Great Depression
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| 656121574 | Warren Harding | republican president 1921-1923; lacking in presidential skills, relied on his cabinet | |
| 656121575 | Albert B. Fall | corrupt Secretary of the Interior under Harding, involved in Teapot Dome Scandal | |
| 656121576 | John Davis | democratic nominee for president in 1924, lost overwhelmingly to Coolidge | |
| 656121577 | Charles Evans Hughes | Secretary of State appointed under Harding, later a supreme court justice | |
| 656121578 | Harry Daugherty | corrupt attorney general under Harding, "Ohio Gang" crook | |
| 656125929 | Robert LaFollette | Progressive Senator from Wisconsin, ran for progressive party in 1924 | |
| 656125930 | Andrew Mellon | Secretary of the Treasury under Harding | |
| 656125931 | Charles Forbes | first director of Veteran's Bureau under Harding; caught for army desertion | |
| 656125932 | Alfred E. Smith | 4-time governor of NY, Democratic nominee for president in 1924 | |
| 656125933 | Herbert Hoover | Republican nominee in 1928, popular from being Secretary of Commerce and feeding Belgium during the war, pres. during Great Depression | |
| 656125934 | Calvin Coolidge | "Cautious Cal," "Silent Cal," advocated small government and was pro-business | |
| 656125935 | "Ohio Gang" | A group of poker-playing men that were friends of President Warren Harding, elected many corrupt crooks to his cabinet | |
| 656125936 | farm block | the bi-partisan congressional voting block that guaranteed farmers favorable congressional treatment | |
| 656125937 | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | designed to make loans to banks, insurance companies and railroads; lent lots of money to people at the top of the system (trickle down) | |
| 656125938 | Dawes Plan | A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S | |
| 656125939 | Washington Conference | 1921 - president harding invited delegates from europe and japan, and they agreed to limit production of war ships, to not attack each other's possessions, and to respect china's independence | |
| 656125940 | 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 | |
| 656125941 | "black gold" | nickname for oil | |
| 656125943 | Adkins v. Children's Hospital | Supreme Court case that invalidated Muller v. Oregon, declaring that since women now had the vote, they were equal to men and undeserving of special protection | |
| 656125944 | American Legion | Founded in Paris in 1919 by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, was distinguished for its militant patriotism, conservatism, and zealous anti-radicalism, but was notorious for aggressive lobbying for veterans' benefits | |
| 656125945 | Nine-Power Treaty | Treaty that reestablishes open door in China (signed by Western Powers) | |
| 656125946 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | an agreement between 15 nations outlawing war; eventually 48 other nations joined the pact; had no way of enforcing peace | |
| 656125947 | Teapot Dome | a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921 | |
| 656125948 | McNary-Haugen Bill | it sought to keep agricultural prices high by having the government buy surpluses to sell abroad, vetoed twice by Coolidge | |
| 656129214 | moratorium | a suspension of activity; an authorized delay | |
| 656129215 | "noble experiment" | Woodrow Wilson's name for prohibition | |
| 656129216 | Federal Farm Board | Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture; it offered farmers insurance against loss of crops due to drought; flood; or freeze. It did not guarantee profit or cover losses due to bad farming. | |
| 656129219 | Muscle Shoals Bill | Bills that would allocate funds to dam the Tennessee River and provide employment, is vetoed by Hoover who doesn't want government electricity to compete w/ private companies | |
| 656129220 | Stimson doctrine | 1932, Hoover's Secretary of State said the US would not recognize territorial changes resulting from force (Japan and Manchuria) | |
| 656129221 | debt knot | US wants $10 million from Allies, who are broke from war and can't pay it back, partially because of high US tariffs | |
| 656129222 | "wheat belt" | wheat-growing region that included the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas | |
| 656129223 | Capper-Volstead Act | exempted farmers' marketing cooperatives from antitrust prosecution | |
| 656129226 | Fordney-McCumber Tariff | 1922, This tariff raised the tax on imports to its heights level- 60% | |
| 656129228 | honest little Finland | insisted on paying back all of their war debts | |
| 656129229 | Hoovercrats | Southern Democrats who turned against their party's "wet" Catholic nominee and voted for the Republican in 1928 | |
| 656129230 | Agricultural Marketing Act | Set up the Federal Farm Board in order to help farmers help themselves, farm organizations would buy, sell, and store agricultural surpluses | |
| 656129234 | Adjusted Compensation Act | 1924- gave every former soldier a paid-up insurance policy due in 20 years. was still passed even though Coolidge vetoes it | |
| 656129236 | steel strike 1919 | A work stoppage that began when some 365,000 steelworkers in Pennsylvania walked off the job to demand recognition of their union, higher wages, and shorter hours. |
