Unit 5, Chapter 31

Question 1

Adkins vs children’s hospital (1923)

Answer 1

• landmark suprme court decision reversing the ruling of muller vs oregon
  - muller vs oregon- declared women to be deserving of special protection in the workplace

Question 2

Nine-power treaty (1922)

Answer 2

-agreement coming out of the washington “disarmament”conference

Question 3

Kellog-briand pact (1928)

Answer 3

• sentimental triumph of the 1920’s peace movement

- linked 62 nations in the “outlawry of war”

Question 4

Fordney-mccumber tariff law (1922)

Answer 4

• comprehensive bill passed to protect domestic production from foreign competitors
• as a direct result, many european nations were spurred to increase their own trade barriers

Question 5

Teapot dome act (1921)

Answer 5

-Towdry affair invading the illegal lease or priceless naval oil reserves in Teapot Dome, wyoming and Elk Hills, California

Question 6

McNary-Haugen bill (1924-1928)

Answer 6

• farm-relief bill that was championed throughout the 1920s and aimed to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing the government to sell them abroad
• bill was passed twice by congress, but vetoed it by president coolidge in 1927 and 1928

Question 7

Dawes plan (1924)

Answer 7

• an arrangement negotated in 1924to reschedule German repartions payments
• stabalized the german curency and opened the way for further american private loans to germany

Question 8

Agricultural marketing board (1929)

Answer 8

• established the federal farm board, lending a bureau for hard-pressed farmers
• aimed to hlwp farmers help themselves through new producers cooporatives

Question 9

Hawley-smoot tariff (1930)

Answer 9

• The highest protective tariff in the peacetime history of the US
• past as a result of good old-fashioned horse trading

Question 10

Black Tuesday (1929)

Answer 10

• dark panicky day of October 29, 1929 when over 16,410,000 shares of stock were sold on Wall Street
• trigger that helped bring on the Great Depression

Question 11

Hoovervilles

Answer 11

-shantytowns were victims of the great depression under newspapers and in makeshift tents

Question 12

Reconstruction finance corporation (rfc) (1932)

Answer 12

• Government lending agency is Nablus under the Hoover administration insurance companies, banks, cultural organization, railroad, and local governments
• precurser to later agencies that grew out of the new deal
• symbolized a recognition by the Republicans that some federal action was required to address the great depression

Question 13

Norris-La Guardia anti-injunction act (1932)

Answer 13

• bandit yellow dog or antiunion, work contracts and forbade federal courts from issuing injunctions to quash strikes and boycotts
• early piece of labor friendly federal legislation

Question 14

Bonus army (1932)

Answer 14

• officially known as the bonus expeditionary force

- rag tag group of 20,000 vetrans marched on washington to demand immediate payment of bonuses earned during WWI