1. 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 -prohibited the use of war as "an instrument of national policy."
-New high tariff returned U.S. to isolationist position
-Nativist policies
-discriminatory quota system established, not allowing any immigrants from S & E Europe, Japan
National Origins Act, 1921: limited 150,000

2. Labor Unrest -working conditions, for some had not gotten any better
-wartime inflation, =higher prices
-technological unemployment
*Strikes were not allowed during war
-strikes
1. Boston Police strike (Strike over wages, Gov Coolidge called in Nat’l Guard & became a hero)
2. U.S. Steel strike
3. Coal Miners Strike
John L. Lewis
-labor unions weaken
Open Shop system
Welfare capitalism

3. Boston Police Strike 1919

4. Labor Unrest -strikes 1.Boston Police strike
2. U.S. Steel strike: 300,000 workers for better pay & hrs, beat down by police & thugs, word leaked out, better working day, Left w/no Union
3. Coal Miners Strike attempted to strike, even though court order denied them the right to, received 27% pay increase thanks to..
John L. Lewis Nat’l Hero
-labor unions weaken by the 1920s
Welfare capitalism, offering higher pay, health care, housing, social clubs

5. Communists – economic & political System, based on a single party Gov’t, ruled by a dictator
In order to equalize wealth & power, Communism would put an end to Private Property & substitute Gov’t Ownership of businesses
*Followers of Lenin & the Bolshevik Revolutions, waved their red flags and called themselves the REDs, and cried for a worldwide Revolution

6. The Red Scare -Russian Revolution, 1917
Vladimir Lenin & “The Bolsheviks”
Communists – economic & political System, based on a single party Gov’t, ruled by a dictator
cry of worldwide revolution
-Red Scare : fear that communism would upset the capitalist order in the US, & take over
U.S. Communist Party, IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)

7. The Red Scare -Russian Revolution, 1917 Vladimir Lenin Communists
cry of worldwide revolution
-Red Scare
U.S. Communist Party, IWW

8. The Red Scare -Russian Revolution, 1917 Vladimir Lenin Communists
cry of worldwide revolution
-Red Scare
U.S. Communist Party, IWW

9. The Red Scare -Russian Revolution, 1917 Vladimir Lenin Communists
cry of worldwide revolution
-Red Scare
U.S. Communist Party, IWW

10. The Red Scare -Russian Revolution, 1917 Vladimir Lenin Communists
cry of worldwide revolution
-Red Scare
U.S. Communist Party, IWW
-Palmer Raids
- Hunted down suspected Commies & Anarchist
Mitchell Palmer
J.Edgar Hoover
violations of civil liberties

11. The Red Scare -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 of a factory pay master and executed by electric chair May 1920
-Growth of the Klan
“Keep America for Americans”-attitude – 100% Americanism
1924, 4.5 million members, all white males
*Found Anti-Communism as an excuse to HARASS any group unlike themselves
* Paid to recruit new members into their world of secret rituals & racial Violence, dominated a lot of S politics

12. 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

14. Harding and Coolidge
-Prosperity returns to the United States With President Warren G. Harding
-Harding made some good and bad appointment choices
Herbert Hoover :Sec of Commerce= Good
Ohio Gang : Cabinet of poker playing buddies
-Teapot Dome Scandal
gov’t owned oil rich lands leased out to private oil companies for far less than their value: Albert B Fall made $400,000 from it, 1st man convicted of a Felony while holding a cabinet position.
-Harding and administration are embarrassed “ *I have no trouble with my Enemies, .. But my.. Friends, they’re the ones that keep my walking the floor at nights!”
-Harding dies in Office and Calvin Coolidge replaces him and wins re-election
“Keep Cool with Coolidge” –
“Do Nothing Cal”

15. Harding and Coolidge
-Teapot Dome Scandal
gov’t owned oil rich lands leased out to private oil companies for far less than their value
-Harding and administration are embarrassed
- Shortly after Harding dies in Office and Calvin Coolidge replaces him and wins re-election- Restored faith in American Gov’t & Republican Party
“Keep Cool with Coolidge” – Republican Party
“Do Nothing Cal”

16. Harding and Coolidge
-Prosperity returns to the United States
-Harding made some good and bad appointment choices
Herbert Hoover
Ohio Gang
-Teapot Dome Scandal
gov’t 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”