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19 Cards in this Set
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Coolidge believed that prosperity rested on _____________ and that part of his job as president was to make sure that ____________ interfered with ____________ as little as possible.
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- business leadership
- government - business & industry |
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In the presidential election of 1924, the ____________ were so deeply divided that they had to make _____ attempts to find a candidate acceptable to the majority of the delegates.
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- South & West
- 103 |
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Republican Coolidge won the election with more than ________ the popular votes and _____ electoral votes.
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- half
- 382 |
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In a 1925 survey conducted in Muncie, Indiana, _____ out of _____ families who owned cars did not have ____________.
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- 21
- 26 - bathtubs with running water |
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___________ soared 22 percent between 1923 and 1929
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- Real per capita earnings
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As Americans' ________ increased, their ________ decreased.
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- wages
- work hours |
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In 1926 International Harvester instituted an annual _________________ for employees
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- two weeks paid vacation
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The implementation of ____________ created more supply and reduced consumer costs.
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- mass production
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Henry Ford's _____________ system divided operations into simple tasks that unskilled workers could do, and it cut unnecessary motion to a minimum.
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- assembly line
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Ford increased his workers' wages in 1914 to ________ and reduced the workday to ___________
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- $5.00 a day
- 8 hour shifts |
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Automaking alone consumed __________ of the nation's steel and the flood of cars stimulated a tremendous expansion of the ____________
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- 15%
- petroleum industry |
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The automobile created new small- business opportunities such as ______________
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- garages and gas stations
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The transatlantic solo flight of former airmail pilot ___________ in 1927 most powerfully demonstrated the possibilities of aviation
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- Charles Lindbergh
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In 1926 the ____________ established a permanent network of radio stations to distribute daily programs
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- National Broadcasting Company
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In 1928 Americans experienced complete coverage of the first ____________conducted over the airwaves
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- presidential election
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One notable aspect of the economic boom was the growth of ______________
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- individual borrowing
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The managerial revolution in companies created a new career, the ___________
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- professional manager
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__________ did not share in the prosperity of the 1920s
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- American farmers
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The _____________of 1922 dampened the American market for foreign goods and provoked a reaction in froeign markets against___________
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- Fordney-McCumber Act
- agricultural products |
