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Post World War I WEBQUEST
Warren G Harding
1.) What 9 things does Harding argue the United States needs?
2.) How did Harding feel about joining the League of Nations?
3.) Once in office, what were things that Congress easily convinced Harding to accept?, or sign into
law?
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1.) What was Harding before he was president? What state did he belong to?
2.) What made this election unique form other elections?
3.) How is Harding ranked among presidents?
Calvin Coolidge:
The Prosperity of the Coolidge Age:
1.) What did Americans now own? How did this change the marketing world?
2.) What does ‘thrift’ mean?
The Coolidge Presidency:
1.) What was Coolidge’s great policy concern?
2.) What three things did Coolidge plan to change?
The Coolidge Administration
1.) Who was Andrew Mellon? How long did he serve office?
2.) What did his Revenue Acts do?
3.) Who was Herbert Hoover?
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1.) What did Coolidge do before he was Secretary of Commerce that earned him recognition?
2.) What pictures do you see that depict Coolidge as a “simple man?”
3.) Who benefited from Coolidge’s economic success? Who was at a disadvantage?
4.) Why didn’t Coolidge run for presidency again?
Andrew Mellon: Secretary of Treasury
1.) What companies (before he was Secretary of the Treasury) did he create? (name 2)
2.) What three facts must a “sound tax policy” take into consideration? (According to Andrew Mellon):
IN YOUR OWN WORDS
3.) What has Mellon been blamed for? (3 paragraph).
Herbert Hoover: Secretary of Commerce
1.) List three qualities about Hoover before he was Secretary of Commerce.
2.) What did Hoover regulate?
3.) What was the purpose of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
4.) What role did Hoover want commercial to play in the United States and abroad?
5.) What was Hoover’s stance on Prohibition?
Isolationism
1.) What does isolationism mean? IN YOUR OWN WORDS
2.) As written in Common Sense, what was Thomas Paine’s attitude toward global involvement and
alliances with France?
3.) What do the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Spanish American War all have in common?
4.) Which two countries eventually push the United States to become involved in world affairs?
5.) After World War I, describe 2 ways in which the United States remained an isolationist nation.
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1.) What was the Kellog-Briand Act of 1928?