Chapter 14 Section 1 (b) Labor Strikes Harding’s Foreign Policy The Teapot Dome Scandal Kellogg-Briand Pact

What are some reasons why workers may go on strike? In the 1920’s many people believed that communist agitators were behind the strikes. Boston Police Strike = no cops! Steel and Coal workers go on strike. How might these strikes effect the majority of Americans? www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/teac-o11.shtml

Leave us Alone! Most people wanted to avoid political and economic alliances with other countries, this foreign policy is called Isolationism. Harding tried to get other countries to get other countries to throw away their weapons, this is called disarmament. The Fordney-McCumber Tariff raised the price of goods imported to the U.S. This made Europeon countries mad because we were expecting them to pay us back for helping them out in the Great War. This tariff did help American businesses.

The Return of Nativism Reasons why = p.487 Facing political pressure Pres. Harding got a law passed that limited immigration and set quotas for future immigration. Quotas are still used today. The National Origins Act of 1924 set the quota even lower. The Republicans wanted to limit immigration, same is true today.

I’m a Little Tea-Pot…. The most notorious scandal during the Harding Administration was the Teapot-Dome Scandal The public became aware of the corruption in Pres. Harding’s administration. 2 officials even committed suicide over it because they were exposed. Harding’s secretary of the Interior secretly gave oil drilling rights on government land in Teapot Dome, Wyoming to two companies, these companies gave him $300,000…..(the man, taking care of the man).

The Kellogg-Briand Pact Pres. Harding Died  - V.P. Calvin Coolidge takes over  Secretary of State Frank Kellogg wanted world peace……aww. French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand wanted the U.S. to sign an agreement saying that France and the U.S. would never go to war with each other. Sounds good…..but remember the Great War? The public is mad at Kellogg because this goes against the policy of isolationism. 15 countries pledged to not use war in their dealings with one another; however, it was pointless because by 1941 WWII had started.

The Election of 1928 Herbert Hoover (R) v. Alfred Smith (D) Coolidge did not want to run again, so the GOP ran Herbert Hoover who was in favor of prohibition. – won the country and woman vote. The Dems ran Alfred E. Smith, he was 100% against prohibition. – won the city vote. This is the first presidential election that all woman could vote. Most people were expecting the “Coolidge prosperity” to continue so they voted for his fellow republican, Hoover. …….however…..little did they know…..Hoover would really screw things up…