Do Now List THREE things you know about

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

Learning Goals • EQ: – What made the 1920 s into the “Roaring ‘ 20 s? ” • LTs: – Identify characteristics of the 1920 s through a video. – Describe the economy of America in the 1920 s. – Explain how nativism impacted America in the 1920 s. • POUs: – I can identify characteristics of the 1920 s 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 1920 s

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 Harding with Attorney General Harry Daugherty (left), who resigned under corruption charges • “Ohio Gang” • Harding too trusting and of people around him • Several advisers and Cabinet members deeply involved in corruption and bribes

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 foreignborn 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