Table of contents ❖ Page 3- Normalcy today ❖ Page 4- What is the red scare ❖ Page 5- Herbert Hoover campaign poster ❖ Page 6- Deregulation ❖ Page 7- Champaign poster ❖ Page 8- Prosperity and Presidents ❖ Page 10- Advertisement ❖ Page 11- Republicans…..YES?...NO? ❖ Page12- Bibliography ❖ Page 13- Bibliography continued
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Normalcy Today What is normalcy, normalcy is life how it always should have been, normal. What do you think of when you think of normal? Today our president, Warren G. Harding, has promised to return us to normalcy. You’ll read about what did he propose what normalcy is, and did it work. So what did he propose. He wanted the country to go back to a more simpler state, where everyone has what they need they all have jobs they all have a car and has enough food. His direct quote “our supreme task is the resumption of our onward normal ways. We must strive for normalcy to reach stability” President Harding's WWI peace statement. He also is more focused on our country more than any other because all the other countries could hate us but if we are superior to them then they will fear us. What really is normalcy. It is peaceful life, things like music clubs speakeasies. President harding wants to put 2 cars in every garage and a chicken in every pot. He also wanted to have cooks housewives teachers blacks clerks errand boys in wall street trying to help there family get money. So why is harding really proposing this. He wants to normalize the US after the war we just had. One way he did this was reducing taxes and give people more money to use to buy food and invest in the stock market to help their families. So i think that president harding has not returned us to normalcy because the stock market is about to crash. People are hungry and they want alcohol to the point where they are getting it illegally.
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Red Scare...Making you scared? The red scare is the government responding to the communist threat and the government should continue to crack down on strikes and prevent communism. That a threat was posed by the communists in the United States and became known as the Red Scare. Many people got feared by communists and there was this one general named Mitchell Palmer and he was known for causing the red scare. The government also got crizited and almost got overthrown. The United States got virtually paralyzed by the Red Scare. Many things caused the Red scare to happen and lots of people became feared, and many low wages struck to over half of the workers, and over six thousand men and women got arrested. Many Americans got feared by the anarchists . The main reason the Red Scare started is because of the fear. As the cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s. As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare. Communists were often referred to as “Reds� for their allegiance to the red Soviet flag.
The first Red Scare began following the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917 and the intensely patriotic years of World War I as anarchist and left-wing social agitation aggravated national, social, and political tensions. Political scientist, and former member of the Communist Party Murray B. Levin wrote that the Red Scare was "a nationwide anti-radical hysteria provoked by a mounting fear and anxiety that a Bolshevik revolution in America was imminent—a revolution that would change Church, home, marriage, civility, and the American way of Life" Alissa Zelenjakovic
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Is deregulation being regulated? The thesis is how is deregulation affecting businesses and consumers ? Deregulation was bad for business and consumers because then the government only focused on committed only focus on banning alcohol leads to growth of labor problems . The first problem is they were working and making naps communist conspiracy hid in 1224 when britain’s young prince of wales
In 1920 labores was doing well in world world 1 because the countries aneries overall not prosperity labor unions not successful during the twenties there wont many rules protecting unions labor child los didn't even pass Employers refused the raise wages and welfare of the war and countries . and as a public complained about the
My second reason is that the law in 1920s had turned a simple pleasure of shipping a tot of whiskey into a federal the first talkie arrived in 1927 . By 1930 the client had flicked out and the talkies were pulling in 90 million people rewers a week The three one is the cotton or tobacco he raised to his white android his income for the remainder amount to less than $350 dollars on may 5th 1920 the professed on archists named nicola sacco . On october 24 1929 came to the event that though few realized it brought the decade to a elge It is common for young men and women to rebel the axiom of the decade eat drink and be good . Proabition after bolshevik revolution took place in russia in 1917 a communist party was estbristed in the united states .
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Prosperity & Presidents An increase in the purchasing of stocks has resulted in Lately, as you may have noticed the Us is become a rich
not only sizeable private equity investors profiting from
executive in comparison to the other states‌. So look
America's free market economy but has also given
around you and think for a second what has changed in
smaller industries an opportunity to grow. This rise in the
the last 10 years. If you answer was Everything you are
investment of stocks has caused the price of the US
right. Our world today is rapidly changing, we have
dollar to inflate and thus helped our economy to grow.
experienced a war and grown out of it as a prosperous
Thus the stock market is one of the contributing factors
country. We live in a more developed country with
to prosperity.
machines that clean our floors and wash our dishes, companies that produce up to a 100 cars a day and with
Electricity has impacted the lives of citizens and flipped
catalogs and radios that give us all the news we need.
it around completely, our fast-paced assembly line has
The economics of our country was completely destroyed
now become even faster and is electrically powered.
after the war but we stood strong and now live happy
Industries workers have long night shifts as they can
lives as citizens of a free country. The stock market, the
work even in the dark now and produce more goods. The
development of electricity and mass production of goods
women in our household now do not spend most of their
have all contributed to economic prosperity in our
time cleaning up but have washing machines, vacuums
country.
