#1: What basic economic and political policies were
pursued by the three conservative Republican
administrations of the 1920s?
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Government Guides Business to Profits
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923)
Ignored Antitrust Laws | Trade Associations
Business Regulation of Itself
Wartime Government Controls Removed
Labor Deprived of Gov Support *
#2: What were the causes and effects of America’s
international economic and political isolationism in
the 1920s?
• America Seeks Benefits Without Burdens
– Treaty of Versailles | League of Nations
– Middle East Oil Drilling Concessions
– Disarmament: Conference | 5:5:3 | 4 power | 9 power
– Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
• Hiking the Tariff Higher
– Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law (1922) | Tariff Walls a
Game Two Could Play! *
#3: What weakness existed beneath the surface of
the general 1920s prosperity? How did these
weaknesses help cause the Great Depression?
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The Stench of Scandal
“Silent Cal” Coolidge
Frustrated Farmers
A Three-Way Race for the White House in 1824
Foreign-Policy Flounderings
Unraveling the Debt Knot *
• Calvin Coolidge, Gentleman
Angler
• Coolidge “was a real
conservative, a fundamentalist
in religion, in the economic and
social order, and in fishing,” said
his successor, Herbert Hoover,
who had a fly fisherman’s
disdain for Coolidge’s baitfishing tactics—and for his
predecessor’s laissez-faire
politics as well.
#4: The three Republican presidents of the 1920s
are usually lumped together as essentially identical in
outlook. Is that an accurate way to view them? What
differences, if any, in style and policy, existed among
Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover? *
#5: How did Hoover attempt to balance his belief in
rugged individualism with the economic necessities of
the time? Why do historians today tend to see
Hoover as a more tragic figure, rather than a
heartless or cruel president? Do you agree?
• President Hoover’s First Moves
• Great Crash End the Golden Twenties
• Hooked on the Horn of Plenty
• Rugged Times for Rugged Individualism
• Hoover: Pioneer of the New Deal
• Routing the Bonus Army in Washington *
#6: What foreign policy issues did Hoover face while
at the same time battling economic distress at home?
• Japanese Militarists Attack China
• Hoover Pioneers the Good Neighbor Policy *
#7: Which economic policies of the 1920s and
1930s helped cause and deepen the Depression?
Since the depression soon became worldwide, did
the Depression’s fundamental causes lie inside or
outside the United States? *