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Republicans in Power
Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding
• Wins the election of 1920, despite much of
the population being dissatisfied with the
candidates
– Eugene V. Debs wins almost 1 million votes while
in prison!
• Focus in office was on the economy
• Ohio gang – appointment of the “good ole
boys”
• Teapot Dome scandal
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
• Vice President of Warren Harding
• Foreign policy promotes peace and economic
growth abroad?
• Compromise between imperialists and
isolationists
• Disarmament
• Washington Conference and Five-Power Naval
Treaty
• Kellogg-Briand Pact – Tried to outlaw warfare
The Election of 1928
• Republican Herbert
Hoover
• “A chicken in every pot
and a car in every
garage”
• Wins by a landslide
The Ford Model T
• Henry Ford founds the
Ford Motor Company in
1903
• Low cost, durable, could
be driven on any
surface, reliable, easy to
fix and maintain
The Model T
Ford’s Methods
• New and innovative
manufacturing methods
– The assembly line
• Immense stress caused many
workers to quit on a regular
basis working on the assembly
line
• Ford offers 8 hour work days
and a rate of $5 per day – a
high rate at the time
– Because of these quality
working conditions, working
who joined unions, smoked,
and drank could be fired
Car Craze
• Mass production transforms
the American auto industry
– Cars are not just for the rich
• With your country partners,
complete the Automobile
production worksheet on
the back of your notesheet
Business Booms
• Many other industries grow during the 1920’s
– Telephone companies, electrical companies, home
appliances
– Food-processing plants produced canned goods,
grocery stores open, department stores
• Consumer society –
• Installment plans –
Selling to the People
• “The American
conception of advertising
is to arouse desires and
stimulate wants, to make
people dissatisfied with
the old and out of date…
to send them out to work
harder to get the latest
model – whether that
model be an icebox or a
rug, or a new home.”