Chapter 32 Politics of Boom and Bust Harding

Chapter 32: Politics of Boom and Bust Harding to Hoover

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.

Times They Are A Changin’? • Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923) – Overturns Muller v. Oregon – Men and women equal in workplace • Passage of 19 th 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. ”

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

Iron Horse • Bolstered productivity – Too much production – Too little could afford • Increased farmers dept – Grave poverty

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

Bonus Army • WWI Vets march on Washington, DC • Promised full payment of their promised bonus – Many unemployed – Need money • Suppressed by Gen. Douglas Mac. Arthur