1. Standpat Politics in a Decade of Change
With Republicans in control of Congress and the White House, politics reflected the decade’s business orientation. Unsettled by rapid social change, voters turned to conservative candidates who seemed to represent stability and traditional values. In this climate, would-be reformers and exploited groups had few political options.

2. What was the focus of the government during the 1920s?
Laissez-Faire
Supported high tariffs
Supported Immigration Control
Anti-Union (welfare capitalism? American Plan?
If you want money – work harder
Hoover = “rugged individualism”

3. Do what I say…
not as I do!

4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Alfred Smith VS
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

5. Eugene Debs
Socialist Party
Won 3.4%

7. Problem with Harding?
The Ohio Gang

8. Harry M. Daugherty: Attorney General Albert Fall: Edwin Denby:
Secretary of Interior
Edwin Denby:
Secretary of the Navy

9. TEAPOT DOME Scandal (1922-1923)
Where? = Teapot Dome, Wyoming = NAVY OIL
RESERVES
Who? = mostly Albert Fall
What? = Fall leased U.S. Navy oil fields to 2 private companies. Lease was legal…problem was…?
Why? = Fall received approx. 5 million (today) in bribes (1st Cabinet Member to go to Prison!)
"greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics" pre-Watergate

10. I have no trouble with my enemies
I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights! Warren G. Harding

11. “Keep it Cool
with Coolidge”
“Silent Cal”
1923

13. 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...."

14. 1928 Herbert Hoover

15. Bike Tire Used As Swimming Aid (Germany, 1925)

16. Transportable Folding Bridge (Netherlands, 1926)

17. 100 MPH One Wheel Motorcycle (1931)

18. Radio in Straw Hat (USA, 1931)

19. Bulletproof Glass (New York, 1931)