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Pageant 32+33 Review. Warren G. Harding. Elected in 1920 by promising “Return to Normalcy” Suffered from a scandalous cabinet Dies Aug 2, 1923. American Attitudes. Denounced radical foreign ideas Condemned un-American life-styles Shunned diplomatic commitments to foreign countries
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Warren G. Harding • Elected in 1920 by promising “Return to Normalcy” • Suffered from a scandalous cabinet • Dies Aug 2, 1923
American Attitudes • Denounced radical foreign ideas • Condemned un-American life-styles • Shunned diplomatic commitments to foreign countries • Restricted immigration
Red Scare • Fear of international Communism • Lead to the Palmer Raids
KKK • Anti- • Immigrant • Catholic • Jewish
Immigration Quota System • Discriminated directly against southern and eastern Europeans
Prohibition • Supported by the South and West • Supported by women's groups and business owners • Volstead Act met most resistance in Eastern cities
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
Al Capone • Famous gangster • Ran operation in Chicago
Flapper Girls • Symbolized the care free attitude of many
Charles Lindbergh • First to fly solo across the Atlantic
Scopes Trial • Dealt with teaching of evolution in public schools • Showcased differences between progressives and fundamentalists
Consumer Debt • Involved with “prosperity” of decade • People buying many goods on credit • Buying on Margin- purchasing stock with little money down
Henry Ford • Produced relatively cheap cars
Automobile Revolution • Led to- • Consolidation of schools • Spread of suburbs • Loss of population in less attractive states • Altered youthful sexual behavior
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
Harlem Renaissance • Flourishing of African American art, literature and music
1920s Census • Most people lived in cities
Jobs for Women • Tended to cluster in a few low-paying fields
Albert Fall • Harding’s Secretary of Interior • Involved in Teapot Dome Scandal- corrupt handling of naval oil reserves
Economic Policies • Actively assisted business • Andrew Mellon- believed in rapid expansion of capital investing
Muller and Adkins Cases • Focused on the treatment of women in the work place
Disarmament • Businesspeople were unwilling to help pay for a larger US navy
Kellogg-Briand Pact • Outlawed War as a solution to international rivalry
Farmers • No more WWI government purchases • Mechanization was expensive, so farmers produced more • Set themselves up for disaster by overproducing
Progressive Party • Hurt by the prosperity of the 1920s • People didn’t want economic change
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
WW I War Debts • US insisted GB and France pay debts in full • GB and France demanded reparation payments from Germany
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
9 Power Treaty • Assured an Open Door with China
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
Hawley Smoot Tariff • Deepened the world wide depression
Reconstruction Finance Corporation • Established under Hoover to provide aid to business and local governments • Made loans to businesses and banks
Bonus Expeditionary Force • Wanted payments for WW I service • Payments were not due until 1945
Stimson Doctrine • US would not recognize territorial gains achieved by force
Herbert Hoover • Easily defeats Alfred E. Smith in the election of 1928
Hoover and the Great Depression • Offered federal assistance to businesses and banks, but not individuals