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The Harding Presidency

The Harding Presidency. MAIN IDEA. What are we studying today?. Terms & Names. What is the Teapot Dome?. A PERSONAL VOICE WARREN G. HARDING

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The Harding Presidency

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  1. The HardingPresidency

  2. MAIN IDEA What are we studying today?

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

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

  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.

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