Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Roaring 20's
- Growth of Isolationism
- America wanted to me alone.
- The USA entered late and gained from ww1
- The American economy boomed as a result of ww1
- The USA exported weapons and food to Europe during the war.
- The USA joined the Allied side in 1917
- After the war, European countries whose industries had
been damaged bought American goods with the help of
American loans.
- Cheap European Imports were seen as a threat
- American businesses were afraid that the USA would
would be flooded with cheap european imports
- Unemployment was higher in Europe so European
workers were willing to work for lower wages
- Buisnessmen were worried American
consumers would start buying
European products rather than the
more expensive American ones
- This means: Loss of American jobs,
Lower profits for US companies, Less
money in takes for the US government
- Warren G Harding
- Raised tariffs to protect US industry
- Elected president in 1921.
- May 1921: he introduced Emergency Tariff Act
- The act increased the tariff rates on imported farm products
- Tariffs are taxes on imported and exported goods.
- In 1922, the Fordney-McCumber Tariff gave the president the power to raise and lower
the tariff rates
- Harding used the Fordney-McCumber Tariff to raise duties
on both factory and farm goods.
- He hoped to protect America from "unfair" European
competition
- Immigration control was increased
- Before ww1, America followed an 'Open Door' policy that allowed almost
anybody to move to the USA. Some Americans started demanding that this
'door' be closed.
- The most powerful and wealthy cultural group in
America at this time were people with mainly British
ancestors - later known as White Anglo-Saxon
Protestants (WASPS).
- 1) Many WASP's believed that people
such as anarchists and communists
were coming into the USA and
undermining the American way of life
- 2) They were also alarmed at the
number of Asian, Catholic and Jewish
people who were entering the USA.
- The WASPs had great influence in Congress (the American parliment). As a
consequence, President Harding decided to place strict limitations on immigration,
especially from Eastern and Southern Europe.
- In 1921, Congress passed an act which introduced a quota system. Annual
immigration was reduced from over one million about 150,000 in 1929.