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The Roaring Twenties: Prosperity, Republican Power, and Conflict

The Roaring Twenties: Prosperity, Republican Power, and Conflict. “ America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration” —President Warren Harding. Republican Power. Warren G. Harding. James M. Cox. Eugene V. Debs.

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The Roaring Twenties: Prosperity, Republican Power, and Conflict

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  1. The Roaring Twenties:Prosperity, Republican Power, and Conflict “America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration” —President Warren Harding

  2. Republican Power Warren G. Harding James M. Cox Eugene V. Debs

  3. Republican Policies of the 1920s • Return to Normalcy • Isolationism • High tariffs • Cut taxes (corporate & income) • Cut federal spending • Government & Big Business • Laissez-faire (limit business regulation) • Limit government presence in the lives of citizens

  4. Politics of the 1920’s

  5. Politics of the 1920’s

  6. Before news breaks of the Teapot Dome Scandal, Harding travelled to California He suffered a massive heart attack and died before his reputation is smeared. His VP, Calvin Coolidge becomes president. Harding’s Death& Coolidge Administration • “Silent” Calvin Coolidge served as President from 1923 to 1929. • Serves the rest of Harding’s term, elected in 1924. • Republican

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