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| 601481468 | Warren Harding | 29th president of the US; Republican; "Return to Normalcy" (life as it had been before WWI-peace, isolation); presidency was marred by scandal | |
| 601481469 | Charles Hughes | Secretary of State under Harding, Proposed a 10-year moratorium on the construction of major new warships at the Washington Conference | |
| 601481470 | Andrew Mellon | Secretary of Treasury under President Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, who instituted a Republican policy of reduced government spending, lower taxes to the wealthy and higher tariffs | |
| 601481471 | 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. | |
| 601481472 | Albert Fall | The Secretary of the Interior who accepted bribes from an oil company and started the Teapot Dome Scandal. | |
| 601481473 | Harry Daugherty | Attorney General under Harding who sold illegal liquor licenses and pardons under Harding | |
| 601481474 | Charles Forbes | head of the Veterans Bureau, was caught stealing $200 million from the government, chiefly in connection with the building of veterans' hospitals. | |
| 601481475 | Calvin Coolidge | Became president when Harding died. Tried to clean up scandals. Business prospered and people's wealth increased | |
| 601481476 | John Davis | Weak, compromise Democratic candidate in 1924 against Coolidge. He was a wealthy lawyer connected with J.P. Morgan and Company. Coolidge easily defeated him. | |
| 601481477 | Robert La Follette | Progressive Party's presidential nominee in 1924. | |
| 601481478 | Alfred Smith | He ran for president in the 1928 election for the Democrat Party. He was known for his drinking and he lost the election to Herbert Hoover. Prohibition was one of the issues of the campaign. He was the first Roman Catholic to run for president, and it was during a time many people were prejudice toward Catholics | |
| 601481479 | "Ohio Gang" | a group of close friends and political supporters whom President Warren G. Harding appointed to his cabinet | |
| 601481480 | Trade associations | organizations offering technical and general assistance to entrepreneurs in a specific profession or industry | |
| 601481481 | American Legion | World War I veterans' group that promoted patriotism and economic benefits for former servicemen. | |
| 601481482 | Washington Conference | An international conference on the limitation of naval fleet construction begins in Washington. Under the leadership of the American Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes the representatives of the USA, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan pledge not to exceed the designated sizes of their respective naval fleets | |
| 601481483 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | Agreement signed in 1928 in which nations agreed not to pose the threat of war against one another | |
| 601481484 | Fordney-McCumber Tariff | This tariff rose the rates on imported goods in the hopes that domestic manufacturing would prosper. This prevented foreign trade, which hampered the economy since Europe could not pay its debts if it could not trade. | |
| 601481485 | Teapot Dome scandal | Scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil-drilling rights on government land in return for money | |
| 601481486 | farm block | a term given to farmers who organized into a political group speaking for the family farmer | |
| 601481487 | McNary-Haugen Bill | it sought to keep agricultural prices high by having the government buy surpluses to sell abroad, vetoed twice by Coolidge | |
| 601481488 | 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. | |
| 601481489 | 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 as it was enact as the great depression hit | |
| 601481490 | 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 retaliatio, HIGHEST EVER | |
| 601481491 | Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929: Stock Market Crash | |
| 601481492 | Muscle Shoals Bill | Bills that would allocate funds to dam the Tennessee River and provide employment, is vetoed by Hoover | |
| 601481493 | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | an independent 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. | |
| 601481494 | Bonus Army | Unemployed World War I veterans who came to Washington in the spring of 1932 to demand the immediate payment of the bonus congress had voted them in 1922. The veterans were forcibly removed from Anacostia Flats by federal troops under the command of Douglas MacArthur. | |
| 601481495 | Stimson doctrine | 1932, Hoover's Secretary of State said the US would not recognize territorial changes resulting from Japan's invasion of Manchuria |
