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Return to Normalcy
the Roaring Twenties
part 1
The Aftermath of the War
Labor StrifeLoss of wartime gains1919 Strikesassociation with
Bolshevism
1919 Race Riots25 Northern citiesChicago – 13 days, 38
dead
The Spanish Flu Pandemic22 million dead
worldwide500,000 US deaths
Postwar RecessionDemobilizationPostwar inflation
Conservative Reaction
1919-1920 Red Scareanti-union
campaignApril 1919 mail
bombsPalmer Raids
10,000+ arrests556 deported
Conservative Reaction
The New Ku Klux KlanNew targetsWider geographic area
Conservative Reaction
Immigration RestrictionThe National Origins Act of 1924
Capped at 2% of the 1890 population from each country
Conservative Reaction
Christian Fundamentalism The Bible Belt Evolution and the 1925 Scopes
Trial
The Election of 1920
“America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but resto-ration ….
“If we can prove a representative popular govern-ment under which a citizenship seeks what it may do for the government rather than what the government may do for individuals, we shall do more to make democracy safe for the world than all armed conflict ever recorded. The world needs to be reminded that all human ills are not curable by legislation.”
- Warren Harding, 1920
Conservative Politics
Return to Isolationism Kellogg-Briand Pact arms-reduction treaties
Pro-business Economic Policy Coolidge: “The chief business of
America is business.” Andrew Mellon lower taxes, deregulation
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