AP US History Chapter 36
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| 159707631 | Harding | President in 1820 | |
| 159707632 | Ohio Gang | Harding's "advisors" who played poker, drank, and smoked with him in the White House, involved in numerous scandals | |
| 159707633 | Charles Evan Hughes | Republican governor of NY and Secretary of State under Harding | |
| 159707634 | Andrew Mellon | Secretary of Treasury under Harding, previously Pittsburgh aluminum king | |
| 159707635 | Herbert Hoover | Secretary of Commerce under Harding, previously wartime food administrator; an energetic businessmen and engineer | |
| 159707636 | Albert B. Fall | Senator of New Mexico, anticonservatist; Secretary of the Interior under Harding | |
| 159707637 | Adkins v. Children's Hospital | Court ruled that women were now the legal equals of men and could no longer be protected by special legislation | |
| 159707638 | Esch-Cummins Transportation Act of 1920 | Act that encouraged private consolidation of the railroads and pledge the ICC to guarantee their profitability | |
| 159707639 | Merchant Marine Act of 1920 | Act authorizing the Shipping board, which controlled about fifteen hundred vessels, to dispose of the hastily built wartime fleet at bargain-basement prices | |
| 159707640 | Railway Labor Board | Successor body to the wartime labor boards; ordered a wage cut of 12% in 1922, provoking a two-month strike | |
| 159707641 | Daughtery | Attorney General in 1922; clamped on strikers one of the most sweeping injunctions in American history | |
| 159707642 | Veterans' Bureau | Federal bureau created in 1921 to provide hospitals and services to disabled veterans | |
| 159707643 | American Legion | Founded in 1919 by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to renew old hardships and let off steam in good-natured horseplay; later known for militant patriotism, conservatism, and antiradicalism | |
| 159707644 | Adjusted Compensation Act | Act giving each former soldier a paid-up insurance policy due in twenty years, adding $3.5 billion to the cost of WWI | |
| 159707645 | Washington Conference | 1921 Conference of major powers to reduce naval armaments among Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy, and the United States | |
| 159707646 | Five-Power Naval Treaty | Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the U.S. were bounded to preserve the status quo in the Pacific (Ignore Italy actually :[ ) February 1922 | |
| 159707647 | Nine-Power Treaty | Treaty in 1922 that was essentially a reinvention of the Open Door Policy; all members to allow equal and fair trading rights with China; nine total members; February 1922 | |
| 159707648 | Four-Power Treaty | Treaty between Britain, Japan, France and United States preserved the status quo in Pacific; December 1921 | |
| 159707649 | Kellogg | Coolidge's Secretary of State; Nobel Peace Prize winner for a pact made in 1929 (Last name only) | |
| 159707650 | Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law | Law passed in 1922 where Congress raised the tariff from 27% to 38.5% | |
| 159707651 | Forbes | Colonel who in 1923 resigned as head of the Veterans' Bureau after looting the government to about $200 million for veterans' hospitals (Last name only) | |
| 159707652 | Teapot Dome scandal | Affair involving two naval oil reserves where the Secretary of the Interior transfered these valuable properties to the Interior Department | |
| 159707653 | Elk Hills | The second naval oil reserve involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal located in California (the first naval oil reserve is in Teapot Dome, Wyoming) | |
| 159707654 | Albert B. Fall | Secretary of the Interior under Harding | |
| 159707655 | Denby | Secretary of the Navy under Harding | |
| 159707656 | Sinclair and Doheny | Two oilmen involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal | |
| 159707657 | Coolidge | Took over when Harding died in San Francisco of pneumonia and thrombosis on August 2, 1923 | |
| 159707658 | Capper-Volstead Act | Exempted farmers' marketing cooperatives from anti-trust prosecution | |
| 159707659 | McNary-Haugen Bill | Bill that sought to keep agricultural prices high by having the government buy surpluses to sell abroad, vetoed twice by Coolidge | |
| 159707660 | Coolidge | Republican presidential nominee in 1924 election | |
| 159707661 | John W. Davis | Wealthy corporation lawyer and Democratic presidential nominee in 1924 election | |
| 159707662 | La Follette | Socialist presidential nominee in 1924 election | |
| 159707663 | Nicaragua | Coolidge removed troops from here in 1925 but sent them back a year later where they stayed until 1933 | |
| 159707664 | Mexico | American oil companies desired a military expedition here when the Mexican government tried to assert its sovereignty over oil resources | |
| 159707665 | Ruhr Valley | France sent troops here in order to extort lagging reparations payments from Germany | |
| 159707666 | 480 million marks | The price of a loaf of bread in October 1923 in Germany; Toy has said this number how many times? | |
