US History S2 Exam: Chapter 17 - Jazz Age

Who was Warren G. Harding?

Was a republican senator and then won the presidency in 1920.

What was the Teapot Dome?

Harding's secretary, Albert B. Fall, secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing U.S Navy oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California. Fall took bribes for these interest, but eventually was caught and went to prison.

Dawes plan

An agreement between France, Britain, and Germany which stated: the US could make loans to Germany to help them pay war reparations and in return Britain and France would accept less in reparations and pay back more on their war debts to the US.

Sacco and Vanzetti Case

A well-known case in which two Italian-American anarchists were found guilty and executed for a crime in which there was very little evidence linking them to the crime, but since they were anarchists and foreigners people assumed guilt.

The Great Migration (1917-1930)

Thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to industrial cities

National Origins Act

part of the Immigration Act of 1924 which set quotas on how many individuals could immigrate into America based on their national origin (favored Northern Europeans)

Why was Harding a controversial president?

He made many notable appointments to the cabinet ->
it was disastrous because he mostly appointed friends and political allies.