APUSH - Ch. 32 Study Guide

Question 1

Describe the Teapot Dome scandal and how Harding’s cabinet was involved. (2)

Answer 1

affair involving the illegal lease of priceless naval oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California

the scandal implicated Pres. Harding’s sec., was one of several that gave his administration a reputation for corruption

Question 2

How did the Supreme Court decisions affect Progressive legislation?

Answer 2

Women are no longer protected by a special legislation

Question 3

Describe the outcome of the Adkins Case.

Answer 3

revised the Mueller v. Oregon case b/c women had achieved the right to vote

Question 4

How did the 1919 steel strike affect the labor movement?

Answer 4

put a strain on labor movement

Question 5

The U.S. was generally isolationist in the 1920s—except in this case. (2)

Answer 5

middle east

disarmament?

Question 6

What international move was taken to try to eliminate war in 1928?

Answer 6

Kellogg-Brand Pact

Question 7

How did the U.S. deal with international trade issues? What effect did this have?

Answer 7

raised tariffs —> brought them deeper into a depression

Question 8

What scandal dealt with the navy’s oil reserves?

Answer 8

Teapot Dome Scandal

Question 9

What was the slogan of the Coolidge administration which reflected it’s attitude toward business?

Answer 9

“The man who builds a factory builds a temple” and that “the man who works there worships there”

Question 10

Why were farmers having problems in the 1920s? (4)

Answer 10

they were caught in a cycle of a boom-or-bust

wheat prices went up

piled up more price dampening surpluses

a depression swept through

Question 11

In the mid-1920s, President Coolidge twice refused to sign legislation proposing to

Answer 11

McNary-Haugen Bill

Question 12

In 1924, the Democratic party convention defeated by only one vote a resolution condemning

Answer 12

the Ku Klux Klan

Question 13

The U.S. was generally isolationist in the 1920s—what were a couple of exceptions to this?

Answer 13

the armed interventionism in the Caribbean and Central America

international debts

Question 14

Why were the Europeans angry about having to repay their loans from WWI?

Answer 14

because America’s post war tariff walls made it almost impossible to sell their goods to earn the dollars to pay their debts

Question 15

How did America try to address the issue of angry Europeans about repaying their loans from WWI

Answer 15

The Dawes Plan

Question 16

Why was Al Smith a long-shot to win the presidency? (3)

Answer 16

too abrasively urban

he was Catholic vs. a majority of Protestants

he was “wet” and drank a lot

Question 17

When elected to the presidency in 1928, Herbert Hoover

Answer 17

he won with a large republican majority

Question 18

What was a result of our tariff policies for the rest of the world? (5)

Answer 18

reversed a promising worldwide trend toward reasonable tariffs

widened trade gaps

forced U.S. into further economic isolationism

plunged nations into deeper depression

increased international chaos

Question 19

President Herbert Hoover believed that the Great Depression could be ended by doing all of the following

Answer 19

abolition of poverty and poor houses

Question 20

What were some of Hoover’s efforts to solve the economic crisis?

Answer 20

assisting hard-pressed railroads, banks, and rural credit corporations (to relieve unemployment)

lent money to agricultural organizations to feed pigs

Question 21

What did the Reconstruction Finance Corporation do?

Answer 21

provided indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, and the state and local governments

Question 22

What did Hoover do about the Bonus Army and what was the reaction to this? (3)

Answer 22

Hoover ordered the army to evacuate the unwanted guests

Hoover received a lot of hate

Democrats employed professional “smear” artists to drive him from the office

Question 23

How did Sec. of State Henry Stimson deal with the Manchurian crisis?

Answer 23

He ignored it at first b/c of his doctrine – the U.S. wouldn’t recognize any territorial acquisitions achieved by force