1. Laptop Pick up laptop TO SHARE WITH PARTNER Log in
Go to Mrs. Holmes website
Go to handouts

2. Warren G. Harding
“America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums (fake cures) but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise (stability); not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality”

3. Americans returned to a policy of isolationism
Return to Normalcy
Americans were tired of Woodrow Wilson and his high ideals “Make the world safe for democracy”
Americans returned to a policy of isolationism
Causes: WWI Disillusionment and labor unrest/radicals
Effects: No League of Nations, higher tariffs, less international trade, limit immigration

4. Return to Normalcy
Reduced income, business, and inheritance taxes by 50%
Lower taxes = more disposable income = more spending = better economy

5. Return to Normalcy cont.
Change from wartime economy to peacetime economy
Business Policies became more laissez-faire
Stopped regulation policies started during the Progressive Era
More laissez-faire – less government involvement (Gilded Age and Roaring Twenties)
Examples?
Less laissez-faire – more government involvement (Progressive Era)

6. Harding’s Cabinet He made some good choices
Herbert Hoover – Secretary of Commerce
Evans Hughes – Secretary of State
Andrew Melon – Secretary of Treasury
He also made some bad choices and placed friends and supporters in positions in which they were not qualified.
Albert B. Falls – Secretary of Interior

7. Teapot Dome Scandal Scandal’s plagued Harding’s presidency
Usually involved his appointees and not himself
Fall secretly gave oil-drilling rights on government property in Teapot Dome, Wyoming to two private oil companies
In return, Fall received more
than $300,000 disguised as loans

8. Harding’s fakeTwitter
Include the following on faketwitter page:
An image of Warren Harding
Bio statement (serious or fun)
_______________
Follow list
Trends
Photos (at least 4)
You must have one tweet and/or retweet for each of these topics:
Harding’s Return to Normalcy
Business Policies
Reduction of Taxes
The Teapot Dome Scandal

9. Warren G. Harding Info Born in 1865 Died 1923
29th president of the United States
Years in office –
Died in office
Republican
Elected from Ohio