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=Jason's DBQ Response: = =Jessica Yun DBQ Response:  Assessment = =AP Topic: Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover pp. 737–741= ===Question- How did the Republican's domination of the government influence the American politics during the 1920s? (+lol sorry Jason&Jessica I changed the question a tiny bit Congree-> government hope it's better ) ===

Lord Robert Cecil: "I trust that after all we may secure at least your qualified support for our League of Nations?"
U.S.A. President (Warren Harding): "Why, what's the matter with ours?" -Cartoon from The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920, by Various-

DOCUMENT B
Warren G. Harding Speech - Inaugural address **My Countrymen:

When one surveys the world about him after the great storm, noting the marks of destruction and yet rejoicing in the ruggedness of the things which withstood it, if he is an American he breathes the clarified atmosphere with a strange mingling of regret and new hope. We have seen a world passion spend its fury, but we contemplate our Republic unshaken, and hold our civilization secure. Liberty--liberty within the law--and civilization are inseparable, and though both were threatened we find them now secure; and there comes to Americans the profound assurance that our representative government is the highest expression and surest guaranty of both.**
 * [...] A regret for the mistakes of yesterday must not, however, blind us to the tasks of today. War never left such an aftermath. There has been staggering loss of life and measureless wastage of materials. Nations are still groping for return to stable ways. Discouraging indebtedness confronts us like all the war-torn nations, and these obligations must be provided for. No civilization can survive repudiation.**
 * [...]The business world reflects the disturbance of war's reaction. Herein flows the lifeblood of material existence. The economic mechanism is intricate and its parts interdependent, and has suffered the shocks and jars incident to abnormal demands, credit inflations, and price upheavals. The normal balances have been impaired, the channels of distribution have been clogged, the relations of labor and management have been strained. We must seek the readjustment with care and courage. Our people must give and take. Prices must reflect the receding fever of war activities. Perhaps we never shall know the old levels of wages again, because war invariably readjusts compensations, and the necessaries of life will show their inseparable relationship, but we must strive for normalcy to reach stability. Our best assurance lies in efficient administration of our proven system.**

http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/presidential-speeches/presidential-speech-warren-harding.htm
 * [...]It has been proved again and again that we cannot, while throwing our markets open to the world, maintain American standards of living and opportunity, and hold our industrial eminence in such unequal competition. There is a luring fallacy in the theory of banished barriers of trade, but preserved American standards require our higher production costs to be reflected in our tariffs on imports. Today, as never before, when peoples are seeking trade restoration and expansion, we must adjust our tariffs to the new order. We seek participation in the world's exchanges, because therein lies our way to widened influence and the triumphs of peace. We know full well we cannot sell where we do not buy, and we cannot sell successfully where we do not carry. Opportunity is calling not alone for the restoration, but for a new era in production, transportation and trade. We shall answer it best by meeting the demand of a surpassing home market, by promoting self-reliance in production, and by bidding enterprise, genius, and efficiency to carry our cargoes in American bottoms to the marts of the world. We would not have an America living within and for herself alone, but we would have her self-reliant, independent, and ever nobler, stronger, and richer. Believing in our higher standards, reared through constitutional liberty and maintained opportunity, we invite the world to the same heights.**

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Coolidge is a cook with a stew of Republican principles to please all kinds of groups such a women, radicals and taxpayers. http://www.calvin-coolidge.org/html/political_cartoons_20.html 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya4tiy-9Ehk  For some reason I can't upload the video.....OTL I think my computer's screwed up,,,

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http://archive.lib.msu.edu/VVL/dbnumbers/DB3604.mp3 Hoover gives a campaign speech in 1932.  During his campaign in 1920s Herbert Hoover called for "a chicken in every pot" for Americans.

DOCUMENT F
- Women's Suffrage Ratified 8/18/1920.

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-Coolidge's conservative laissez-faire, pro-business approach to governing led him to veto the McNary Haugen Bill, a bill proposed for the struggling farmers. The conditions which [the McNary-Haugen bill is designed to remedy have been, and still are, unsatisfactory in many cases. No one can deny that the price of many farm products have been out of line with the general price level for several years. No one could fail to want every proper step taken to assure agriculture a just and secure place in our economic scheme. Reasonable and constructive legislation to that end would be thoroughly justified and would have the hearty support of all who have the interests of the Nation at heart. The difficulty with this particular measure is that it is not framed to aid farmers as a whole, and it is, furthermore, calculated to injure rather than promote the general welfare. . . . The bill under consideration. . . says in effect that all the agricultural scientists and all the thinking farmers of the last 50 years are wrong, that what we ought to do is not to encourage diversified agriculture but instead put a premium on one-crop farming. . . . The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat, and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock that shall, so far as possible, be safe, and keep the soil, the farmer’s chief asset, fertile and productive. The bill singles out a few products. . . and proposes to raise prices of those regardless of the fact that thousands of other farmers would be directly penalized. . . . Clearly, this legislation involves government fixing of prices. It gives the proposed Federal board almost unlimited authority to fix prices on the designated commodities. This is price fixing, furthermore, on some of the Nation’s basic food and materials. . . The chief objection to the bill is that it would not benefit the farmer. . . . A board of 12 men are granted almost unlimited control of the agricultural industry and can not only fix the price which the producers of five commodities shall receive for their goods, but can also fix the price which the consumers of the country shall pay for these commodities. . . . The law fixes no standards, imposes no restrictions and requires no regulation [of the board] of any kind. There could be no appeal from the arbitrary decision of these men. . . . The granting of any such arbitrary power to a Government board is to run counter to our traditions, the philosophy of our government, the spirit of our institutions, and the principles of equity. The administrative difficulties involved are sufficient to wreck the plan. . . . The bill will not succeed in providing a practical method of controlling the agricultural surplus, which lies at the heart of the whole problem. . . . It ignores the fact that reduction is curbed only by decreased, not increased, prices. . . . We must be careful in trying to help the farmer not to jeopardize the whole agricultural industry by subjecting it to the tyranny of bureaucratic regulation and control. That is what the present bill will do.
 * ON VETOING THE1927 MCNARY-HAUGENBILL BY Calvin Coolidge **

DOCUMENT I
Quotes from President Herbert Hoover

"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. "

"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress."

"It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business."

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Economic statistics of roaring twenties

__ Workers __
__Percentage Increase, 1923-29__ Worker's incomes: 11% Real Earnings (for employed wage earners) 22% Average Work Week: -4% Minimum income deemed necessary for a decent family standard of living: $2500 Percentage of American families with incomes under $2500 in 1929: 71%

Rise in per capita income for top 1% of population, 1920-1929: 75% Rise in per capita income for nation as a whole: 9% Percentage of American Families with no savings: 80% Percentage of savings held by top .1% of Americans: 34%