1. THE WAMPOT METHOD!
To analyze political cartoons and other primary resources we will be using Mr. Phelps’ patented method: WAMPOT!
What?: What is the subject? (what’s it about?)
Author: Who created this work?
Medium: what is it? (political cartoon, song, etc.)
Purpose: what is the goal of this peace?
Opinion (of author): What does the author think about the subject?
Trustworthy?: Can we trust the author to present the information fairly & do they have their facts straight?

2. “The Only Way to Handle It”

3. 12.2 The Harding Administration

4. Harding Administration
Conservative Republican Harding elected because voters were exhausted of change

5. Den of Corruption He surrounded himself with corrupt friends
His “Ohio Gang” of poker players routinely broke the Prohibition law (and other laws too)
These guys used the old patronage system to give govt. jobs to loyal supporters

6. Den of Corruption
Teapot Dome Scandal: U.S. Navy land, rich with oil, was leased to two big oil companies
Interior Secretary Albert B Falls was found guilty of taking nearly half a million $ in bribes
These sorts of scandals help Harding to be consistently ranked one of the worst presidents.

7. International Relations
1921 Washington Naval Conference was a success for limiting the size of navies
Many countries signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, saying “no” to war
But there was no real commitment to actually avoid war

8. International Relations
Germany’s out-of-control inflation made their economy too weak to pay back all those reparations to France and Britain
American banker Charles Dawes came up with a “solution…”

9. The Dawes Plan