AP US HISTORY: 1920’s Politics
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THE HARDING & COOLIDGE YEARS
1.
Why did Harding win the presidential election of 1920?
2.
Identify & describe Harding’s Cabinet.
3.
What was the purpose and significance of the Washington Conference in 1921?
4.
Identify the parties & summarize the major agreements of these treaties:
Four - Power Treaty –
Five -Power Treaty –
Nine-Power Treaty –
5.
Why were these treaties essentially toothless?
6.
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928? Who initiated this treaty and what did it
provide? What was the major problem of this Treaty? Why then did many Americans
consider it a major milestone in the history of civilization?
7.
Economic isolationism prevailed under both the Harding and Coolidge administrations.
What was it prompted by?
8.
Identify the provisions and effect of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922.
9.
Identify and describe the Veterans Bureau Scandal.
10.
Explain the Teapot Dome Scandal – who was involved, what was the Controversy,
outcome, etc.
11.
Explain the accusations against Attorney General Daugherty.
12.
Describe “Silent, Cautious Cal” and his view on
government & business.
13.
Describe the changes for farmers in the 1920s.
14.
Describe the provisions of the proposed McNary-Haugen Bill for famers.
15.
Explain why Coolidge so easily defeated his two opponents in 1924.
16.
International debt was the major foreign policy issue for the Coolidge Administration.
a)
What debts were owed to the U.S.?
b)
Why did the Allies protest these debts as unfair?
c)
How did the U.S. justify the repayment of these debts?
17.
How did the Dawes Plan of 1924 seek to resolve the debt issue? Explain the provisions
of the Dawes Plan.
THE TRIUMPH OF HERBERT HOOVER, 1928
18.
Compare and contrast the candidates in the 1928 election including points on their
personalities, their philosophies, their backgrounds and positions on the major issues.
Republican
Democrat
19.
Explain Hoover’s smashing triumph in the Election of 1928.
20.
Describe the events preceding the crash, the causes of the crash, and the results on
October 29, 1929.
21.
Describe the effects of the Crash.
22.
Explain each of these causes of the Great Depression:
a)
Overproduction
b)
Speculative Investment / Abuse of Easy Credit
c)
Concentration of Wealth
d)
Unemployment & Underemployment
e)
Worldwide Depression
f)
Economic Policies, such as high tariffs after WWI
g)
Natural Disasters
23.
What was a “Hooverville?”
24.
Describe Hoover’s response to the outcry of farmers with the Federal Farm Board.
25.
Describe the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930. What was the European response and
resulting effect?
26.
Explain Hoover’s resistance to have the federal government take over relief efforts
during the Depression with his philosophy of “rugged indvidualism.”
27.
Describe Hoover’s public works programs.
28.
Hoover’s primary response to the Depression was creation of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation (1932). What were the goals of this program – how did this
program work?
29.
Describe Hoover’s response to the Bonus Army and its effect.
Herbert Hoover’s Foreign Policy (see pages 521-522 in AMSCO)
30.
When Japan marched in and took control of Manchuria in 1931, what treaties did this
violate?
31.
The League of Nations was put to the test by this action of Japan’s. How did the League
do on this test?
32.
Explain the U.S. position in the Stimson Doctrine. What effect did this doctrine have
on Japan?
33.
What message do you think the U.S. and its Allies sent to leaders such as Hitler by their
actions with regard to Japan?
34.
What policy was Hoover trying to abandon? How did he attempt to do so and how
effective were his attempts?