5 - Return to 'Normalicy' ('20-'32)

Question 1

Normalicy - Economic Legislation/Events

Question 2

Normalicy - FP Legislation/Events

Question 3

Normalicy - Social Legislation/Events

Answer 3

• Sheppard-Towner Maternity Aid Act ‘21 - provided federal aid to states to encourage the building of infant and maternity health centres
• Immigration Act ‘27 (Under Coolidge) - implemented a literacy test that require immigrants over the age of 16 to demonstrate basic reading comprehension in at least one language
• Increased the tax paid by new immigrants upon arrival
  Excluded entry for Asians except for Japanese and Filipinos

Question 4

Normalicy - Presidents

Answer 4

0.5T - Harding, ‘21-‘23
1.5T - Coolidge: ‘23-‘29
1T - Hoover: ‘29-‘33

Question 5

Normalicy - Harding strengths & weaknesses

Answer 5

Strengths
* Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act ‘21
* provided federal aid to states to encourage the building of infant and maternity health centres
* Successful cuts to government spending
* $5B to $3.333B from ‘20 to ‘22
* Reduced federal government intervention, achieving ‘return to normalcy’
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Weaknesses
* Traditional policies and values
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* Return to before the war
* Isolationism and Conservatism
* Scandals
* Teapot Dome Scandal
* ‘Ohio Gang’
* Harding’s behaviour

Question 6

Normalicy -

Answer 6

Strengths
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Weaknesses
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Question 7

Normalicy -

Answer 7

Strengths
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Weaknesses
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