Apush Pageant Chapter 33

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What was thenickname of President Warren G. Harding’s close friends which he hired thatended up being corrupt?

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“Ohio Gang”

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What sayingsurrounded Harding in comparison to George Washington?

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Washington could not tell a lie, Harding could not tell a liar.(similar to Grant)

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Who was thePittsburgh aluminum king that Harding will appoint to Secretary of theTreasury?

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Andrew Mellon

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Who did Hardingappoint as his Secretary of Commerce, because of his famed work with theBelgians (feeding during WWI) and wartime food administration?

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Herbert Hoover

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These two menwere the worst of Harding’s appointees. One being the Secretary of the Interiorand the other was his Attorney General.

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Senator Albert B. Fall—Secretary of the Interior; Harry M.Daugherty—Attorney General

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Warren G.Harding lived less than three years of his presidency, but he was able toappoint how many SCOTUS justices?

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Four or nine.

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Hardingappointed what former President of the United States as SCOTUS’s Chief Justice?

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William Howard Taft

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With this newcontrol of the Supreme Court what consequences will take place concerning laborlaws?

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Federal child-labor law were killed, stripped away many of labor’s hardwon gains, declared women were NOT to be deserving of special protection in theworkplace, and invalidated a minimum-wage law for women (overturning Muller v.Oregon).

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These laws werepractically ignored during the Harding administrations which allowedcorporations to once more relax and expand.

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Antitrust laws.

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What did the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act of 1920 do to the railroads?

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Returned them back to private ownership-Government had taken over the railroads during WWI.

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How didAttorney General Daugherty end a two-month strike by the railway during 1922?

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He issued a sweeping injunction which clamped down on strikers andended the strike.

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This organizationwill be created in 1921 by Congress to look after Veterans Affairs.

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Veterans Bureau

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This Veteransorganization was founded in Paris in 1919 by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. tomeet periodically to renew old hardships and let off steam.

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American Legion

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What was thechief grievance of the former “doughboys” from WWI?

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They wanted their "dough" $$$

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After manyprotests for payment from WWI what did Congress finally pass in 1924 to appeasethe former WWI Veterans?

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Adjusted Compensation Act—it gave every soldier a paid-up insurancepolicy due in twenty years—right about the time of WWII.

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Why was theUnited States still technically at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary morethan three years after the armistice?

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We rejected the Treaty of Versailles

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What area ofthe world will Secretary Hughes help to exploit to gain more access to oilreserves?

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Middle East - Controlled by the British and French

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What was thegoal of the conference held in Washington DC in 1921-22?

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Naval disarmament and address the situation in the Far East.

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What will bethe outcome of the Five-Power Naval Treaty of 1922?

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The countries agreed to refrain from fortifying their Far Easternpossessions. The Japanese were not subjected to such restraints in theirpossessions.

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What did theNine-Power Treaty of 1922 do to China?

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Opened the door to China wide open.

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What diplomaticbargain between 62 nations will be made between Calvin Coolidge’s Secretary ofState and a French foreign minister?

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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What were theaspects of the bargain in #21?

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This pact outlawed war between the countries which signed the pact, butdid not have any consequences for countries which went to war anyway. (Tony theTiger Doesn’t Like War).

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Because of theproblem with imperialistic Japan, the United States will create this doctrinehoping to prevent intervention in international events? The United States wouldnot recognize any territory taken by force…Japan doesn’t CARE!!!

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Stimson Doctrine

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What were theaspects of this doctrine?

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If a country were to invade and take another countries land the UnitedStates would not recognize that territorial claim.

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What did theFordney-McCumber Tariff Law of 1922 do to Tariff rates?

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Raise them from 27% to 38.5%.

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What chain reaction will the high-tariff course by the Republicans cause?

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Europeans producers felt the squeeze from the tariffs and theirproducts could not be sold, hence the European countries couldn’t pay backtheir war debt.

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What scandalduring the Harding administration saw Colonel Charles Forbes who was in chargeof the Veterans Bureau scammed over $200 million from the administration?

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Veterans scandal

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This scandalduring the Harding administration saw Albert Fall (Interior Secretary) try andlease former navy oil reserves private oil men (Harry Sinclair and EdwardDoheny). Fall took a $100,000 bribe for this deal and he will found guilty oftaking the bribe and was sentenced to one year in jail.

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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Where did thescandal in #28 get its name?

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Named after Teapot Dome, Wyoming where the oil reserves were.

