Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues“Normalcy” & IsolationismThe Business of America
The 1920sPolitics of the Roaring Twenties
“Normalcy” & Isolationism
What was the “return to normalcy”?
Isolationism“A national policy of abstaining from political or
economic relations with other countries.”
Presidents of the 1920s
Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge
“America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy;
not revolution but restoration.”President Warren G. Harding
Election of 1920Republicans Democrats
Harding & Coolidge Cox & Roosevelt
Election of 1920
Election of 1920
First election where womencould vote
First election to be coveredvia the radio
President HardingFour Major Events Under President Harding
1. Kellogg-Briand Pact2. Fordney-McCumber Tariff
3. Quota System4. Teapot Dome Scandal
President Harding’s Death
President Coolidge’s Oath
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President Coolidge’s Oath
“The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there
worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame,
but reverence and praise.” – Calvin Coolidge