Chapter 32 American Pageant Flashcards

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