APUSH Chapter 33

Stimson Doctrine

(FDR) 1932, , 1932, Hoover's Secretary of State said the US would not recognize territorial changes resulting from Japan's invasion of Manchuria

farm bloc

A coalition of western Republicans and southern Democrats that put through a program of legislation from 1921 to 1923 to combat the falling crop prices of the early 1920s.

Robert La Follette

A great debater and political leader who believed in libertarian reforms, he was a major leader of the Progressive movement from Wisconsin.

Dawes Plan

A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S. This circular flow of money was a success.

Washington Conference

An international conference on the limitation of naval fleet construction begins in Washington. Under the leadership of the American Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes the representatives of the USA, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan pledge not to exceed the designated sizes of their respective naval fleets

Calvin Coolidge

Became president when Harding died of pneumonia. He was known for practicing a rigid economy in money and words, and acquired the name "Silent Cal" for being so soft-spoken. He was a true republican and industrialist. Believed in the government supporting big business.

Muscle Shoals Bill

Bills that would allocate funds to dam the Tennessee River and provide employment, is vetoed by Hoover

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Charged a high tax for imports thereby leading to less trade between America and foreign countries along with some economic retaliation.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Congress set up $2 billion. It made loans to major economic institutions such as banks, insurance companies and railroads.

Agricultural Marketing Act

Established the first major government program to help farmers maintain crop prices with a federally sponsored Farm Board that would make loans to national marking cooperatives or set up corporations to buy surpluses and raise prices. This act failed to help American farmers.

Bonus Army

Group of WWI vets. that marched to D.C. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of their goverment war bonuses in cash

Ohio Gang

Harding's "advisors" who played poker, drank, and smoked with him in the White House, involved in scandals that gave Harding a bad name.

Charles Evan Hughes

Harding's secretary of state (one of the good people in his cabinet)

Albert B. Fall

He was Secretery of the Interior during Harding's administration, and was a scheming anticonservationist. He was convicted of leasing naval oil reserves and collecting bribes, which was called the Tea Pot Dome scandal.

Alfred E. Smith

He was the Democratic presidential candidate in the 1928 election. He was the first Catholic to be elected as a candidate., Former governor of New York who ran for President against Herbert Hoover. He was against Prohibition.

Black Friday

October 29, 1929: Stock Market Crash

Warren G. Harding

President in 1921 who was surrounded by corrupt people even though he was good natured

Teapot Dome Scandal

Scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil-drilling rights on government land in return for money

Andrew Mellon

Secretary of the Treasury during the Harding Administration. He felt it was best to invest in tax-exempt securities rather than in factories that provided prosperous payrolls. He believed in trickle down economics. (Hamiltonian economics)

John W. Davis

This man was the democratic convention nominee in 1924 against Coolidge on the 103rd ballot. He was a wealthy lawyer connected with J.P. Morgan and Company. Coolidge easily defeated this man, who arguable was more conservative then Coolidge.

Fordney McCumber Tariff

This tariff rose the rates on imported goods in the hopes that domestic manufacturing would prosper. This prevented foreign trade, which hampered the economy since Europe could not pay its debts if it could not trade.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

an agreement between 15 nations outlawing war; eventually 48 other nations joined the pact; had no way of enforcing peace

Charles R. Forbes

head of the Veterans Bureau, was caught stealing $200 million from the government, chiefly in connection with the building of veterans' hospitals.

McNary-Haugen Bill

it sought to keep agricultural prices high by having the government buy surpluses to sell abroad, vetoed twice by Coolidge

trade associations

organizations representing the interests of firms and professionals in the same general field (for ex: farmers bloc)

Herbert Hoover

president of the U.S from 1923-1933 leader of the US in the beginning of the great depression. He didn't want the gov involved in the peoples lives and thought that the people should express their individual rights.

American Legion

the largest organization of United States war veterans

Harry M. Daugherty

was an American politician. He is best known as a Republican Party boss, and member of the Ohio Gang, the name given to the group of advisors surrounding president Warren G. Harding.