HIS 119S Quiz: 1920
Document Summary
Last progressive president: democrat, president during wwi, president of princeton university, governor of new jersey, phd from john hopkins, most educated president. Muckrakers group of journalists who dug up dirt: upton sinclair the jungle, cosmopolitan was a muckraking magazine. Ida tarbell wrote a book about standard oil, aimed at rockafeller. 1921 taft is appointed chief justice of the us supreme court, appointed by warren harding. 1923 pancho via shot and killed by his own people. Interior department was bribed to lead it to some oil guys henry sinclair and doheny: attor(cid:374)ey ge(cid:374)eral"s offi(cid:272)e (cid:449)as also taking bribes, vetera(cid:374)"s bureau (cid:449)as getti(cid:374)g payoffs, first president to visit alaska. Calvin coolidge assumes role of president (1923 1929: replaces harding in 1923, kept high tariffs, cut down national debt, coolidge was reelected in 1924. Herbert hoover elected in (1929 1933: republican from ohio, quaker, self-made millionaire, went to stanford in palo alto california, mining engineer, traveled the world and knew chinese.
