AP US History chapter 32 Flashcards

6074050978	Warren G. Harding	inaugurated in 1921, one of the best liked men of his generation, the charming exterior concealed a weak interior	0
6074050979	Adkins v. Children's Hospital	a landmark Supreme Court decision reversing the ruling in Muller v. Oregon, which had declared women to be deserving of special protection in the workplace	1
6074050980	Nine-Power Treaty	agreement coming out of the Washington "Disarmament" Conference of 1921-1922 that pledged Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the U.S., China, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Belgium to abide by the Open Door Policy in China	2
6074050981	Kellogg-Briand Pact	a sentimental triumph of the 1920's peace movement, this 1928 pact linked 62 nations in the supposed "outlawry of war"	3
6074050982	Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law	a comprehensive bill passed to protect domestic production from foreign competitors; as a direct result, many European nations were spurred to increase their own trade barriers	4
6074050983	Teapot Dome Scandal	a tawdry affair involving the illegal lease of priceless naval oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California; one of several scandals that gave Harding's administration a reputation for corruption	5
6074050984	Albert B. Fall	secretary of the interior 1921, induced his careless colleague, the secretary of the Navy, to transfer valuable properties to the Interior Department; found guilty of taking a bribe and was sentenced to 1 year in jail	6
6074050985	Calvin Coolidge	VP to Harding; his father administered the presidential oath to him at his family home in VT, he became the "high priest of the great god Business"; "Cautious Cal"	7
6074050986	McNary-Haugen Bill	a farm-relief bill that was championed throughout the 1920's and aimed to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing the govt. to buy up surpluses and sell them abroad	8
6074050987	John W. Davis	democratic candidate in 1924, no less conservative than Coolidge	9
6074050988	Robert ("Fighting Bob") La Follette	led a new Progressive Party in 1924, major constituency was made up of the price-pinched farmers	10
6074050989	Dawes Plan	an arrangement negotiated in 1924 to reschedule German reparations payments; it stabilized the German currency and opened the way for further American private loans to Germany	11
6074050990	Alfred E. Smith	democratic nominee in 1928, lost; one of the most colorful personalities in American politics, "Al(cohol) Smith", too abrasively urban	12
6074050991	Agricultural Marketing Act	established the Federal Farm Board, a lending bureau for hard-pressed farmers; also aimed to help farmers help themselves through new producers' cooperatives	13
6074050992	Hawley-Smoot Tariff	the highest protective tariff in the peacetime history of the U.S. passed as a result of good old-fashioned horse trading	14
6074050993	Black Tuesday	the dark, panicky day of October 29, 1929 when over 16,410,000 shares of stock were sold on Wall Street; it was a trigger that helped bring on the Great Depression	15
6074050994	Hoovervilles	grim shantytowns where impoverished victims of the Great Depression slept under newspapers and in makeshift tents; their visibility (and sarcastic name) tarnished the reputation of the Hoover administration	16
6074050995	Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)	a govt. leading agency established under the Hoover administration in order to assist insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, and local govts.	17
6074050996	Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act	this law banned "yellow-dog", or anti-union work contracts and forbade federal courts from issuing injunctions to quash strikes and boycotts; it was an early piece of labor-friendly federal legisaltion	18
6074050997	Bonus Army	officially known as the Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF), this rag-tag group of 20,000 veterans marched on Washington to demand immediate payment of bonuses earned during WWI; General Douglas MacArthur dispersed the veterans with tear gas and bayonets	19