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In the 1920s, many investors bought stocks on margin – that is, with borrowed funds. 

elected vice president in 1900, then president, bully pulpit, used the muckrakers to get his policies through

The papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst helped invent what came to be known as “yellow journalism.”

Henry Cabot Lodge was one of the biggest supporters of the League of Nations.

As a result of the Scopes trial:

The Zimmerman telegram, sent to the Mexican government from the White House, was intercepted by the Germans.

The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan, urban America against the values of an insular, rural America.

Appointed justice of the peace in the District of Columbia

Fought against Indians in Kentucky

The New Jersey Plan proposed keeping unicameral legislature with equal representation for each state.