| 159707667 | Dawes Plan | Rescheduling of German payments in 1924 for the cost of WWI and allowed for private loans to Germany; merry-go-round | |
| 159707668 | Finland | "honest little ______"; love this country, it struggled along making payments until the last of its debt was erased in 1976 | |
| 159707669 | Alfred E. Smith | Four-time governor of New York and Democratic presidential nominee in 1928 | |
| 159707670 | Herbert Hoover | Stanford University graduate from Iowa and Oregon who became the Republican presidential nominee in 1928 | |
| 159707671 | planned economy | An economy in which government directs the use of national resources and regulates the economy to achieve both goals and stability. | |
| 159707672 | Agricultural Marketing Act | This act lent money to farmers to help them organize producers' cooperatives | |
| 159707673 | Federal Farm Board | Agency created by the Agricultural Marketing ct; it lent out money to farm organizations seeking to buy, sell, and store agricultural surpluses | |
| 159707674 | Grain Stabilization/ Cotton Stabilization Corporation | Two corporations created to bolster sagging prices by buying up surpluses; suffocated by an avalanche of farm produce | |
| 159707675 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930 | Raised the tariff to 60% becoming the nation's highest protective tariff during peacetime | |
| 159707676 | Black Tuesday | 16.4 million shares of stocks were sold in a scramble on this day because speculators dumped their insecurities and others followed in group psychology. Hah. psychology. | |
| 159707677 | Mississippi Valley | A drought here in 1930 forced thousand of farms into auctions | |
| 159707678 | Hoover blankets | Another term for old newspapers in areas hit hard by depression | |
| 159707679 | Hoovervilles | Shanty towns where the homeless and unemployed fought over garbage cans and cooked their findings in oil-drums | |
| 159707680 | Hoover Dam | Huge construction project from 1931 to 1935 that provided much needed jobs to the southwest; built on Colorado River | |
| 159707681 | Muscle Shoals Bill | Bill designed to dam the Tennessee River, vetoed by Hoover because he opposed the government's selling electricity in competition with private companies | |
| 159707682 | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | Agency designed to provide indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, and state and local governments | |
| 159707683 | Pump-priming | Term for the spending of government funds in commercial enterprises to stimulate the national economy (Herbert Hoover) | |
| 159707684 | Norris - La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act | Act passed in 1932 that outlawed contracts and forbade the federal courts to issue injunctions to restrain strikes, boycotts, and peaceful picketing | |
| 159707685 | Bonus Expeditionary Force | Group of WWI veterans who demanded a premature payment of the deferred bonus voted by Congress in 1924, payable in 1945 | |
| 159707686 | Bonus Army | Another name for the Bonus Expeditionary Force | |
| 159707687 | Douglas MacArthur | General who evicted the Bonus Expeditionary Force with tear gas and bayonets | |
| 159707688 | Battle of Anaconda Flats | So-called battle between the Bonus Expeditionary Force and the army under MacArthur. I'm getting sleepy. | |
| 159707689 | Manchuria | Japan's center of attacks in China; Japan overran the area and bolt shut the Open Door in this area | |
| 159707690 | Geneva | Meeting place of the League in response to Japan's taking of Manchuria | |
| 159707691 | Henry Stimson | Secretary of State under Hoover that said that the US wouldn't interfere with a League embargo | |
| 159708366 | Stimson doctrine | Hoover's Secretary of State said the US would not recognize territorial changes resulting from Japan's invasion of Manchuria | |
| 159707692 | Good Neighbor policy | Herbert Hoover created a policy in South America. What is this policy? :D | |
| 159707693 | Haiti | Hoover negotiated with this republic in 1932 and provided for the complete withdrawal of American troops in 1934 | |
| 159707694 | Nicaragua | Hoover withdrew troops from this region in 1933. Hurrah | |
| 159708367 | farm bloc | Bipartisan voting sector from the agricultural states; it sprouted up in Congress in 1921 and drove through laws such as the Capper-Volstead Act and the McNary-Haugen Bill. Yay Carly! I missed this term | |
| 159711952 | 5-5-3 | The ratio of battleships and aircraft carriers in America, Britain, and japan | |
| 159711953 | wheat belt | Areas of the U.S. Great Plains region where wheat farming is important; including the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas, | |
| 159711954 | yanquis imperialism | The new U.S. expansion into Latin America through economic neocolonialism; termed by angry South Americans | |
| 159711955 | Marian Anderson | First African-American to perform at the White House; the DAR refused her use of Constitution Hall for a concert, so Eleanor Roosevelt set her up to perform at the Lincoln Memorial. | |
| 159711956 | Aretha Franklin | Famous singer and songwriter; known as Queen of Soul; she won 15 Grammy's and sang "America the Beautiful" at Obama's Inauguration in 2009 |