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Do Now •List THREE things you know about the 1920s. •What is ONE question you have about the 1920s?
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Do Now. List THREE things you know about the 1920s. What is ONE question you have about the 1920s?. Learning Goals. EQ: What made the 1920s into the “Roaring ‘20s?” LTs: Identify characteristics of the 1920s through a video. Describe the economy of America in the 1920s. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Do Now
•List THREE things you know about the 1920s.•What is ONE question you have about the 1920s?
Learning Goals• EQ:
– What made the 1920s into the “Roaring ‘20s?”
• LTs:– Identify characteristics of the 1920s through a video.– Describe the economy of America in the 1920s.– Explain how nativism impacted America in the 1920s.
• POUs:– I can identify characteristics of the 1920s by
completing the video quiz.– I can describe the approach of Harding and Coolidge
to the American economy.– I can explain how nativism led to a distrust of
immigrants.
The 1920s
America at the Start of the Decade
• Victorious in World War I
• Treaty of Versailles rejected
• Period of isolationism
• Republican-led government
Returning WWI soldiers parading in Minneapolis
The Election of 1920• Republicans
nominated Warren G. Harding
• “Return to Normalcy”– Getting back to pre-war
American business and values
• Harding wins in a landslide
Warren G. Harding
Harding Administration Scandals
• “Ohio Gang”• Harding too
trusting and of people around him
• Several advisers and Cabinet members deeply involved in corruption and bribes
Harding with Attorney General Harry Daugherty (left), who resigned under corruption
charges
The Teapot Dome Scandal
• Secretary Fall illegally sold government oil reserves to private companies
• Fall found guilty of accepting bribes
A political cartoon depicting the scandal as a steamroller
1923 - Harding Dies, Calvin Coolidge Takes Office
• Harding died before scandals broke; reputation soon destroyed
• Calvin Coolidge becomes the President
Harding’s body leaving the White House after lying in state
Coolidge as President
• Pro-business• Wanted low taxes
and very little government regulation
• U.S. production grew by $30 billion under Coolidge
• Coolidge will easily win the Election of 1924
Coolidge signing a tax bill, 1926
Nativism• Came out of various
worries following WWI• Prejudice against
foreign-born people• Evident in immigration
quotas, rise of the Ku Klux Klan
• Also led to “Red Scare”
An anti-immigrant poster from California Senator
James Phelan’s campaign, 1920
The “Red Scare”
Immigration Quotas
A cartoon satirizing the quota system
