1. The next 3 weeks in a nut-shell
WARM-UP:
The next 3 weeks in a nut-shell
Awesomeness!
1920s
New Industries
CRASH!
Speed Bump
1919
Depression

2. 1920s Politics Chapter 21: Sec 1
Presidential Politics

3. 1920s Presidential Politics
Good Short Answer Questions:
- Describe the corruption that tainted the Harding Administration ( )
- Explain how Calvin Coolidge
restored public confidence
after he assumed the presidency.

4. VS

5. VS Warren Harding & James M Cox & Franklin D. Roosevelt Calvin
Coolidge
James M Cox & Franklin D. Roosevelt VS

6. Eugene Debs
Socialist Party
Won 3.4%

8. Describe the corruption that tainted the Harding Administration (1920-1924)
1920 Election: Harding “Return to Normalcy”

9. Foreign issues Isolationism – US wanted to be left alone
Not realistic, US to economically connected

10. 1920 Election: Harding “Return to Normalcy”
Describe the corruption that tainted the Harding Administration ( )
1920 Election: Harding “Return to Normalcy”
Harding’s Administration was plagued by
Scandals:
WHY? Kept his friends close = The Ohio Gang
They were corrupt, like old-school political machine
They bought and sold jobs, pardons, etc.

11. Describe the corruption that tainted the Harding Administration (1920-1924)
The #1 Harding Scandal :
TEAPOT DOME
Where? = Teapot Dome = a place (Wyoming)
Who? = Sec. of the Interior: Albert Fall
What? = Fall sold access to U.S. Navy oil fields to private companies. (not his land to sell!)
Why? = Received $300,000 in bribes (1st Cabinet Member to go to Prison!)

12. Teapot Rock
Wyoming

13. -Daugherty (Attorney General) – sold German chemical patients
Describe the corruption that tainted the Harding Administration ( )
The Other Scandals:
-Forbes (Veteran Affairs) – sold scarce medical supplies from Veteran Hospitals
-Daugherty (Attorney General) – sold German chemical patients

14. Describe the corruption that tainted the Harding Administration (1920-1923)
Harding’s death came suddenly in 1923, after he returned from a trip to Alaska.
"The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead."

15. 1924 Election  “Keep it cool with Coolidge”
Explain how Calvin Coolidge restored public confidence after he assumed the presidency.
1924 Election  “Keep it cool with Coolidge”
A True Republican:
-Prosperity = only will happen if government does not interfere with business.
laissez-faire = “let it be”
no government intervention.
Avoids scandal and allows country to prosper ($$)

17. Explain how Calvin Coolidge restored public confidence after he assumed the presidency.
The political genius of President Coolidge, Walter Lippmann pointed out in 1926, was his talent for effectively doing nothing:
"This active inactivity suits the mood and certain of the needs of the country admirably. It suits all the business interests which want to be let alone.... And it suits all those who have become convinced that government in this country has become dangerously complicated and top-heavy...."

18. ". . . I feel I no longer fit in with these times."
Explain how Calvin Coolidge restored public confidence after he assumed the presidency.
Before his death in January 1933, he told an old friend,
". . . I feel I no longer fit in with these times."