288168114 | Adjusted Compensation Act | Gave every former slave a paid-up insurance policy due in twenty years, Coolidge vetoed but congress overturned | |
288168115 | Joint resolution of 1921 | Officially ended the war with Germany, Austria, and Hungary | |
288168116 | Disarmament | The US sent out invitations to do so to all countries naval powers except Russia | |
288168117 | 5:5:3 ratio | Proposed by Secretary Hughes that America and Britain should enjoy parity in battleships and aircraft carriers with Japan on the small end | |
288168118 | Five-Power Naval Treaty | Put the 5:5:3 ratio into effect but the US and Britain had to give up their far eastern possessions | |
288168119 | Four-Power Treaty | Replaced Anglo-Japanese Alliance, was to preserve status quo in Pacific between America, Japan, France, and Britain | |
288168120 | Nine-Power Treaty | Agreed to keep open the open door china | |
288168121 | Frank B. Kellogg | Believed that nations should pledge to foreswear war as an instrument of national policy | |
288168122 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | AKA Pact of Paris followed a peaceful way of living and was ratified by 62 nations | |
288168123 | comprehensive Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law | boosted tariff to an average of 38.5 percent | |
288168124 | Colonel Charles R. Forbes | Looted the government 200 million in connection with the veterans hospital after resigning form the head of the Veterans Bureau | |
288168125 | Teapot Dome scandal | Secretary Fall transfered valuable properties to the interior department and demanded loan of 100,000 dollars from the buyers Doheny and 300,000 from Sinclair | |
288168126 | Capper-Volstead Act | exempted farmers' marketing cooperatives from antitrust prosecution | |
288168127 | McNary-Haugenn Bill | Sought to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing the government to but surpluses and sell them abroad but was vetoed because it required a tax on farmers to make up government losses | |
288168128 | John W. Davis | Democratic candidate against Coolidge | |
288168129 | La Follette | Progressive, liberal candidate against Coolidge | |
288168130 | Intervention in the Caribbean and Central America | withdrew from Dominican republic, remained in haiti and nicaragua and had problems with mexico over oil | |
288168131 | Dawes Plan | rescheduled German reparations payments and opened the way for further American private loans to Germany | |
288168132 | Alfred E. Smith | democratic nominee in the 1928 election against Hoover who was wet and Catholic | |
288168133 | Agricultural Marketing Act | Designed to help farmers help themselves through producer cooperatives and set up the Federal Farm Board | |
288168134 | Grain Stabilization Corporation and the Cotton Stabilization Corporation | Goal was to bolster sagging prices by buying up surpluses but failed as farm produce prices dropped | |
288168135 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | Protective measure designed to assist farmers that with added amendments brought the tariff to 60 percent | |
288168136 | Black Tuesday | An effect of Britain's raised interest rates many sold stock and caused a Wall Street crash | |
288168137 | Great Depression | Caused by overproduction of both farm and factory | |
288168138 | Hoover Dam and Colorado River | created a lake for purposes of irrigation, flood control, and electric power set into motion by Hoover | |
288168139 | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | Government lending bank, designed to provide indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, and local governments | |
288168140 | Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act | outlawed yellow-dog contracts and forbade the federal courts to to issue injunctions to restrain strikes, boycotts, and peaceful picketing | |
288168141 | Bonus Expeditionary Force/Bonus Army | created riots of people demanding their entire bonus | |
288168142 | Japan Invasion of Manchuria | Overran the Chinese province and proceeded to shut the Open Door policy | |
288168143 | Stimson Doctrine | Declared the US would not recognize any territorial acquisitions achieved by force | |
288168144 | Bombing of Shanghai | Japan bombed china in 1932, shocking America and creating informal boycotts of Japanese goods | |
288191063 | Warren G Harding | Inaugurated in 1921, was well liked but weak, good mind | |
288191064 | Charles Evans Hughs | Secretary of State for Harding, good mind | |
288191065 | Andrew W Mellon | Secretary of Treasury under Harding, good mind | |
288191066 | Herbert Hoover | Secretary of Commerce under Harding, good mind | |
288191067 | Senator Albert B Fall | Anti-conservationist, Secretary of Interior under Harding, bad mind | |
288191068 | Harry M Daugherty | Attorney General under Harding, bad mind | |
288191069 | Amiable boob | Harding | |
288191070 | Old Guard | Hoped to improve on the old business doctrine of Laissez-faire and guide business to profit | |
288191071 | 4 out of 9 | Harding appointed judges | |
288191072 | Taft | Chief Justice under Harding | |
288191073 | Axed Progressive Legislation | 1920 Supreme Court | |
288191074 | Adkins v Children's Hospital 1923 | Invalidated a minimum wage law for women, reversed the Muller v. Orgen | |
288191075 | Amendment 19 | Women's right to vote | |
288191076 | Interstate Commerce Commission | Dominated by men sympathetic to railroad managers | |
288191077 | War Industries Board | Disappeared and stopped progressive hopes for government | |
288191078 | Esch- Cummins Transportation Act of 1920. | Encouraged private consolidation of the railroads | |
288191079 | Merchant Marine Act of 1920 | Authorized shipping board to dispose of much of the hastily built wartime fleet at bargain basement prices | |
288191080 | La Follette Seaman's Act of 1915 | American shipping could not compete with foreigners | |
288191081 | Railway Labor Board | Ordered a wage cut of 12% | |
288191082 | Daugherty Attorney General | Harshly eroded wage cut strikes | |
288191083 | Veterans Bureau | Authorized to operate hospitals and provide vocational rehabilitation for disables | |
288191084 | The American Legion | Known for its militant patriotism, rock-ribbed conservatism, and antiradicalism |
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