Laptop Pick up 1 laptop TO SHARE WITH

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

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”

Return to Normalcy • Americans were tired of Woodrow Wilson and his high ideals “Make the world safe for democracy” • Change from wartime economy to peacetime economy • Americans returned to a policy of isolationism • Business Policies became more laissez-faire – Stopped regulation policies started during the Progressive Era • Reduced income, business, and inheritance taxes by 50%

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

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

Harding’s Facebook • Include the following on facebook page: – A picture of Warren Harding – A friend list – Biographical information – You must have one wall post and response for each of these topics: • • Harding’s Return to Normalcy Business Policies Reduction of Taxes The Teapot Dome Scandal

Warren G. Harding Info • • • Born in 1865 Died 1923 29 th president of the United States Years in office – 1921 -1923 Died in office Republican Elected from Ohio