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Politics in the 1920’s
“A Return to Normalcy”
This became Warren G. Harding’s campaign slogan when he accidentally messed up the word, “Normality”
Americans loved it and elected him
Fighting the Recession After WWI, 2 million soldiers were looking for work
Factories were closing because they were no longer getting orders for wartime goods from European nations
The Teapot Dome Scandal
Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall accepted a bribe to lease government land to oil executives
One of these areas was called “Teapot Dome” in Wyoming
Fall was sent to prison
Warren G. Harding Very popular because he “didn’t do anything”
Let the country heal economically and emotionally Died two years into his term - August 2, 1923
Public mourning He was a very popular
president at that time
Vice President Calvin Coolidge Becomes
President “Silent Cal” spoke and spent little (Harding loved to throw parties and give long speeches)
He forced corrupt officials to resign
He was re-elected in 1924 with the slogan “Keep Cool With Coolidge”
Coolidge and Business Coolidge cut
regulations on businesses
Americans’ incomes rose
People began to buy refrigerators, radios, vacuums, and other appliances
Businesses began to advertise their products
“The business of America is business.”
+ + = $$REPUBLICAN ECONOMY SUPPORTED LAISSEZ FAIRE
AND BIG BUSINESS……….
Lower Taxes Less Federal Higher Strong Spending Tariffs National
Economy
Fordney-McCumber Tariff---1923Hawley-Smoot Tariff ---1930
raised the tariff to an unbelievable 60%!!!
American Foreign Policy in the 1920s
Most Americans (including Harding and Coolidge) wanted to remain “isolationist”
HOWEVER:
1. U.S. still needed to protect interests in Mexico
2. U.S. gave $10 million to aid Russia during a famine
3. U.S. still signed the “Kellogg-Briand Pact” with 61 other nations (which outlawed war)
Red Scare American fear that Communist
Revolution in Russia would spill into U.S.
Palmer Raids Americans were paranoid after the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Alexander Mitchell Palmer was appointed in 1919 to arrest communists, socialists, and anarchists.
Named J. Edgar Hoover as his Assistant 10,000 suspected communists were
arrested, many without warrants. 600 were deported.
Nativism
Anger against foreigners led to a new move to limit immigration.
Nativism: Anti-foreign feeling.
Quota System System that
limited immigration.
Allowed only a certain number of immigrants from certain countries.
“America must be kept American”
Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s Strongly
supported efforts to limit immigration.
The new Klan terrorized immigrants.
Klan membership was 3,000,000–6,000,000 in the 1920s Membership peaked in 1924–25
Women Gain the Right to Vote
19th Amendment in 1920 gave women the right to vote
Carrie Chapman Catt set up the League of Women Voters
This group tried to educate voters and ensure the right of women to serve on juries
“The Noble Experiment”Prohibition
A national(Constitutional) ban on the sale, production, and transport of alcohol,
from 1920 to 1933.
Effects of prohibition:-Consumption of alcohol may have increased
-Bootlegging/Organized Crime became problems
The Prohibition Experiment Reason it failed
Lacking of government enforcement
People wanted to enjoy their life
Most immigrants did not see it as a sin, but rather as a part of socializing
The Prohibition Experiment Speakeasies, Bootleggers and Organized Crime Drinking went undergrounds to Speakeasies
Bootleggers profit from selling illegal liquor
Helped contributed to the rise of organized crime Al Capone
Prohibition EndsThe 21st Ammendment Repealed
Prohibition in 1933.