Do Now

•List THREE things you know about the 1920s.•What is ONE question you have about the 1920s?

Learning Goals• EQ:

– What made the 1920s into the “Roaring ‘20s?”

• LTs:– Identify characteristics of the 1920s through a video.– Describe the economy of America in the 1920s.– Explain how nativism impacted America in the 1920s.

• POUs:– I can identify characteristics of the 1920s by

completing the video quiz.– I can describe the approach of Harding and Coolidge

to the American economy.– I can explain how nativism led to a distrust of

immigrants.

The 1920s

America at the Start of the Decade

• Victorious in World War I

• Treaty of Versailles rejected

• Period of isolationism

• Republican-led government

Returning WWI soldiers parading in Minneapolis

The Election of 1920• Republicans

nominated Warren G. Harding

• “Return to Normalcy”– Getting back to pre-war

American business and values

• Harding wins in a landslide

Warren G. Harding

Harding Administration Scandals

• “Ohio Gang”• Harding too

trusting and of people around him

• Several advisers and Cabinet members deeply involved in corruption and bribes

Harding with Attorney General Harry Daugherty (left), who resigned under corruption

charges

The Teapot Dome Scandal

• Secretary Fall illegally sold government oil reserves to private companies

• Fall found guilty of accepting bribes

A political cartoon depicting the scandal as a steamroller

1923 - Harding Dies, Calvin Coolidge Takes Office

• Harding died before scandals broke; reputation soon destroyed

• Calvin Coolidge becomes the President

Harding’s body leaving the White House after lying in state

Coolidge as President

• Pro-business• Wanted low taxes

and very little government regulation

• U.S. production grew by $30 billion under Coolidge

• Coolidge will easily win the Election of 1924

Coolidge signing a tax bill, 1926

Nativism• Came out of various

worries following WWI• Prejudice against

foreign-born people• Evident in immigration

quotas, rise of the Ku Klux Klan

• Also led to “Red Scare”

An anti-immigrant poster from California Senator

James Phelan’s campaign, 1920

The “Red Scare”

Immigration Quotas

A cartoon satirizing the quota system