Chapter 22: The New Era

Question 1

Henry C. Wallace

Answer 1

Henry C. Wallace Secretary of Agriculture under President Harding. While the Harding administration would go down as the most corrupt in history, many of the appointees were good choices. Wallace was the editor of a popular magazine and a proponent of scientific farming

Question 2

Teapot Dome

Answer 2

A scandal that rocked the Harding administration. Many officials leased government land in Wyoming in exchange for cash. The Interior Secretary, Albert Fall, and the Navy Secretary, Edwin Denby, resigned and were sent to jail

Question 3

Alfred E. Smith

Answer 3

The Democratic candidate in the 1928 election. He ran against Republican candidate, Herbert Hoover. Smith was a Catholic and had ties to Tammany Hall and the anti-prohibition movement. Much of the campaign centered around his religion and prohibition which in the end cost him the election