THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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Ohio Gang.
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Progressive Party.
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Roaring Twenties.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did the approach to government of Harding and Coolidge differ from that of the Progressives? Progressives were bent on reforms and believed in an activist government. Harding and Coolidge were more relaxed and wanted to see things take their own approach. They believed in an older, capitalistic America.
Detailed explanation-2: -Andrew Mellon, a successful banker and industrialist, was secretary of the treasury under President Harding and the chief architect of economic policy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Henry Ford’s assembly line system divided operations into simple tasks that unskilled workers could do, and it cut unnecessary motion to a minimum.
Detailed explanation-4: -Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, who fought in the American Revolutionary War, helped draft the Constitution, and served as the first secretary of the treasury. He was the founder and chief architect of the American financial system.