Return to Normalcy

1918-1929

Identify major political, economic,

and social changes the US faced after the war.

Examine Republican leadership during the “Roaring 20’s.”

Analyze political cartoon on events during the 1920s

Objectives

Introduction to Unit 3

1920-1940: From Boom to Bust

Warm up

After WWI

Public Hysteria Red Scare- fear

of Communists Bomb Scares Urban Riots Fear of

Foreigners

Wilson After WWI (1918-21)

End of Progressive Spirit 18th / 19th Amendment

Demobilization End govt control = inflation Cut back production = prices

Surplus workers = wages Union strikes Recession 1920-21

Post-War Political Developments Democratic Party Split

Progressives v. Conservatives

E poly bosses v. S & W rural leaders

Republican Party Conservative

businessmen and “Old Guard” politicians

Win 1920-1928 Presidential elections!

Warren G Harding

President 1921-1923

Less govt Government by

“cronies” Pro-business Isolation

“Return to Normalcy” Reading

Harding’s Accomplishments

Domestic Legislation

Emergency Quota Act

Veterans Bureau Act

Fordney-McCumberTariff Act

Foreign Affairs

Reject League Payment of War

Debts (Dawes & Young)

Washington Naval Conference Naval

disarmament Chinese independ.

Harding Scandal Ohio Gang- pals appt

to Cabinet Vet’s Bureau- Forbes Attorney Gen

Daugherty- kickbacks Teapot Dome Albert Fall, gets $ and

gifts for leasing govt oil reserves…jail

1923 Sudden Deathhttp://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=teapot+dome+scandal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7p7C6nTNog

Activity You are working for a big time

newspaper. Using all the information you know about the Harding Scandal, you need to sum up the scandal into a creative slogan. You are to work with a partner to design your slogan. Remember it must be appropriate!

When you finish write your slogan on the board

Coolidge 1923-1929

“Business of America is Business”

Deregulation Stock market spec. Reduced govt spend Low taxes No govt aid to farmers

Coolidge’s Accomplishments

Domestic Legislation

Immigration Act

Soldier’s Bonus Act

Foreign Affairs

Kellogg-Briand Pact Outlaw war

Think-Pair-Share

Whose domestic policy (in theory) was more beneficial to the American people, Hardy or Coolidge?

Whose foreign policy (in theory) was more beneficial to the American people, Hardy or Coolidge?

Jazz Age “The Roaring Twenties”

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New products for living Radios, refrigerators,

automobiles, etc Factory improvements http://

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Health and Education

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Hoover Administration 1929-1933

Rugged Individualism Big govt

endangered econ progress and personal liberty

High tariffs Low taxes Free enterprise Balanced budget

Closure

How has the United States returned to “normalcy,” in what ways has it not? (i.e. any lessons they did not learn from the war?)

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