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APUSH Chapter 33
APUSH 2014/2015
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Warren G. Harding | inaugurated in 1921; was largely ineffective because he was unable to detect corruption and immorality and didn't want to hurt people's feelings |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Harding's Secretary of State |
| Andrew Mellon | Harding's Secretary of Treasury |
| Herbert Hoover | Harding's Secretary of Commerce |
| Albert B. Fall | an anti conservationist who offset the work of Harding's good cabinet |
| Harry M. Daugherty | a big-time crook who offset the work of Harding's good cabinet |
| Charles R. Forbes | a Harding appointee who looted the Veteran's Bureau of $200 million |
| Calvin Coolidge | took over for Harding when he died; extremely shy and gave boring speeches; he sympathized with Mellon's efforts to reduce taxes and debts |
| John W. Davis | Democratic nominee to run against Coolidge and La Follette in the election of 1924 |
| Robert La Follette | ran for the Progressive Party in the election of 1924 on a platform of govt. ownership of railroads and relief for farmers; supported by AF of L and farmers |
| Alfred E. Smith | Democratic nominee for president in 1928 |
| "Ohio Gang" | the nickname for the party leaders from Harding's home state who used their offices for personal gain |
| American Legion | veterans' pressure group organized in Paris in 1919 by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt |
| Washington Conference | all naval powers were invited; established a 10-year hiatus on the construction of battleships and aircraft carriers; established that naval power should have the same proportional number of battleships and aircraft carriers |
| Kellogg-Briand Act | made because many Americans were calling for an "outlaw of war"; ratified by 62 nations; said that defensive wars were still okay; mostly delusionlal |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | raised the tariff from 27% to 35%; established that Europe could no longer sell goods in the US to pay off war debt |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall convinced the Secretary of Navy to transfer valuable oil reserves to his department; Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny bribed him to lease them the lands |
| McNary-Haugen Bill | sought to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing the government to buy up surpluses and sell them abroad; vetoed twice by Coolidge |
| Dawes Plan | negotiated by Charles Dawes; rescheduled German payments and opened the way for further American loans to Germany; made the Allies pay war debts to the US |
| Agricultural Marketing Act | designed to help farmers; set up the Federal Farm Board which could lend money to farm organizations seeking help with surpluses |
| Hawley-Smoot Tariff | raised the tariff to 60% and deepened the growing depression |
| Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929; millions of stocks sold and holders lost $40 billion |
| Muscle Shoals Bill | vetoed by Hoover; designed to dam the Tennessee River in order to sell government-produced electricity |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | established in 1932 to provide indirect economic relief by assisting companies, banks, organizations, and state and local goverments |
| Bonus Army | the name for the large group of impoverished and unemployed veterans who converged on Washington in 1932 to lobby and intimidate Congress into passing favorable legislation |
| Stimson Doctrine | declared to Japan and China that the US would not recognize any international territorial changes brought about by force |
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