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PRESIDENTS – Roaring Twenties, 1920-1929
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29. Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923
"Dark Horse" candidate
Republican
VP - Calvin Coolidge
Secretary of State - Charles Evans Hughes
Domestic Issues/Events:
1. “Return to Normalcy”
2. Margaret Sanger founds the American Birth
Control League, 1921
3. Immigration Act, 1921.
4. Teapot Dome Scandal, 1923.
5. Harding dies, 1923
Foreign Policy:
1. Washington Conference, 1921-1922
30. Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
Republican
VP – Dawes
Secretary of State - Frank Kellogg
Domestic Issues/Events:
1. “The business of America is business.”
2. The Scopes "Monkey" Trial”, 1925.
3. Charles Lindbergh flies from New York to
Paris solo, 1927.
4. Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927.
5. Immigration Law, 1927.
Foreign Policy:
1. Dawes Plan, 1924
2. Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928
31. Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933
Republican
VP – Curtis
Secretary of State - Henry L. Stimson
Domestic Issues/Events:
1. National Origins Immigration Act, 1929.
2. Agricultural Market Act – establish Federal
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Farm Board, 1929
Stock market Crash, 1929.
Panic and Depression, 1929.
Hawley-Smoot tariff, 1930.
Federal Home Loan Bank Act, 1932.
Public Works Project, 1932.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
1932.
9. Bonus Army, 1932.
10. Twentieth Amendment, 1933
11. Twenty-first Amendment, 1933
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Foreign Policy:
1. Young Plan, 1929
2. London Naval Treaty, 1930
3. Japan invades Manchuria, 1931
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