Normalcy in Government

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Normalcy in Government
-1920 election of Warren G. Harding and the
simpler days before the war -Isolationist
Policies -Washington Conferences proposed
disarmament -Kellogg-Briand Treaty,
1929 outlawed war -New high tariff returned
U.S. to isolationist position (but also lowered
trade with Europe as result) -Nativist
policies -discriminatory quota system
established (only select amount of people from
each country allowed) -National Origins Act, 1921
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Reasons for Labor Unrest
-1 . working conditions -2. wartime
inflation -3. technological unemployment -strike
s Boston Police strike U.S. Steel strike Coal
Miners Strike John L. Lewis American leader of
organized labor -labor unions weaken Open Shop
system Welfare capitalism
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Labor Unrest
-working conditions -wartime inflation -technolo
gical unemployment -strikes Boston Police
strike U.S. Steel strike Coal Miners
Strike John L. Lewis -labor unions
weaken Open Shop system Welfare capitalism
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The Red Scare
-Russian Revolution, 1917 Vladimir
Lenin Communists spread everywhere cry of
worldwide revolution -Red Scare U.S. Communist
Party, IWW Wobblies extreme labor union
with ties to anarchy and socialism -Palmer
Raids Mitchell Palmer Attorney General,
hunted communists in US J.Edgar Hoover head
of FBI violations of civil liberties -Sacco and
Vanzetti anarchist immigrants accused of murder
and executed -Growth of the Klan
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The Red Scare
-Russian Revolution, 1917 Vladimir
Lenin Communists cry of worldwide
revolution -Red Scare U.S. Communist Party,
IWW -Palmer Raids Mitchell Palmer J.Edgar
Hoover violations of civil liberties -Sacco and
Vanzetti anarchist immigrants accused of murder
and executed -Growth of the Klan
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The Red Scare
-Russian Revolution, 1917 Vladimir
Lenin Communists cry of worldwide
revolution -Red Scare U.S. Communist Party,
IWW -Palmer Raids Mitchell Palmer J.Edgar
Hoover violations of civil liberties -Sacco and
Vanzetti anarchist immigrants accused of murder
and executed -Growth of the Klan
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The Red Scare
-Russian Revolution, 1917 Vladimir
Lenin Communists cry of worldwide
revolution -Red Scare U.S. Communist Party,
IWW -Palmer Raids Mitchell Palmer J.Edgar
Hoover violations of civil liberties -Sacco and
Vanzetti anarchist immigrants accused of murder
and executed -Growth of the Klan
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The Red Scare
-Russian Revolution, 1917 Vladimir
Lenin Communists cry of worldwide
revolution -Red Scare U.S. Communist Party,
IWW -Palmer Raids Mitchell Palmer J.Edgar
Hoover violations of civil liberties -Sacco and
Vanzetti anarchist immigrants accused of murder
and executed -Growth of the Klan
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The Red Scare
-Russian Revolution, 1917 Vladimir
Lenin Communists cry of worldwide
revolution -Red Scare U.S. Communist Party,
IWW -Palmer Raids Mitchell Palmer J.Edgar
Hoover violations of civil liberties -Sacco and
Vanzetti anarchist immigrants accused of murder
and executed many questioned if they were
guilty targeted b/c they were Italian -Growth of
the Klan
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The Red Scare
-Russian Revolution, 1917 Vladimir
Lenin Communists cry of worldwide
revolution -Red Scare U.S. Communist Party,
IWW -Palmer Raids Mitchell Palmer J.Edgar
Hoover violations of civil liberties -Sacco and
Vanzetti anarchist immigrants accused of murder
and executed -Growth of the Klan
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Harding and Coolidge
-Prosperity returns to the United
States -Harding made some good and bad
appointment choices Herbert Hoover Ohio Gang
corrupt group of poker playing friends of
Harding -Teapot Dome Scandal govt owned oil
rich lands leased out to private oil companies
for far less than their value -Harding and
administration are embarrassed -Harding dies in
Office and Calvin Coolidge replaces him and wins
re-election Keep Cool with Coolidge Do
Nothing Cal
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Harding and Coolidge
-Prosperity returns to the United
States -Harding made some good and bad
appointment choices Herbert Hoover Ohio
Gang -Teapot Dome Scandal govt owned oil rich
lands leased out to private oil companies for far
less than their value -Harding and
administration are embarrassed -Harding dies in
Office and Calvin Coolidge replaces him and wins
re-election Keep Cool with Coolidge Do
Nothing Cal
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Harding and Coolidge
-Prosperity returns to the United
States -Harding made some good and bad
appointment choices Herbert Hoover Ohio
Gang -Teapot Dome Scandal govt owned oil rich
lands leased out to private oil companies for far
less than their value -Harding and
administration are embarrassed -Harding dies in
Office and Calvin Coolidge replaces him and wins
re-election Keep Cool with Coolidge Do
Nothing Cal