1. “Normalcy and Isolationism”
President Warren G. Harding

2. A. 4 measures taken by the Harding administration to maintain world peace
Arranged an international peace conference
Proposed a 10 year halt to building warships
Proposed a disarmament agreement
Urged passage of the Kellogg-Briand Treaty, renouncing war as a national policy

3. Fordney-McCumber Tariff
U adopted the Fordney-McCumber Tariff to protect
businesses In (2) U from foreign competition. This tariff
made it difficult for (3) B and (4) F to sell goods in the (5) U
and, therefore, difficult to repay their war debts to (6) U. To
get money to pay those debts, they demanded reparations
from (7) G, and troops from (8)F invaded the Ruhr, an
industrial region of (9) G. To avoid a new war, (10) U
adopted the Dawes Plan. Under this program, investors
from (11) U made loans to (12) G. It used money to repay
war debts to (13) B and (14) F. Then they used the same
money to repay war debts to banks in (15) U. In effect, (16)
U was repaid with its own money. This arrangement
caused bad feelings on both sides of the Atlantic.

4. 1. Americans – Kellogg-Briand Pact Optimistic Happy
2. Briand and- Dawes Plan France
Upset
Bitter
Angry
3. Americans - Immigrants
Nativist
Racist
Isolationist
negative
4. Ohio gang=
(Harding’s advisors/ friends)-Public service
Selfish
Dishonest
Disrespectful
Self-serving
5. Harding –
Administration Scandals
embarrassed
6. Americans -Harding
Respectful
Accepting
Understanding

5. Teapot Dome Scandal and Albert B. Fall
Harding’s presidency is tainted by the outrageous Teapot Dome Scandal (preferential leasing of the Teapot Dome oil reserves in  Wyoming and Elk Hills in California) by Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, to Harry Sinclair and Ed 
Dohoney.

6. Charles Evans Hughes
Secretary of State under President Harding. (not corrupt)
He will go on to become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

7. Isolationist: People opposed to participation in foreign affairs
Ohio-Gang: Some of Harding’s cabinet, the President’s poker-playing buddies from back home
They were corrupt. They accepted bribes in return for official decisions to benefit their friends.
Emergency Quota Act of 1921 sets up the Quota System: This set a limit on how many immigrants from each country could enter the U.S. each year.
In 1924 a new quota limited immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. (People mostly Jewish and Catholic)