Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 35

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-Andrew Mellon

• 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:

Voltage Difference

The difference in electric potential between two points in an electrical circuit.

Dielectric

A non-conducting material that can be polarized by an external electric field, commonly used as an insulating material between conducting surfaces.

Metal Conductors

Materials that allow the flow of electrical current due to their free electron movement.

Insulating Material

Materials that hinder the flow of electric current, used to protect against electrical shocks and to contain electrical wiring.