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What you'll learn to do: describe the presidencies of Harding and Coolidge<\/h2>\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1162\"]\"A Figure 1<\/strong>. This political cartoon pokes fun at the never-ending lament for the \"good old days.\" Life for Americans changed after WWI, but\u00a0 Americans hoped for a \"return to normalcy\" as promised by President Warren Harding.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nAfter World War I, Americans were ready for \u201ca return to normalcy,\u201d and Republican Warren Harding offered them just that. Under the guidance of his big-business backers, Harding\u2019s policies supported businesses at home and isolation from foreign affairs. His administration was wracked by scandals, and after he died in 1923, Calvin Coolidge continued his policies in much the same vein. Herbert Hoover, elected as Coolidge\u2019s heir apparent, planned for more of the same until the stock market crash of 1929 ended a decade of Republican ascendancy.","rendered":"

What you’ll learn to do: describe the presidencies of Harding and Coolidge<\/h2>\n
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Figure 1<\/strong>. This political cartoon pokes fun at the never-ending lament for the “good old days.” Life for Americans changed after WWI, but\u00a0 Americans hoped for a “return to normalcy” as promised by President Warren Harding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After World War I, Americans were ready for \u201ca return to normalcy,\u201d and Republican Warren Harding offered them just that. Under the guidance of his big-business backers, Harding\u2019s policies supported businesses at home and isolation from foreign affairs. His administration was wracked by scandals, and after he died in 1923, Calvin Coolidge continued his policies in much the same vein. Herbert Hoover, elected as Coolidge\u2019s heir apparent, planned for more of the same until the stock market crash of 1929 ended a decade of Republican ascendancy.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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