and dishwashers do it for them. They now go out and work and help support the family financially which
Our stock market today is growing at a rate that is
benefits the economy as it decreases the percentage of
unimaginable. Our GDP has increased from the 69
unemployed citizens. Companies now use radio and
billion it was in 1921 to massive 93 billion it is today.
television to help market their products and this has
Stocks are the best way to make some quick money, and
boosted product demand and thus resulted in an
now the stock market has a place for everyone and not
economic gain. Overall electricity is a factor that results
only the wealthy citizens of our country. Since we have
in prosperity.
been introduced to the concept of credits many people
Mass production as mentioned is the idea of the genius
now buy stocks for 10% of the price and have a
Henry Ford and this has implemented the lives of all
stock-broker pay the rest at that time, then they pay the
workers and consumers equally. Now workers do not
stock-broker back in small amounts. Mass production has
have to spend hours at the factory to meet the demands of
also been beneficial to the stock market as it caused a rise
consumers and can easily perform their task and have
in salaries, leaving people with more money to invest in
shorter days at work. Workers also do not need to be
the stock market.
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It ensures MASS production as the name suggests and several large companies we see today are based on this concept. Thus we can say that this was the reason people have lifestyle changes, due to the availability of goods at a faster pace. An example of mass production promoting growth is seen with the rise of Henry Ford's company, the place where you bought your car from last month. The company is based on only mass production and has grown to be what it is today just within the last couple of years. And yes, your wife was right, the goods (durable goods) are much cheaper nowadays than a few years ago because of the reduced production costs. Thus as we can see this final factor also plays an important role in the prosperity of our country. The last few years, the United States has been under the
In conclusion we cannot say that all groups of Americans have benefitted from the republican presidents. The prosperity of our country is the effect of the Republican presidents and has also been coined the term of “Coolidge prosperity” in respect of president Coolidge who has helped businesses grow with his non- interference policy, however in spite of the country growing economically many groups of Americans have not and they continue to live the lives they used to. If we want to have a complete nation prosper we must have all groups of people from all backgrounds prosper first and then only will the US become a stronger nation.
governance of republic presidents and this has had varied effects on the entire community, the rich citizens have seen revolution and in their lives, factory workers and
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others living in the cities have also experienced this to a large extent. However, the farmers of the country have been at a slow decline in terms of industrialization and “the boom” we felt has not reached them as yet. Their lives are still the same as they were before and they don’t have access to electricity. The middle-class workers of the community have had a positive impact from the boom, with salary increases and less working hours. The rich executives of society have not only benefited but also seen major changes in their lives, they have become even richer and their large companies provide us all stocks to buy and exchange.
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Republicans…..YES?...NO? Our presidents in the last few years have had several impacts on the US as a nation. They have had effects on our country like no presidents of the past because of the developed nation we live in today, however, the positive feel of this effect isn’t uniform and is only for the people living in cities who are rich enough to buy all the new things available. Our country's farmers, workers, and low-income earners have all been left behind in the “boom” we feel in the cities. Our presidents have not been able to help the farmers of the nation, haven’t been able to provide the entire country with electricity and due to the non-interference policy of our presidents with economics, there are monopolies today have established control over the nation. President Coolidge has instead increased tariff prices and not even agreed to join the league of nations. Thus proving that all of our presidents have been leaving the nation with a negative impact.
The farmers of our nation have been left behind and instead of the economic growth, we have felt in the cities they have been declining in economically. They still have the lives we had 10 years ago- no electricity, no technology to make farming easier and still the same Christian beliefs. During the war, we had our farmers did very well and sold food to a lot of European countries, however now that the war has decreased the European farmers can go back to growing their grains. So know our farmers have a lot of goods now and no work to do. This has to lead to economic decline and our presidents have not been able to help these farmers, they have not even tried due to all the policies of non- interference that prevent them from doing so. Our presidents today have ignored the needs of us citizens as a whole and have lost their voice. Thus proving them to have a negative impact on the country as a WHOLE.
All of the presidents in our time have been republican and demonstrated very similar policies. Issues are not greatly overlooked by the Democrats, who are also divided and play major roles in the political system of the time. As in today many of the recent presidents and the one we have now is not really doing anything like ignoring many of the things we could do to make the United States better.
One president that tried to help low-income people and frankly people with any income was Warren G. Harding. Harding tried to give people a normal life and help them out by giving them products and goods to help them live. He helped get rid of national debt by cutting taxes. But there also have been problems with his administration. Like the fact that his cabinet accepted bribes from oil companies to drill on federal land. This was also the first time a U.S. cabinet member served jail time. 11
One way that they have succeeded is in 1920 laborers were doing well in world 1 because the countries armies needed a lot of goods. Overall, labor unions are not being very successful right now. Many government rules protecting unions and child even pass. Working conditions generally got worse instead of helping workers the government focuses on prohibition Thus we can say that this Republican presidents have not benefited the country but added to the current issues we face, our citizens have had to struggle to grow and this isn't a sign of equal growth. The Republican presidents haven't succeeded. COLE, ALISSA, ADVIKA and ALEX
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