Why did Harding win the 1920 election?
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- Created on: 08-05-13 20:38
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- Why did Harding win the 1920 election?
- Wilsons legacy
- illness meant he could not fufill his duties
- the public found the deaths during the war upsetting
- Public tired of Progressive reforms
- USA physiologically drained from the war
- Irish-Americas angry at the refusal to help Ireland at Versailies (had control over the Democrats in most large cities)
- Americans keen to preserve themselves as the strongest industrial power
- Many problems had emerged after the war e.g communism, race riots, immigration
- Cox's campaign
- Favoured the League of Nations
- Not one German-language newspaper backed him
- Continued Progressive reforms
- Hardings campaign
- Spent a huge amount of money on an advertising campaign
- Rejected the League of Nations
- Return to a traditional foreign policy
- higher tariffs and lower taxes and private income
- Appealed to big business
- Support from African-Americans
- Limits on immigration
- Farm aid
- Wilsons legacy
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