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The Ohio Gang
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Group of personal incentiveized 'friends' of Mr. Harding who influenced him and created corruption in his administration.
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Disarmament Conference
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Conference held in Washington 1921-22 that invited all major powers except Russia to deal with naval disarmament and Russia.
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Five Powers Naval Treaty
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Set up a 10 year 'holiday' from building battleships and aircraft carriers. It also gave the battle ship ratio for England the US and Japan at 5-5-3. In return, the US and British wouldn't fortify their territories in Asia.
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Four Powers Treaty
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Rendered a dead letter because it had no teeth, this treaty limited military power.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Lured America into a false sense of safety by outlawing war, except defensive ones.
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff
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Raised the average tariff from 27% to 38.5%. It also gave the president the power to raise or lower individual tariffs by 50%, which the president normally used to raise them.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Scandal where Secretary of State Albert B. Fall attempted to lease out strategic oil reserves to private companies.
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Silent Cal Coolidge
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Vice President to Mr. Harding who took over after he died and then was reelected, although refused to run again after that.
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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Raised the Fordney-McCumber Act Tariff of 38.5% to 60% and led America closer to economic disaster.
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Black Tuesday
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Tuesday October 29, 1929. Day when 16,410,030 shares were sold on Wall Street, creating a scramble and causing prices to drop.
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Hoovervilles
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Towns that popped up made out of cardboard and scrap metal to house unemployed and poor from the Great Depression. Named after Mr. Hoover.
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Trickle down philosophy of economics
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Theory that by loaning money to the banks and high end people in the pyramid of economics with the hopes that it would then 'trickle down' to the lower classes.
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Bonus Army
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20,000 veterans who marched on Washington and set up a giant Hooverville in hopes to intimidate congress into giving them their entire benefits from fighting WWI.
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Stimson Doctrine
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Declared in 1932 after Japan began to take over Chinese territory, that the US would no longer recognize territories of other countries that had been taken by force.
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"Good" Neighbor" policy
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Policy pioneered by Mr. Hoover that worked at improving relations with the US's Latin American neighbors and acted as more of a 'good neighbor' then as 'big brother'.
