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CHAPTER 20
Politics of the Roaring Twenties
Overview
SECTION 1 Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues
SECTION 2 “Normalcy” and Isolationism
SECTION 3 The Business of America
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CHAPTER 20
Politics of the Roaring Twenties
“The business of America is business.” President Calvin Coolidge HOME THEMES IN CHAPTER 20 Economic Opportunity Science and Technology
CHAPTER 20
Politics of the Roaring Twenties
“The business of America is business.” President Calvin Coolidge What do you know?
• What images come to mind when you think of the Roaring Twenties?
• What people and events characterized the 1920s?
• What names have been given to other decades?
What might be a good nickname for the 1990s?
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Time Line
The United States 1920
The 19th Amendment is ratified.
1921
Saco and Vanzetti are convicted.
The Federal Highway Act funds a national highway system.
1922
Coal miners in Scranton, Pennsylvania go on strike.
1924
The Teapot Dome scandal erupts.
1925
A. Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
1928
Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed.
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Time Line
The World 1921
Chinese Communist Party is founded in Shanghai.
Vladimir Ilich Lenin adopts the New Economic Policy.
1922
Benito Mussolini is appointed prime minister in Italy.
1923
Adolf Hitler’s putsch in Germany fails.
1924
Vladimir Illich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, dies.
1926
Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
1928
Joseph Stalin launches the first five-year plan in the USSR.
1929
Institutional Revolutionary Party is organized in Mexico
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SECTION 1
Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues
Learn About
postwar conditions in America.
HOME To Understand
how fear of communism affected civil liberties and the labor movement.
SECTION 1
Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues
HOME Key Idea
The Russian Revolution brings a Communist government to power. Many Americans fear that a similar revolution will occur in the United States. Political radicals and labor activists meet with increasing resistance.
SECTION 1
Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues
HOME Section 1 Assessment SEQUENCING
What were the major events involving labor unions between 1917 and 1929?
1919 Boston police strike begins.
Steel strike begins under William Z. Foster.
Coal strike begins under John L. Lewis.
1925 A. Philip Randolph organizes the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
1917 1929 1920 Steel strike is broken.
SECTION 1
Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues
Section 1 Assessment FORMING AN OPINION
Do you think Americans were justified in their fear of radicals and foreigners in the decade following World War I?
HOME THINK ABOUT
• the goals of the leaders of the Russian Revolution • the impact of radicals in the United States • the challenges facing the United States
SECTION 1
Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues
Section 1 Assessment ANALYZING
What factors led union organizers to call so many strikes in 1919?
HOME THINK ABOUT
• economic factors • labor leaders’ determination to fight for worker rights
SECTION 2
“Normalcy” and Isolationism
Learn About
the policies of the Harding administration.
HOME To Understand
the development of postwar isolationism and the immigration quota system.
SECTION 2
“Normalcy” and Isolationism
Key Idea
The Republicans return to isolationism and the kind of policies that characterized the period before the Progressive Era and its reform movements.
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SECTION 2
“Normalcy” and Isolationism
HOME Section 2 Assessment SUMMARIZING
Did the following events benefit, have a mixed impact, or harm the country?
Election of Harding Naval disarmament agreement Kellogg-Briand Pact signed Fordney-McCumber Tariff passed Dawes Plan implemented Increase in immigration in 1921 Immigration quotas created Teapot Dome scandal uncovered
SECTION 2
“Normalcy” and Isolationism
Section 2 Assessment GENERALZING
How do you think the Harding administration viewed the role of America in world events?
HOME THINK ABOUT
• policies on trade and tariffs • efforts to enforce peace • attitudes toward immigrants
SECTION 2
“Normalcy” and Isolationism
Section 2 Assessment EVALUATING
How successful was Harding in fulfilling his campaign pledge of returning the country to “normalcy”?
THINK ABOUT
• events in foreign relations • changes in immigration laws • scandals during Harding’s administration
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SECTION 3
The Business of America
HOME Learn About
the impact of automobiles, electric power, advertising, and installment buying on the American consumer.
To Understand
how consumer goods became the foundation of the business boom of the 1920s.
SECTION 3
The Business of America
Key Idea
During the prosperous 1920s, the automobile industry and other industries flourished. America’s standard of living rises to new heights.
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SECTION 3
The Business of America
HOME Section 3 Assessment SUMMARIZING
What events illustrate the technology and business changes of the 1920s?
Development of the automobile industry Invention of new electrical appliances Technology and Business Changes of the 1920s Expansion of the airline industry Spread of modern advertising
SECTION 3
The Business of America
Section 3 3 Assessment INTERPRETING
Do you agree with President Coolidge’s statement “The man who builds a factory builds a temple—the man who works there worships there.”?
THINK ABOUT
• the goals of business and of religion • the American support of business • the difference between workers and management
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SECTION 3
The Business of America
Section 3 Assessment DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
Do you think the changes in the 1920s gave Americans more control over their lives?
HOME THINK ABOUT
• the impact of new technology • the influence of advertising • the results of installment buying
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Assessment
1. What impact did the Russian Revolution have on the United States?
2. Explain how the Red Scare, the Saco and Vanzetti case, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan reflected concerns held by many Americans.
3. What evidence suggests that strikes were a risky activity for workers during the 1920s?
4. What did Harding want to do to return America to “normalcy”?
5. What evidence shows that the United States was interested in an isolationist foreign policy?
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Assessment
6. Describe the primary goal of the immigration quota system established in 1921 and amended in 1924.
7. Summarize the Teapot Dome scandal.
8. How did changes in technology in the 1920s influence American life?
9. Describe the new methods used by advertisers beginning in the 1920s.
10. What evidence suggests that the prosperity of the 1920s was not on a firm foundation?
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