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warren g harding

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President of the United States from 1921 to 1923. This Republican man, though good-natured himself, surrounded himself with a few shady characters who tainted his presidency. Believed in a quasi-laissez-faire economic policy. Died of illness in 1923.

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charles evans hughes

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Started government regulation of public utilities. He was Secretary of State under Harding and later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was the Republican candidate in 1916, and lost to Wilson by less that 1% of the vote.

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herbert hoover

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President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community.

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albert b fall

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The Harding Cabinet member who profited from and was convicted for the Teapot Dome Scandal

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harry m daugherty

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Attorney General Under Harding, big-time crook in the "Ohio Gang," involved in the illegal sale of pardons and liquor permits.

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calvin coolidge

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President of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Became president when Harding died of pneumonia. This man was known for practicing a rigid economy in money and words, and acquired the name "Silent Cal" for being so soft-spoken. He was a true republican and industrialist. Believed in the government supporting big business.

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robert la follette

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Progressive wisconsin govenor whose agenda of reforms was known as the Wisconsin Idea

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alfred e smith

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He was the Democratic presidential candidate in the 1928 election. He was the first Catholic to be elected as a candidate. Had too many "problems" to win against Hoover.

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ohio gang

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Harding's "advisors" who played poker, drank, and smoked with him in the White House; involved in scandals that gave Harding a bad name

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washington conference

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A conference hosted by the US which called for US and British de-fortification of Far East possessions (though Japan could fortify all it wanted). Also called for general naval disarmament.

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kellogg briand pact

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A rather idealistic agreement between the great world powers to never engage in war except for defensive purposes.

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fordney mccumber tariff law

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Raised tariff from 27% to 35%, Duties on farm produce increased. Passed during the Harding Administration.

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teapot dome scandal

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A horrible political scandal involving the private bribery of Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall in exchange for government oileries. Up to that point, it was considered the worst political scandal in American History.

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mcnary haugen bill

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A plan to rehabilitate American agriculture by raising the domestic prices of farm products *Effects of the protective tariff and burdens of debt and taxation had created a serious agricultural depression and grew steadily worse

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dawes plan

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This loan program was crafted to give money to Germany so that they could pay war reparations and lessen the financial crisis in Europe; the program ended with the 1929 stock market crash.

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hawley smooth tariff

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Raised tariffs to an unprecedented level and worsened the depression by raising prices and discouraging foreign trade.

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black tuesday

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Name given to the fatal crash of 1929.

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reconstruction finance corp

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This agency became a government lending bank. It was designed to provide indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, and railroads.

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bonus army

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Name given to the mass of struggling WWI vets who, in the face of hard economic times, wanted to collect their pay checks early.

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federal housing authority

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Established by FDR during the depression in order to provide low-cost housing coupled with sanitary condition for the poor

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adkins v children's hospital

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In this court case, the Supreme Court reversed its own reasoning in Muller v. Oregon, on the grounds that women were now the legal equals of men (after the Nineteenth Amendment).

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nine power treaty

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Agreement coming out of the Washington "Disarmament" Conference of 1921-1922 that pledged Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the United States, China, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Belgium to abide by the Open Door Policy in China. The Five-Power Naval Treaty on ship ratios and the Four-Power Treaty to preserve the status quo in the Pacific also came out of the conference.

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hoovervilles

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Sneering name given to the shantytowns that sprang up during the depression.