Rebirth of the Klan
6 Million members
Expanded hatred to Jews, Immigrants, Catholics
Un-American Ideologies were distrusted
Especially immigrants
New Anti-immigration acts
1921
Immigrants of could only constitute 3 percent of American population yearly
1924
2 Percent
Socko-Vinzetti
1920
A shoe factory is robbed of 15000 dollars
5 robbers kill 2 people
Witness report there were two Italians
Socco and Vinzetti
Both had strong alibis and were arrested on circumstantial evidence
Biased judge finds them guilty, sentenced to death
Appeal court upholds biased verdict
Harding
Concerned with image
Releases socialist Debs
Establishes 8-hour work days
Tries to hire good cabinet
Hoover
Not intellectual
Reduces income taxes
Andrew Mellon
Raises corporate taxes and duties on agriculture
1921: Teapot Dome Scandal
Albert F. Fall
Secretary of interior
Moves Oil Reserves from jurisdiction of the navy to his jurisdiction, and secretly leases these reserves to an oil company
In return, Fall receives 400,000
When revealed, punishment was not severe
1923
Harding realizes his administration is full of corruption
Goes on a speaking tour in Alaska, takes ill and returns in Seattle
Taken back to Seattle and misdiagnosed of food poisining
Dies of heart embolism
VP Coolidge sworn in
Opposite to Harding, quiet thrifty
Reduction in Militarism
President Conferences
Reduces navy's of powerful nations, but reduces by weight, not number of ships
Coolidge
Downscales taxes and the size of the military
Reelected in 1924
Supreme Court removes Tenure of Office Act
Cleans up Harding's cabinet
Creates the Flood Control Act
Controls floods on the Mississippi
Government can't afford it
Charles Lindbergh
First to fly across the Atlantic
1927: Nelly Taylor Ross is the first female elected senator in Wyoming
FIrst female governor in Texas
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