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100
year the Depression began
What is 1929?
100
the ailment that led to Harding's death
What is a heart attack?
100
the industry Hoover helped out the most
What is business?
100
RFC
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
100
private consolidation of the railroads and pledged the Interstate Commerce Commission to guarantee their profitability
What is Esch-Cummins Transportation Act of 1920?
200
nickname of Calvin Coolidge
What is "Silent Cal?"
200
the industry involved in the Teapot Dome scandal
What is oil?
200
passed by Congress in June 1929, was designed to help the farmers help themselves
What is Agricultural Marketing Act?
200
cleared by Hoover in D.C.
What is the Bonus Army?
200
Secretary of the Interior in 1921
Who is Albert Fall?
300
amount the British and French demanded the Germans pay for damages inflicted during the war
What is $32 billion?
300
Harding's vice president
Who is Coolidge?
300
a fairly reasonable protective measure, designed to assist the farmers
What is Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930?
300
another name for the Old Guard
What is the GOP?
300
March 4, 1929
What is Hoover Inauguration Day?
400
authorized the Shipping Board
What is the Merchant Marine Act of 1920?
400
negotiated the Dawes Plan
Who is Charles Dawes?
400
the cause of the Great Depression
What is overproduction?
400
the Court case that reversed its own reasoning in Muller v. Oregon, which had declared women to be deserving of special protection in the workplace, and invalidated a minimum wage law for women
What is Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923)?
400
October 29, 1929
What is Black Tuesday or the beginning of the Great Depression?
500
the state where Teapot Dome is located
What is Wyoming?
500
winner of the election of 1928
Who is Hoover?
500
"Hoover blankets"
What are old newspapers?
500
the reason the Progressives lost all their gains in the 1920s
What is prosperity?
500
shantytowns named after Hoover
What are Hoovervilles?