1. What happens to “Tax Rates” in the “Roaring Twenties?”

2. The “Roaring Twenties” and Leading to the Great Depression
(1) American culture in the 1920’s …
(2) Economic policy that encourages growth in 1920’s …
(3) Aspects of 1920’s life that lead to the Great Depression …

3. Politics of the 1920’s Warren G. Harding, 1921 - 1923
Ted Cruz discussing “supply-side economics”
“Supply Side Economics”
Andrew Mellon’s goals at Secretary of the Treasury
“Return to Normalcy” (1921)
“Ohio Gang” – Daugherty, Forbes, etc.
“Teapot Dome” Scandal (1922)
President Harding dies (1923)
Calvin Coolidge,
Teapot Dome Oilfield

4. Foreign Policy Under President Coolidge
Myth of Isolationism
Washington Naval Conference ( )
Dawes Plan (1924) (not “Dawes Act” from U.S. History I)
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
18th Amendment (1919)
“Speakeasies”
“Bootlegging”
Calvin Coolidge,
- Signing nations: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, British India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, the United Kingdom (Great Britain), and the U.S.
Changes in American Domestic Culture

5. “Dawes Plan”
United States
France & Great Britain
Germany

6. Foreign Policy Under President Coolidge
Myth of Isolationism
Washington Naval Conference ( )
Dawes Plan (1924) (not “Dawes Act” from U.S. History I)
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
18th Amendment (1919)
“Speakeasies”
“Bootlegging”
Calvin Coolidge,
- Signing nations: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, British India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, the United Kingdom (Great Britain), and the U.S.
Changes in American Domestic Culture