1. Pageant 31+32 Review

2. 1920 Election

3. Warren G. Harding Elected in 1920 by promising “Return to Normalcy” Suffered from a scandalous cabinet Dies Aug 2, 1923

4. Harding Appointments Some Good- Charles Evans Hughes (State) Herbert Hoover (Commerce) Andrew Mellon 9Treasury) Some not so Good- Albert B. Fall (Interior) Harry M. Daugherty (Attorney General)

5. American Attitudes Denounced radical foreign ideas Condemned un-American life-styles Shunned diplomatic commitments to foreign countries Restricted immigration

6. Red Scare Fear of international Communism Lead to the Palmer Raids

7. Palmer Raids Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Arrested 6,000 suspected Communists

8. KKK Anti- –Immigrant –Catholic –Jewish

9. Immigration Restrictions Emergency Quota Act of 1921- based on 3% of nationality in U.S. as of 1910 Immigration Act of 1924- 2% as of 1890- banned Japanese

10. Immigration Quota System Discriminated directly against southern and eastern Europeans

11. Prohibition Supported by the South and West Supported by women's groups and business owners Volstead Act met most resistance in Eastern cities

12. Scopes Trial Anti-Darwin legislation Fundamentalists fearing change Illustrated split between fundamentalists and progressives

13. 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

14. 1924 Election

15. Mass Consumption Rapid expansion of capital investing Increase in advertising Cars, refrigerators, radios, etc.

16. Al Capone Famous gangster Ran operation in Chicago

17. Flapper Girls Symbolized the care free attitude of many

18. Charles Lindbergh First to fly solo across the Atlantic

19. Consumer Debt Involved with “prosperity” of decade People buying many goods on credit Buying on Margin- purchasing stock with little money down

20. Henry Ford Produced relatively cheap cars

21. Automobile Revolution Led to- –Consolidation of schools –Spread of suburbs –Loss of population in less attractive states –Altered youthful sexual behavior

22. 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

23. Harlem Renaissance Flourishing of African American art, literature and music

24. 1920s Census Most people lived in cities

25. Jobs for Women Tended to cluster in a few low-paying fields

26. Albert Fall Harding’s Secretary of Interior Involved in Teapot Dome Scandal- corrupt handling of naval oil reserves

27. Economic Policies Actively assisted business Andrew Mellon- believed in rapid expansion of capital investing

28. Economics Hoover- believed in self-regulation Post WWI- Railroads- unregulated Labor- no longer had support of government- Steel Strike of 1919- broken

29. Muller and Adkins Cases Focused on the treatment of women in the work place

30. Foreign Policy Isolationist “Observers” sent to League of Nations Kellogg-Briand Pact- ratified by 62 nations- only defensive war allowed

31. Disarmament Businesspeople were unwilling to help pay for a larger US navy

32. Kellogg-Briand Pact Outlawed War as a solution to international rivalry

33. Farmers No more WWI government purchases Mechanization was expensive, so farmers produced more Set themselves up for disaster by overproducing

34. Progressive Party Hurt by the prosperity of the 1920s People didn’t want economic change

35. 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

36. WW I War Debts US insisted GB and France pay debts in full GB and France demanded reparation payments from Germany

37. 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

38. 9 Power Treaty Assured an Open Door with China

39. 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

40. Hawley Smoot Tariff Deepened the world wide depression

41. Reconstruction Finance Corporation Established under Hoover to provide aid to business and local governments Made loans to businesses and banks

42. Bonus Expeditionary Force Wanted payments for WW I service Payments were not due until 1945

43. Stimson Doctrine US would not recognize territorial gains achieved by force

44. Herbert Hoover Easily defeats Alfred E. Smith in the election of 1928

45. Hoover and the Great Depression Offered federal assistance to businesses and banks, but not individuals