The Economist
Table of Contents Table of Contents Page 3- Editorial
Page 4- Foreign Policy
Page 5- Deregulation
Page 6-Red Scare
Page 7- Bibliography
Editorial In the last 10 years the democratic era was on the rise. What we want to know is, was this benefitting the United States? In 1920 Harding was elected, he was very focused on rebuilding America’s economy, returning us to isolationism, and bringing us back to “normalcy”. While effective in all three of his goals his time in office was marked with corruption and a lack of efficiency. In 1923 after the tragic death of William Harding, president Coolidge was elected. He was not a strong isolationist, however he believed in staying out of foreign relations. The Coolidge administration did not support joining the League of Nations, however it did support the Kellogg-Briand Pact. The last president of the 1920’s was Herbert Hoover, elected in 1928, who had a laissez-faire way of thinking. He was president during the beginning of the Great Depression, and saw the presidency as an opportunity to improve American conditions by encouraging volunteerism. He also went on a goodwill tour of Latin America, and delivered multiple speeches which stressed his plans to reduce American military and political interference in Latin America and their affairs. All three of the presidents of the era had very different views about the issues facing America. They were all effective in achieving their set goals but did not benefit the american people. They focused more on the economy than the average worker and not on the life of the average American worker. Without working to improve the life of the workers they were good for the economy they hurt the public more.
Foreign Policy Have the foreign policy goals of After World War one many Americans Republican presidents made it safer, became isolationist.Harding and and is war over? Coolidge both believe in lowering The answer is no. On August 27th 1928 taxes,using kless government, using there was a pact called the Kellogg higher tariffs, and pro business. Brand that outlawed war in the Harding and Coolidge we’re both hands United States against other countries, off presidents. Coolidge believed that and wanted to prevent more we should have a scandal free interracial wars administration that restored faith in Isolationism is the second cause of the the republican party.Harding promised United States not being “safe� the to go back to isolationism, so that United States is really focused on America can go back to the good days avoiding political alliances with other when we focused on ourselves and not countries. The Red Scare increased the other countries. Harding believes that distrust and resentment that many America need to not heroics but Americans felt about immigrants. healing not nostrums but normality, America kept to themselves and chose President Harding has no judgment and to not participate in foreign wars to also desires to lower taxes and wants to decrease the amount of immigrants use less government. coming into the country.
Deregulation We need help! Coolidge’s unrealistic policies have put us in debt. With such loose policies, there was a lot of fraud in the stock market that made us to lose our money. Hoover made no rules against large businesses, so monopolies made our businesses go bankrupt. Coolidge said banks could invested in the stock market instead of our small companies, so when the stock market crashed we lost all of our money in the investments. Deregulation strengthened monopolies, weakened our business, and lost our money to a stock market corrupt with speculation
It allowed people to open loans and sell worthless land without government interaction. Some say deregulation was good because we developed new technology in the process, women gained rights, and speculation sports became popular.Without the Laissez Faire, women would never have gotten the opportunity to vote. We wouldn’t have washing machines, radios, or refrigerators. Deregulation didn’t benefit the Unites States becuase the problems it made were much greater than than the benefits.
This cartoon represents Hoover’s Prosperity as a storm, or a tornado. Uncle Sam represents the United state’s nationalism. This image portrays that Hoover’s idea of prosperity is lowering our nationalism and negatively affecting the U.S.
Republican Presidents and the Red Scare Many Americans believe that the U.S. should accept any immigrants, no matter who they are or how potentially dangerous they could be. Have they no respect for their own safety? It seems many people have already forgotten the terror of the Great War, thinking that everyone has already returned to good, friendly terms. This is outrageous. We are not safe, for the war has just recently ended, and Germany is still angry. If they had not realized how many people of both sides had died in this horrible conflict, we would still be fighting to this day.
Until we are absolutely sure that the conflict has blown over, we cannot be as welcoming as we were. What if a single man with evil intentions enters our States? He could let in his comrades, then begin destroying our country from the inside! We can’t afford to take any risks, for the good of our safety and freedom. Be careful who you trust in this time of hate!We must be thankful for the presidents that have kept us safe and sound among our own trustworthy American people, keeping out the resentful Germans and their spies. These presidents are honorable Republican men who care for our safety and our liberty. Those who do not believe in them, the Democrats, shall soon see that these great men even care to protect those that do not share their views, as long as they carry the American spirit of our forefathers. We must stay united, as our states have become, and we shall flourish!
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