Terms for APUSH Chapter 32.
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| 706348015 | Warren G. Harding | President who called for a return to normalcy following WWI. | |
| 706348016 | Herbert Hoover | 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. | |
| 706348017 | Albert B. Fall | The Harding Cabinet member who profited from and was convicted for the Teapot Dome Scandal. | |
| 706348018 | Tea Pot Dome Scandal | Secretary of Interior Albert Fall illegally leased government oil fields in the West to private oil companies; Fall was later convicted of bribery and became the first Cabinet official to serve prison time (1931-1932). | |
| 706348019 | Harry M. Daugherty | He is best known as a Republican Party boss, and member of the Ohio Gang, the name given to the group of advisors surrounding president Warren G. Harding. | |
| 706348020 | Charles R. Forbes | Head of the Veterans Bureau, was caught stealing $200 million from the government, chiefly in connection with the building of veterans' hospitals. | |
| 706348021 | Calvin Coolidge | Became president when Harding died. Tried to clean up scandals. Business prospered and people's wealth increased. | |
| 706348022 | John W. Davis | Democratic convention nominee in 1924 against Coolidge. He was a wealthy lawyer connected with J.P. Morgan and Company. Coolidge easily defeated Davis. | |
| 706348023 | Alfred E. Smith | He was the Democratic presidential candidate in the 1928 election. He was the first Catholic to be elected as a candidate. | |
| 706348024 | Ohio Gang | Harding appointed them to offices and they used their power to gain money for themselves. They were involved in scandals that ruined Harding's reputation even though he wasn't involved. | |
| 706348025 | The Washington Conference 1921-1922 | The U.S. and nine other countries discussed limits on naval armaments. They created quotas for different classes of ships that could be built by each country based on its economic power and size of existing navies. | |
| 706348026 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | An agreement between 15 nations outlawing war; eventually 48 other nations joined the pact, but it had no way of enforcing peace. | |
| 706348027 | Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law | Congress passed this to raise the tariff from 27% to 39% because businessmen wanted to keep the home markets to themselves. | |
| 706348028 | McNary-Haugen Bill | A plan to rehabilitate American agriculture by raising the domestic prices of farm products. | |
| 706348029 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | The highest import tax in American history. It was designed to increase jobs by preventing cheaper European goods from entering the country, which was countered by Europe's tariffs. Ended up being a major failure. | |
| 706348030 | Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in American history and beginning of the Great Depression. | |
| 706348031 | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | It was an independant agency of the United States government. It granted over 2 billion dollars to the local and state governments. It was charted under the Herbert Hoover administration. | |
| 706348032 | Bonus Army | Group of WWI vets that marched to D.C. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of their goverment war bonuses in cash. | |
| 706348033 | Hoover-Stimson Doctrine | This said that the United States would not recognize any territorial acquisitions that were taken over by force. | |
| 706348034 | Federal Housing Authority | Established by FDR during the depression in order to provide low-cost housing coupled with sanitary condition for the poor. |
