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Table of Contents Return of Normalcy Scoop: What is the ¨return of normalcy¨ promised by President Harding, and will it be good for America?
Deregulation Scoop: Has deregulation under the republican presidents benefited America?
Foreign Policies Scoop: Have the foreign policy goal of the Republican presidents made America safer, and is war over?
The Red Scare Scoop: Have the republican president's gone too far to combat the red scare?
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Return of Normalcy Scoop: What is the ¨return of normalcy¨ promised by President Harding, and will it be good for America? Tyler Lambert Republican President Warren G. Harding won the 1920 election by a landslide vote with the promise of returning America to normalcy. Since most Americans weren't happy with the recent job of Woodrow Wilson and his idea of The League of Nations, they thought having a President that wanted to have a Pre-World WarㅣAmerica would erase that idea. Americans also liked Harding because he use to sit on his front porch giving short speeches promising for a better America, which made him seem like regular small town guy. Harding was doing a good job living up to his promises by repealing wartime taxes and created a federal agency to assist veterans, unfortunately, he went too far to help his business friends and became involved in one scandal after another. Warren G. Harding wanted a Pre-World WarㅣAmerica once again, meaning he wanted to have peace and quiet in America and thought others should experience that as well, he spread his idea of Normalcy by giving short speeches on the front porch of his house. He thought this idea would be good for America because it would reduce violence and would give America a better chance of staying out of war.
Isolationism, Nativism, and the Laissez-Faire is what Normalcy also meant to Harding. Isolationism is a policy stating that America stayed out of the interests and affairs of other countries. Nativism is when there is more interest towards Native born or established inhabitants against immigrants of a land. And, the Laissez-Faire is an idea that big government stays out of the way of small business. Overall, I believe Harding’s opinion on returning America to normalcy is a good idea. What it did for America was keep America out of affairs with other countries so we wouldn't have any sort of problems. He repealed war taxes, kept government away from small business, and created a federal agency to assist veterans.
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Deregulation Scoop: Has deregulation under Republican presidents in the 1920’s benefitted the United States? Gerardo Hernandez
Deregulation is a process of removing regulations or a set of rules. Its helped mostly people to start or create new business . There is also coolidge which worked to cut taxes and eliminate unnecessary spending. Deregulation has helped businesses by removing rules or regulations that businesses and people don’t have to follow anymore. The businesses can do more things that they can’t do if they had rules. It also helped people didn’t have a set of rules or regulations to get a job, so one in every eight people had a good job.
One of every eight Americans workers had a job related to many industries such as auto, steel, rubber, and oil industry. Also big businesses were getting bigger due to a wave of consolidation. Before 1910, there were hundreds of companies building cars in the United States. Later during the 1920s, a handful of holding companies bought up nearly 5,000 small utility companies.
The assembly line that is named after henry ford has helped in different ways to america. It has helped mass production especially by lower the price of vehicles from nine hundred dollars to two hundred dollars. Which that helped a lot so then at least or more than half of the Americans in the united states owned a vehicle. Also it helped people’s lives by lower their work hours from fourteen hours a day to six hours a day. Another reason is it helped their wages went up from two dollars and forty cents to fifteen dollars.
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Foreign Policies Scoop: Have the foreign policy goal of the Republican presidents made America safer, and is war over? Edmund Xie
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the war was over the league of nations was formed and many things happened with foreign policies, like disarmament, isolationism, and the kellogg-briand pact. Isolationism was a policy in the 1920’s that attempted to isolate the U.S. From diplomatic affairs of other countries by avoiding foreign entanglements, and imposing high import tariffs(taxes). While ww1 happened the U.S senate tried to stop the U.S from going to war. The naval washington conference, also called the washington arms conference. Was called by U.S President Warren G. Harding and was held in washington D.C. it was attended by 9 nations the U.S, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal. It was the first international meeting held in the U.S and was about arms control and disarmament. Resulted in three major treaties, four power treaty, five power treaty, and nine power treaty. Preserved peace during the 1920s, but was not renewed.
In conclusion of WWI, the Allied powers had wanted to strip Germany and its allies of military powers and any ability to build military strength. This was attempted through the Treaty of Versailles (US version). Although, this was the first disarmament of a modern nation, it’s to be proven difficult. Even then, the European nations wanted more. They wanted Germany’s military influences to completely obliterated, realistically, only the US demands came through. The good things about the foreign policies is that it kept the US out of foreign entanglements due to isolationism. The conference was a complete fail,but if it was successful it could have kept peace for mari peace. The bad things is pretty much the naval conference itself, because it was a complete failure because they didn't invite the main/key countries, russia and germany. In the overall result in the foreign policies were more of the bad than the good.
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The Red Scare Scoop: Have the republican president's gone too far to combat the red scare? Rodney Courtney
There was a red scare in the 1920, it was from people being scared of communism. There were two men, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti who tried to flee to mexico during the draft. On April 28, 1919 there was a bomb that was found, and then after that there was many more that were showing up in the homes on congressman's door. In total they had found 35 bombs. During the 1920 there was a parliament act passed on British glass, lead, paints, paper, and tear. People that were not able to get them any more would boycott the British goods.
There was a poster that would say that advocators would end up getting ownership of properties, because of the warfare on reds.All republicans are criminals. It also said that there was about 20,000 Liberty bond owners that will lose if the soviet is established. The red scare was when the Cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States started to get more intense. Communist were called the Reds because of their red flag. I do not think they have gone to far because it was a war.
In the 1920s people were trying to change all of the public schools so they would have the same language. They also thought that we can not have multiple flags in our country, we can only have one. They would say that we can not have the red flag and that it must be destroyed. True Liberty is only found in the laws and it’s the only place that we are able to find it. Congress wanted to become one whole and solid nation, so they wanted all of these things.
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Citations “History Alive Pursuing American Ideals.” History Alive! Textbook | Pursuing American Ideals, 10 Nov. 2017, shop.teachtci.com/school-textbooks/programs-34-history-alive-textbook-p ursuing-american-ideals-high-school/.
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