Warren G Harding Beliefs And Beliefs

During the election year of 1920, America wanted to relax and enjoy winning the war and American life, so people rallied behind Warren G. Harding of Ohio who promised to restore “normalcy” to the country. Though seen as a good man, he was corrupt, did not have strong principles, and scandals arose in his 3rd year of presidency. In 1923, he died of food poisoning while making a trip to the west coast to give speeches. Harding’s vice president, Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, took over and was very shy and laid-back approach to the presidency which was good because the economy was doing fine. He won again in 1924. However, there were still issues occurring in the nation such as the Prohibition, the decline of morality, and the rise of atheism.

Who do you think Warren Harding was? I’m gonna tell you about his: family, education, birth, settlement, politics, and about when he was a senator.

During Harding's term, a couple of people on his administration were accused and arrested for bribery and corruption. The most well-known scandal was the Teapot Dome scandal were the Secretary of the Interior was arrested for accepting bribes to release government land to oil companies for their own personal reasons. Harding did good for America and its people, but because of the scandals he was not directly involved in, his good was no longer noticed. Harding did not last for long in his terms because he died due to illness, but there were speculations that he was murdered by his wife or that he killed himself. The next Republican president that caught the nation's eye was Calvin Coolidge. Calvin really got noticed when he used the National Guard to break up a strike in Boston. Coolidge reduced the federal debt, lowered income tax rates (mostly for the wealthy) with 3 Revenue Acts and began construction of a national highway system that was very useful for trading and such. The last Republican president of the 1920s was Herbert Hoover. Herbert Hoover was with what he liked to call “associationalism.” This meant seeing which association nationwide was first in commerce and industry. He enjoyed the association of business and government together. Hoover was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash in 1929. Hoover continued to say that the worst was over and that the economy was strong enough to hop up until the market was back on track, but he was completely wrong about this because a worldwide depression took place. The depression caused a huge impact on the American people. Families were unable to pay rent, lived off of potatoes, crackers, some even searched through garbage cans. Marriage was delayed, reproduction rate also decreased. The most impacted class was the farmers and the agricultural sector. Crop prices hit rock bottom and due to farmers trying to compensate for

In the years following World War I, the United States was comfortable with returning to its prior state of traditional values. In the government, this was reflected as the 1920 election was won by Republican candidate Harding, who ran with the slogan “A Return to Normalcy.” Americans simply wanted to recuperate after the intense global conflict that had just ended; however, changing and new attitudes were at battle with their desire of normalcy. It was movements like “New Morality” that contested traditional stances of those who sought security in their lives. As a result of the constant battle between old and new values, tensions were mounting between citizens. The Roaring Twenties was a time of innovation in American life; however, tensions surfaced between traditional and new values, shown through court rooms, national politics, grass roots campaigns, and media revolutions, due to a rise in differing theological views, women’s fight for independence, racial conflict, technology, and advertising.

Some have said that Abraham Lincoln's beliefs are a mystery. He himself has never proclaimed his beliefs but a lot can be determined by his actions and words. Through observation, there have been quite a lot of conclusions to his faith. Some conclusions are: skepticism, deism, Christianity, theism, fatalism, and even atheism. It's an on-going debate for the conclusion to his faith although we won't be able to ever prove exactly what his beliefs were since he never made a profession, there are many facts leading to his belief in a personal savior.

Out of the many speeches given by President Woodrow Wilson regarding World War One, two in particular serve as a sort of showcase of the changing role of the United States in global politics during the early 20th century. The first is Wilson’s Address to the Senate of the United States: “A World League for Peace” (“World League”). The second is Wilson’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Conditions of Peace, also known as his 14 Points. Although the themes of these speeches have similar ideals such as the quest for self-determination and multiple countries uniting to prevent aggression, the proceedings at Brest-Litovsk make 14 Points speech both a continuation and a shift from the “World League” one. Wilson’s 14 Points speech reflects the commitment of the United States to enter the war and enforce its own agenda (as well as that of the other Allies), a drastic change from its earlier neutrality.

The 1920 presidential election proved to be memorable as well as historically significant for a number of reasons. This time period is surrounded by important events in American history. It falls directly after World War I, starts the roaring twenties, and leads the United States into the Great Depression. Warren G. Harding was elected president over all other candidates, with promises of life going back to normal conditions. At this point in time, American citizens were desperate for one thing: their old “normal” life. The election of 1920 was important because our nation had just gotten out of World War I, the vote ended in a landslide, and Harding changed the United States for the worse.

