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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The worst single event of the great stock market crash of 1929. | Black Tuesday |
| Extremely high tariff act that killed international trade and deepened the Great Depression. | Hawley-Smoot Tariff |
| The ''Happy Warrior'' who attracted votes in the cities but lost them in the south. | Al Smith |
| Harding's interior secretary , convicted of taking bribes for leases on federal oil reserves. | Albert B. Fall |
| Weak compromise Democratic candidate in 1924. | John Davis |
| U.S Attorney general and a member of Harding's corrupt ''Ohio Gang'' who was forced to resign in administration scandals. | Harry Daugherty |
| Strong minded leader of Harding's cabinet and initiator of major naval agreements. | Charles E. Hughes |
| Wealthy industrialists and conservative secretary of the treasury in the 1920's. | Andrew Mellon |
| Weak willed president whose easygoing ways opened the door to widespread corruption in his adminsitration. | Warren G. Harding |
| Hoover's secretary of state, who sougth sanctions against Japan for it's aggression against Manchuria. | Henry Stimson |
| Secretary of commerce through much of the 1920s whose reputation for economic genius became a casualty of the Great Depression. | Herbert Hoover |
| Leader of a liberal thrid party insurgency who attracted little support outside the farm belt. | Bob La Follette |
| Wealthy oilman who bribed cabinet officals in the Teapot Dome Scandal. | Henry Sinclair |
| Commander of the troops who forcefully ousted the ''army'' of unemployed veterans from Washington in 1932. | Douglas MacArthur |
| Tight Lipped Vermonter who promoted frugailty and pro business policies during his presidency | Calvin Coolidge |
| Poker playing cronies from Harding's native state who contributed to the morally loose atmosphere in his administration. | Ohio Gang |
| Supreme COurt ruling that removed workplace protection and invalidated a minimum wage for women. | Adkins v. Children's hospital |
| World War I veterans' group that promoted patriotism and economic benefits for former servicemen. | American Legion. |
| The Chinese province invaded and overrun by the Japanese army in 1932. | Manchuria |
| Encampment of unemployed veterans who were driven out of Washington by General Douglass McArthur's forces in 1932. | Bonus Army |
| Hoover-sponsored federal agency that provided loans to hard-pressed banks and businesses after 1932. | Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
| Depression shantytowns, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress. | Hooverville |
| The climactic day of the October 1929 Wall Street stock-market crash. | Black Tuesday |
| Sky-high tariff bill of 1930 that deepened the depression and caused international financial chaos. | Hawley-Smoot Tariff |
| Southern Democrats who turned against their party's "wet", Catholic nominee and voted for the Republican in 1938. | Hoovercra(f)ts |
| American-sponsored arrangement for rescheduling German reparations payments that only eased the international debt tangle of the 1920s. | Dawes Plan |
| Farm proposeal of the 1920s, passed by Congress but vetoed by the president, that provided for the federal government to buy farm surpluses and sell them abroad. | McNary-Haugen Bill |
| Naval oil reserve in Wyoming that gave its name to one of the major Harding administration scandals. | Teapot Dome |
| Agreement emerging from the Washington Disarmament Conference that reduced naval strength and established a ratio of warships among the major shipbuilding powers. | Five Power Naval Treaty. |
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