Chapter 18: The 1920s

Post war trends

Exhaustion

Economy

Nativism/Racism

Immigration is limited

Immigration is limited… what act is passed?

1921 - emergency quota act

Emergency Quota Act

Act passed by congress limiting the amount of immigrants who can come into the U.S

What did the American people have a Fear of?

The American people had a fear of Communism

Communism

government owns everything; no private ownership/No free market/No dictatorship

Karl Marx

Wrote a book called the “communist manifesto” which contributed to the Red Scare.

The Red Scare

Americas fright over communism fueled by the “communist manifesto”

How many active communist supporters were there?

70,000

Who was Warren G. Harding?

Became president in 1921 and called the Washington naval conference

The Washington naval confference

Called my Warren G. Harding. All of the largest countries sign a pact stating that there will be no more war. They all agree to eliminate their war ships.

The Kellogg Brand Pact

France and Brittan had to pay back the 10 million dollars they borrowed from the U.S.

Charles G. Dawes

American banker who was sent to negotiate a loan to Germany in order to prevent another war between France, Great Brittan and Germany.

The Dawes Plan

American investors loan Germany 2.5 million dollars to pay back France and great Brittan for war damages, Brittan pays American back with their own money.

Scandals in the Harding Administration

TeaPot Dome WY = Oil Rich land - federally reserved land, (only the navy can drill there)

Hardings friend is in charge of the land

Hardings friend leases the land to private oil companies

Who is Albert Fall?

Hardings friend who is in charge of the land with the oil, he leased the land to private oil companies. !NOT GOOD! Harding knew what he was doing. He was using land that wasn’t his to make money. FIRST cabinet member to be ARRESTED!

What happens to Harden?

Harden dies from a stroke/heart attack in 1923

Calving Coolidge

Hardings VP and successor,

What does Calvin Coolidge do for the Republican party?

Restores the American peoples faith.