Archive for February 19th, 2008

Terms for Chapter 32

Warren Harding,         Albert B. Fall,                 John Davis,
Charles Evans Hughes,     Harry Daugherty,             Robert LaFollette,
Andrew Mellon,        Charles Forbes,            Alfred E. Smith,
Herbert Hoover,         Calvin Coolidge,             “Ohio Gang”,
Reconstruction Finance Corp.,     Dawes Plan,
Washington Conference,     Bonus Army,                 “black gold”,
Muller v. Oregon,        Adkins v. Children’s Hospital,     American Legion,
Nine-Power Treaty,         Kellogg-Briand Pact,             Teapot Dome,
McNary-Haugen Bill,     Progressive Party,             moratorium,
“noble experiment”,         Federal Farm Board,             “Black Tuesday”,
Hoovervilles,             Muscle Shoals Bill,             Stimson doctrine,
“debt knot”,             “wheat belt”,                 Capper-Volstead Act,
Andrew Mellon,         Adkins v. Children’s Hospital,     Fordney-McCumber Tariff,
“farm bloc”,             “honest little Finland”,         Hoovercrats,
Agricultual Marketing Act,     “rugged individualism”,         “trickle-down”,
Hoover Dam,             Reconstruction Finance Corp.,     Adjusted Compensation Act,
Veterans Bureau,         steel strike- 1919,             Nicaragua
Be able to explain the following fully:
— Contrast the corrupt Harding administration with the upright Coolidge and Hoover administrations.  How did each president represent the ideals of the probusiness 1920s in his own way?
–Outline the social and political conditions in the 1920s which led to the Great Depression.  Did the Republican party fail to react?