The Roaring `20s and Postwar Conservatism

I. An Age of Contradictions

II. Politics

A. Diplomacy

1. Isolationism

2. Immigration restriction

B. Domestic Politics

1. Warren G. Harding

a. Election of 1920

b. Teapot Dome, Albert Fall

c. Ohio Gang, Harry Daugherty,

d. William E. Chancellor

e. Nan Britton

f. Washington Conference

2. Calvin Coolidge

Silent Cal

3. Herbert Hoover

a. "Associationalism"

b. Economic foreign policy

III. Economics

A. Surface Prosperity

1. Consumer culture

B. Systematic Problems

IV. The Jazz Age

A. Urban Culture

B. Reaction

1. Prohibition, 1919-1933

2. The new Klan

3. The Scopes trial, 1925

V. Women

A. Suffrage

B. Economic Change