Summary The Changing Political Environment 1917-80 facts Edexcel History "in search of the American Dream"

the changing political environment
1917-80




Rise and decline of republicanism to 1933:
-​ Wilson was a Democrat who left a poor image of them to Americans due to his
presidency failures
-​ he drafted 5 million unwilling men
-​ unemployment rose to 950,000
-​ abandoned isolationism and laissez-faire through LON and offering aid to
Germany
-​ He was followed by 3 Republicans
-​ Harding 1921-23
-​ warm, photogenic, charismatic and good PR
-​ pro-isolationist and laissez-faire
-​ ended railroad strikes
-​ Sheppard–Towner Maternity Act
-​ reduced federal expenditure from $5000 million in 1920 to $3373 million in 1922
-​ Coolidge 1923-29
-​ “Silent Cal” introverted, serious but very hand-coding, referenced Bible in
speeches, met with press a lot
-​ pro-isolationist and laissez-faire
-​ reduced national debt from $22.3 billion in 1923 to $16.9 billion in 1929
-​ reluctantly sent aid to Mississippi floods in 1927
-​ failed to help farmers with overproduction
-​ Hoover 1929-33
-​ he believed in rugged individualism which prioritised self-reliance and
improvement​