LK Unit 7 Test Qs Flashcards
Harding was characterized by
scandals
Hoover’s response to depression
Underestimated severity, reluctant to give direct aid to Americans, “rugged individualism”
Calvin Coolidge
“Big business,” lower income tax, laissez-faire
Civilian Conservation Corporation
Part of New Deal, provided jobs for young men
Anti-Imperialist League
Against American colonization of the Philippines
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Fueled global spread of depression
“Irreconcilables”
NO League of Nations
Bonus March/Army
RUINED Hoover
Monroe Doctrine, second half of 19th century
DIDN’T intervene in boundary dispute in Venezuela, even though MD said we should’ve
February 1898
Sinking of USS Maine
Revolt in Hawaii
Against native monarchy, overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani
“You provide the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”
Hearst, yellow journalism
Territory acquired in Spanish-American War
Puerto Rico, Guam and Philippines
Platt Amendment
Made Anti-Americans MAD
“New Deal” Agencies
FERA, CCC, WPA, TVA
other choice is NOT
Opposition to Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations
Lodge
“Return to normalcy” involved isolationism and
Away from progressivism
Harding/Coolidge
Laissez-faire, big business