1. Chapter 20: The Politics of the Roaring Twenties
Analyze the policy of ‘normalcy’ after WWI.

2. First American president elected with the full participation of women voters.
(1920) 19th Amendment: Gave women the right to vote.

3. Americans voted for Harding because they wanted change.
Harding promised a “return to normalcy”
Interpreted as a return to a life that was simpler- a life before war, and before the endless campaigns for social and moral reform.

4. Domestic Policy
Warren Harding took office promising to undo many of the progressive policies of Woodrow Wilson's administration.

5. Many of Harding’s cabinet members became involved in political deals and scandals.

6. Through it all, Harding remained popular with the American people.
They had voted for a hands-off president, and Harding played the role perfectly.

7. What was Harding’s greatest strength and greatest weakness as President in returning the nation to ‘normalcy’?
Use examples from the reading or videos to prove your response.
Washington Naval Conference
FM Tariff
Dawes Plan
Quota Act
Teapot Dome Scandal

8. The Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921
Foreign Affairs
The Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921
succeeded in reducing the navies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and Italy
came at the insistence of the Senate

9. Explain the social and economic effects.
1. Airplane Industry
2. Electricity
3. Advertising Industry
4. Television / Talking Pictures (movies) Industry
Directions: page
Explain the social and economic effects.
Describe the jobs that were created.

10. What’s next? “demon Rum”- prohibition Organized crime
Invention of the teenager
Flappers
Consumers
Radio Fever
The Harlem Renaissance