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APUSH Ch 32 & 33
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Albert B Fall | US Senator from New Mexico and Sec. of Interior under Pres Harding, infamous for involvement in Teapot Dome Scandal |
| Charles R Forbes | first director of Veterans Bureau under Harding, accused of selling supplies from veteran hospitals for fraction of worth |
| Calvin Coolidge | 30th President, Republican lawyer from Vermont |
| Ohio Gang | a group of politicians and industry leaders who came to be associated with Warren G. Harding |
| American Legion | a congressionally chartered mutual-aid veterans organization of the United States armed forces founded to benefit those veterans who served during a wartime period |
| Washington Conference | meeting between representatives of 9 nations with interests in the Pacific |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | (also called the Pact of Paris) was a multinational treaty that prohibited the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defense |
| Teapot Dome | oil reserve scandal during Harding, Albert Fall convinced the control of oil to be turned over to him. He sold it for profit. |
| Muscle Shoals Bill | designed to dam the Tennessee River and sell government-produced electricity in competition with citizens in private companies. Vetoed by President Herbert Hoover |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | independent agency of the United States government chartered during the administration of Herbert Hoover, modeled after War Finance Corp, gave loans, continued by New Deal |
| Bonus Army | 43 000 marchers of veterans and families, protested D.C., led by Walter Waters, demand for immediate cash payment |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 32nd President, elected for more than 2 terms, helped through Great Depression |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | supported New Deal policies of her husband FDR and became advocate for civil rights |
| Harry Hopkins | one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of the architects of the New Deal |
| Frances Perkins | US Sec of Labor, first woman appointed to US Cabinet, helped pull labor movement into New Deal coalition |
| Father Coughlin | Roman Catholic priest, one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach mass audience |
| Huey Long | nicknamed Kingfish, Gov of Louisiana, Democrat known for radical populist policies |
| John L Lewis | American leader of organized labor who was Pres of United Mine Workers |
| Alfred M Landon | Republican, Gov of Kansas, defeated by FDR in election |
| New Deal | series of economic programs passed by Congress under FDR, relief, recovery, and reform after Great Depression |
| Brain Trust | group of close advisors to a political candidate |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | public work relief program for unemployed men, providing vocational training through the performance of useful work related to conservation and development of natural resources |
| Works Progress Administration | largest New Deal agency employing millions to carry out public works projects like construction of public roads and buildings |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area. |
| Dust Bowl | severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development |
| Social Security Act | encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs. |
| Wagner Act | law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector that create labor unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take part in strikes a |
| court-packing plan | macroeconomic theory based on the ideas of 20th-century British economist John Maynard Keynes. argues that private sector decisions lead to inefficient macroeconomic outcomes |
| keynesianism | macroeconomic theory based on the ideas of 20th-century British economist John Maynard Keynes. Keynesian economics argues that private sector decisions lead to inefficient macroeconomic outcome |