The+Presidents

=The Presidents = President Harding won the election of 1920 with the campaign slogan of "Return to Normalcy". The United States was recovering from WWI and was looking towards isolationism (not being concerned with other counties).This was the first election that women were able to vote in at the national level. It was during Harding's administration that the Teapot Dome Scandal involving the leasing of government land to oil companies happened. Harding knew nothing of that his secretary of the interior Albert Fall did. Harding died in August of 1923 of a stroke. Known as "silent Cal" Coolidge quickly took care of the Teapot Dome Scandal to limit the amount of damage to Harding's presidency and the Republican party. Coolidge was a business man and believed in laissez faire, "hands off" for the business world. The farmers were experiencing a drop in the prices of their crops. Coolidge thought that it was not the government's job to help with economic and social problems. President Hoover was unlucky to be serving when the stock market crashed. He thought (and so did his advisers) that the economy would fix itself if government did not get involved. His "hands off" approach is called laissez faire. Because of the problems during the Great Depress groups of the homeless would built shelters from whatever materials they could find. These communities of the homeless were called "Hoovervilles". Towards the end of his presidency Hoover did create the Public Works Projects but most saw this as "too little, too late". The final problem of Hoover's administration of the poor handling of the situation with the Bonus Army.



President Roosevelt campaigned on the promise of a "New Deal" for the country. In his first one hundred days in office Roosevelt and the Congress were able to pass 15 major pieces of legislation that brought **relief, recovery and reform** to the United States. The government became an employer putting millions to work.