Election+of+1928

Bridget LePine Alayna Brasch APUSH 2nd Mr. Wickersham 31 October 2012 **Election of 1928:**

1. **Date of Election** – November 6th, 1928

2. **Who was in The White House during that time?** –Republican Calvin Coolidge and his Vice President Charles G. Dawes occupied The White House for one term.

3. **What events occurred in the 4 years prior to the election?**– The election of 1924 was the first presidential election in which all American Indians were citizens and thus allowed to vote. The total number of votes increased 2,300,000. Radio was introduced, resulted in a more active way of campaigning. Prohibition had still been strictly enforced by Coolidge. The economy was doing very well and many were buying stocks. Spare-the-rich policies were created, shifting much of the tax burden from the wealthy to the middle-income groups. There were foreign-plicy issues like international debts, a complicated tangle of private loans, Allied war debts, and German reparations payments.

4. **Presidential/ V.P Candidates** – Republican: Presidential candidate Herbert Hoover, Vice-presidential candidate Charles Curtis. Democratic: Presidential candidate Alfred (A.k.a Al) Smith, Vice-presidential candidate Joseph Taylor Robinson. Socialist: Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas, Vice-presidential candidate James H. Maurer.



5. **Conventions** – Northern Democratic Candidate Al Smith called openly for the repeal of prohibition, angering southern Democrats. Al Smith did build a strong Catholic base in the big cities (such as New York, where he is from) in 1928 6. **Campaigns** – The Republican and Democratic candidate had his campaign focused on fixing problems going on in America.

Republicans pledged to:
 * 1) Continue opposition to the McNary Haugen farm bill, favoring instead the creation of farmer-owned stabilization corporations as a means to increase farm prices.
 * 2) Support strict enforcement of 18th amendment
 * 3) Maintain a big protective tarrif for the benefit of American farmers/manufacturers
 * 4) Carry on Coolidge-Era foreign policy initiatives.

Democrats pledged to:
 * 1) A farm Policy that would give government support to American farmers, but avoided an endorsement of the continuous McNary-Haugen bill. It was suppose to subsidize American Argiculture by raising the domestic prices of farm products. (Coolidge had vetoed it)
 * 2) Opposition to the overall use of injunctions and support for collective bargaining rights for workers
 * 3) A change in Coolidge foreign policy, and the granting of immediate independence to the Phillipines
 * 4) Transformation of government to escape republican leadership

7. **Results-** The popular vote gave 21,391,993 votes (58.2%) to Hoover compared to 15,016,169 votes (40.9%) to Smith. The Electoral College vote was 444 to 87.



8. **Assesment** - Election of 1928 marked the change to a more active style of campainging. Radio played an important role in this change. The candidate used radio for many of their speeches. The way they came across on the radio was another factor in the decision of the election of 1928. **Works Cited: ** //Infoplease//. Infoplease, n.d. Web. 04 Nov. 2012. <http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781450.html.

"United States Presidential Election, 1924." //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Apr. 2012. Web. 04 Nov. 2012. .