The American Presidency is one of the most criticized political institutions in the world. The American President is held to standards higher than any person can reasonably be expected to uphold and even the slightest mistake on their part can be remembered forever as a historic failure. Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States and is often considered to be one of the “top ten” greatest presidents, yet even he is not immune to historical criticism. While he may have been a very successful president he had his fair share of failures. Two of his chief failures as president were his rather disastrous policies dealing with racial issues and his pushing through of the 1917 espionage act.

In the 1920s, Americans were trying to figure out what was everyone’s role in society. During this time women started to take on bigger jobs then housekeeping and African Americans are finally standing up for their race. Once 1929 hit, Herbert Hoover, America’s newest president, was viewed as an ‘American Superhero’ at that time because of everything he promised society; however, America gets hit by the Great Depression leaving society in a hole. While banking systems were unstable and overproduction were leaving people bankrupt, Herbert Hoover was blaming Europe and was failing to keep society financially stable. As his presidency went on, filmmakers made film cycles and gangster pictures like Little Caesar that portrayed America’s corrupt society during the Great Depression. By the end of his campaign, Hoover was known as the worst American ever which led to the rising of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. Roosevelt saw the struggling society as an opportunity to help his campaign in which he created the New Deal. America was given an opportunity that allowed them to look forward to the future. During Herbert Hoover’s presidency, America did not support the federal government, but after Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for president and promised a New Deal, they began to look more favorably on the government.

While Harding is mostly known for his scandals and inactivity, he did accomplish some things in office. He had kept a very successful watch over the budget and government spending. He had fought for civil rights and had gone into America’s most racist city, Birmingham, Alabama, and delivered a key civil rights speech. However, his successes are overmatched by his scandals, and in 1923, 3 years after being elected, Harding had been through enough physically and mentally, and died while in office. He was succeeded by his vice president, Calvin Coolidge.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the peoples support is important is what I have come up with after reading through these documents. I think all three of the authors made valid points and maybe some invalid points, as well.

Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt were two of America’s great presidents. This is why I feel that both men were equally important in what they did and said they would do. Both in their own ways have added a little of what makes this country what it is today. Both had their own beliefs of how reform, empowerment of the people and foreign policy should be accomplished. As president, the main goal was to do what they felt best for the American people. In doing so, how different could they really be?

Harding campaigned on the idea of the "return to normalcy," winning the 1920 election by a landslide over his competitor. Fortunately for the Republican party, this meant the return to big business. Following the end of the Progressive Era, all the new agencies built from the previous reforms were once again run by conservatives who strived to return back to the way of life prior to the Progressive Era. Along with the return to normalcy, corruption continued to exist in political affairs. Warren G. Harding's cabinet was an example of the corruption plaguing the government, some even go as far to compare Harding's cabinet to that of President Grant's cabinet during the Gilded Age. Furthermore, most legislations and political reforms were either partially or fully struck down by the supreme court. The Child Labor Act, Seaman's Act, and the Workingmen's Compensation Act were all examples of those reforms struck down; maintaining the status quo from the 1880s, before the progressive

So finally in 1913, Congress passed the 17th amendment that called for the direct election of United States senators. Also Congress would later pass the 19th amendment which allowed women’s suffrage, or the ability to vote. Also states and people began to use the secret Australian ballot to keep the privacy of the voters. Before, big bosses and companies used to be able to scare or buy people to vote for whom they wanted, but now people could vote without the fear of being connected to their ballot. With people now voting anonymously, these businesses no longer as successful as before for they could no longer tell for whom the bribed were actually voting for. In the bar graph, it shows the gradual decrease in the number of voters who voted for the presidency (Document J). this showed how people were no longer being bribed or forced to vote for whomever the businesses wanted. This called for more fair and impartial elections for such important offices in the government. In the Washington Post 1907 article, Roosevelt is shown standing over a dead bear of bad trusts (Document A). This demonstrated Roosevelt’s attempted to rid the country of bad trusts for the good of the people. Also these reformers made great strides in the social component of the country.

The legacy that President Hoover passed to his successor was disastrous. The country experienced an unprecedented economic depression. However, in his speech during the presidential campaign in 1936, he expressed a deep concern that the New Deal is directed against the interests of ?poor Americans?[footnoteRef:2]. He also blamed the Roosevelt policy in violation of ?fundamental American ideals and liberties?[footnoteRef:3]. While Roosevelt was rebuilding America, Hoover attacked