Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 66

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-John W. Davis

• A)was the secretary of the Treasury under Harding who developed a plan that would affect federal spending
• B)was the secretary of state under Harding who pledged American disarmament to avoid an expensive naval arms race
• C)was the army's chief of staff who treated a group of protesting veterans seeking their cash bonuses as "insurrectionists"
• D)was the secretary of state who called for the nations in the Great War to sign a pact to renounce war "as an instrument of national policy"
• E)died suddenly while president after suffering an attack of food poisoning on a trip to the western United States
• F)wrote the book American Individualism, asserting that he wished to promote a "rugged individualism" rather than selfishness
• G)was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1920 and rose to the presidency due to the death of the president
• H)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928 who led the party's anti-Klan, anti-Prohibition wing
• I)was the volunteer defense attorney for John Scopes and a tireless defender of the rights of the working class
• J)was the nominee of the fragmented Democrats during the 1924 election who could nearly outdo Coolidge in his conservatism

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Definitions:

Kidnapping of Pocahontas

The abduction of Pocahontas, a Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, by colonists in 1613, an event with significant cultural and historical implications.

Mayflower Compact

The Mayflower Compact was a foundational document for the governance of the Plymouth Colony, signed in 1620 by the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower. It is often cited as a pioneering example of democratic governance and a social contract in the American colonies.

Representative Assembly

A legislative body composed of individuals elected to represent the interests of their constituents.