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33 Cards in this Set
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Charles Evans Hughes
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Sec of State
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Andrew W. Mellon
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Sec of Treasury
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Herbert Hoover
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Sec of Commerce
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Sen. Albert B. Fall
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Sec of Interior
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Harry M. Daugherty
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Attorney General
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Adkins v. Children's Hospital
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Under the 19th Amendment, women were not to given any special rights at the workplace
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Esch-Cummins Transportation Act of 1920
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Private management of the RR's
Cong. encouraged the ICC to guarantee their profitability |
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Merchant Marine Act of 1920
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Authorized the Shipping Board to dispose of the wartime vessels at a very low prices
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La Follette Seaman's act of 1915
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American shipping could not thrive in competition with foreigners
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Veterans' Bureau
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operate hospitals and provide treatment for disabled veterans
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American Legion
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by Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
met to renew old hardships |
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Adjusted Compensation Act
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efforts by Legionaries
giving every former soldier a paid-up insurance due in 20 yrs |
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Disarmament Conference
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invitation to all the major powers
Navy- Am, Br, Jp (5:5:3) |
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5-Power Treaty of 1922
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Americans and the British would refrain from fortifying their far eastern possessions, including Philippines
Japanese were not subject to such possessions |
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4-Power Treaty
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Jp, Fr, US, Br
preserved the status quo in the pacific |
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
(Pact of Paris) |
ratified by 62 nations
by Frank B. Kellogg peace (although defensive wars permitted) |
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Fordney McCumber Tariff Law
1922 |
raising the tariff from 27% to 35%
Sign- hurt the American economy as well as European |
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Charles R. Forbes
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head of the Veterans Bureau
caught stealing $200 mil from gov |
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Teapot Dome scandal
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Fall leased the oil reserve land to Sinclair and Doheny after receiving a bribe
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Calvin Coolidge
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took over after Harding died
isolationism Exception- troops in the Carribean and Central Am |
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1924 Election
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Rep- Coolidge *
Dem- John W. Davis Progressive- La Follette |
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Dawes Act of 1924
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by Charles Dawes
-rescheduled German reparations payments -Am loans to Germany |
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Election of 1928
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Rep- Herbert Hoover
Dem- Alfred F. Smith |
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Agricultural Marketing Act
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designed to help the farmers
set up Fdrl. Farm Boards |
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Federal Farm Board
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lend money to farm organizations seeking to buy, sell, or store ag sur+s
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Grain Stabilization Corporation
Cotton Stabilization Corp |
goal was to boost falling prices by buying up sur+s
*failed |
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Hawley Smoot Tariff 1930
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started as mild tariff
raised to 60% Sign- deepened the depression increased financial crises |
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"Black Tuesday"
October 29, 1929 |
millions of stocks were sold in panic
Stockholders had lost $40 bil |
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The Great Depression
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overproduction by both farm and factory
not enough money was going into salaries and wages overexpansion of credit economic destruction of Europe |
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Hoover's plan
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gov would assist rr's, banks, rural credit corp
criticized because he gave the gov money to the big bankers |
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Reconstruction Financial Corp
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assist insurance companies, ag organizations, banks, rr's and state and local govs
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Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act 1932
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outlawed antiunion contracts
fdrl cts to issue injunctions to restrain strikes, boycotts, and peaceful picketing |
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Bonus Expeditionary Force
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background- veterans,harderst hit
claimed 20,000 people demanded immediate bonus in the capital |
