1. Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues and The Harding Presidency
Chapter 12, Sections 1 and 2

2. Post-War “-isms” Nativism Isolationism Communism
Economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship

3. The Red Scare Fear of communism Communist Party in U.S. Palmer Raids
Palmer and Hoover
Hunted communists, socialists, and anarchists
Invaded many civil rights

4. Sacco and Vanzetti Italian, anarchist immigrants
Arrested and charged with robbery and murder of two men
Alibis, circumstantial evidence
Executed on August 23, 1927

5. Sacco and Vanzetti

6. The Klan Re-Appears “Devoted to 100% Americanism”
“White male persons, native-born gentile citizens”
Other duties
Keep blacks “in their place”
Destroy saloons
Oppose unions
Driving out Roman Catholics, Jews, and foreigners
Race Riots
Tulsa, OK
Rosewood, FL

7. KKK Parade, 1925

10. KKK Ceremony

12. The Quota System Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Set up quota system that est. a max. number of people who could emigrate from each country

13. Labor Unrest
During WWI, laborers could not strike or interfere with the war effort
Boston Police Strike
Steel Mill Strike 1919
Coal Miners’ Strike 1919

14. Labor Strikes

15. Labor Movement Looses Appeal
Reasons Why Labor Union Membership Declines
Much of the pop. was willing to work in poor conditions for low wages
Different languages caused disorganization
Unions excluded African Americans

16. President Warren G. Harding
Ohio senator took office in1921
Yearned for “normalcy”
“Smooth speeches, poor decisions”
“One of the least successful presidents in history”

17. Struggles for Peace Washington Naval Conference Agreement to disarm
1921 Several major powers except communist Russia
Agreement to disarm
No more warships for 10 years
U.S., Britain, Japan, France, and Italy scrap many of the largest warships

18. High Tariffs and Reparations
Repaying War Debts
France and Britain owe U.S.
Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922)
Raised taxed on U.S. imports to 60%

19. Teapot Dome Scandal
U.S. Navy Sec. of Interior secretly sold gov’t. oil reserve land to private companies
First American to be convicted of a felony while in the cabinet

20. Teapot Dome Scandal

21. Harding to Coolidge
“I have no trouble with my enemies…But my friends, they’re the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!”
VP Coolidge become President and was elected president the next year