fuel during war time. Secretary Fall‚ secretly sold the bases to Teapot Dome oil rights to Harry Sinclair’s Mammoth Oil Company and the Elk Hills oil rights to the Pan-American Petroleum Company to gain profit from leasing the oil fields. President Harding placed his friends in high authority where they committed bribery‚ embezzled government money‚ and committed
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Factors leading to the Defeat of the Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles was defeated because of the opposition of both the conservatives and the liberals and Woodrow Wilson’s political ignorance. There are two types of Conservatives‚ the Ultra conservatives and the moderate conservatives. Both disapprove of the treaty in one way or another. The Ultra conservatives also known as the irreconcilables oppose to the treaty and are not willing to compromise. The Moderate conservatives also
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public. The American public was disillusioned with the failed League of Nations‚ and quickly embraced the Election of 1920 as what the victorious Warren G. Harding put it‚ “the return to normalcy.” “The return to normalcy” was essentially calling for the return to the older and simpler times in America‚ which also condoned American isolationism. Warren G. Harding and his successor‚ Calvin Coolidge’s presidencies embodied the return to a laissez faire economy with their pro-business stance. The Fordney-McCumber
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Fighting the War at Home Teaching German was outlawed in several states The invention of liberty cabbage “Liberty Streak” Remember Belgium by George Creel’s CPI It gets worse Espionage Act- Spys were put away for the was The Sedition Act- Can’t say anything bad about the war Schenck vs. United States- Can’t help people get out of being drafted Great Migration- blacks moving north (race riots) Slackers- Label people they don’t like and get rid of them The Palmer Raids Attorney General
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amendment had lead to an increase of organized crime nationwide. In that time span of these two prominent moments in American history was one of the most scandalous presidencies in American history. It came from no other than Ohioan Warren G. Harding. Harding can be considered one of the worst presidents of all time. He won the Presidential election of 1920 which made him officially the President in January of 1921. Once he became president‚ he immediately made up his cabinet. Three members
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and his guard in South Braintree‚ Massachusetts. 6. Quota System- The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 set up. 7. John L. Lewis- In 1919‚ the United Mine Workers of America‚ organized since 1890‚ got a new leader. Section 2 Assessment 1. Warren G. Harding- Described as a good-natured man who “looked like a president ought to look.” 2. Charles Evans Hughes- Secretary of State‚ urged that no more warships be built for ten years. 3. Fordney- McCumber Tariff- America adopted‚ which raised taxes
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world. The start of the decade also brought with it the election of a new president. The two candidates were Warren G. Harding for the Republican nominee and James A. Cox for the Democratic nominee. Harding proved to be the superior politician with his talk of normalcy‚ a chance to repair economic damage and make rational choices for the new decade‚ for the nation (Palmer‚ 25-26). Harding put a beating on Cox in the booths and became the next president. By the end of his first year
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1920’s the shift to the right‚ on economic policies occurred when Warren G. Harding‚ Calvin Coolidge‚ and Herbert administrations allowed Big Business to take over the United States government. Through Harding’s “return to normalcy” policy‚ the pro-business ethos of the Harding-Coolidge administration and the Stock Market crash‚ became the turning points of the 1920’s‚ each leading up to the Great Depression. I. The Harding-Coolidge administration adopted a “return to normalcy” in order to
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prohibition; Merchant Marine Act; Esch-Cummins Act Warren G. Harding elected (Rep) [1921-1923] Washington Disarmament Conference [1921-1922] Emergency Quota Act restricts immigration Sacco-Vanzetti Trial Congress passed resolution declaring WWI ’1919’ had officially ended Fordney-McCumber tariff Five-Power Naval Treaty; Four-Power and Nine-PowerTreaties Calvin Coolidge takes over after Harding dies (Rep) [1923-1928] Teapot Dome Scandal {1921}-A Harding Scandal- Gov`t Oil leasing National Origins(Immigration)
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Important People 1700s 1. Jeffrey Amherst (1717-97): he led the British attack in 1758 on Louisburg. After the war‚ in 1763‚ Amherst was appointed Governor of Virginia. 2. Jonathan Edwards (1703 –1758): Jonathan Edwards studied divinity at Yale College before taking the pulpit in Northampton‚ MA. His sermons and writings embraced the idea of Free Will‚ along with a firm confidence in God’s righteousness. The sermons and writings of Jonathan Edwards helped to shape the course of Protestant
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