Lesson #27 - The Politics of Normalcy

Open Ended

Listen to "Harding, You're the Man for Us," Warren G. Harding's campaign song for the 1920 presidential election. Respond to the following:

1. Write three adjectives that describe the song's mood.

Open Ended

Listen to "Harding, You're the Man for Us," Warren G. Harding's campaign song for the 1920 presidential election. Respond to the following:

2. Based on the song, what do you think Harding's top priority as president will be?

Open Ended

Listen to "Harding, You're the Man for Us," Warren G. Harding's campaign song for the 1920 presidential election. Respond to the following:

3. Would this song make you want to vote for Harding? Why?

Dropdown

Warren G. Harding’s campaign focused on a return to ​

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, promising to steer the nation away from ​

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and concentrate on ​

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.

Multiple Choice

Using the map provided answer the following question:

How many electoral votes did the state of Ohio have during the Election of 1920?

• 24

• 38

• 8

• 15

Multiple Choice

Using the map provided answer the following question:

Which candidate did the state of Ohio vote for in the Election of 1920?

• Warren Harding

• James Cox

• Donald Trump

• Joe Biden

Match

Match each Republican president to his economic policies.

• repealed wartime taxes & reduced federal spending

• further reduced taxes & cut his own white house budget

• promoted associalationism in an attempt to end poverty

Warren Harding

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

• Warren Harding

• Calvin Coolidge

• Herbert Hoover

Multiple Choice

Using the map provided answer the following questions about the Dawes Plan:

Which country made the initial loan payment to start the cycle of the Dawes Plan?

• United States of America

• France

• Germany

• Great Britain

Multiple Choice

Using the map provided answer the following questions about the Dawes Plan:

Which country received the loan payment from the United States?

• Canada

• France

• Germany

• Great Britain

Multiple Choice

Which of the following accurately characterizes American foreign engagement during the interwar period?

• The Senate dedicated itself to becoming a part of the League of Nations.

• The United States was unwilling to take steps towards disarmament and ensuring peace.

• The United States turned its attention away from Europe, and increased its role in Latin American affairs.

• The United States promoted disarmament and the end of war, and reduced its foreign involvement in Latin America.

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The Republican economic policies of the 1920s led to an ​

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of business. Henry Ford's ​

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technique raised workers' wages and lowered costs of cars. The Republican presidents ​

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consolidation of businesses, which made already big businesses ​

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. However, ​

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and unskilled workers often still lived in poverty with hard working conditions.

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Options (6)

faced the Teapot Dome Scandel over bribery in his cabinet

encouraged naval disarmament among world powers

chose not to run for reelection

signed the Kellogg-Brian Pact into law

toured Latin America & rejected the Roosevelt Corollary

did not send troops to Latin America when revolutions broke out

Match each action or event to the correct Republican president.

Warren Harding

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

Match

Match the following terms with their correct definitions.

• an economic system that relies on private ownership of property, competition for profits, and the forces of supply and demand to produce needed goods and services and that discourages government regulation; also known as capitalism

• a government policy of not taking part in economic and political alliances or relations with other countries

• a political scandal in which U.S. secretary of the interior Albert Fall leased national oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming, to two companies that had bribed him

• an agreement made among most nations of the world in 1928 to try to settle international disputes by peaceful means rather than war

• a commonly used daily measure of stock prices

free enterprise system

isolationism

Teapot Dome scandal

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Dow Jones Industrial Average

• free enterprise system

• isolationism

• Teapot Dome scandal

• Kellogg-Briand Pact

• Dow Jones Industrial Average

Match

Match the following key terms with their correct definition.

• a 1920s get-rich-quick scheme in which real estate developers sold many Florida coast lots, some undesirable, to speculators in other parts of the country, causing prices to raise rapidly

• developed by banker Charles Dawes, a plan for Germany to repay reparations after World War I by receiving loans from the United States

• the concept of life as it was before World War I, when the nation could focus on its own domestic prosperity, which Republican candidate Warren G. Harding promoted during the 1920 presidential election campaign and which helped him win the presidency

• a 1921 international conference, including representatives of Britain, France, Italy, and Japan and hosted by the United States in Washington, D.C., to discuss naval disarmament and resulting in agreements to discuss power conflicts in the Pacific, to reduce or limit the size of each nation's navy, to regulate submarine use, and to ban poison gas use

Florida land boom

Dawes Plan

Return to Normalcy

Washington Naval Conference

• Florida land boom

• Dawes Plan

• Return to Normalcy

• Washington Naval Conference