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Pageant 31+32 Review

Pageant 31+32 Review. 1920 Election. Warren G. Harding. Elected in 1920 by promising “Return to Normalcy” Suffered from a scandalous cabinet Dies Aug 2, 1923. Some Good- Charles Evans Hughes (State) Herbert Hoover (Commerce) Andrew Mellon 9Treasury). Some not so Good-

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Pageant 31+32 Review

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  1. Pageant 31+32 Review

  2. 1920 Election

  3. Warren G. Harding • Elected in 1920 by promising “Return to Normalcy” • Suffered from a scandalous cabinet • Dies Aug 2, 1923

  4. Some Good- Charles Evans Hughes (State) Herbert Hoover (Commerce) Andrew Mellon 9Treasury) Some not so Good- Albert B. Fall (Interior) Harry M. Daugherty (Attorney General) Harding Appointments

  5. American Attitudes • Denounced radical foreign ideas • Condemned un-American life-styles • Shunned diplomatic commitments to foreign countries • Restricted immigration

  6. Red Scare • Fear of international Communism • Lead to the Palmer Raids

  7. Palmer Raids • Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer • Arrested 6,000 suspected Communists

  8. KKK • Anti- • Immigrant • Catholic • Jewish

  9. Immigration Restrictions • Emergency Quota Act of 1921- based on 3% of nationality in U.S. as of 1910 • Immigration Act of 1924- 2% as of 1890- banned Japanese

  10. Immigration Quota System • Discriminated directly against southern and eastern Europeans

  11. Prohibition • Supported by the South and West • Supported by women's groups and business owners • Volstead Act met most resistance in Eastern cities

  12. Scopes Trial • Anti-Darwin legislation • Fundamentalists fearing change • Illustrated split between fundamentalists and progressives

  13. Calvin Coolidge • Takes over when Harding dies • Former Governor of Massachusetts • Makes reputation by breaking the Boston police strike • Decides not to run in 1928

  14. 1924 Election

  15. Mass Consumption • Rapid expansion of capital investing • Increase in advertising • Cars, refrigerators, radios, etc.

  16. Al Capone • Famous gangster • Ran operation in Chicago

  17. Flapper Girls • Symbolized the care free attitude of many

  18. Charles Lindbergh • First to fly solo across the Atlantic

  19. Consumer Debt • Involved with “prosperity” of decade • People buying many goods on credit • Buying on Margin- purchasing stock with little money down

  20. Henry Ford • Produced relatively cheap cars

  21. Automobile Revolution • Led to- • Consolidation of schools • Spread of suburbs • Loss of population in less attractive states • Altered youthful sexual behavior

  22. Radio and Motion Pictures • KDKA- first radio station (Pittsburgh) • Movies- talkies by the end of the decade • Caused a loss of the diversity of immigrant culture

  23. Harlem Renaissance • Flourishing of African American art, literature and music

  24. 1920s Census • Most people lived in cities

  25. Jobs for Women • Tended to cluster in a few low-paying fields

  26. Albert Fall • Harding’s Secretary of Interior • Involved in Teapot Dome Scandal- corrupt handling of naval oil reserves

  27. Economic Policies • Actively assisted business • Andrew Mellon- believed in rapid expansion of capital investing

  28. Economics • Hoover- believed in self-regulation • Post WWI- Railroads- unregulated • Labor- no longer had support of government- Steel Strike of 1919- broken

  29. Muller and Adkins Cases • Focused on the treatment of women in the work place

  30. Foreign Policy • Isolationist • “Observers” sent to League of Nations • Kellogg-Briand Pact- ratified by 62 nations- only defensive war allowed

  31. Disarmament • Businesspeople were unwilling to help pay for a larger US navy

  32. Kellogg-Briand Pact • Outlawed War as a solution to international rivalry

  33. Farmers • No more WWI government purchases • Mechanization was expensive, so farmers produced more • Set themselves up for disaster by overproducing

  34. Progressive Party • Hurt by the prosperity of the 1920s • People didn’t want economic change

  35. Fordney-McCumber Tariff • Increased tariff rates • Made it difficult for European nations to sell good in US • Unable to raise money to repay WW I loans

  36. WW I War Debts • US insisted GB and France pay debts in full • GB and France demanded reparation payments from Germany

  37. Washington Naval Conference • Set limits on naval tonnage- • Great Britain and US- 525,000 tons • Japan- 315,000 tons • Allowed Japan to fortify Eastern possessions

  38. 9 Power Treaty • Assured an Open Door with China

  39. Dawes Plan • US Banker make loans to Germany • Germany pays reparations to GB and France • GB and France pay WWI loans to US US Germany Great Britain + France

  40. Hawley Smoot Tariff • Deepened the world wide depression

  41. Reconstruction Finance Corporation • Established under Hoover to provide aid to business and local governments • Made loans to businesses and banks

  42. Bonus Expeditionary Force • Wanted payments for WW I service • Payments were not due until 1945

  43. Stimson Doctrine • US would not recognize territorial gains achieved by force

  44. Herbert Hoover • Easily defeats Alfred E. Smith in the election of 1928

  45. Hoover and the Great Depression • Offered federal assistance to businesses and banks, but not individuals

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