A Republican DecadePost WWI Issues

Mr. Daubert

• Killed more people than WWI

Communism

• Government ownership of land and property

• Single political party controls government

• No individual rights

• The idea of spreading

Schenck v. USSupreme Court said government could silence Free Speech.

• In other words…

Palmer Raids

• Targeted Communists, socialists, anarchists

• Jailed thousands

• Headed by Mitchell Palmer-Attorney General

Sacco and Vanzetti

• Immigrants accused of murder

They were later executed by electrocution

Labor unrest

• Caused by communists?

• No really caused by rising prices and stagnant wages.

Turn to Republican Leadership

• Dominated all three branches of government

• Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover

President Harding

• Isolation—makes sense based on postwar sentiment

• Called for disarmament

Limiting Immigration-Nativism

• Immigrants could never be fully loyal

• Slums and corruption of cities due to immigrants

• Jobs jobs jobs

• Immigrants came from unstable places

Harding popular

• Scandals in the administration- Harding probably not involved

• Died of a heart attack

• Teapot Dome Scandal

VP Coolidge Takes office

• Silent Cal

• Business supporter through and through

• Laissez faire

• Smaller government that did less-Goal

• World War I bonus-vetoed (couldn’t afford it, Congress overrode it)

• Kellogg-Briand Pact-no threat of war in dealing with other countries (15 nations signed it)

• Unenforceable

Hoover

• Cal doesn’t run, Hoover elected by defeating Alfred Smith (1st Roman Catholic)