APUSH - Ch. 32 Study Guide Flashcards
Describe the Teapot Dome scandal and how Harding’s cabinet was involved. (2)
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
How did the Supreme Court decisions affect Progressive legislation?
Women are no longer protected by a special legislation
Describe the outcome of the Adkins Case.
revised the Mueller v. Oregon case b/c women had achieved the right to vote
How did the 1919 steel strike affect the labor movement?
put a strain on labor movement
The U.S. was generally isolationist in the 1920s—except in this case. (2)
middle east
disarmament?
What international move was taken to try to eliminate war in 1928?
Kellogg-Brand Pact
How did the U.S. deal with international trade issues? What effect did this have?
raised tariffs —> brought them deeper into a depression
What scandal dealt with the navy’s oil reserves?
Teapot Dome Scandal
What was the slogan of the Coolidge administration which reflected it’s attitude toward business?
“The man who builds a factory builds a temple” and that “the man who works there worships there”
Why were farmers having problems in the 1920s? (4)
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
In the mid-1920s, President Coolidge twice refused to sign legislation proposing to
McNary-Haugen Bill
In 1924, the Democratic party convention defeated by only one vote a resolution condemning
the Ku Klux Klan
The U.S. was generally isolationist in the 1920s—what were a couple of exceptions to this?
the armed interventionism in the Caribbean and Central America
international debts
Why were the Europeans angry about having to repay their loans from WWI?
because America’s post war tariff walls made it almost impossible to sell their goods to earn the dollars to pay their debts
How did America try to address the issue of angry Europeans about repaying their loans from WWI
The Dawes Plan
Why was Al Smith a long-shot to win the presidency? (3)
too abrasively urban
he was Catholic vs. a majority of Protestants
he was “wet” and drank a lot
When elected to the presidency in 1928, Herbert Hoover
he won with a large republican majority
What was a result of our tariff policies for the rest of the world? (5)
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
President Herbert Hoover believed that the Great Depression could be ended by doing all of the following
abolition of poverty and poor houses
What were some of Hoover’s efforts to solve the economic crisis?
assisting hard-pressed railroads, banks, and rural credit corporations (to relieve unemployment)
lent money to agricultural organizations to feed pigs
What did the Reconstruction Finance Corporation do?
provided indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, and the state and local governments
What did Hoover do about the Bonus Army and what was the reaction to this? (3)
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
How did Sec. of State Henry Stimson deal with the Manchurian crisis?
He ignored it at first b/c of his doctrine – the U.S. wouldn’t recognize any territorial acquisitions achieved by force
