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| 591080080 | Warren G. Harding | he had a mediocre mind and he did not like to hurt people's feelings; could not detect the corruption within his administration, president after World War I who promised to return the US to normalism | |
| 591080081 | Charles Evans Hughes | Secretary of State under Harding, Proposed a 10-year moratorium on the construction of major new warships at the Washington Conference | |
| 591080082 | Andrew Mellon | Secretary of the Treasury. Successfully pushed congress to lower taxes | |
| 591080083 | 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. | |
| 591080084 | Herbert Hoover | U.S. president during stock market crash, who rejected the Progressive emphasis on activist government to pursue a program of minimal business regulation, low taxes, and high tariffs; encouraged businesses to regulate themselves, his belief in "rugged individualism" kept him from giving people direct relief during the Great Depression. | |
| 591080085 | Albert B. Fall | Scheming anti-conservationist. Secretary of Interior who got oil reserves transferred to Interior Dept. (wolf hired to protect the sheep), corrupt. | |
| 591080086 | Harry M. Daugherty | Harding's Attorney Gen. was supposed to prosecute wrong dooers but instead was a big time crook in "Ohio Gang" accused of illegal sale of pardons & liquor permits. Forced to resign but not convicted. | |
| 591080087 | Calvin Coolidge | Became president when Harding died. Tried to clean up scandals. Business prospered and people's wealth increased. Shy, dour serious visage. Called "silent Cal" - known for brilliant flashes of silence. Mediocre leadership skills, boring speeches. High priest of the great god Business. | |
| 591080088 | John W. Davis | Democratic - nominee for President. Wealthy corporation lawyer connecting with wall street banking house of JP Morgan & co. | |
| 591080089 | Robert La Follette | Progressive Wisconsin governor who attacked machine politics and pressured the state legislature to require each party to hold a direct primary | |
| 591080090 | Alfred E. Smith | Governor of New York who ran as a Democrat for the 1928 elections: a man who was blanketed by scandal (he drank during a Prohibitionist era,and was hindered politically by being a Roman Catholic). | |
| 591080091 | "Ohio Gang" | accused of illegal sale of pardons & liquor permits | |
| 591080092 | trade association | Set up by big industrialists, these agencies used to agree upon standardization of product, publicity campaigns and a united front in dealing with railroads and labor... ran counter to spirit of anti-trust legislation but creation was encouraged by H. Hoover. | |
| 591080093 | American Legion | World War 1 veterans group that promoted patriotism and economic benefits for former servicemen | |
| 591080094 | Washington Conference | (1921) Conference of major powers to reduce naval armaments among Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy, and the United States. | |
| 591080095 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | aka Pact of Paris. "outlawry of war" - quarreling nations should take a pledge not to use war as an instrument of foreign policy | |
| 591080096 | Fordney-McCumber Tariff | spurred by fear of flood of cheap foreign goods from Europe. raised tariff rates | |
| 591080097 | Teapot Dome scandal | a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921 - led to conviction & prison for sec. of interior Albert Fall. | |
| 591080098 | McNary-Haugen Bill | Kept agricultural prices high by authorizing gov. to buy crops to sell to abroad - Coolidge vetoed the bill twice | |
| 591080099 | 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. This circular flow of money was a success. | |
| 591080100 | Muscle Shoals Bill | Bills that would allocate funds to dam the Tennessee River and provide employment, is vetoed by Hoover | |
| 591080101 | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | Congress set up $2 billion. It made loans to major economic institutions such as banks, insurance companies and railroads. | |
| 591080102 | Bonus Army | WWI veterans who marched on Washington demanding their $1,000 bonus pay before the 1945 due date. | |
| 591080103 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | (HH) 1930 , charged a high tax for imports thereby leading to less trade between America and foreign countries along with some economic retaliation, HIGHEST EVER | |
| 591080104 | farm block | This bi-partisan congressional voting block guaranteed farmers favorable congressional treatment. | |
| 591080105 | Agricultural Marketing Act | Established the first major government program to help farmers maintain crop prices with a federally sponsored Farm Board that would make loans to national marking cooperatives or set up corporations to buy surpluses and raise prices. This act failed to help American farmers. | |
| 591080106 | Black Friday | October 29, 1929: Stock Market Crash | |
| 591080107 | Stimson doctrine | 1932, Hoover's Secretary of State said the US would not recognize territorial changes resulting from Japan's invasion of Manchuria |
