Ch 33 2
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- Charles Evans Hughes
- Sec of State
- Andrew W. Mellon
- Sec of Treasury
- Herbert Hoover
- Sec of Commerce
- Sen. Albert B. Fall
- Sec of Interior
- Harry M. Daugherty
- Attorney General
- Adkins v. Children's Hospital
- Under the 19th Amendment, women were not to given any special rights at the workplace
- Esch-Cummins Transportation Act of 1920
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Private management of the RR's
Cong. encouraged the ICC to guarantee their profitability - Merchant Marine Act of 1920
- Authorized the Shipping Board to dispose of the wartime vessels at a very low prices
- La Follette Seaman's act of 1915
- American shipping could not thrive in competition with foreigners
- Veterans' Bureau
- operate hospitals and provide treatment for disabled veterans
- American Legion
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by Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
met to renew old hardships - Adjusted Compensation Act
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efforts by Legionaries
giving every former soldier a paid-up insurance due in 20 yrs - Disarmament Conference
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invitation to all the major powers
Navy- Am, Br, Jp (5:5:3) - 5-Power Treaty of 1922
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Americans and the British would refrain from fortifying their far eastern possessions, including Philippines
Japanese were not subject to such possessions - 4-Power Treaty
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Jp, Fr, US, Br
preserved the status quo in the pacific -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
(Pact of Paris) -
ratified by 62 nations
by Frank B. Kellogg
peace (although defensive wars permitted) -
Fordney McCumber Tariff Law
1922 -
raising the tariff from 27% to 35%
Sign- hurt the American economy as well as European - Charles R. Forbes
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head of the Veterans Bureau
caught stealing $200 mil from gov - Teapot Dome scandal
- Fall leased the oil reserve land to Sinclair and Doheny after receiving a bribe
- Calvin Coolidge
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took over after Harding died
isolationism
Exception- troops in the Carribean and Central Am - 1924 Election
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Rep- Coolidge *
Dem- John W. Davis
Progressive- La Follette - Dawes Act of 1924
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by Charles Dawes
-rescheduled German reparations payments
-Am loans to Germany - Election of 1928
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Rep- Herbert Hoover
Dem- Alfred F. Smith - Agricultural Marketing Act
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designed to help the farmers
set up Fdrl. Farm Boards -
Grain Stabilization Corporation
Cotton Stabilization Corp -
goal was to boost falling prices by buying up sur+s
*failed - Hawley Smoot Tariff 1930
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started as mild tariff
raised to 60%
Sign- deepened the depression
increased financial crises -
"Black Tuesday"
October 29, 1929 -
millions of stocks were sold in panic
Stockholders had lost $40 bil - The Great Depression
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overproduction by both farm and factory
not enough money was going into salaries and wages
overexpansion of credit
economic destruction of Europe - Hoover's plan
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gov would assist rr's, banks, rural credit corp
criticized because he gave the gov money to the big bankers -
Reconstruction Financial Corp
(RFC) - assist insurance companies, ag organizations, banks, rr's and state and local govs
- Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act 1932
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outlawed antiunion contracts
fdrl cts to issue injunctions to restrain strikes, boycotts, and peaceful picketing - Bonus Expeditionary Force
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background- veterans,harderst hit
claimed 20,000 people
demanded immediate bonus in the capital