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| 708849948 | Adkins v Children's Hospital | A landmark supreme court decision reversing the ruling Muller v Oregon, which had declared women to be deserving of special protection in the workplace | |
| 708849949 | Nine-Power Treaty | Agreement coming out of the Washington "Disarmament" Conference of 1921-1922 that pledged Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the US, China, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Belgium to abide by the Open Door Policy in China. Led to the Five-Power Naval Treaty and the Four-Power Treaty | |
| 708849950 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928 linked 62 nations in the supposed "outlawry of war." | |
| 708849951 | Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law | 1922 A comprehensive bill passed to protect domestic production from foreign competitors. As a direct result, many European nations were spurred to increase their own trade barriers. | |
| 708849952 | Teapot Dome scandal | An affair involving the illegal lease of priceless naval oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California. This scandal and others gave Harding a reputation for corruption. | |
| 708849953 | McNary-Haugen Bill | A farm-relief bill that was championed throughout the 1920s and aimed to keep agricultural prices high by allowing the government to buy up surpluses and sell them abroad. Passed twice by Congress but vetoed by Coolidge. | |
| 708849954 | Dawes Plan | 1924 An arrangement to reschedule German reparations payments. Stabilized German currency and opened the way for further American private loans to Germany. | |
| 708849955 | Agricultural Marketing Act | 1929 Established the Federal Farm Board, a lending bureau for hard-pressed farmers. Aimed to help farmers help themselves. Kind of failed with the arrival of the Depression. | |
| 708849956 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | 1930 The highest protective tariff in the peacetime history of the US, passed as a result of horse trading. | |
| 708849957 | Black Tuesday | 1929 October 29, 1929, when over 16,410,000 shares of stock were sold on Wall Street. Book says that this helped bring about Great Depression, Mr. Spina says that it's a symptom of the Depression. | |
| 708849958 | Hoovervilles | Grim shantytowns where impoverished victims of the Great Depression slept under newspapers and in makeshift tents. Tarnished reputation of Hoover administration. | |
| 708849959 | Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) | 1932 A government lending agency established under Hoover administration to assist insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, and local governments. Was a precursor to later agencies. | |
| 708849960 | Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act | 1932 This law banned "yellow-dog" or anti union work contracts and forbade federal courts from issuing injunctions to stamp out strikes and boycotts. | |
| 708849961 | Bonus Army | 1932 Officially known as the Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF), a rag-tag group of 20,000 veterans marched on Washington to demand immediate payment of bonuses earned during WWI. General Douglas MacArthur dispersed them with tear gas and bayonets. | |
| 708849962 | Warren G. Harding | ... | |
| 708849963 | Albert B. Fall | ... | |
| 708849964 | Calvin Coolidge | ... | |
| 708849965 | John W. Davis | ... | |
| 708849966 | Robert M. La Follette (Fighting Bob) | ... | |
| 708849967 | Albert E. Smith | ... |
