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| show | Republican president elected in 1920 during the conservative postwar mood who promised a "return to normalcy," and whose presidency was known for a pro-business tone and many scandals, the most famous of which was the Teapot Dome scandal; while initially
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| show | Promise of the Harding administration that, in contrast to the progressive social activism of the Wilson administration, appealed to the conservative postwar mood with a return to American isolationism from global affairs.
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| show | Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, who instituted a Republican policy of reduced government spending, lower taxes to the wealthy, and higher tariffs.
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| show | Verb created by Warren Harding meaning to speak with gaseous eloquence.
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| show | Group of Ohio politicians who were colleagues of Warren G. Harding and gained many lesser offices in his administration; many ultimately used their White House connections to line their own pockets and tainted Harding's presidency with scandal.
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| show | Act extended further benefits to high-income groups by lowering estate taxes and repealing the gift tax.
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| show | Harding administration scandal in which Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall profited from secret leasing to private oil companies of government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California.
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| show | Secretary of the Interior under President Harding who profited from secret leasing to private oil companies of government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California that later came to be known as the Teapot Dome scandal.
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| show | Conservative Republican who became president in 1923 when Warren G. Harding died of a heart attack and was elected in 1924; Coolidge brought to the White House a clear conviction that the presidency should revert to its Gilded-Age stance of passive defere
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| Robert M. La Follette | show 🗑
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| Charles A. Lindbergh | show 🗑
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| Amelia Earhart | show 🗑
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| show | Secretary of commerce through the Harding-Coolidge years who was elected president in 1928, crowning a career of steady ascent, first in mining, then in public service; Hoover's image combined the benevolence fitting a director of wartime relief and the e
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| show | Term used by Herbert Hoover, developed in his book American Individualism (1922), that when applied to the relations of government and business, prescribed a kind of middle way between the regulatory and trust-busting traditions, a way of voluntary cooper
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| parity | show 🗑
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| show | A coalition of western Republicans and southern Democrats that put through a program of legislation from 1921 to 1923 to combat the falling crop prices of the early 1920s.
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| American Plan | show 🗑
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| show | Contracts that forced workers to agree to stay out of union, a type of intimidation effort used by employers to suppress unions
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| show | Benefit programs guided by company unions that employers used to sway the unions.
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| show | 1929 walkout at the huge Loray textile mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, that escalated into a prolonged conflict that involved two deaths.
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| show | System by which factory owners closed mills, slashed wages, raised production quotas, and operated mills around the clock to combat falling profits.
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| show | Union (UTW) that was part of the American Federation of Labor.
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| Alfred E. Smith | show 🗑
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| show | Act of 1930 that raised tariffs to an unprecedented level and worsened the depression by raising prices and discouraging foreign trade.
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| show | To buy stock on meant to make a small down payment (the "margin") and borrow the rest from a broker who held the stock as security against a down market; if the stock declined and the buyer failed to meet a margin call for more money, the broker could sel
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| show | Sarcastic term for newspapers that homeless people would wrap themselves in to keep warm during the Depression.
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| show | Signed by President Hoover on July 21, 1932, giving the RFC Dollar 300 million for relief loans to the states, authorizing loans of up to Dollar 1.5 billion for state and local public works, and appropriating Dollar 322 million for federal public works, b
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