harding
• Franklin Roosevelt