Amsco AP US History Chapter 23
Questions and Answers 100% Correct
Warren G. Hardings - ANSWER - President after Woodrow Wilson
a Republican who was unclear about where he stood on every issue, but he appointed able
men to his cabinet (e.g. Charles Evans Hughes as Secretary of State)
Pardoned Eugene Debs
"return to normalcy."
Business Doctrine - ANSWER - The death of Theodore Roosevelt, combined with public
disillusionment over the war, allowed the return of the conservative Republicans. Republican
leadership accepted the idea of limited government regulation as an aid to stabilizing business.
The regulatory commissions established in the Progressive era were now administered by
appointees who were more sympathetic to business than to the general public.
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act - ANSWER - (1922) Federal law that raised tariff rates on
manufactured goods and levied high duties on imported agricultural goods.
Bureau of the Budget - ANSWER - establishment by President Hardings, with procedures for all
government expenditures to be placed in a single budget for Congress to review and vote on.
Teapot Dome - ANSWER - Harding selected a number of incompetent and dishonest men to fill
important positions, including Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Attorney General Harry
M. Daugherty. In 1924, Congress discovered that Fall had accepted bribes for granting oil
leases near Teapot Dome, Wyoming. Daugherty also took bribes for agreeing not to prosecute
certain criminal suspects
Charles Lindbergh - ANSWER - the most celebrated hero of the decade was a young aviator
who, in 1927, thrilled the nation and the entire world by flying nonstop across the Atlantic from
Long Island to Paris
Sigmund Freud - ANSWER - An Austrian psychiatrist who stressed the role of sexual repression
in mental illness, led to revolt against sexual taboos
, Margaret Sanger - ANSWER - advocates of birth control
achieved growing acceptance of the use of contraceptives
Calvin Coolidge - ANSWER - Harding's vice president and successor
man of few words who richly deserved the nickname "Silent Cal."
beat Democratic Party and Robert La Follette of New Progressive Party in the Election of 1924
Herbert Hoover - ANSWER - the greatly admired former mining engineer and Food
Administration leader
Appointed by President Hardings to be secretary of commerce
Coolidge declined to run for the presidency a second time. The Republicans therefore turned to
an able leader with a spotless reputation, self-made millionaire and Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover. He was made the Republican nominee for president.
Alfred E. Smith - ANSWER - Democratic nominee for president, governor of New York
As a Roman Catholic and an opponent of prohibition, Smith appealed to many immigrant voters
in the cities. Many Protestants, however, were openly prejudiced against Smith
business prosperity - ANSWER - during the 1920s
unemployment was generally below 4 percent. The standard of living for most Americans
improved significantly. Indoor plumbing and central heating became commonplace. The
prosperity, however, was far from universal.
Henry Ford - ANSWER - In 1914, Henry Ford had perfected a system for manufacturing
automobiles by means of an assembly line. Instead of losing time moving around a factory as in
the past,
Ford's workers remained at one place all day and performed the same simple operation over
and over again at rapid speed.
Farm problems - ANSWER - When the war ended, so did farm prosperity. Farmers who had
borrowed heavily to expand during the war were
now left with a heavy burden of debt. New technologies helped farmers increase their
production, but productivity only served to increase their debts, as growing surpluses produced
falling prices.
Questions and Answers 100% Correct
Warren G. Hardings - ANSWER - President after Woodrow Wilson
a Republican who was unclear about where he stood on every issue, but he appointed able
men to his cabinet (e.g. Charles Evans Hughes as Secretary of State)
Pardoned Eugene Debs
"return to normalcy."
Business Doctrine - ANSWER - The death of Theodore Roosevelt, combined with public
disillusionment over the war, allowed the return of the conservative Republicans. Republican
leadership accepted the idea of limited government regulation as an aid to stabilizing business.
The regulatory commissions established in the Progressive era were now administered by
appointees who were more sympathetic to business than to the general public.
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act - ANSWER - (1922) Federal law that raised tariff rates on
manufactured goods and levied high duties on imported agricultural goods.
Bureau of the Budget - ANSWER - establishment by President Hardings, with procedures for all
government expenditures to be placed in a single budget for Congress to review and vote on.
Teapot Dome - ANSWER - Harding selected a number of incompetent and dishonest men to fill
important positions, including Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Attorney General Harry
M. Daugherty. In 1924, Congress discovered that Fall had accepted bribes for granting oil
leases near Teapot Dome, Wyoming. Daugherty also took bribes for agreeing not to prosecute
certain criminal suspects
Charles Lindbergh - ANSWER - the most celebrated hero of the decade was a young aviator
who, in 1927, thrilled the nation and the entire world by flying nonstop across the Atlantic from
Long Island to Paris
Sigmund Freud - ANSWER - An Austrian psychiatrist who stressed the role of sexual repression
in mental illness, led to revolt against sexual taboos
, Margaret Sanger - ANSWER - advocates of birth control
achieved growing acceptance of the use of contraceptives
Calvin Coolidge - ANSWER - Harding's vice president and successor
man of few words who richly deserved the nickname "Silent Cal."
beat Democratic Party and Robert La Follette of New Progressive Party in the Election of 1924
Herbert Hoover - ANSWER - the greatly admired former mining engineer and Food
Administration leader
Appointed by President Hardings to be secretary of commerce
Coolidge declined to run for the presidency a second time. The Republicans therefore turned to
an able leader with a spotless reputation, self-made millionaire and Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover. He was made the Republican nominee for president.
Alfred E. Smith - ANSWER - Democratic nominee for president, governor of New York
As a Roman Catholic and an opponent of prohibition, Smith appealed to many immigrant voters
in the cities. Many Protestants, however, were openly prejudiced against Smith
business prosperity - ANSWER - during the 1920s
unemployment was generally below 4 percent. The standard of living for most Americans
improved significantly. Indoor plumbing and central heating became commonplace. The
prosperity, however, was far from universal.
Henry Ford - ANSWER - In 1914, Henry Ford had perfected a system for manufacturing
automobiles by means of an assembly line. Instead of losing time moving around a factory as in
the past,
Ford's workers remained at one place all day and performed the same simple operation over
and over again at rapid speed.
Farm problems - ANSWER - When the war ended, so did farm prosperity. Farmers who had
borrowed heavily to expand during the war were
now left with a heavy burden of debt. New technologies helped farmers increase their
production, but productivity only served to increase their debts, as growing surpluses produced
falling prices.
