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27 Cards in this Set
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Who were Secretary of State and Treasury, respectively, under Harding?
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Charles Hughes; Andrew Mellon
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Who were the two 'bad guys' of Harding's cabinet?
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Albert B. Fall - Secretary of Interior who was an anticonservationist
Harry Daugherty - Attorney General & big-time crook |
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What did the newly elected officials want Harding to do?
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Guide businesses along the path to profits.
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What was the Supreme Court case of Adkins v. Children's Hospital about?
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It reversed the decision of the 19th Amendment, which gave women rights in the workplace.
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What did the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act of 1920 do?
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Congress returned the railroads to private management.
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What did the La Follette Seaman's Act of 1915 do?
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Made it so that American shipping could not thrive in competition with foreigners
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What was the Veteran's Bureau?
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An organization that operated hospitals for the disabled.
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What was the Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924?
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It gave every former soldier a paid-up insurance due in 20 years.
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What was the Washington "Disarmament" Conference?
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Declared a 10-year hiatus on building new battleships and ordered the 'scrapping' of current ones. Proposed that the ratios of America's, Britain's, and Japans navy ships should be 5:5:3.
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What was the Five-Power Naval Treaty of 1922?
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Stated that the British and Americans would refrain from fortifying their Far Eastern possessions.
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What was the Four-Power Treaty?
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Treaty between Britain, France, Japan, and the United States that preserved the status quo in the Pacific
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What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
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AKA Pact of Paris; Act that was passed to satisfy those who wanted to outlaw war; it still allowed wars in self-defense
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What was the scandal around Charles Forbes?
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Forbes, head of the Veteran's Bureau, was caught stealing $200 million from the government.
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What was the Teapot Dome scandal?
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Albert Fall convinced the secretary of the navy to hand over priceless oil reserves to the Interior Department; Fall then sold the land to oilmen for a bribe of $100,000
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What was the Capper-Volstead Act?
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It exempted farmer's marketing cooperatives from anti-trust prosecution.
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What was the McNary-Haugen Bill?
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Sought to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing the government to buy up surpluses and sell them abroad
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During the Coolidge era, what foreign policy continued to reign?
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Isolationism
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What was the Dawes Plan of 1924?
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America payed loans to Germany, who could pay back Britain and France, who would pay back the United States.
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What characteristics did Hoover have faith in?
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individualism, free enterprise, and small government
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What did the Agricultural Marketing Act do?
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Set up a board that could lend money to farm organizations
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What were the goals of the Grain Stabilization Corporation and the Cotton Stabilization Corporation?
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to boost falling prices by buying up surpluses; both eventually failed.
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What did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930 do?
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Raised the tariff to 60% and deepened the depression already hurting the country
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What was "Black Tuesday" of October 1929?
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Millions of stock were sold in a panic; after 2 months, stockholders lost $40 billion
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What was the purpose of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
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to provide indirect economic relief
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Who did the Bonus Expeditionary Force consist of, and what did they want?
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WWI veterans; they wanted an immediate payment of their entire bonus
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What were 5 of Hoover's actions to stimulate the economy? Except they all failed. All of them.
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1. volunteerism
2. Harley-Smoot Tariff 3. Revenue Act of 1932 4. Glass-Stangle Banking Act 5. Reconstruction Finance Coorporation |
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What are the reasons of the Great Depression starting?
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1. Lack of diversification in US economy
2. Maldistribution of purposing power 3. Bank and Credit Structure 4. USA's Position in International Trade |
