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1 Apr 147:28 PM Obj SWBAT Analyze the growth of the American economy in the 1920's DO NOW You are a soldier returning home from the trenches after WWI. What is the thing you are most looking forward to? Apr 147:28 PM Presidential Leadership in the 1920’s President Warren G. Harding > Harding wins landslide election promising a “Return to Normalcy” Return to isolationism Probusiness policies Make economy grow and create jobs Americans were war weary & wanted a return to pre war days "Return to Normalcy" Apr 147:28 PM Foreign Affairs Presidents Harding and Coolidge kept the U.S. out of European affairs (Isolation) US remained out of the League of Nations The US intervened in Latin America when American business interests were threatened US signed the KelloggBriand Pact > This treaty outlawed war, but had no means of keeping the peace Apr 147:28 PM How did Harding Disappoint the People? Political Scandals > Harding’s political appointees were corrupt > Cabinet secretary Albert Fall was bribed and secretly leased land to oil companies at Teapot Dome, Wyoming > First time a cabinet secretary was sent to prison > Harding dies in office of a heart attack before scandals are connected directly to him Apr 147:28 PM 1) What is the object used to represent the scandal? 2) According to the cartoon, what is the impact of the scandal? Apr 147:28 PM President Calvin Coolidge Both his dry Yankee wit and his frugality with words became legendary. His wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recounted that a young woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, "You lose."

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Page 1: President Calvin Coolidge

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Apr 14­7:28 PM

Obj­ SWBAT­ Analyze the growth of the American economy in the 1920's

DO NOW­ You are a soldier returning home from the trenches after WWI. What is the thing you are most looking forward to?

Apr 14­7:28 PM

Presidential Leadership in the 1920’s

• President Warren G. Harding

> Harding wins landslide election promising a “Return to Normalcy”

– Return to isolationism

– Pro­business policies

– Make economy grow and create jobs

– Americans were war weary & wanted a return to pre­war days

"Return to Normalcy"

Apr 14­7:28 PM

Foreign Affairs• Presidents Harding and Coolidge kept the U.S. out of European affairs (Isolation)

• US remained out of the League of Nations

• The US intervened in Latin America when American business interests were threatened 

• US signed the Kellogg­Briand Pact

> This treaty outlawed war, but had no means of keeping the peace

Apr 14­7:28 PM

How did Harding Disappoint the People?

• Political Scandals

> Harding’s political appointees were corrupt

> Cabinet secretary Albert Fall was bribed and secretly leased land to oil companies at Teapot Dome, Wyoming

> First time a cabinet secretary was sent to prison

> Harding dies in office of a heart attack before scandals are connected directly to him

Apr 14­7:28 PM

1) What is the object used to represent the scandal?

2) According to the cartoon, what is the impact of the scandal?

Apr 14­7:28 PM

President Calvin Coolidge

Both his dry Yankee wit and his frugality with words became legendary. His wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recounted that a young 

woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, "You lose." 

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Calvin Coolidge Takes Office• “Silent Cal” 

> Sworn in after Harding’s death

> Coolidge was different from Harding

– Not a big speech maker or party thrower

• Coolidge repaired damage caused by scandals

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Coolidge Prosperity

• What was Coolidge’s priority as president?

> Pro big business

> Business was the most important part in creating the American way of life

> Began a period of rapid economic growth

Silent Cal

“The business of America is business.  The man who builds a factory builds a temple.  The man who works there worships there”                        

Calvin Coolidge

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Coolidge Prosperity• Industry Booms

> Quantity of goods made by industry doubled

> More jobs were made and incomes rose

> People spent money on new products

– Refrigerators, radios, phonographs, vacuum cleaners

> Installment buying (credit) allowed people to spend more money than they could afford

> Overspending became a serious economic problem

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Coolidge Prosperity• A Soaring Stock Market

> More people invested in the stock market  than ever before. (Bull Market)

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Auto Industry Fuels Growth• Car sales grew rapidly creating growth in other fields such as steel and rubber

• Ripple effect­ by 1929, 4 million Americans owed their jobs to cars, directly or indirectly

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Conclusion• How did presidential leadership influence US policy during the 1920’s?

> Presidential leadership: 

– Created a strong economy

– Created a bull market

– Returned the nation to pre­WW1 isolation

– Increased jobs and family income

– Created an era of peace & prosperity