APUSH 698-725

Henry Ford -  introduced a Ford car model that came in various colors. ran Ford Motor Company and helped raise the automobile industry to account for about 9% of all manufacturing wages.

 Warren G Harding -  Ohio senator became GOP conservative Presidential nominee for the 1920 election. he was voted for his Bland oratory after the stress of War.

 Charles Evans Hughes -  Harding's Cabinet member, an editor of an Iowa farm periodical, secretary of agriculture

 Andrew Mellon -  Harding's cabinet member, the Pittsburgh financer, treasury secretary

 Herbert Hoover -  Harding's cabinet member, the wartime food czar, Secretary of Commerce

Teapot Dome -  a shorthand label for a tangle of scandals. named after teapot dome, Wyoming,  which was one place interior secretary Fall leased a government oil Reserve.

 Calvin Coolidge -  vice president to Warren harding. was Massachusetts governor in 1918 and Republican vice president nominee for 1920 election.

  McNary Haugen bill -  a test of coolidge's anti-government ideology. the price support plan under which the government would purchase the surplus of six basic Farm Commodities at their average price. the government will then sell the goods at market price was vetoed thrice by Coolidge

Washington Naval arms conference -  a meeting called by Secretary of State Hughes with the US, Great Britain, and Japan agreeing to Halt Battleship construction for 10 years. represented an early Arms Control effort. the US and Japan also pledged to respect territorial Holdings in the Pacific.

 ShepherdTowner Act -  funded rural prenatal and baby care centers staffed by public health nurses.

Alfred E Smith -  New York's Governor Champion by Big City delegates in the 1924 presidential term. was Catholic and of immigrant origins. lost to Republican nominee Calvin Coolidge.

 Charles Lindbergh -  a daredevil stunt pilot who flew solo around the Atlantic in a small single engine plane. a victim of celebrity worship:  a blank screen upon which people projected their hopes, fears, and ideologies upon.

H.L. Mencken -   a journalist and critic who launched the iconoclassic ‘ American Mercury’  magazine.

 National Origins Act -  restricted annual immigration from any foreign country to 2% of the number of persons of that national origin in the US in 1980.

 Saco Vanzetti Act -  a Massachusetts murder case beginning April 1920. was  impassioned by  ethnic and anti radical prejudices 

Fundamentalism -  Evangelical Believers that insisted on the Bibles inerrancy and literal truth including the Genesis account of creation. targeted Darwin's theory of evolution. many states considered laws preventing Public Schools teaching education and many Southern States passed these laws.

 Scopes trial -  immediate sensation. John T Scopes summarized the theory of evolution to a science class after being encouraged by local businessmen and Civic boosters as the American civil liberties Union offered to defend Any teacher who taught it. the jury found scope's guilty but exposed fundamentalism to ridicule.

 Marcus Garvey -  founded the universal Negra Improvement association. moved to Harlem and glorified all things black in a white dominated society. summoned blacks to return to ‘motherland Africa’ and established the Black Star steamship line to help them get there

 Prohibition -  a campaign to address social problems associated with alcohol abuse and a symbolic Crusade by native-borne Protestants to control immigrant cities. included the passing of the 18th Amendment but gradually lost support and ended in 1933.