The Roaring Twenties Outline

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The Roaring Twenties (1919-1929) I. President Policies a. Warren G. Harding: “Return to Normalcy” i. In the Election of 1920 – He promised to return U.S. to pre-W.W.I isolationism ii. Scandals in Harding’s Administration: 1. Group of friends and advisors known as the “Ohio Gang” a. Charles Forbes – stole money from the Veterans Bureau 2. Teapot Dome Scandal – Secretary of Interior, Albert Fall – leased government lands to oil companies in exchange for bribes *Harding died in 1923; some blamed his death on scandals b. Calvin Coolidge: succeeded Harding (1923 – 1929) i. Election of 1924 1. Forced…show more content…
Amelia Earhart – first female to fly solo across the Atlantic iii. Automobile: improved travel 1. Creation of new industries: service station, tire sales, etc. 2. Highways were built 3. Changed social habits iv. New inventions freed people up for leisure time 1. Vacuum cleaners, washers, dryers, and refrigerators IV. Racial, Religious and Ethnic Intolerance a. The Rad scare i. Fear of the spread of communism to the United States ii. A. Mitchell Palmer – attorney General 1. Led raids against suspected communists 2. Arrested, jailed and deported (some) suspected communists b. Immigration Limited: fear of work competition i. Emergency quota act – set limits – closed the “golden Door” ii. Sacco and Vanzetti: victims of anti-foreign feeling 1. Italian anarchists and atheists 2. Were convicted and sentence to death for robbery and murder 3. Executed in 1927 despite many appeals c. Scopes Monkey
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