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Politics of the Roaring Twenties

Politics of the Roaring Twenties. Chapter 12. Trends After WW1. Nativism Isolationism Both of these were ideas that were practiced following the end of WW1. OH KNOES COMMUNIST. Communism- ends private property and has government ownership that subsidize

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Politics of the Roaring Twenties

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  1. Politics of the Roaring Twenties Chapter 12

  2. Trends After WW1 • Nativism • Isolationism • Both of these were ideas that were practiced following the end of WW1

  3. OH KNOES COMMUNIST • Communism- ends private property and has government ownership that subsidize • Red Scare began in 1919 due to Lenin coming to power • 70,000 Americans formed a communist party • Several dozen bombs mailed to government and capitalist leaders….stroke fear

  4. Palmer Raids • August 1919 Palmer (US Attorney General), Edgar Hoover (Palmer assistant), and agents hunted down suspected communists, socialists and anarchists • Violated civil rights in these raids • Deported people with out trial • Palmer found no evidence of a revolution or explosives

  5. Quota System • Emergency quota act of 1921 established it • Set the maximum number of people who could enter US from each foreign country • 1924 amended to 2% of 1890 (shifted to 1920 later) • US population of that group could immigrate

  6. KKK Rises Again • Devoted to “100 percent Americanism” • 1924 had 4.5 million members • Believed in keeping blacks in “their place,” destroying saloons, opposing unions, and driving Roman Catholics, Jews, and foreign born people out of US • Paid to recruit members • KKK dominated most state politics, however lost power as criminal activity began at end of decade

  7. Labor Unrest • 1919 more than 3,000 strikes with some 4 million workers walking off job • Strikers seen as communist • Boston police strike over pay • Steel mill strike over hours and wages • Coal miner strike over hours and wages caused a huge problem • Unions began to decline

  8. Harding Presidency • 1921 became president • Charles Evans Hughes urged no more building of a navy for 10 years • First time major power agreed to disarm • Fordney-McCumber Tariff raised tariffs to 60 percent

  9. Ohio Gang • President Harding’s poker-playing cronies • Gang used their offices to become wealthy • Forbes head of Veterans Bureau caught selling government good to private hospitals • Miller was caught taking bribes

  10. Teapot Dome Scandal • Government set aside oil rich lands for use by US Navy Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall • Secretly leased these lands to oil companies • Received more then $400,000 from this • Warding died August 2, 1923 most likely of heart attack or stroke • People mourned the good natured president

  11. Calvin Coolidge Becomes President • Believed in big business • Kept taxes down and gave business more available credit • Keep government interference out of business • Kept high tariffs • Reduce income taxes

  12. Roads and Cars • Caused urban sprawl which is cities springing up all over • Helped certain regions grow due to producing cars • Roads allowed farmers to export goods • Late 1920’s 80 percent of all cars in world were in US

  13. Other Changes • Standard of living rises • Airplanes used for commercial use first in 1927 for transatlantic • Modern Advertising such as that on pg 425 • Believed good times would never end • Mass production • Buying on credit

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