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Chapter 32: Politics of Boom and Bust
Harding to Hoover
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Directions: • The following slides will have various political
cartoons and illustrations which encompass the main themes of the chapter.
• Each slide will be different. With a partner you will analyze the slide and answer the accompanying questions on your hand out.
• After each slide we will analyze, review, and discuss your findings.
• Please write your responses on a separate piece of paper.
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Times They Are A Changin’?• Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923)– Overturns Muller v. Oregon– Men and women equal in workplace • Passage of 19th Amendment
• Justice Oliver Holmes – “It would need more than the Nineteenth Amendment
to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation can not take those differences into account.”
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Teapot Dome Scandal • Teapot Dome (Wyoming)• Elk Hills (Cali) • Albert Falls
– Sec. of Interior – Received bribes to lease land to oilmen – Sentenced on year in jail
• Other scandal: – Veterans Bureau
• Col. Forbes looted $200 million to build hospitals.• Sentenced to two years
– Illegal sale of pardons and liquor permits • President Harding died while scandals were being tried
– Speaking tour– Died of pneumonia
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Iron Horse
• Bolstered productivity– Too much production – Too little could afford
• Increased farmers dept– Grave poverty
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Hoovervilles
• Depression became national calamity • Homeless people constructed shacks out of
scavenged materials– Sprung up across the country
• “Hoover blankets” = newspapers • Social and political structure in questions
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Bonus Army• WWI Vets march on Washington, DC• Promised full payment of their promised
bonus – Many unemployed– Need money
• Suppressed by Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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