Chapter 24 - The Reactionary Twenties

Nativists

Nativists

________ persuaded Congress to restrict future immigration, particularly from eastern and southern Europe, in the Immigration Act of 1924.

Teapot Dome Affair

Harding died suddenly in 1923, soon after news broke about the ________ involving a government- owned oil field in Wyoming, one of many incidents of corruption growing out of Hardings appointments.

Calvin Coolidge

Harding and his fellow Republicans, including his vice president and successor, ________, followed policies advocated by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon that emphasized lowering taxes and government spending as well as raising tariffs to protect domestic industries.

Fundamentalist Protestants

________ campaigned against teaching evolution in public schools.

1928

In the ________ presidential election, Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce under Harding and Coolidge, won a third straight decisive victory for the Republicans as Democratic candidate Al Smith.

Great Depression

The 1929 stock market crash revealed the structural flaws in the economy, but it was not the only cause of the ________ (1929- 1941)

Eighteenth Amendment

Although the ________ (paving the way for Prohibition) and the Nineteenth Amendment (guaranteeing womens right to vote) marked the culmination of progressivism at the national level, the movement lost much of its appeal as disillusionment with the Great War and its results created a public preference for disarmament and isolationism, stances reflected in the FivePower Treaty of 1922.

Warren G Hardings

________ landslide presidential victory in 1920 was based on his call for a "return to normalcy ..