Chapter 33 APUSH

What was the nickname of President Warren G. Harding’s close friends which he hired that ended up being corrupt?

Ohio gang

Who did Harding appoint as his Secretary of Commerce, because of his famed work with the Belgians (feeding during WWI) and wartime food administration?

Herbert Hoover

Harding appointed what former President of the United States as SCOTUS’s Chief Justice?

William Howard Taft

These laws were practically ignored during the Harding administrations which allowed corporations to once more relax and expand.

Antitrust Act

What did the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act of 1920 do to the railroads?

Returned them back to private ownership-Government had taken over the railroads during WWI

This organization will be created in 1921 by Congress to look after Veterans Affairs.

Veterans Bureau

This Veterans organization was founded in Paris in 1919 by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. to meet periodically to renew old hardships and let off steam.

American Legion

What was the chief grievance of the former “doughboys” from WWI?

They wanted their “dough” $$$.

After many protests for payment from WWI what did Congress finally pass in 1924 to appease the former WWI Veterans?

Adjusted Compensation Act

Why was the United States still technically at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary more than three years after the armistice?

We rejected the Treaty of Versailles

What area of the world will Secretary Hughes help to exploit to gain more access to oil reserves?

Middle East-Controlled by the British and French

What diplomatic bargain between 62 nations will be made between Calvin Coolidge’s Secretary of State and a French foreign minister?

Kellog-Briand Pact

What were the aspects of the bargain in #12?

This pact outlawed war between the countries which signed the pact but did not have any consequences for countries which went to war anyway.

Because of the problem with imperialistic Japan, the United States will create this doctrine hoping to prevent intervention in international events? The United States would not recognize any territory taken by force...Japan doesn’t CARE!!!

Stimson Doctrine

What were the aspects of this doctrine?

If a country were to invade and take another countries land the United States wold not recognize that territorial claim.

What chain reaction will the high-tariff course by the Republicans cause?

Europeans producers felt the squeeze from the tariffs and their products could not be sold, hence the European countries couldn’t pay back their war debt.

What scandal during the Harding administration saw Colonel Charles Forbes who was in charge of the Veterans Bureau scammed over $200 million from the administration?

Veterans Scandal

This scandal during the Harding administration saw Albert Fall (Interior Secretary) try and lease former navy oil reserves private oil men (Harry Sinclair and Edward Doheny). Fall took a $100,000 bribe for this deal and he will found guilty of taking the bribe and was sentenced to one year in jail.

Teapot Dome Scandal

When the oil men involved in the Teapot Dome scandal were acquitted from their charges, what cynical saying was created about trying to put rich men in prison?

“ You can’t put a million dollars in jail” and “In America everyone is assumed guilty until proven rich.”

Who will become the successor to Warren G. Harding after his untimely death?

Silent Calvin Coolidge

What is Coolidge’s philosophy concerning big business?

The Business of America is Business

What was the overwhelming issue facing post-WWI Europe?

International Debts

What will be the plan by the United States to help with the issue in #36?

Dawes Plan

What are the details of the plan?

The United States would loan Germany money who then would pay Britain and France who then in-turn would pay the US treasury for the loans they incurred during WWI

When Calvin Coolidge announced, “I do not choose to run” what Republican will run for President and be elected in 1928 (horrible year to take control)?

Herbert Hoover

What was the major problem facing Hoover’s policies concerning people in trouble?

He didn’t believe in the public “dole.” He said people should help themselves.

What did the Hawley-Smoot tariff of 1930 do to tariff rates?

Raised them from 38.5% to 60%. This tariff will caused some of the troubles around the world.

On what famous day did the stock market crash leading to the Great Depression?

October 29, 1929

What are the four leading indicators of the Stock Market Crash?

Housing starts were declining; Business Inventories were up; Stock market was overvalued; People were buying on the margin.

What are the five leading causes of the Great Depression?

Farmer overproduction of crops and horrible use of the land.

Uneven Distribution of Income.

Unbalanced foreign trade.

Overextended personal debts

Mechanized Industrialization

These two insults to Hoover were used to show people disapproval of his handing of the economy?

Hoover Flags and Hoover Blankets

These shantytowns were constructed just outside of major cities housing some of those who had lost their homes?

Hoovervilles

Hover realized that his theory of _________ _______________ was not working when he tried to get people out of the Great Depression.

Rugged individualism

What did the Norris-La Guardia Anti-injunction Act in 1932 do for labor?

Outlawed Yellow-dog contracts and forbade the federal courts to issue injunctions to restrain strikes, boycotts, and peaceful picketing.

What did the “Bonus Expeditionary Force” call for?

Payment for the service in WWI.

What happened to the force?

Hoover called out the army including General Douglas MacArthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower to breakup the march.

This type of policy was used by Hoover toward our Latin American neighbors?

Good Neighbor policy