SECTION 2 REPUBLICANS IN POWER THE HARDING ADMINISTRATION

SECTION 2 REPUBLICANS IN POWER

THE HARDING ADMINISTRATION � 1920 ELECTION, REPUBLICANS CHOSE OHIO SENATOR WARREN G. HARDING AS THEIR CANDIDATE AND CALVIN COOLIDGE AS HIS VICE PRES. CANDIDATE �DEMOCRATS CHOSE JAMES M. COX AS PRES. AND FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AS THE VICE PRES. �HARDING WON WITH 60% OF THE VOTE �BUT MANY VOTED FOR THE SOCIALIST CANDIDATE = EUGENE V. DEBS RAN FOR PRES. FROM PRISON BECAUSE HE VIOLATED THE ESPIONAGE ACT

THE HARDING ADMINISTRATION �AFTER WINNING THE PRESIDENCY �MADE SOME GREAT APPOINTMENTS IN KEY POSITIONS CHARLES EVANS HUGHES AS SEC. OF STATE HERBERT HOOVER AS SEC. OF COMMERCE ANDREW MELLON AS SEC. OF TREASURY

THE HARDING ADMINISTRATION �THE ECONOMY CLIMBED OUT OF THE RECESSION AND STARTED TO DO VERY WELL �HOWEVER, NOT ALL HIS APPOINTMENTS WERE GOOD

THE HARDING ADMINISTRATION �THE OHIO GANG WAS THE NICKNAME OF THE FRIENDS HE APPOINTED TO HIS CABINET AND OTHER GOV’T POSTS CHARLES FORBES WAS ARRESTED FOR TAKING BRIBES AND SPENT 2 YRS. IN PRISON ALBERT FALL HAD ILLEGALLY RENTED 2 NAVAL OIL RESERVES TO OIL COMPANIES ▪ FALL RECEIVED IN RETURN $, LOANS, AND CATTLE ▪ ONE RESERVE WAS LOCATED IN TEAPOT DOME, WYOMING ▪ WAS CALLED THE TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL ▪ GOT A YEAR IN PRISON AND FINED $100, 000

THE HARDING ADMINISTRATION

THE HARDING ADMINISTRATION

THE HARDING ADMINISTRATION � 4 OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION RESIGNED DUE TO CORRUPTION CHARGES �HE WAS NEVER TIED TO THESE CHARGES HIS FRIENDS RECEIVED �HE DIED SUDDENLY ON AUG. 2, 1923 �THESE SCANDALS HURT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

COOLIDGE IN OFFICE �TOOK OVER AFTER HARDING DIED �WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THE SCANDALS �HELPED REGAIN THE TRUST OF THE AMERICANS �AS SOON AS HE BECAME PRESIDENT, HE FIRED ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN THE SCANDALS �COOLIDGE EASILY WON THE ELECTION OF 1924

COOLIDGE IN OFFICE �PROMISED CONTINUED ECONOMIC PROSPERITY �HE ENJOYED A PERFECT ECONOMIC CLIMATE WHILE PRESIDENT

FOREIGN POLICY �MANY AMERICANS FAVORED ISOLATIONISM �THE REPUBLICANS COMPROMISED AND PROMOTED PEACE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH THROUGHOUT EUROPE �ALLIES FROM THE WAR STILL OWED THE US BILLIONS SO A GOOD WORLD ECONOMY WOULD EQUAL LOANS PAID BACK

FOREIGN POLICY �DISARMAMENT MOST NATIONS FAVORED GETTING RID OF WEAPONS THAT COULD BE USED FOR WAR �WASHINGTON CONFERENCE NOV. 1921 U. S. INVITED THE MAJOR COUNTRIES TO DISCUSS NAVAL DISARMAMENT �FIVE-POWER NAVAL TREATY LIMITED THE MAXIMUM SIZE OF EACH COUNTRY’S NAVY GAVE BRITAIN & THE U. S. THE LARGEST NAVIES FRANCE, ITALY, & JAPAN WERE RESTRICTED TO SMALLER NAVIES

FOREIGN POLICY �KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT U. S. AND 14 OTHER NATIONS SIGNED THIS IN AUG OF 1928 TRIED TO OUTLAW WAR

FOREIGN POLICY

THE ELECTION OF 1928 �DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE WAS ALFRED E. SMITH �REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE WAS HERBERT HOOVER �HOOVER’S CAMPAIGN SLOGAN WAS “A CHICKEN FOR EVERY POT AND A CAR IN EVERY GARAGE” �HOOVER WON EASILY

THE ELECTION OF 1928