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Model of stability during the 1920s.
a) Calvin Coolidge
b) Herbert Hoover
c) Andrew Mellon
d) Albert Fall

Coolidge believe legislation was not meant to promote what?
a) Big Business
b) Political Advancement
c) Social Change
d) Industrial Growth

Who said, “The Business of America is Business.”?
a) Herbert Hoover
b) Calvin Coolidge
c) Warren G. Harding
d) Andrew Mellon

The Teapot Dome Scandal did not have a lasting impact on the Republican Party.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

Who sold the oil at Teapot Dome, Wyoming?
a) Calvin Coolidge
b) Warren G. Harding
c) Andrew Mellon
d) Albert Fall

Where else was oil sold from other than Teapot Dome?
a) Elk Hills
b) Antelope Run
c) Buffalo Creek
d) Mule Deer Flat

Andrew Mellon held what position?
a) Secretary of the Treasury
b) Secretary of the Interior
c) Secretary of Commerce
d) Secretary of War

Albert Fall held what position?
a) Secretary of Commerce
b) Secretary of War
c) Secretary of the Interior
d) Secretary of the Treasury

What is one thing Andrew Mellon promoted?
a) Higher Taxes
b) Lower Taxes
c) Business Regulation
d) Social Reform

Rather than pursue reform, as the Progressives had done, Harding and his successor, Calvin Coolidge, favored more conservative policies that aided what?
a) Navy Improvement
b) Breaking up Industries
c) World Involvement
d) Growth in Business

What slogan did Harding run for office under?
a) “Return to Normalcy”
b) “Reforming our Future”
c) “Bringing back Better”
d) “Great America”

Harding Administration; Sec. of the Interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes.
a) Buffalo Creek Scandal
b) Teapot Dome Scandal
c) Elk Hill Reserves Crisis
d) Mule Run Disaster

American financier, philanthropist, and secretary of the treasury (1921–32) who reformed the tax structure of the U.S. government in the 1920s.
a) Andrew Mellon
b) Albert Fall
c) George Dewey
d) Herbert Hoover

a 20th century secret fraternal group held to confine its membership to American-born white Christians.
a) Nativist Natives
b) Inner Circle
c) Free Masons
d) Ku Klux Klan

the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.
a) Politics
b) Eugenics
c) Anarchist
d) Federalist

science that deals with the improvement (as by control of human mating) of hereditary qualities of a race or breed.
a) Politics
b) Teapot Dome Scandal
c) Eugenics
d) Heratitation

person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power.
a) Eugenics
b) Federalist
c) Anti-Federalist
d) Anarchist

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