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Beginning Activities

Beginning Activities. Title today’s lesson: Politics in the 1920s Video Activity: 1920s Political Scandals Mission Statement: To prepare you for a life of responsible citizenship Daily Expectations: Use bathroom before class Come in quietly and get to work immediately

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Beginning Activities

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  1. Beginning Activities • Title today’s lesson: Politics in the 1920s • Video Activity: 1920s Political Scandals • Mission Statement: To prepare you for a life of responsible citizenship • Daily Expectations: • Use bathroom before class • Come in quietly and get to work immediately • Pay attention and be respectful • No phones • No food or drinks other than water • Do your work • Give AP quality effort • 5 bonus points for supplies

  2. Extra Credit • 5 points each 6 weeks for bringing supplies: • Paper clips • Pens • Paper • Staples • Tape

  3. Politics in the 1920s Chapter 25 Transition to Modern America 1920-1928

  4. Video Activity: 1920s Political Scandals • Under which president did most scandals happen? • Who was the Ohio Gang? • What was the Teapot Dome Scandal? • What illegal activity did most of the scandals have in common?

  5. Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover • Harding didn’t govern well. • In the Teapot Dome Scandal, two oil promoters gave bribes for oil leases on government land. • The scandal tarred Harding’s administration. • Coolidge took over when Harding died. • Honesty and integrity reassured the country. • Believed that the president should do little • “The business of America is business.” • Hoover was a self-made man. • Worked with business to grow the economy. • Very optimistic about the future

  6. Republican Policies • Normalcy became the theme of the decade. • Americans weretired of reforms for a while. • Fordney-Mckinley Tariff Act raised taxes on imports. • Secretary of Treasury Mellon got Congress to cut government spending and taxes. • Tax cuts benefited the wealthy the most. • Government worked with businesses to make industries more efficient and help out workers.

  7. Divided Democrats • Traditional Democrats (rural South and West) • Prohibition • Fundamentalism • The Klan • Rural values • North and Midwest • Immigrants and descendants • Opposed prohibition • Election of 1924 • Sen. Robert La Follette of Wisconsin ran as a Progressive, which split the Democratic Party. • Coolidge returned and won the election.

  8. Election of 1928 • Democrats selected Al Smith of New York. • Catholic • Against prohibition • Couldn’t connect with rural Democrats • Herbert Hoover, Republican, ran for reelection. • Protestant • For prohibition • Stood for efficiency and individualism • Hoover easily won reelection.

  9. Ending Activity • Checking for Comprehension: Week 29 • Make sure the floor is clean • Connect to our objectives: How does this prepare you for life and the future?

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