1920's Politics

Attorney General Harry Daugherty resigned in disgrace after being investigated for taking bribes in exchange for allowing

• a private company to drill for oil on public lands.

• immunity to wealthy businessmen accused of insider trading.

• someone to acquire a valuable German-owned company seized during the war.

• two powerful corporations to merge.

President Harding’s secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall, secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserves, causing a scandal that came to be known as the

• Daugherty scandal.

• Fall scandal.

• Forbes scandal.

• Teapot Dome scandal.

The Ohio Gang was a

• group of Harding’s friends.

• group of notorious bank robbers.

• nickname for the Veterans Bureau.

• powerful crime network.

The chief architect of economic policy in the United States during the 1920s was

• Andrew Mellon.

• Charles Evan Hughes.

• Herbert Hoover.

• Warren Harding.

With which statement would President Calvin Coolidge most likely agree?

• Big business should be heavily monitored by the Supreme Court.

• States bear the greatest responsibility in regulating large corporations.

• The federal government should interfere with business as little as possible.

• Corporations should shoulder the majority of the country’s tax burden.

What was the main purpose of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

• to outlaw future wars

• to encourage foreign trade

• to enforce reparation payments

• to discourage immigration

Andrew Mellon's supply-side economic policy claim the government should

• lower taxes to spur economic growth

• raise taxes on the wealthy to balance the budget

• apply tariffs to spur economic growth

• support progressive policies and taxation

How did the US try to promote world peace in the 1920s?

• economic policies and weapon control agreements

• joining the League of Nations

• preventative attacks on aggressive nations

• promoting increased weapon production

What is the policy of isolationism which many American supported?

• US should stay out of world affairs to remain safe and prosperous

• US should join more international organizations to support peace

• US government should stay out of business affairs

• US should work with other nations to reduce weapon production

US loans money to Germany - Germany pays reparations to France and Britain - France and Britain pay war debts to the US

This describes which policy?

• The Dawes Plan

• The Four-Power Treaty

• Cooperative Individualism

• The Kellogg-Briand Pact