Politics of the Roaring Twenties by Monica Wayman https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69 There were several challenges and changes that the nation faced after World War I. en-us 2019-03-04 15:26:00 UTC 2023-07-05 14:08:42 UTC hello@padlet.com American Industries Flourish https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337508752 *Calvin Coolidge, the new president, had the pro-business spirit that was common in the 1920s
*The goal of Coolidge and Herbert Hoover was to keep government interference to a minimum in businesses, they wanted to give the businesses a chance to flourish on their own
*The new techniques that were being used caused a better flow of money
*The automobile had a big effect on America, it changed the landscape and paved roads were a big new thing
*Factories were compared to temples
*Paved roads and automobiles allowed people to travel in all weather
* First Cloverleaf Intersection- built in New Jersey in 1929
*The automobile industry inspired gas stations, repair shops, public garages, travel, and tourist centers
*Route 66- new way for people traveling West from Chicago to California
*First automatic traffic signs- Detroit- early 1920s
*Cars allowed workers to live farther out and still work in the city
*Airplane industry began as a mail carrying system for the U.S. post office
*First flight in 1918 was disastrous
*Planes started to carry radios and navigation systems ]]> 2019-03-04 15:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337508752 Harding Struggles for Peace (Baylee, Alexis, Jacob, Michael) bayely5243 https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337508943 -Charles Evans Hughes urged that no more warships be built for 10 years. The suggested the 5 major naval powers the U.S., Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy scrap their battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers.
-Conference delegates cherred. For the first time in history powerful nations agreed to disarm
-In 1928 fifteen countries signed the Kellogg-Briand which renounced war as a national policy

HIGH TARIFFS AND REPARATIONS
-Britain and France could pay America the $10 billion back in two ways; selling goods to the US or collecting reparations from Germany  
-America adopted the Fordney-McCumber Tariff in 1922
-Germany was experiencing terrible inflation

]]> 2019-03-04 15:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337508943 Scandal Hits Harding's Administration BL, BD, JD, DP https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337508967 -Harding favored a limited role for government in business and social reform.
-He appointed Charles Evans Hughes as secretary of state. He later became chief of justice court. 
-Made Herbert Hoover secretary of commerce
-His cabinet included the Ohio gang which was the presidents poker playing ring
-The president didn't understand many of the issues.
-The "Teapot Dome Scandal" was one of the first and most corrupt events 
- On August 2nd 1923 Harding died from a heart attack or stroke]]> 2019-03-04 15:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337508967 Postwar Trends https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337509066 ~World War 1 had left much of the American public exhausted.
~The economy was in a difficult state of adjustment.
~A wave of nativism, or prejudice against foreign-born people swept the nation.]]> 2019-03-04 15:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337509066 Fear of Communism https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337509214 - Communism is an economic and political system based on a single party government ruled by dictatorship
- Communists would put an end to private property, substituting government ownership of factories, railroads, and other businesses
- The panic of the U.S. began in 1919
- Vladimir I. Lenin and his followers established a new communist state 
- Communists were known as "reds"
- A communist party was formed in the U.S. with 70,000 radicalists 
- General A. Mitchell Palmer took action to combat this "red scare" 
Chloe, Micah, Keyla]]> 2019-03-04 15:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337509214 Limiting Immigration Gage, Katie, Dezeray https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337510813 - "Keep immigration for American" became the prevailing attitude. 
- The KKK was devoted to 100 percent Americanism.
- KKK members were paid to recruit new members into their world of secret rituals and racial violence
- By 1929, KKK membership reached 9.5 million. 
- From 1919 to 1921 the number of immigrants had grown almost 600 percent going from 191,000 to 805,000 people. 
- The emergency quota act of 1921 set up the quota system 
-The quota system established the max number of immigrants allowed into the U.S 
- The goal of the quota system was to cut sharply European immigration in the U.S  
- The law strictly prohibited Japanese immigration causing problems between the two nations
- Japan which had faithfully kept the Gentleman's Agreement to limit immigration to the U.S  negotiated by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 
- The national origins quota system did not apply to immigrants from the western hemisphere.
- During the 1920's about a million Canadians and almost 500,000 mexicans crossed the border. ]]> 2019-03-04 15:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337510813 The Palmer Raid https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337511397 - In 1919 Palmer worked with J. Edgar Hoover to find suspected Communists, socialists, and anarchists (people who opposed any form of government). 
- They invaded people’s private property, deported people without trials, and jailed suspects without legal counsel
- But since their raids were without reason, many thought Palmer was just looking to find support for his presidential campaign. 

~ Kela, Chloe, Micah]]> 2019-03-04 15:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337511397 Sacco and Vanzetti https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337512310 - The Red Scare made people very hostile towards foreign-born people. 
- Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists
- In 1920 they were arrested and executed for robbery/m urder.
- They were believed to be innocent but convicted because of their radical political beliefs and immigrant status. 

~ Kela, Chloe, Micah]]> 2019-03-04 15:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337512310 https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337512532 2019-03-04 15:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337512532 A Time of Labor Unrest Natalie, Connor, Radford https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/m8a7txfk0n69/wish/337517645
  • During the war, the government wouldn't allow workers to strike because nothing could interfere with war effort
  • The AFL pledged to void strikes
  • In 1919 there was 300,00 strikes and nearly 4 million workers walked off
  • Employers labeled striking workers as Communists
  • Newspapers screamed "Plots to establish Communism"
    •       The Boston Police Strike:
    • Boston police had not been given a raise since the beginning of WWI
    • Representatives asked for raises, but instead they were fired. This resulted in the remaining policemen to strike. 
    • Calvin Coolidge called out the National Guard. Coolidge believed that "there is no right to strike against the public safely by anybody, anywhere, amy time."
    • The strike ended but all new policemen were hired
    • Coolidge was praised because he saved Boston from Communism and anarchy
              The Steel Mill Strike:
    • The workers wanted the right to negotiate for shorter working hours and a living wage. 
    • In  September 1919 the U.S steel Corporation refused to meet with union representatives and because of that 300,000 workers walked of their jobs. 
          The Coal Miners' Strike: 
    • In 1919 John L. Lewis became the new leader of the United Mine Workers of America.
    • Coal miners received a 27 percent wage increase, but they did not get a shorter workday and a five-day workweek until the 1930's. Labor Movement Loses      Appeal:
    • The 1920s hurt the labor movement badly
    • Over the decade union membership dropped from more than 5 million to around 3.5 million
    • Membership declined for many reasons. Much of the work force consisted of immigrants willing to work in poor conditions, since immigrants spoke a multitude of languages, unions had difficulty organizing them, farmers who had migrated to cities to find factory jobs were used to relying on themselves, and most unions excluded African Americans.

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