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
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
