1. The Harding Presidency

2. What are we studying today?
MAIN IDEA

3. Terms & Names
What is the Teapot Dome?

4. A PERSONAL VOICE WARREN G. HARDING
“ America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.”
—quoted in The Rise of Warren Gamaliel Harding

5. What is President Harding expressing the US wants?

6. Harding Struggles for Peace
Who was Charles Evan Hughes?

7. Harding Struggles for Peace
With everyone happy about disarmament Why do we still get countries building battleships and weapons in the 1920s?

8. HIGH TARIFFS AND REPARATIONS
What two ways could France and Britain repay loans to the US?

9. HIGH TARIFFS AND REPARATIONS
What is the Fordney-McCumber Tariff?

10. HIGH TARIFFS AND REPARATIONS
Why does the Fordney-McCumber Tariff effectively stop France and Great Britain from trading much with the United States?

11. The Problem of Germany
Why can’t Germany pay its reparations?

12. The Problem of Germany
What was the Dawes Plan?

13. The Problem of Germany
Why does the Dawes plan cause mistrust?

14. A PERSONAL VOICE WARREN G. HARDING
“ John, I can’t make a thing out of this tax problem. I listen to one side and they seem right, and then I talk to the other side and they seem just as right I know somewhere there is an economist who knows the truth, but I don’t know where to find him and haven’t the sense to know him and trust him when I find him What a job!”
—quoted in Only Yesterday

15. Why might one say the cabinet of Harding had both positives and negatives?
HARDING’S CABINET

16. What was the Ohio Gang?
HARDING’S CABINET

17. SCANDAL PLAGUES HARDING
Why are people able to take advantage of Harding?

18. THE TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL
Who was Albert Fall?

19. THE TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL
Summarize the Teapot Dome Scandal.