Roaring Twenties Flashcards About the Americans

What we have here are some roaring twenties flashcards about the Americans. During this significant period, there was a considerable increase in the status of living as the economy started doing better after the war, and consumers were buying things at a significant rate. Do read the flashcards and get to learn some more about this vital period that started so strong and ended so weak.

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Republican candidate in the 1920 elections who took the Presidency
Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding's Republican running mate in the 1920 elections who became Vice President and later, President
Calvin Coolidge
President Warren G. Harding's Democratic opponents in the 1920 elections
James J. Cox & Franklin D. Roosevelt
Secretary of State who advocated the 10 year holiday from building warships during the Washington Naval Conference
Charles Evans Hughes
The national meeting in Washington DC where nations were encouraged to begin to disarm
Washington Naval Conference
The pact that renounced war as an instrument of national policy
Kellog-Briand Pact
The US tariff that raised the tax on imports to almost 60%
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Germany's industrial area that France invaded due to Germany defaulting on war debts
Ruhr Vally
The American banker sent to negotiate loans to Germany to avoid war over debts
Charles G. Dawes
The US act and resulting system that limited immigration from Europe (did not apply to the Western Hemisphere)
The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 & the quota system
(1 of 2) The US act that shifted the base year of the quota system from 1890 to 1920
The National Origins Act of 1929
Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 agreement with Japan to limit immigration to the US
The Gentlemen's Agreement
(2 of 2) The US act that reduced the total number of immigrants admitted to the US to 150,000 a year
The National Origins Act of 1929
The bureau that President Warren G. Harding set up to help the government run more efficiently
The Bureau of Budget
The secretary of state, appointed by President Warren G. Harding, who later became chief justice of the Supreme Couort
Charles Evans Hughes