1. Return to Normalcy the Roaring Twenties part 1

2. The Aftermath of the War  Labor Strife  Loss of wartime gains  1919 Strikes  association with Bolshevism  1919 Race Riots  25 Northern cities  Chicago – 13 days, 38 dead  The Spanish Flu Pandemic  22 million dead worldwide  500,000 US deaths  Postwar Recession  Demobilization  Postwar inflation

3. Conservative Reaction  1919-1920 Red Scare  anti-union campaign  April 1919 mail bombs  Palmer Raids  10,000+ arrests  556 deported

4. Conservative Reaction  The New Ku Klux Klan  New targets  Wider geographic area

6. Conservative Reaction  Immigration Restriction  The National Origins Act of 1924 Capped at 2% of the 1890 population from each country

7. Conservative Reaction  Christian Fundamentalism  The Bible Belt  Evolution and the 1925 Scopes Trial

8. The Election of 1920 “America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but resto- ration …. “If we can prove a representative popular govern- ment under which a citizenship seeks what it may do for the government rather than what the government may do for individuals, we shall do more to make democracy safe for the world than all armed conflict ever recorded. The world needs to be reminded that all human ills are not curable by legislation.” - Warren Harding, 1920

9. Conservative Politics  Return to Isolationism  Kellogg-Briand Pact  arms-reduction treaties  Pro-business Economic Policy  Coolidge: “The chief business of America is business.”  Andrew Mellon  lower taxes, deregulation