APUSH Ch33 – Flashcards
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Ohio Gang
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Poker-playing cronies from Harding's native state who contributed to the morally loose atmosphere of his administration
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Adkins vs Children's Hospital
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Supreme Court ruling that removed workplace protection and invalidated a minimum wage for women
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American Legion
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WWI veteran's group that promoted patriotism and economic benefits for former servicemen
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Five Power Treaty of 1922
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5 : 5 : 3 Agreement emerging from the Washington Disarmament Conference that reduced naval strength and established a ratio of warships among the major ship-building powers
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Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
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Toothless international agreement of 1928 that pledged nations to outlaw war
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Teapot Dome
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Naval oil reserve in Wyoming that gave its name to one of the major Harding administrative scandals
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McNary-Haugen Bill
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Farm proposal 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
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Dawes Plan of 1924
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American-sponsored arrangement for rescheduling German reparations payments that only temporarily eased the international debt tangle of the 1920s
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Hoovercrats
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Southern Democrats who turned against their party's "wet", Catholic nominee and voted for the Republican in 1938
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930
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Sky-high tariff bill of 1930 that deepened the depression and caused international financial chaos (killed international trade)
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Black Tuesday
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The climactic day of the Oct 29, 1929 Wall Street stock-market crash
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
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Hoover-sponsored federal agency that provided loans to hard-pressed banks and businesses after 1932
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Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF)
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Encampment of unemployed veterans who were driven out of Washington by General Douglas MacArthur's violent forces in 1932
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Manchuria
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The Chinese province invaded and overrun by the Japanese Army in 1932
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Warren G Harding
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Weak-willed president whose easygoing ways opened the door to widespread corruption in his administration
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Charles Evans Hughes
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Strong-mineded leader of Harding's cabinet and initiator of major naval agreements
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Andrew Mellon
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Wealthy industrialist and conservative secretary of the treasury on the 1920s
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Harry Sinclair
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Wealthy oilman who bribed cabinet officials in the Teapot Dome scandal
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John Davis
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Weak, compromise Democratic candidate in 1924
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Albert B Fall
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Harding's interior secretary, convicted of taking bribes for leases on federal oil reserves
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Harry Daughtery
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US attorney general and a member of Harding's corrupt "Ohio Gang" who was forced to resign in administration scandals
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Calvin Coolidge
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Tight-lipped Vermonter who promoted frugality and pro-business policies during his presidency
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Robert La Follette
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Leader of a liberal third-party insurgency who attracted little support outside the farm belt
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Herbert Hoover
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Secretary of commerce through much of the 1920s whose reputation fro economic genius became a casualty of the Great Depression
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Al Smith
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The "Happy Warrior" who attracted votes in the cities but lost them in the south
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Douglas MacArthur
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Commander of the troops who forcefully ousted the "army" of unemployed veterans from Washington in 1932
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Henry Stimson
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Hoover's secretary of state, who sought sanctions against Japan for its aggression in Manchuria
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Republican pro-business policies weakened...
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Labor unions and prevented the enforcement of progressive antitrust legislation
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American concern about the arms race and the danger of war led to...
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The successful Washington Disarmament Conference and the Five Power Naval Agreement in 1922
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The high-tariff Fordney-McCumber Law of 1922 sustained...
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American prosperity but pushed Europe into economic protectionism and turmoil
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The loose moral atmosphere of Harding's Washington encouraged...
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Numerous federal officials to engage in corrupt dealings
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The improved farm efficiency and production of the 1920s drove..
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Crop prices down and created a rural economic depression
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America's demand for complete repayment of the Allie's war debt aroused...
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British and French anger and toughened their demands for German war reparations
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Hoover's media campaign and Smith's political liabilities led to...
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A Republican landslide in the election of 1928
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The stock-market crash...
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Plunged the US into the worst economic depression in its history
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Domestic over expansion of production and dried-up international trade helped...
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Cause the stock-market crash and deepen the Great Depression
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Hoover's limited efforts at federally sponsored relief and recovery failed to...
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End the depression but did prevent more serious economic suffering
