1.  What factors contributed to American disillusionment after World War I?
2.  What kind of president was Warren G. Harding?
3.  What were some of the scandals involving Harding's administration?
4.  What was Calvin Coolidge's attitude towards business?
5.  How did the Republican Party change between 1920 and 1924?
6.  What was Andrew Mellon's "experiment"?
7.  What were Republican attitudes towards government regulation of business?
8.  How did corporate profits compare to worker compensation in the 1920s?
9.  How did agricultural interests fare under the Republicans?
10.  What were brokers' loans?
11.  Describe the transformation of business morals in the Twenties.
12.  How would you describe the official "business philsophy" of the New Era?
13.  How did Herbert Hoover's book, American Individualism, provide the moral justification for an era of excess?
14.  What kind of policies did Hoover follow as president in his first months in office?
15.  How did the federal government respond to danger signs within the economy in 1928 and 1929?
16.  Describe the events of late October, 1929.
17.  Be able to sum up the causes of the Crash.


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