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| Warren G. Harding | President, not very capable, similar to Grant, mediocre, had a rather scandalous cabinet. |
| Charles Evan Hughes | Secretary of State for Harding, brilliant, conservative. |
| Andrew Mellon | Secretary of Treasury for Harding, multimillionaire, advocated doing nothing once the depression hit. |
| Herbert Hoover | Secreatry of Commerce for Harding, later president. lamed for the depression, self-made millionaire, disliked anything socialist seeming, humanitarian, believed in trickle-down philosophy after stock market crash. |
| Albert B. Fall | scheming, anti-conservationist, secretary of the interior for Harding, involved in the Teapot Dome scandal. |
| Harry M. Daugherty | Attorney Genearal, disliked strikers due to big business bias, under investigation by Senate due to illegal sale of pardons and liquor permits. |
| Charles R. Forbes | Head of the veterans bureau, resigned after looting the government out of about 200 million dollars in connection to veteran's hospital. |
| Calvin Coolidge | Vice-president for Harding, president after Harding dies in office, "silent cal", very honest and moral, elected again in 1924 |
| John W. Davis | Democratic nominee in 1924, wealthy lawyer, conservative despite being a Democrat |
| Robert La Follete | Third party candidate, liberal, under Progressive Party. |
| Alfred E. Smith | Democratic nominee in 1928, support alcohol despite prohibition, from New York, Catholic, lose in south and other places that aren't ready for such an urban candidate. |
| "Ohio Gang" | Harding's cabinet; very corrupt. |
| Washington Conference | Disarmament convention, 1921-1922, Hughes wants ten year holiday on construction of battleships, scaled down navies of America, Britain and Japan 5-5-3 ratio on battleships and aircraft carriers, five power naval treaty of 1922, nine power treaty and four power treaty all come about because of it. |
| Kellog-Briand Pact | Also known as pact of Paris, basically call wars illegal, however, empty document because defensive wars still allowed and have no muscles, virtually useless, show how America wants false sense of security. |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | Raise tariff to 38.5 percent, duties on farm produce increased, general rates designed to equalize cost of American and foreign production. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Deal with oil reserves, Denby (secretary of navy) transfer naval oil reserves of teapot dome and elk hills to interior department, Harding signed the order, fall lease the lands to Harry Sinclair and Edward Doheny and get a bribe of about 400,000 dollars. Polluted the presige of Washington and republicans, Sinclair and Doheny acquitted undermining faith in courts. |
| Farm block | After agricultural depression, passes some laws to help farmers, Capper-Volstead act and McNary-Haugan Bill. |
| McNary-Haugan Bill | Keep agricultural prices high by authorizing the government to buy up surpluses and sell them abroad, losses made up to buy special tax on farmers, vetoed by Coolidge. |
| Dawes Plan | Charles Dawes, offer relief to Europe by rescheduling German Reparation payments, open way for American private loans to Germany, financial cycle made more complicated. |
| Agricultural Marketing Act | Help the farmers help themselves, through producers cooperatives, set up federal farm board, revolving fund of half a billion dollars, money lent ot farm organizations seeking to buy, sell, store agricultural surpluses, have grain stabilization corporation and cotton stabilization corporation. |
| Hawley-Smoot Tariff | Highest protective tariff in peacetime history, duty on non free goods raised to 60 percent, seem like a declaration of econmic warfare on the entire outside world, reverse a trend toward reasonable tariffs, widen the trade gaps, plung nations deeper into depression. |
| Black Friday | Stock market crash, October 28, 1929, because of overproduction, over-expansion of credit, Europe's postwar depression. |
| Muscle Shoals Bill | Designed to dam the Tennessee River, vetoed by Hoover as socialistm adioted by FDR later. |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | Capital of half a billion dollars, become government lending bank, provide indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, state and local governments, become known as millionaires' dole, had new deal flavor from anti-socialistic Hoover. |
| Bonus Army | Veterans who set up camp outside of Washington because they wanted a bonus bill passed, evicted by Douglas Macarthur with tear gas and bayonets, battle of Anacostia flats. |
| Hoover-Stimson Doctrine | United States wouldn't recognize any territorial acquisitions that were achieved by force, righteous indignation after Japan attacks Manchuria. |
| American Legion | Anti-radical, right-wing conservative group formed after World War I. |
