1. 1918-1929

2.   Identify major political, economic, and social changes the US faced after the war.  Examine Republican leadership during the “Roaring 20’s.”  Analyze political cartoon on events during the 1920s Objectives

3.   Introduction to Unit 3  1920-1940: From Boom to Bust Warm up

4. After WWI  Public Hysteria  Red Scare- fear of Communists  Bomb Scares  Urban Riots  Fear of Foreigners

5. Wilson After WWI (1918-21)  End of Progressive Spirit  18 th / 19 th Amendment  Demobilization  End govt control = inflation  Cut back production = prices   Surplus workers = wages   Union strikes  Recession 1920-21

6. Post-War Political Developments  Democratic Party Split  Progressives v. Conservatives  E poly bosses v. S & W rural leaders  Republican Party  Conservative businessmen and “Old Guard” politicians  Win 1920-1928 Presidential elections!

7. Warren G Harding  President 1921-1923  Less govt  Government by “cronies”  Pro-business  Isolation  “Return to Normalcy” Reading

8.  Harding’s Accomplishments  Domestic Legislation  Emergency Quota Act  Veterans Bureau Act  Fordney- McCumberTariff Act  Foreign Affairs  Reject League  Payment of War Debts (Dawes & Young)  Washington Naval Conference  Naval disarmament  Chinese independ.

9. Harding Scandal  Ohio Gang- pals appt to Cabinet  Vet’s Bureau- Forbes  Attorney Gen Daugherty- kickbacks  Teapot Dome  Albert Fall, gets $ and gifts for leasing govt oil reserves…jail  1923 Sudden Death http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt =teapot+dome+scandal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7p7C6nT Nog

10. Activity  You are working for a big time newspaper. Using all the information you know about the Harding Scandal, you need to sum up the scandal into a creative slogan. You are to work with a partner to design your slogan. Remember it must be appropriate!  When you finish write your slogan on the board

11. Coolidge  1923-1929  “Business of America is Business”  Deregulation  Stock market spec.  Reduced govt spend  Low taxes  No govt aid to farmers

12.  Coolidge’s Accomplishments  Domestic Legislation  Immigration Act  Soldier’s Bonus Act  Foreign Affairs  Kellogg-Briand Pact  Outlaw war

13.  Think-Pair-Share  Whose domestic policy (in theory) was more beneficial to the American people, Hardy or Coolidge?  Whose foreign policy (in theory) was more beneficial to the American people, Hardy or Coolidge?

14. Jazz Age  “ The Roaring Twenties”  Jazz  Speakeasies  Lindbergh  http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/?assetGuid=C9BC8F22-7BB0-48B8-8D02- 73CB4450A2A2&fromMyDe=0&isPrinterFriendly=0&provider=&isLessonFromHealt h=0&productcode=US&isAssigned=false&includeHeader=YES&homeworkGuid= http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/?assetGuid=C9BC8F22-7BB0-48B8-8D02- 73CB4450A2A2&fromMyDe=0&isPrinterFriendly=0&provider=&isLessonFromHealt h=0&productcode=US&isAssigned=false&includeHeader=YES&homeworkGuid  New products for living  Radios, refrigerators, automobiles, etc  Factory improvements  http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=C9BC8F22- 7BB0-48B8-8D02-73CB4450A2A2&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=C9BC8F22- 7BB0-48B8-8D02-73CB4450A2A2&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US  Health and Education http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?g uidAssetId=C9BC8F22-7BB0-48B8-8D02- 73CB4450A2A2&blnFromSearch=1&productcode= US

15. Hoover Administration 1929-1933  Rugged Individualism  Big govt endangered econ progress and personal liberty  High tariffs  Low taxes  Free enterprise  Balanced budget

16. Closure  How has the United States returned to “normalcy,” in what ways has it not? (i.e. any lessons they did not learn from the war?)  http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=C9BC8F22-7BB0-48B8-8D02- 73CB4450A2A2&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=C9BC8F22-7BB0-48B8-8D02- 73CB4450A2A2&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US