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WARM-UP:

WARM-UP:. The next 3 weeks in a nut-shell. Awesomeness!. 1920s New Industries. CRASH!. Speed Bump 1919. Depression. Presidential Politics 1920-1928. 1920s Politics Chapter 21: Sec 1. 1920s Presidential Politics. Good Short Answer Questions :

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WARM-UP:

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  1. WARM-UP: The next 3 weeks in a nut-shell Awesomeness! 1920s New Industries CRASH! Speed Bump 1919 Depression

  2. Presidential Politics 1920-1928 1920s PoliticsChapter 21: Sec 1

  3. 1920s Presidential Politics Good Short Answer Questions: - Describe the corruption that tainted the Harding Administration (1920-1924) - Explain how Calvin Coolidge restored public confidence after he assumed the presidency.

  4. VS

  5. Eugene Debs Socialist Party Won 3.4%

  6. Describe the corruption that tainted the Harding Administration (1920-1924) • 1920 Election: Harding “Return to Normalcy” • Harding’s Administration was plagued by • Scandals: • WHY? Kept his friends close = The Ohio Gang • They were corrupt, like old-school political machine • They bought and sold jobs, pardons, etc.

  7. Describe the corruption that tainted the Harding Administration (1920-1924) • The #1 Harding Scandal : • TEAPOT DOME • Where? = Teapot Dome = a place (Wyoming) • Who? = Sec. of the Interior: Albert Fall • What? = Fall sold access to U.S. Navy oil fields to private companies. (not his land to sell!) • Why? = Received $300,000 in bribes (1st Cabinet Member to go to Prison!)

  8. Teapot Rock Wyoming

  9. Describe the corruption that tainted the Harding Administration (1920-1923) "The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead."

  10. 1923 = Harding Dies (maybe his wife did it??) Vice President Coolidge takes over

  11. Explain how Calvin Coolidge restored public confidence after he assumed the presidency. • 1924 Election  “Keep it cool with Coolidge” • A True Republican: • Prosperity = only will happen if government does • not interfere with business. • laissez-faire = “let it be” • no government intervention.

  12. Explain how Calvin Coolidge restored public confidence after he assumed the presidency. The political genius of President Coolidge, Walter Lippmann pointed out in 1926, was his talent for effectively doing nothing: "This active inactivity suits the mood and certain of the needs of the country admirably. It suits all the business interests which want to be let alone.... And it suits all those who have become convinced that government in this country has become dangerously complicated and top-heavy...."

  13. Explain how Calvin Coolidge restored public confidence after he assumed the presidency. Before his death in January 1933, he told an old friend, ". . . I feel I no longer fit in with these times."

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