Warren G. Harding

CHAPTER 32 The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932 Ill. SINGLE-ANSWER MULTIPLE CHOICE. Mark the one best answer for each of the following questions. 1. Warren G. Harding?s weaknesses as president included all of the following except a (n) a. lack of political experience. b. mediocre mind. c. inability to detect moral weaknesses in his associates. d. unwillingness to hurt people?s feelings by saying no. e. administrative weakness. 2. Match each member of President Harding?s cabinet below with his major area of responsibility. A. Charles Evans Hughes 1. taxes and tariffs B. Andrew Mellon 2. naval oil reserves C. Herbert Hoover 3. naval arms limitation D. Albert Fall 4. foreign trade and trade associations

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Michael Xu APUSH Chapter 24 Study Guide: The New Era, 1920-1929 Term Identity Significance 1) Charles A. Lindbergh 2) the installment plan 3) oligopolies 4) the ?new lobbying? 5) Coronado Coal Company v. United Mine Workers and Maple Floor Association v. United States 6) Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company and Adkins v. Children?s Hospital 7) Welfare capitalism 8) Warren G. Harding 9) Charles Forbes and Harry Daugherty 10) the Teapot Dome scandal 11) Calvin Coolidge 12) the McNary-Haughen bills 13) the 1924 presidential election 14) the Indian Rights Association, the Indian Defense Association, and the General Federation of Women?s Clubs

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Teapot Dome- an unprecedented?bribery?scandal and investigation during the White House administration of President?Warren G. Harding. In 1921, by?executive order?of President Harding, control of?U.S. Navy?petroleum?reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and at?Elk Hills?and?Buena Vista?in?California, were transferred from the?U.S. Navy Department?to the?Department of the Interior. The petroleum reserves had been set aside for the Navy by?President Taft. In 1922,?Albert B. Fall,?U.S. Secretary of the Interior, leased, without competitive bidding, the Teapot Dome fields to?Harry F. Sinclair?of?Sinclair Oil, and the field at Elk Hills, California, to?Edward L. Doheny. In 1922 and 1923, these transactions became the subject of a sensational?U.S.