Chapter 33.0 Flashcards
Secretary of State for Harding
Charles Evans highes
Secretary of treasury
Andrew Mellon
Sec. of commerce
Hoover
Sec. of the Interior
Albert B fall
Atty. Gen.
Harry m Daugherty
Harding appointed him as Chief Justice
Taft
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
Reversed reasoning and Muller v Ogden invalidated a minimum-wage law for women
Esch cummins transportation act
Encourage private consolidation of the railroads and pledged interstate commerce commission to guarantee the profitability
Merchant Marine act
Authorized the shipping board to dispose of much of the hastily built wartime fleet at bargain basement prices
La follette Seamans act
American shipping drive and competition foreigners to provide crews with bad food and starvation wages
Veterans Bureau
Authorized to operate hospitals and provide vocational rehabilitation for the disabled
American legion
Founded by Teddy Roosevelt in Paris wanted more benefits for veterans
Adjusted compensation act
Every former soldier got it paid up insurance policy to 20 years adding 3.5 billion to the cost of the war Coolidge Fiege Congress override it
Hughes
Secured American right to share in exploitation of oil in Middle East
Disarmament conference
Address Naval disarmament and situation in the far east
Five power Naval Treaty of 1922
Embodied high ideas unship ratios but compensation to Japan Great Britain and America would refrain from fortify eastern possessions like the Philippines and was not subjected to restrains in their possessions
For power treaty
Replace the Anglo Japanese alliance
Bound Great Britain Japan France and the US preserve the status quo in the Pacific
Nine power treaty of 1922
Open door in China
Frank B Kellogg
Coolidge’s secretary of state won Noble peace prize for a role
signed with French Foreign Minister in 1928 the Kellogg Briand pact or the pact of Paris
Fordney McCumber tariff law
Increase the tariff from 27% to 38.5%
Col. Charles R Forbes
Resigned from head of veterans Bureau after looting 200 million of government funds in connection to building veterans hospitals
Teapot dome scandal
Albert B fall got the secretary of the Navy transfer the properties of Teapot Dome and elk Hills to the Interior Department event and leased the land to oilman Harry S Sinclair and Edward L Doheny after bribes
Capper volstead act
Exempted farmers marketing cooperatives from antitrust prosecution
McNary Haugen bill
Sought to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing the go to buy up surpluses and sell a broad government losses would be made up by tax on farmers Vetoed
John W Davis
Democratic choice for presidential candidate in 1924
La Follette
Liberal candidate for progressive Party
Support of socialists and poor farmers
Call For government ownership of railroads relief for farmers lashed out at monopoly and anti-labor injunctions urged constitutional amendment to limit Supreme Court’s power to any about eight laws passed by Congress
Dawes plan of 1924
Negotiated five Charles Dawes rescheduled German reparations payments and opened way for further American private loans to Germany
Alfred e smith
Democratic candidate in1928
