1. The Republican Years

2. Learning Targets:
To identify and evaluate the Presidency of two of the three Republicans during the 20’s.
To describe how Republican policies encouraged economic growth.
To recognize the positives and negatives of each President’s administration.

3. Warren G. Harding

4. Harding received 61% of the national vote and 404 electoral votes.
Cox received 35% of the national vote and 127 electoral votes.
Eugene V. Debs, campaigning from Federal prison, received 3% of the national vote.

5. “Return to Normalcy “ the Harding Years (1921-23)
Looked Like a President
A. Not the brightest, front porch campaign
B. Big business- tax cuts, higher tariffs, aid to farmers “less government in business and more business in government”, reduce national debt – slash spending

6. C. Economic growth – Fordney- McCumber Tariff
D. Reduce taxes on wealthy
E. American Plan

7. Attorney General Harry Daugherty
The Ohio Gang
Attorney General Harry Daugherty

8. “Veterans Bureau” Charles Forbes
“Alien Property Custodian” Thomas Miller
“Secretary of Interior”
Albert Fall
Teapot Dome Scandal

9. Calvin Coolidge

10. “Keeping Cool with Coolidge”

11. “Keep Cool with Coolidge”
Calvin Coolidge
( )
A. “Silent Cal”
B. Free Enterprise – “The business
of America is business”
C. Farm Problems
1. Higher Production
2. McNary- Haugen Bill – vetoed
D. Accomplishments

12. “A Chicken in every Pot”
Herbert Hoover ( )
A. Big Business
B. to be continued...

14. Summative Questions
1. List similarities of how Harding promoted big business compared to Coolidge’s approach.
2. List examples of Harding’s scandals.
3. What was illegal about what occurred in the Teapot Dome Scandal?
4. What similarities do you notice about the elections of 1920, 1924, and 1928?
5. Look at the following political cartoon and answer the questions that follow.

16. Define “Juggernaut”
How does it relate to the political cartoon?
Explain the message of the political cartoon.