1920s Society & Government

Who won the presidential election of 1920?

• Warren Harding

• Calvin Coolidge

• J Edgar Hoover

• Theodore Roosevelt

The US became known as a creditor nation following WWI because:

• They owed $ to European countries

• Other countries owed the US more than the US owed them

• US loaned $ to Vladimir Lenin to fund the Russian Revolution

• The United States had a great credit score

What was the Dawes Plan?

• US loaned money to Germany so they could pay their war debts to Britain and France

• Give Native Americans land for farming

• Outlaw world wars due to the outrageous financial cost

• Form an alliance between European countries

Why did Harding's 'return to normalcy' prompt economic growth?

• Increased government spending

• Encouraged progressive legislation for the poor

• It favored a return to traditional laissez-faire economics

• Placed tariffs on many foreign goods

What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?

• Harding's administration took bribes from Oil Tycoons

• President was caught drinking British Tea instead of Coffee

• Scandal that caused the trust in the government to skyrocket

• Government took $ from dome building companies

How did Henry Ford contribute to the economic growth of the US?

• He revolutionized the world of advertising

• He devised a credit system for people to buy things using installment plans

• He transformed the railroad industry

• He increased industrial productivity through the use of assembly lines and mass production

What was the impact of installment buying?

• Economy slowed b/c of high interest rates

• Economy slowed because credit was unavailable to many Americans

• Economy grew b/c installment buying allowed factory owners to build more factories

• Economy grew b/c Americans purchased more goods that would have originally took years of saving to afford

in 1920, the US census showed that for the first time, more people now lived in ____ instead of rural areas:

• The Country

• Urban Cities

• Far away suburbs

• Southern agricultural communities

Fundamentalism:

• Science and secular views are more important than religious values

• Cities had become overrun with immigrants

• Protestant teachings of the Bible were literal truth, everything can be answered by the Bible

• Science was the future of advancing American society

Eugenics supported the idea that:

• Certain ethnic groups were inferior due to undesirable physical and social traits

• certain races of people would eventually become extinct

• All races and ethnicities were created equal

• Immigration could help increase the economic power of the US