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Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge called out the National Guard to break the Boston __firefighters__ strike.

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Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge called out the National Guard to break the Boston __firefighters__ strike.

People who oppose all forms of government are called __anarchists__.

"A dollar down and a dollar forever" represents a form of credit called the __installment plan__.

The panic surrounding the threat of communism in the early 1920's was called the "__Big Scare__".

False; Red Scare

The personal friends that President Harding put into his cabinet were known as the ___fall guys____.

False; Ohio Gang

The Teapot Dome scandal involved the secret leasing of government-owned ___oil reserves___ for profitable use by private companies.

Great changes in America's landscape were tied most closely to a large increase in the use of ___automobiles___ in the 1920's.

The Fordney-McCumber Tariff was adopted in 1922 to __lower__ the taxes on imported goods.

The main goal of the Washington Naval Conference was to reduce the threat of __communism__.

The quota system of the 1920's was created to reduce __tariffs__.

False; immigrants