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Who is Harding, Coolidge and Hoover?
3 presidents that supported capitalism leading to the Great Depression
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What is the Teapot Scandal?
This scandal involved petroleum reserves being leased to private oil companies at low rates by Albert B. Fall in exchange for bribes
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Who is General Daugherty?
In President Harding's cabinet, this General took bribes from violators of prohibition laws
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What is "the business of America is business?"
A statement made by president Calvin Coolidge which showed his overconfidence in the American economy before the Depression
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Who is Al Smith?
This loser of presidential election of 1928 indicated growing power of the city, mixed Irish-German ancestry, urban democrats, catholocism, wanted to end Prohibition and represented political machines
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