Warren+G.+Harding

toc **Warren G. Harding and Isolationism**

**Main Question:**
Who was Warren Harding, how did he have anything to do with the Roaring Twenties, and how was isolationism linked to him?

=Warren G. Harding= == Warren G. Harding was born in 1865, on November 2. He was the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until he died because of a heart-attack in 1923. Warren Harding was a Republican from Ohio, and was a newspaper publisher. He served in the Senate for Ohio, and later he served as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, and as a U.S. Senator. Warren Harding promised a return to "normalcy." He was a supporter of business. His administration was filled with men who thought similar to himself. Andrew Mellon was chosen for the Secretary of the treasury. Mellon was one of the nation's richest men. He had gotten congress to lower taxes on businesses and the wealthy. Remember, Harding promised a return to normalcy. There were three trends to his time: renewed isolationism, a resurgence in nativism, and a turning away from the government of the reform era. Harding had an administration, and it ended up troubled by corruptive scandals, as many people involved with high positions in government used their high positions for illegal personal gain. Harding died before the worst of the corruptive parts to his administration were exposed to the public. This left vice-president Coolidge to be the new president, and also left him to deal with the scandals that were occurring.

=Isolationism= How did Harding change foreign policies creating a more isolationist U.S. This made the United States more isolationist because they limited trades and restricting immigrants from other countries. This was a great thing that Warren thought of. This also insulated the United States in terms of trade, and tariffs were used to shield U.S. manufactures on foreign goods. Until WWI, millions of people were moving to the United States, especially from Europe, to escape poverty and persecution. There was two different groups were the greatest of all of the immigrants (Britons and Irishmen, Germans and Jews) which made it so that the United States were isolated. 1929, there was a liberal policy that was introduced that only 150,000, total immigrants were allowed in the United States per year. American's also didn't want to to become involved with Europe alliances with the war. They saw that their ways of the world and their perspective were different from Europe's. American's figured that they could advance with freedom and democracy with things other than fighting in wars.