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2. What sports star was nicknamed The Sultan of Swat?

3. Babe Ruth

4. What music with its bold solos and improvisational freedom is recognized as a distinctly American contribution to music?

5. Jazz

6. The Great Migration had a significant impact on the political power of African Americans in the

7. North

8. President Coolidge believed that government should interfere with business as little as possible and that prosperity rested on the shoulders of

9. Business leadership

10. President Harding’s Secretary of the Interior was involved in a scandal known as

11. Teapot Dome Scandal

12. What system of manufacturing adopted by Henry Ford divided operations into simple tasks

13. Assembly line

14. To create consumers for their new products, manufacturers turned to

15. advertising

16. Henry Ford single-handedly changed the auto from a toy of the wealthy to an affordable necessity for the

17. Middle class

18. The consumer goods industry created new products for

19. The home

20. The General Accounting Office was set up in 1921 to

21. Track government spending

22. The chief architect of economic policy in the US during the 1920’s was

23. Andrew Mellon

24. What crippled the German economy?

25. Reparations payments

26. Hoover tried to balance government regulation with his own philosophy of

27. Cooperative individualism

28. In order to protect loans made by stockbrokers to investors who bought stocks on margin, brokers could issue a

29. Margin call

31. What severely dampened commerce on both sides of the Atlantic and intensified the depression in the US?

32. The Hawley—Smoot Tariff

33. In 1929 the top 5 percent of all American households earned 30 percent of the nation’s income, which is

34. An uneven distribution of wealth

35. October 29, 1929

36. Black Tuesday

37. The Glass-Steagall Act separated commerical banking from

38. Investment banking

39. The Public Works Administration was created to put people back to work in the

40. Construction industry

41. He built the Great Northern Railroad

42. James Hill

43. He used information he received as a railroad owner to manipulate stock prices

44. Jay Gould

45. He documented slum life in his book “How the Other Half Lives.”

46. Jacob Riis

47. Law that reformed civil service

48. Pendleton Act

49. Wrote a best-selling book that helped to build public support for a big navy

50. Alfred T Mahan