1. Politics, the Red Scare, & Prohibition

2. Politics The Ohio Gang Teapot Dome Scandal
Head of Veteran’s Bureau – Illegally sold hospital supplies to private companies.
Head of Alien Property – Convicted of taking a bribe.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Warren G. Harding ( )
Secretary of Interior – Convicted of taking a bribes and loans for leasing government oil fields.
“A Return to Normalcy”

3. Politics Nativism Isolationism Quota System Laissez-Faire
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Calvin “Silent Cal” Coolidge ( )
Nativism
Quota System
Laissez-Faire

4. The Red Scare ( )
The Communist takeover of Russia in 1917, “scared” the United States.
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer was allowed to conduct raids on suspected communists & anarchists without restriction.
The communist scare was just one of many reasons that KKK membership rose to over four (4) million in the 1920’s.
Italian immigrants Sacco & Vanzetti were arrested, tried, convicted, & executed for murder and anarchist activities.

5. Prohibition (18th Amendment)
Speakeasies
Flappers