CH. 20 (II. "Normalcy" and Isolationism )

How could Britain and France raise the money necessary to pay off the American bankers?

1. exporting more goods to US 2. collecting reparations

The National Origins Act of 1929 shifted the base year from 1890 to _____________, but reduced the total number of people to be admitted in any one year to ___________________________________.

1920 150,000

When did Harding invite 4 major naval powers and 4 smaller nations to Washington, D.C. for a naval conference?

1921

During the 1920s, how many Canadians immigrated to the U.S.? Mexicans?

1M 500,000

As amended in 1924, the Emergency Quota Act limited immigration from each European nation to ______% of the number of its nationals living in the U.S. in 1890.

2

What did Albert Fall receive in exchange for allow the private oil companies to lease the public land?

325,000

In 1929, the U.S. succeeded in urging ______ nations (almost all of the nations then in existence) to sign the _____________________________________________, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.

64 kellog brand pact

Britain and France used the war reparations from Germany to pay off their war debts to...

US

Hughes suggested that which 5 nations scrap a significant portion of their existing battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers?

US great Britain japan france italy

Which Secretary of the Interior secretly leased the oil-rich lands to 2 private oil companies?

albert b fall

When did Harding suddenly fall ill and die (probably from a heart attack or a blood vessel bursting in his brain)?

aug 2, 1923

Who became president upon Harding's death in 1923? When was he elected president?

calvin coolidge 1924

At the Washington Naval Conference, Secretary of State ______________________________________ urged a _____-year holiday from the building of warships.

charles evans hughes 10

Which American banker (soon to be President Coolidge's vice-president) went to Germany to negotiate loans from American investors to Germany?

charles g dawes

Which head of the Veterans Bureau allowed operators of veteran's hospitals to overcharge the government by some $250M?

charles r forbs

What effect did the Fordney-McCumber Tariff have on Britain and France?

couldnt export goods to US couldnt earn enough revenue to pay debt

Through the _________________________________, U.S. banks loaned Germany $_______B, which Germany was able to use to pay reparations to ____________________ and ____________________.

dawes plan britain france

The demand for unskilled labor (usually filled by immigrants) in the U.S. [increased/decreased] after World War I.

decreased

The Emergency Quota Act discriminated against which groups, who did not start arriving in large number until after 1890?

eastern and southern europe

Congressional act passed in 1921 to limit immigration to the U.S.?

emergency quota act of 1921

The national origins quota system did not apply to immigrants from...

europe

Which legislation (passed in 1922) raised tariffs to their highest levels ever (almost 60%)?

fordney mccumber tariff

Which economically-ruined nation was unable to make payments on its war debt?

germany

What foreign policy did the Harding administration pursue?

isolationist foreign policy

Democratic candidate and his running mate in the presidential election of 1920?

james cox f roosevelt

How much money had Britain and France borrowed from American bankers during World War I?

more than 10B

Which sentiment had been growing in the U.S. since the 1880s?

nativist sentiment

What was the weakness of the Kellogg-Briand Pact? Why?

no provision for the use of military/ economic force against any nation that violated the agreement

Term for President Harding's rowdy, poker-playing cronies from back home whom he named to administrative positions?

ohio gang

The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 set up a _______________________________, which established the maximum number of people who would enter the U.S. from any one foreign country.

quota system

President Harding promised the American public a "__________________________________"-- a return to the simpler days before the Progressive Era and World War I.

sense of normalcy

The most spectacular wrongdoing of the Harding administration?

teapot dome scandal

Which head of the Office of Alien Property took German chemical patents that the government had seized during World War I and sold them for far less than their worth?

thomas r miller

Like with President ______________________ 50 years earlier, Harding's corrupt friends used their offices to become wealthy.

ulysses s grant

Who won the presidential election of 1920? Political party?

warren g harding

Republican candidate and his running mate in the presidential election of 1920?

warren g harding calvin coolidge

During the Progressive Era, where had the government set aside oil-rich land for the use by the U.S. Navy?

wyoming & elks hill california