1 / 13

The 1920’s

The 1920’s . The Roaring 20’s The Era of Boom & Bust The Laissez-faire Era “A Time for Living on the Froth of Society” Innovation and Revolution The Inter-war Period The Birth of Social Revolution and Modernization . Election of 1920. James Cox (D) Governor of Ohio

talmai
Download Presentation

The 1920’s

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The 1920’s • The Roaring 20’s • The Era of Boom & Bust • The Laissez-faire Era • “A Time for Living on the Froth of Society” • Innovation and Revolution • The Inter-war Period • The Birth of Social Revolution and Modernization

  2. Election of 1920 James Cox (D) Governor of Ohio - Urged adoption of the League of Nations Warren G. Harding (R) Senator from Ohio - Called for a “Return to Normalcy.”

  3. Republican National Convention • Deadlocked in 1920. • Harding alternative in a “smoke-filled room” • Ohio political machine. (cronies) • “Were just regular folk” • A return to Isolationism

  4. Election of…?

  5. Appointments (Good) • Charles Evans Hughes – Supreme Court Justice and former presidential candidate appointed to Secretary of State. • Herbert Hoover – Food Administration leader during WWI appointed to Sec. of Commerce. • Andrew Mellon – Pittsburgh industrialist and millionaire appointed Sec. of Treasury • William Howard Taft – Former President and WWI labor negotiator appointed to Supreme Court Chief Justice.

  6. Appointments (Bad) • Albert B. Fall – appointed to Sec. of the Interior. • Harry M. Daugherty – appointed Attorney General. • Teapot Dome Scandal, Wyoming

  7. Domestic Policy • 1) a reduction in the income tax • 2) an increase in tariff rates under the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922. • 3) establishment of the Bureau of the Budget, with procedures for all government expenditures to be placed in a single budget for Congress to review and vote on.

  8. Washington Conference (1921) • Sec. of State Hughes pushes for conference. • Reps. From Belgium, China, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal. • Three agreements were reached.

  9. Agreement of Washington Conf. First: • 5-power: US 5 GB 5 Japan 3 France 1.67 Italy 1.67

  10. Agreement of Washington Conf. Second 4-power: U.S., France, G.B., Japan agreed to respect one another’s territory in the Pacific. Third 9-power: Open Door policy with territorial integrity of China.

  11. Fundamentalism (religion) Birth control / divorce rates Red Scare Nativism (Quota Laws) Race Riots / Strikes Palmer Raids Prohibition Revivalists (Radio) Modernism 19th Amendment (Suffrage) Social Revolution Jazz / Harlem Renaissance Dichotomies of the 1920’s

  12. Examples of Fundamentalism v. Modernism • Rise in the KKK • The Great Migration • The Scopes Trial • Sacco and Vanzetti Case • Blue Laws and Speakeasies • Marcus Garvey

More Related