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History chapter 24
lesson 1
Term | Definition |
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Warren G. Harding | republican candidate from Ohio that was elected in office in 1920 |
Calvin Coolidge | Harding's Vice President |
James M. Cox | ran as the democrat with Franklin d Roosevelt as his vice president and lost |
Harding's Cabinet | experts who believed in reducing money owe by the government and limiting government involvement with the economy |
Secetray of tresurary | Andrew Melon, pushed for tax cuts of the wealthy |
Trickle-down theory | cutting wealthy taxes would then give the wealthy and incentive to invest in new businesses and create new jobs for other Americans which would trickle down money to others. |
Tepot Dome Scandal | involved Albert Fall, secretary of the Interior, who accepted large sums of money and girfts from oil companies in exchange for the companies to get oil from national part grounds |
Coolidge's Saying and relection goals | the business of america is business, he cut taxes on the wealthy and supported raising tariffs on forgin goods to decrease competition with domestic products |
Kellog-Briand Pact | signed by the US and 14 others countries that outlawed war 62 nations accepted the pact |
Henry Ford | made the Model T car that was also called the Tin Lizzy |
Moving Assembly Line | This system used convener belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one group of workers to another. |
Ford's accomplishments | paid 5 a day, hired more diverse people, made an 8 hour work day, made the installment plan |
Installment Plan | lets people pay a small amount of the cost every month until the entire car was paid for. |
Herbert Hoover | replibiacan nominee in 1928 won against Alfred E Smith |
Hoovers saying | we in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land |
Alfred E. Smith | first catholic to run for president so some people thought his decision would be incontrol from the pope so he lost |