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| Slide 0 | The 1920s |
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| Slide 1 | From the bp In the 1920s, the postwar recession ended Assembly line = cheaper autos Booming market leads to borrow money to buy stock Radio encourages tourism and created new business |
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| Slide 2 | TOPIC 25-A Explain economic, social, and political effects of Prohibition. Compare and contrast the presidential administrations of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. |
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| Slide 3 | Economic Effects of Prohibition illegal market for the production, trafficking and sale of alcohol. economy took a major hit, thanks to lost tax revenue and legal jobs. Prohibition nearly ruined the country`s brewing industry. |
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| Slide 4 | Social Effects of Prohibition Deaths caused by cirrhosis of the liver in men dropped Contaminated liquor contributed to more than 50,000 deaths and many cases of blindness and paralysis. Alcohol consumption during Prohibition declined between 30 and 50 percent. By the end of the 1920s there were more alcoholics and illegal drinking establishments than before Prohibition Rise in organized crime |
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| Slide 5 | Political Effects of Prohibition Bootlegging No means nor desire to enforce Corruption organized crime |
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| Slide 6 | Harding Administration "return to normalcy" Landslide victory Scandals! Teapot Dome Attny Gen. accepted bribes Often considered one of worst presidents Few good things Treaty to repay Columbia for Panama Pardon of Eugene Debs & other protesters |
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| Slide 7 | Coolidge Administration Harding dies, VP Coolidge is Pres "Cool Cal" or "Silent Cal" Restored integrity to WH "The business of Americans is business" Lower taxes Spoke for civil rights Economic prosperity Kellogg-Briand Pact 1929 |
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| Slide 8 | Hoover Administration Efficiency Movement Encouraged volunteerism over regulation End Roosevelt corollary & reduce intervention in Latin Amer. Called for a halt to reparation payments from Germany "Hoover Moratorium" Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930 Depression hit |
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| Slide 9 | Similarities Among the Republican Administrations of the 1920s Laissez-faire economic policy Pro-business People responsible for themselves Small gov`t Generally isolationist foreign policy Conciliatory Utilized new media to communicate radio, film |
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