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When the oilmen involved in the Teapot Dome scandal were acquitted from their charges, whatcynical saying was created about trying to put rich men in prison?

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“You can’t put a million dollars in jail” and “In America everyone isassumed guilty until proven rich.”

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Who will becomethe successor to Warren G. Harding after his untimely death?

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Silent Calvin Coolidge

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What is Coolidge's philosophy concerning big business?

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The Business of America is Business

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Why were thefarmers frustrated under the Harding and Coolidge administrations?

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Farmers had put themselves in debt by buying tractors. The price ofwheat and other commodities were falling as other countries returned to farmingfollowing WWI and the government refused to help subsidize the farmer.

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What did theMcNary-Haugen Bills of 1924 and 1928 try and do for farmers (vetoed both timesby Coolidge)?

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It sought to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing thegovernment to buy surpluses and sell them abroad.

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What did thenew Progressive party of 1924 propose for the United States in their partyplatform for US President?

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Government ownership of railroads and relief forfarmers, lashed out at monopoly and anti-labor injunctions, and urged aconstitutional amendment to limit the Supreme Court’s power to invalidate lawspassed by Congress.

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What was the overwhelming issue facing post-WWI Europe?

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International debts.

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What will be the plan by the US to help with the issue in #36?

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Dawes Plan

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What are thedetails of the plan?

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The United States would loan Germany money who then would pay Britainand France who then in-turn would pay the US treasury for the loans theyincurred during WWI

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When CalvinCoolidge announced, “I do not choose to run” what Republican will run forPresident and be elected in 1928 (horrible year to take control)?

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Herbert Hoover

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What nicknamewas given to the Democrat who ran against the man in #39?

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Al(cohol) Smith – A man who liked to drink when the “noble experiment”was still in effect.

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What was themajor problem facing Hoover’s policies concerning people in trouble?

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He didn’t believe in the public “dole”. He said people should helpthemselves.

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What did theHawley-Smoot tariff of 1930 do to tariff rates?

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Raised them from 38.5% to 60%. This tariff will caused some of the troublesaround the world.

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On what famous day did the stock market crash leading to the Great Depression?

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October 29, 1929

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What are thefour leading indicators of the Stock Market Crash?

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Housing starts were declining; Business Inventories were up; Stock marketwas overvalued; People were buying on the margin.

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What are thefive leading causes of the Great Depression?

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Farmer overproduction of crops and horrible use of the land, Uneven Distribution of Income, Unbalanced foreign trade, Overextended personal debts, and Mechanized Industrialization

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These twoinsults to Hoover were used to show people disapproval of his handing of theeconomy?

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Hoover Flags and Hoover Blankets

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Theseshantytowns were constructed just outside of major cities housing some of thosewho had lost their homes?

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Hoovervilles

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How much waslost in the stock market on paper just two months after the crash?

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40 billion

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Hover realizedthat his theory of _________ _______________ was not working when he tried toget people out of the Great Depression.

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Rugged individualism

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What did theMuscle Shoals Bill try and do (vetoed by Hoover)?

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Dam the Tennessee River for hydroelectric power—will be used by FDR’sTVA program.

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Whatorganization will be created by the Hoover administration to help“pump-priming” the banks by loaning money to people in the US?

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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What did theNorris-La Guardia Anti-injunction Act in 1932 do for labor?

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Outlawed Yellow-dog contracts and forbade the federal courts to issueinjunctions to restrain strikes, boycotts, and peaceful picketing.

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What wasdifferent about Hoover’s policies after the crash versus what took place duringthe Panics in the late 19th Century?

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He actually started down the road toward government assistance forneedy citizens. In the late 19th Century you had to “sweat it out.”

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What did the“Bonus Expeditionary Force” call for?

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Payment for the service in WWI.

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What happenedto the force?

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Hoover called out the army including General Douglas MacArthur andDwight D. Eisenhower to breakup the march.

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This type ofpolicy was used by Hoover toward our Latin American neighbors?

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Good Neighbor policy

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Place thefollowing in chronological order: Japanese invade Manchuria, Hawley-Smoottariff, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Teapot Dome Scandal, Veterans Bureau created,Dawes Plan, Stock Market Crash, Reconstruction Finance Corporation established,Five-Power Naval Treaty.

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VeteransBureau, Five-Power Naval Treaty, Teapot Dome scandal, Dawes Plan, Kellogg-BrianPact, Stock Market Crash, Hawley-Smoot tariff, Japanese invade Manchuria,Reconstruction Finance Corporation established.