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The boom and bust of politics

  • The teapot dome scandal

    The teapot dome scandal
    Where the secratary of the interior, albaert B. Fall, tricked the navy secratary into giving him oil resereves and then selling them to oil business man, but not until he got a bribe of 100,000$
  • Washington "disarmament" conference

    Washington "disarmament" conference
    America invited foreign powers to declare a 10 year hiatus on building battleships and even scrapping some of them
  • adkins v. Children's hospital

    adkins v. Children's hospital
    The supreme court ruled that women deserve no special treatment in the worforce
  • Black tuesday

    Black tuesday
    On this day stocks plumetted and everyone started selling their stock in the panic after 2 month.s stockholders lost 40 million dollars. As a result of the crash millions lost their jobs and thousands of banks closed down
  • The Dawes plan

    The Dawes plan
    It rescheduled germany's war payments and allowed investors to invest on germany which led them pay their dept to the allies and them to the us, but the well of investors dired up and the u.s. never got their money back