20.2

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20.2 Normalcy and Isolationism

• OBJECTIVE
• Understand the causes of post-war isolationism
• and the immigration quota system

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The Return to Normalcy

• ELECTION OF 1920
• Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (REP)
• Vs.
• James M. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt (DEM)
• OUTCOME
• REPUBLICANS WIN BY WIDE MARGIN. WHY? Harding
  pledges normalcy again.

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PRESIDENT HARDING

• America's present need is not heroics, but
  healing not nostrums, but normalcy not
  revolution, but restoration not agitation, but
  adjustment not surgery, but serenity not the
  dramatic, but the dispassionate not experiment,
  but equipoise not submergence in
  internationality, but sustainment in triumphant
  nationality...."

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

• 1921 US invites nations to freeze naval
  construction and begin disarmament.
• 1929 64 nations had signed the Kellogg-Briand
  Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of
  diplomacy.
• PROBLEM The pact was voluntary and not
  enforceable.

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TARIFFS AND REPARATIONS
OUTCOME Bad feelings all around. Unstable
economic house of cards.
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IMMIGRATION QUOTAS

• US experience a wave of racism, lynchings, and
  nativism after WWI.
• Immigration booms after WWI
• Quota System enacted to slow the flow
• Quotas discriminate against Southern and Eastern
  Europeans, Roman Catholics and Jews
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SCANDAL!!!

• Harding appoints some good Secretaries
• Charles Evans Hughes as Sec. of State
• Herbert Hoover as Sec. of Commerce
• Andrew Mellon as Sec. of Treasury
• BUT, some really bad appointments too
• Ohio Gang
• Albert Fall as Sec. Of Interior
• Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty
• Charles Forbes at Veterans Affairs

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THE TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL

• US set aside oil-rich public land for US Navy
• Albert Fall, Secretary of Interior, secretly and
  illegally leased the oil rich land to two
  private oil companies
• Fall got kickbacks of over 325,000
• Harding flees scandal on tour to Alaska, dies of
  heart attack
• VP Calvin Coolidge becomes president in 1923.

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ALBERT FALL
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Rate five events of this section as either , -,
or ? Based on whether the event was good, bad, or
mixed. Then, give your reasons.
EVENT RATING REASON





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Rate five events of this section as either , -,
or ? Based on whether the event was good, bad, or
mixed. Then, give your reasons.
EVENT RATING REASON
Kellogg-Briand
Tariffs Reparations
Fordney-McCumber
Quota System
Teapot Dome
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QUIZ A

1. The ______ Dome scandal was the most spectacular
   instance of corruption during the Harding
   Administration.
2. The ______- Briand pact failed to succeed in
   disarming nations because it was not enforced.
3. The _____ Trial, also called the monkey trial
   focused on the teaching of evolution in public
   schools.
4. Hidden bars and nightclubs during Prohibition
   were called _________.
5. The Protestant movement grounded in a literal and
   non-symbolic interpretation of the Bible was
   called _____________

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QUIZ A

1. The Teapot Dome scandal was the most spectacular
   instance of corruption during the Harding
   Administration. It dealt with the sale of
   ______.
2. The Kellogg-______and pact failed to succeed in
   disarming nations because it was not enforced.
3. The Scopes Trial, also called the monkey trial
   focused on the teaching _______ in public
   schools.
4. Hidden ___________ during Prohibition were called
   speakeasies.
5. The Protestant movement grounded in a literal and
   non-symbolic interpretation of the Bible was
   called _____________