REPUBLICANS IN POWER

SECTION 2

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 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