1. Objective: Compare the Administrations of Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
1920s Presidents
Objective: Compare the Administrations of Harding, Coolidge, Hoover

2. PLATFORM Warren Harding (1921-1923) Return to Normalcy
A REPUBLICAN WHO RAN AGAINST DEM JAMES COX AND HIS RUNNING MATE FDR
Return to Normalcy after World War I
TIRED OF WAR AND UPHEAVAL-WANTED THE COUNTRY TO GO BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS

3. 1920-1933 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT WOULD HOLD POWER
BELIEVE REPUBLICANS WERE MORE LIKELY TO BRING STABILITY BACK TO THE COUNTRY
HELD POWER IN ALL THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT FROM

4. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS
BUSINESSES WANTED SOCIAL STABILITY
FAVORED BUSINESSES

5. HARDING’S PRESIDENCY
Took office as the Red Scare and labor strikes were subsiding –starting fading away

6. Harding Favored these policies….
ISOLATIONISM
WAR
Isolationism—avoided foreign alliances…
-did not want US to join League of nations
- wanted international peace and stability-worked with other nations without creating alliances
**expand trade but also protect goods at home through tariffs
How are they going to pay off their war debt when they rely on trade with US for $$$????
Angered…
Expand Trade
+ Tariffs

7. More of Harding’s Policies
Disarmament
Nativism and Immigration
Called for Disarmament of European nations (does this go against isolationism?
Nativism grew and many turned to the govt to fix the “immigration problem”
RESTRICTED IMMIGRATION: Now could only make up 2% of the US’s population
What do you believe Harding meant by a return to Normalcy?

8. Harding + The Spoils System
Gave important jobs to friends and acquaintances

9. Scandal Officials stealing $$ Officials taking bribes
TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL
Harding's Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall
*2 Private Oil Companies
Drill on Gov’t land…
2 private oil companies drilled on govt land in Elk Hills, CA, and Teapot Dome, WY
Let an oil company drill on government land in exchange for $300,000 and gifts
Political cartoon:A 1924 cartoon depicting Washington officials racing down an oil-slicked road to the White House, trying to outpace the Teapot Dome Scandal.
$300,000 +
Gifts *
Teapot Dome

10. The end of Harding and the beginning of Coolidge
Heart Problems
Coolidge was vp finishes term
Not involved at all in scandals
Goal: clean up white house
Elected in 1924
Coolidge scrubbing the Republican party clean after the scandal

11. “The chief business of the American people is business”
What does this mean?

12. Coolidge + Laissez Faire
Leave business alone and the nation will thrive
Lowered income taxes, increase protect tariffs
Did not help the depressed agriculture industry

13. Calvin Coolidge aka “Silent Cal”
What was Coolidge know for?
Kellogg-Briand Act
He played it cool
15 nations pledged not to use the threat of war with one another. Over 60 nations joined
Problem-no enforcement

14. Herbert Hoover 1928 Election
“Let the good times role”
Millionaire
Secretary of Commerce
Protestant
Let the good times role-organized food relief in Europe and was the Sec of Commerce for Harding and Coolidge
Was a protestant and therefore was for prohibition
Small towns liked him
Won majority of electoral votes

15. Good times??? STOCK MARKET CRASHES

16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGft-bzehuk Hoover ball-to lose weight
Smart, like a manager
Not very charismatic