the 1920’s
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The 1920’s . The Roaring 20’s The Era of Boom & Bust The Laissez-faire Era “A Time for Living on the Froth of Society” Innovation and Revolution The Inter-war Period The Birth of Social Revolution and Modernization . Election of 1920. James Cox (D) Governor of Ohio - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The 1920’s
The Roaring 20’s The Era of Boom & Bust The Laissez-faire Era “A Time for Living on the Froth of Society” Innovation and Revolution The Inter-war Period The Birth of Social Revolution and
Modernization
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Election of 1920
James Cox (D) Governor of Ohio- Urged adoption of the League of Nations
Warren G. Harding (R)Senator from Ohio- Called for a “Return to Normalcy.”
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Republican National Convention
Deadlocked in 1920. Harding alternative in a “smoke-filled room” Ohio political machine. (cronies) “Were just regular folk” A return to Isolationism
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Election of…?
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Appointments (Good)
Charles Evans Hughes – Supreme Court Justice and former presidential candidate appointed to Secretary of State.
Herbert Hoover – Food Administration leader during WWI appointed to Sec. of Commerce.
Andrew Mellon – Pittsburgh industrialist and millionaire appointed Sec. of Treasury
William Howard Taft – Former President and WWI labor negotiator appointed to Supreme Court Chief Justice.
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Appointments (Bad)
Albert B. Fall – appointed to Sec. of the Interior.
Harry M. Daugherty – appointed Attorney General.
Teapot Dome Scandal, Wyoming
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Domestic Policy
1) a reduction in the income tax 2) an increase in tariff rates under the
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922. 3) establishment of the Bureau of the Budget,
with procedures for all government expenditures to be placed in a single budget for Congress to review and vote on.
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Washington Conference (1921)
Sec. of State Hughes pushes for conference. Reps. From Belgium, China, France, Great
Britain, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal.
Three agreements were reached.
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Agreement of Washington Conf.
First: 5-power: US 5
GB 5Japan 3France 1.67Italy 1.67
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Agreement of Washington Conf.
Second4-power: U.S., France, G.B., Japan agreed to
respect one another’s territory in the Pacific.
Third9-power: Open Door policy with territorial
integrity of China.
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Dichotomies of the 1920’s
Fundamentalism (religion) Birth control / divorce rates Red Scare Nativism (Quota Laws) Race Riots / Strikes Palmer Raids Prohibition Revivalists (Radio)
Modernism 19th Amendment (Suffrage) Social Revolution Jazz / Harlem Renaissance
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Examples of Fundamentalism v. Modernism
Rise in the KKK The Great Migration The Scopes Trial Sacco and Vanzetti Case Blue Laws and Speakeasies Marcus Garvey