Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues “Normalcy” & Isolationism The Business of America The 1920s

1. Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues“Normalcy” & IsolationismThe Business of AmericaThe 1920s Politics of the Roaring Twenties

2. “Normalcy” & Isolationism What was the “return to normalcy”? Isolationism “A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries.”

3. Presidents of the 1920s Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge

4. “America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.” President Warren G. Harding

5. Election of 1920 Republicans Democrats Harding & Coolidge Cox & Roosevelt

6. Election of 1920

7. Election of 1920 First election where women could vote First election to be covered via the radio

8. President Harding Four Major Events Under President Harding • Kellogg-Briand Pact • Fordney-McCumber Tariff • Quota System • Teapot Dome Scandal

9. President Harding’s Death

10. President Coolidge’s Oath ‘MURICA

11. President Coolidge’s Oath “The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.” – Calvin Coolidge