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| Kellog-Briand Pact (Pact of Paris) 1928 | All nations that signed would no longer use war as offensive means. Americans didn't want there to be war anymore. They thought quarreling nations would take a pledge to foreswear war as an instrument of national policy, swords could be beaten into plowshares. Frank B. Kellogg (Secretary of State). Defensive wars still permitted. The pact was a diplomatic derelict, useless in a showdown. Reflected American mindset in 20s. False sense of security. |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff 1922 | raised tariff from 27% to 35% on foreign goods |
| Teapot Dome 1921 | Scandal involving land and bribes. oil reserves. Albert B. Fall got money and land for oil industries: Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny. Al receieved bribe loans from the oil men. |
| Dawes Plan | rescheduled German reparations payments and gave the way for further American private loans to Germany. Charles Dawes |
| Hawley-Smoot Tariff | raised Tariff to 60%. designed to assist farmers. amendemts changed it to a high tariff. seemed like a declaration of economic warfare on the entire outside world. reveersed a promising worldwide trend toward reasonable tariffs and widened trade gaps. plunged america and other nations deeper into depression. increased international financial chaos and forced the US further into economic isolationism |
| Black Tuesday | The day of the economic crash. |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | Government lending bank. Help business and industry. designed to provide indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, etc. |
| Bonus Army | Veterans never got their paychecks. they needed money. congress got it passed |
| Stimson doctrine | non-recognition of international territorial changes that were executed by force (retaliation for Japan) |
| Five-Power Naval Treaty | ship ratios |
| Hoovervilles | Poor places. Shanty's shacks |
| Manchuria | Vast geographical region in northeast asia. mineral-rich area. Japanese imperialists lunged into thise territory and bolt shut the open door policty |
| Pump priming | action taken to stimulate the economy. |
| Election of 1924 | Coolidge took Harding's place |
| Buying on Margin | purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker. |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Secretary of State |
| Andrew W. Mellon | Secretary of Treasury |
| Herbert Hoover | Secretary of Commerce |
| Senator Albert B. Fall | New Mexico Secretary of Interior. Anticonservationist |
| Harry M. Daugherty | Lawyer. Attorney General. Big time crook in "Ohio gang" |
| Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923) | Court reversed Muller v. Oregon (protected women in workplace. minimum wage law). Because women had the vote from the 19th amendment they were legal equals of men and could no longer be protected by special legislation. Framed a debate of gender differences that would continue for remainder of the century. |
| Esch-Cummins Transportation Act of 1920 | Encouraged private consolidation of railroads |
| Merchant Marine Act 1920 | authorized the shipping board to dispose of wartime fleets at bargain prices |
| Railway Labor Board | ordered a wage cut of 12 percent in 1922. provoked a two month strike |
| Veterans Bureau 1921 | authorized to operate hospitals and provide vocational rehabilitation for the disabled |
| American Legion | founded in Paris 1919 by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Militant patriotism, conservatism, zealous antiradicalism. aggressive lobbying for veterans' benefits. Chief grievance = monetary |
| Bonus Bill 1922 | Money for Veterans. vetoed by Harding |
| Adjusted Compensation Act 1924 | gave former soldiers insurance policy. Coolidge vetoed, but Congress passed it. |
| Disarmament Conference | Naval disarmament. 5:5:3 ratio |
| 9-Power Treaty 1922 | Open Door in China |
| Capper-Volstead Act | exempted farmers' marketing cooperatives from anti-trust prosecution |
| McNary-Haugen Bill 1924-8 | sought to keep agriculture prices high by authorizing government to buy surpluses and sell them abroad. |
| Bob La Follette | Led this progressive group. gained endorsement from AF of L, socialist party, and farmers. Platform: government ownership of railroads and relief for farmers and wanted to limit supreme court's power to invalidate laws passed by Congress. |
| Agricultural Marketing Act 1929 | Federal Farm Board. Money lent generously to form organizations seeking to buy, sell and store ag. surpluses. |
| Muscle Shoals Bill | designed to dam the Tennessee River |
| Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act 1932 | outlawed "yellow-dog" (antiunion) contracts and fobade federal courts to issue injunctions to restrain strikes, boycotts and peaceful picketing. |
| Bonus Expeditionary Force 1932 | created menace to public health while attempting to intimidate Congress |
| General Douglas MacArthur | led the angry veterans AWAY with FORCE. kicked the veterans off of the white house lawn. |
