APUSH Ch. 33 Vocab – Flashcards

a gang of politicians and industry leaders closely surrounding Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States of America. Many of these individuals came into Harding's personal orbit during his tenure as a state-level politician in Ohio, hence the name.

a United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal.

a United States Supreme Court opinion holding that federal minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstitutional infringement of liberty of contract, as protected by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.

(The Transportation Act,)1920, was a United States federal law that returned railroads to private operation after World War I

was designed to improve the safety and security of United States seamen.. (Seamen's Act).

made a change in all payments everywhere.

regarding interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. Soviet Russia was not invited to the conference. It was the first international conference held in the United States and the first arms control conference in history.

1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among the

a law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods in order to protect factories and farms

Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding.

the Co-operative Marketing Associations Act was adopted by the United States Congress on February 18, 1922. It gave "associations" of persons producing agricultural products certain exemptions from antitrust laws. It is sometimes called the Magna Carta of Cooperation.

an attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany.

1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. highest tariff in US history

the day the stock market crashed

Depression shantytowns, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress

1932 - Facing the financial crisis of the Depression, WW I veterans tried to pressure Congress to pay them their retirement bonuses early. Congress considered a bill authorizing immediate assurance of $2.4 billion, but it was not approved. Angry veterans marched on Washington, D.C., and Hoover called in the army to get the veterans out of there.