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