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Exam 3 AMH 2020 Summer
Political Conservatism - correct answer ✔-aggressivness as a movement
came to an end
- desire to return to the good old days where things were less hectic and the
nation was not involved in world affairs
- "Return to Normalcy" Warren G. Harding


Red Scare - correct answer ✔hysterical fear of a communist conspiracy
against the US government


Red scare effects - correct answer ✔- This fear caused the attorney general
of the US, A. Mitchell Palmer, to arrest thousands of alleged agitators and
radicals, often in violation of their constitutional rights


Economic Conservatism - correct answer ✔- During the 1920's, conservative
republicans dominated the nations politics
- Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover favored closer relations between
business and government


Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover favored closer relations between
business and government, they favored - correct answer ✔-Laissez-Faire;
leave it alone, let it be
- Rugged Individualism; you pull yourself up by your own straps (?)


Boom and Bust - correct answer ✔-after a brief postwar boom and
depression the nation experienced economic growth and prosperity


-farmers and unskilled workers do not experience this

,Cultural Change - correct answer ✔-the jazz age
-the harlem renaissance
-1920: rebellion against traditional standards
-new forms of cultural expression
-important advances in science and thought


Motion Pictures - correct answer ✔- The Jazz Singer (movie) opened in 1927
and was successful ; Al Jolson


Commercial Radio - correct answer ✔KDKA (Pittsburgh); elections in the
1920's


A Mixed Foreign Policy - correct answer ✔isolation and international
cooperation


Kellogg-Briand Pact - correct answer ✔-1928; an international effort to
prevent another world war
-signed in Paris by 15 nations
-Frank B. Kellog; received a nobel peace prize
-ratified by US senate 85 to 1


Warren G. Harding - correct answer ✔-Harding and Coolidge felt that the job
of the chief executive was to enforce the law of the congress rather than to
assume national leadership
-Republican
-Us senator from Ohio
-elected to succeed Woodrow Wilson

,-ran against James Cox
-won by a landslide and captured tennessee's electoral vote
-not a progressive
-Harding was very easy to get along with and couldn't say no to his friends
-told news men "it is a good thing I am not a women, i will always be
president, I cannot say no"
-Had a mistress who he smuggled into the white house a couple of times


Warren G. Harding was known for two things: - correct answer ✔-A bill that
transferred WWI Tents
-Fighting against Daylight Savings Time


Harding Administration Achievements - correct answer ✔-Veterans Bureau
to handle the claims of vets for compensation and hospitalization. (VA)
-Congress adopted severe immigration restrictions to stop a postwar surge to
the U.S.
-Bureau of the Budget was passed to help the president in drawing up an
accurate predictions of national income and expenditures


Harding Administration Corruption - correct answer ✔-Charles Forbes:
director of veterans bureau; found guilty of waste and misconduct and sent to
prison


-Thomas Miller: Alien Property Custodian;
found guilty of cheating the government, illegal selling of liquor permits


-Harry Daughtery: Attorney General;
accused of favoritism to employees

, sold pardons, forced to resign in 1924


- Albert Fall: Interior Secretary;
teapot dome scandal (oil reserve scandal), took bribes and turned reserved oil
land over to big corporations


Calvin Coolidge Administration (1923-28) Achievements - correct answer ✔-
Reduction in Taxes
-National Debt is reduced
-Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928
-finished out Harding's term and then got elected to do a full term, decided not
to run for the presidency again in 1928


Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) - correct answer ✔-succeeded Coolidge and
defeated Smith in the election
-before his election: humanitarian, administrator and a mining engineer
-his years weren't eventful


Hoover Administration - correct answer ✔-Agricultural Marketing Act, 1929:
Congress made an attempt to purchase farm surpluses through this manner in
hopes of it to help farmers


-Hawley-Smoot Tariff, 1930: raised tariffs (US) by thousands on imported
goods to record levels; considered the greatest policy blunder in American
history


-Stock Market Crash, 1929

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