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An act of Congress proposed created the Federal Reserve System establishing a central banking system for the U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed this act into law.
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This Act was a part of the United State antitrust law that aimed to add substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime. This act sought to prevent monopolies along with the previous Sherman Antitrust Act.
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A United States law that aimed at increasing credit to rural farmers. Created a federal farm loan board. Signed to law by President Woodrow Wilson.
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The Adamson Act established an eight hour work day with additional pay for ovetime work for interstate railroad workers.
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This treaty was signed between the United State and Columbia so that Columbia would pay the U.S. 25 million dollars in return for Columbia's recognition of Panama's independence.
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The Knox-Porter Resolution was a joint resolution of the United States Congress signed by Harding officially ending the United States' involvement in the World War.
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A military conference called together by President Harding and held in Washington to discuss interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia.
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Also known as the Five Power Treaty; this treaty was made between the major nations that had won WWI. This treaty limited the construction of military ships and armarment.
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A law that raised the American tariffs on imported goods to protect factories and farms. The tariff was later revised in 1930 after the Roaring 20's took their decline.
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President Harding passed away and Calvin Coolidge became president.
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Calvin Coolidge addressed Congress giving a speech supporting many of HArding's previous policies including enforcement of immigration restrictions. This was the first ever radio broadcasted address to Congress
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This natural disaster was one of the biggest off of the Gulf Coast until Hurricane Katrina in 2005. President Coolidge was harshly criticized for how he dealt with this national disaster.
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Hoover spent seven weeks traveling to many Latin American Countries to outline his economic and trade policies and expectations.
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Herbert Hoover's instruction to the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service to look for tax evasions from gangsters led to the arrest and downfall of great gangster Al Capone.
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After just eight months in office Herbert Hoover had to attempt to combat the Great Depression across the nation.
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Construction on the dam began in 1931 as a plan by Herbert Hoover to provide jobs for many people during the Great Depression. The dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River.
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Within 100 days after Roosevelt was in office he enacted new legislation to help get America out of the Depression as promised in his New Deal.
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The 1933 Banking Act or Glass-Steagall Act established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and other banking reforms after a bank panic right after Roosevelt's taking of office,
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Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Secuirty Act resulting in the Social Secuirty System in the United States of America.
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The "day which will live in infamy" as President Franklin D. Roosevely said, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor he declared war on Germany and Japan.
