The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

670 Chapter 25 From “Normalcy” to Economic Collapse: 1921–1933 Although the three culpritsin theTeapot Dome scandalescaped convi ...

Peace without a Sword 671 (^1) Coolidge was physically delicate, plagued by chronic stomach trouble. He required ten or eleven h ...

672 Chapter 25 From “Normalcy” to Economic Collapse: 1921–1933 action. As President Harding assured the Senate, “there [was] no ...

The Totalitarian Challenge 673 suspicious of international commit- ments, ratified it eighty-five to one. The Good Neighbor Poli ...

674 Chapter 25 From “Normalcy” to Economic Collapse: 1921–1933 that led to World War II. It is also proper to place some of the ...

Economic Problems 675 manner, he had been schooled in machine politics by Tammany Hall. He was a Catholic, Hoover a Quaker, a we ...

676 Chapter 25 From “Normalcy” to Economic Collapse: 1921–1933 associations.“We are passing from a period of extremely individua ...

Hoover and the Depression 677 the candidates’ efforts to outdo each other in praising the marvels of the American economic syste ...

678 Chapter 25 From “Normalcy” to Economic Collapse: 1921–1933 compulsion. He urged manufacturers to maintain wages and keep the ...

The Economy Hits Bottom 679 relief funds were available, hundreds of families existed on stale bread, thin soup, and garbage. In ...

680 Chapter 25 From “Normalcy” to Economic Collapse: 1921–1933 the poor, always a challenge to democracy, became more striking a ...

A vigorous-looking Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigns for the presidency in 1932. His vice-presidential running mate, John N. Garne ...

682 Chapter 25 From “Normalcy” to Economic Collapse: 1921–1933 please all factions to be a forceful leader. Herbert Hoover thoug ...

Chapter Review 683 Key Terms Bonus Army A gathering of 20,000 Great War vet- erans in Washington, DC in June 1932, to demand imm ...

Do you have health insurance? 684 In March 2010, Congress narrowly passed a major health reform law. It requires most employers ...

The New Deal: 1933–1941The New Deal: 1933–1941 26 CONTENTS ■Alexandre Hogue’s The Crucified Land(1939) symbolizes the nation’s p ...

686 Chapter 26 The New Deal: 1933–1941 The Hundred Days As the date of Franklin Roosevelt’s inauguration approached, the banking ...

The National Recovery Administration (NRA) 687 (HOLC) to refinance mortgages and prevent foreclo- sures. It passed the Federal S ...

688 Chapter 26 The New Deal: 1933–1941 significant. Within a year John L. Lewis’s United Mine Workers expanded from 150,000 memb ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) 689 A huge dust cloud engulfs Dodge City, Kansas in 1935. Source: Kansas State Historical S ...