Chapter 22-23 (26)

Question 1

A group of poker playing men that were friends of president Warren Harding, who appointed them offices and they used their powers to gain money for themselves and were involved in scandals that ruined Harding’s reputation even though he wasn’t involved

Answer 1

Ohio Gang

Question 2

Harding’s Secretary of the interior, scheming anti conservationist; he was convicted of leading naval oil reserves and collecting bribes, called the Tea Pot Dome scandal

Answer 2

Albert B. Fall

Question 3

1923, landmark Supreme Court case; reversed the ruling in Miller v. Oregon which had declared women to be deserving of special protection in the work place

Answer 3

Adkins v. Children’s Hospital

Question 4

American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the 1900’s; founded the first birth control clinic in the US and the American Birth Control League (Planned Parenthood)

Answer 4

Margaret Sanger

Question 5

The way life was before WW1

Answer 5

Normalcy

Question 6

An international conference on the limitation of naval fleet construction

Answer 6

Washington conference

Question 7

Limited the naval armaments of the U.S., France, Britain, Japan and Italy got the allotment of capital warships (goal; prevent a naval arms race)

Answer 7

Five Power Treaty

Question 8

An agreement that all parties (America, France, Britain, Japan) would maintain the status quo in the pacific by respecting the pacific holdings of other countries (Not taking land); resulted in the termination of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902 in an attempt at preventing war

Answer 8

Four power treaty

Question 9

Outlawed war as an instrument of national policy (but no enforcement mechanism was provided for changing the behavior of warring signatories); allowed “defensive” war as per interpretation

Answer 9

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 10

Congress adopted a laissez-fairs attitude toward regulating business and pro-business attitude in passing the tariff, promotion of foreign trade trough providing loans to the post war Allied governments

Answer 10

Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act

Question 11

Head of the veterans bureau; was caught stealing $200 from the gov., chiefly in connection with the building if veteran’s hospitals

Answer 11

Charles R. Forbes

Question 12

A horrible political scandal involving the private bribery of secretary of the interior Albert B. Fall in exchange for government oileries

Answer 12

Teapot Dome Scandal

Question 13

“Fighting Quaker”, wanted to root out radical immigrants

Answer 13

A. Mitchell Palmer

Question 14

Loan program crafted to give money to Germany so that they could pay war reparations and lessen the financial crisis in Europe

Answer 14

Dawes Plan

Question 15

President of the US from 1929 to 1933, Leader of Food Administration, republican candidate who assumed the presidency during the Great Depression, tried to restore people’s faith in the country

Answer 15

Herbert Hoover

Question 16

This act provided for a form of relief for farmers by creating a federal farm board which was designed to stabilize farm crop prices

Answer 16

Agricultural Marketing Act

Question 17

Raised tariffs to an unprecedented level, worsened the depression by raising prices and discouraging foreign trade

Answer 17

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question 18

1929, stocks overinflated, overpricing, frauds companies overproduced, people went into debt, speculation in buying credit, banks lost money, farm prices dropped

Answer 18

Stock Market Crash

Question 19

This agency became a government lending bank, it was designed to provide indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations and rail roads

Answer 19

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Question 20

Name given to the mass of struggling WW2 Vets, wanted to collect their paychecks early in the face of hard economic times

Answer 20

Bonus Army

Question 21

Period in the US when there was a suspicion of communism and fear of widespread infiltration of Communism in US

Answer 21

Red Scare

Question 22

1921, restricted immigration I tot he USA; added numerical limits on immigration from Europe and the use of a quota system

Answer 22

Immigration Restriction Act

Question 23

Severely restricted immigrants by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and Eastern Europe; excluded Asians (1924, after IRA)

Answer 23

National Origins Act

Question 24

Italian immigrants who were charged with murdering a guard and robbing a shoe store; many believed they had been framed for the crime because of their anarchist and pro-union activists

Answer 24

Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 25

Black artistic movements in New York City in the 1920s, expressed injustices of Jim Crow

Answer 25

Harlem Rennaisance

Question 26

Harlem political leader, he urged black economic cooperation and helped African Americans start business; founded the universal negro improvement association and mass immigration back to Africa

Answer 26

Marcus Garvey