the 20s: a conservative era
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The 20s: A Conservative Era. A Conservative and Republican Era. Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) All three: pro-business and isolationist in foreign affairs. Warren G. Harding. Relaxed and genial Leadership style: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The 20s: A Conservative Era
A Conservative and Republican Era
Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)All three: pro-business and
isolationist in foreign affairs
Warren G. Harding
Relaxed and genial
Leadership style:Well-qualified
Cabinet members:
Conservative policies
Andrew Mellon, Secretary of Treasury
Harding’s bad choices
“This is a hell of a job! I have no trouble with my enemies… But my damned friends, they’re the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.”
“The Ohio Gang:” Attorney General Henry Daugherty, Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior, Charles Forbes, Veterans Bureau
Harding suffers a heart attack in July, 1923 and dies on August 2
“The Ohio Gang”1924 Senate investigation reveals:Daugherty
Forbes
Teapot Dome
Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall secretly leased government oil reserves to two friends
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Calvin Coolidge
“Silent Cal” takes over after Harding’s death
“The chief business of America is business.”
Coolidge’s Policies
Fordney-McCumber and Smoot-Hawley Tariffs:
1924 Election
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Herbert Hoover Elected President in 1928
over Democrat Al Smith Engineer, head of Food
Administration, Secretary of Commerce; “The Great Engineer”
“We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.”
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Hoover’s Social Thought
The Associative State:”
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