What is a simple explanation of the quota system

A limit to the number of immigrants.

What defined the consumer revolution?

A flood of new affordable products and payment plans

What best describes the Teapot Dome Scandal?

Oil lands owned by government used to gain personal wealth

What best describes modernism?

A way of thinking that focused on science over tradition

What best describes instalment buying?

make a down payment and make payments until it was paid for

How could one get into trouble buying on margin?

Buy at 10% of stock's price. If it falls Pay full price.

What could be said about the Ohio Gang?

Harding’s advisers interested in making money than helping.

Who was Louis Armstrong?

The unofficial ambassador of Jazz

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1
What did the flapper come to represent?
Corruption in government
The new modern American woman
New abstract art
The economy
2
What is a simple explanation of the quota system
A recording system
A limit to the amount of alcohol imported from Canada.
It defies explanation.
A limit to the number of immigrants.
3
What defined the consumer revolution?
A reaction to the Teapot Dome Scandal
A flood of new affordable products and payment plans
New electrical grids spreading across the country
Violence brought on by the high cost of consumer goods
4
What best describes the Teapot Dome Scandal?
High up government officials involved with smuggling alcohol
Tea pots filled with moonshine loaded into Dome Co. Trucks
Oil lands owned by government used to gain personal wealth
Group of radicals threw crates of tea off U.K. boat
5
What best describes modernism?
New politics that resembled the progressive movement
Someone who is mature for their age
A way of thinking that focused on science over tradition
The first iteration of techno music made by early computers
6
What best describes instalment buying?
make a down payment and make payments until it was paid for
pool money with other people to pay for a product then share
Put money away in a stall account and it would gain interest
Pay to lease a product for a time and then return it.
7
Ernest Hemingway wrote in a stripped down way that was both powerful and insightful.
False
True
8
What best describes Jazz?
Music that used improvisation
Blended European music with African blues and ragtime
Music that developed in the south and came north
All of the above
9
How could one get into trouble buying on margin?
It had been proven to be more harmful than eating butter.
It was illegal to buy stock on margin. It went unregulated.
Buy at 10% of stock's price. If it falls Pay full price.
Practice considered unethical doing it got you blacklisted
10
What could be said about the Ohio Gang?
Harding’s advisers interested in making money than helping.
Comedy troupe that gained fame for their slapstick routines.
Ran an illegal alcohol ring during the prohibition period
Worked to root out corruption in politics
11
Who was Louis Armstrong?
The pilot who flew a plane nonstop across the Atlantic
The first man to walk on the moon
The unofficial ambassador of Jazz
Member of Warren Harding's cabinet part of a kickback scheme
12
Babe Ruth was an American baseball player known for his home run record
True
False
13
The 18th amendment prohibited alcohol.
False
True
14
Charlie Chaplin was known for flying a single engine plane across the Atlantic Ocean non stop.
False
True
15
In a bull market stocks are on the rise.
False
True

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