1. Understanding how the party starts...
The Roaring Twenties
Understanding how the party starts...

2. 29th President - Warren G Harding (1921-1923)
“Return to Normalcy”
No more progressivism or international relations
Raised taxes on international goods
Reduced world naval power
Lots of scandals
Died of a heart attack while in office

3. 30th President Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
“The Man Who Builds A Factory, Builds a Temple.”
Supported Laissez-Faire business
Supported American isolationism
Supported Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
Signed with 62 other nations
Renounced war in principle
Ultimately meaningless and unenforceable but sounded nice

5. Nativism
Nativism – Opposition to immigration and basically anyone non-Protestant
Some Americans did not like the amount of foreign languages spoken
Some were still feeling the effects of WWI, a European conflict
Immigrants were associated with drunkenness and anarchy
Immigrants would take jobs from Americans
Ku Klux Klan reemerged

6. Trial of Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Italian immigrants and admitted anarchists
Accused of murder in 1920
Evidence was circumstantial and not necessarily enough for conviction
Judge was hostile, American feelings were anti-immigrant, both were found guilty and executed

7. Scopes Trial John Scopes – Tennessee teacher who taught evolution
Major trial that saw fundamentalist Christians fight against modern science
Scopes loses the trial but evolution gains acceptance