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Politics in the 1920's: The Jazz Age
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Politics in the1920's: The Jazz Age
The Harding Administration
- Elected into Ohio General Assembly in 1898
- 1903 elected as Ohio's Lieutenant Governer
- Senate in 1914
- President in 1920
Promised "a return to normalcy"
Normal life after war
Scandals
Ohio Gang
sell government jobs, pardons, and protections from prosecution
August 2nd
San Francisco
Heart Attack?
Teapot Dome
1922
Albert B. Fall
- Teapot Dome, Wyoming
- Elk Hills, California.
300,00 dollars in bribes
Investigation
- prison
Resignantion because he wouldnt hand over the files and bank records
"Silent Call"
Calvin Coolidge
- distanced from Harding Administration
- Avoid crises
- Adopted Policies
- 382 Electoral Votes
Isolationism
10 billion daollars in debt
- too powerful
- too interconnected economically with other countries
Dawes Plan
High Tariffs
1924 the agreement was made
- France
- Britain
- Germany
Washington Conference
Charles Evans Hughes
- proposed a 10 year stop on construction
- warships to be destroyed
Negatives:
- limit land forces
- angered Japanese
Positives:
- Hope
- Peace
- Prosperity
- Recovery
The eight countries that attended were:
- Great Britain
- France
- Italy
- China
- Japan
- Belgium
- Netherlands
- Portugal
Abolishing War
Success of the Washington Conference
- boosted hopes
- written agreements
Frank Kellogg and Aristide Briand
- proposed a treaty
Kellogg-Briand Pact
stated that all signing nations agreed to abandon war and to settle all disputes by peaceful means
This pact and the Dawes Plan were the most notable achievements of the Coolidge Administration
Attorney General Harry Daughtery
He believed that prosperityrested on business leadership and that part of a president's job is to make sure that governemtn interfered with businesss and industry as little as possible