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Warren Harding's secretary of the interior, Albert Hall, was given large sums of money in exchange for leasing out oil rights to companies for low rates. It is not clear whether or not Harding knew about this but he may have done. It also established, via supreme court ruling, that Congress can subpoena people. So that's interesting. Why do people not know about this important governmental scandal? Why are my students so lazy and ill-read that they don't know about this important governmental scandal? Why am I not allowed to tell them to leave school, because they don't belong here? If I fail them all, will anyone find out or care? When answering, note that this is my last semester here and I will be gone soon. Thanks!
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Luvcow posted:the teapot dome scandal hasn't appeared in a video game yet so how would your students know about it? Maybe EA will do a Bonus Army dlc for Battlefield One
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Sep 8, 2016 18:57
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Harding ostensibly supported mediation in the Railroad Strike of '22 but at the same time did not prevent the use of National Guardsmen in protecting and transporting strikebreakers. His efforts to bring about a peaceful end to the conflict mostly consisted of not giving the unions anything while asking them to go back to work. It did not help and he was hated by both sides for trying in such a lovely fashion but that all got forgotten when teapot dome happened and his cabinet started actually going to jail for real. Also, one of these jackass students wrote in his paper that Typhoid Mary was why everyone died at Jamestown
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Sep 8, 2016 19:06
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hemophilia posted:I learned about teapot dome in the 11th grade. My US History teacher said, and now, in the early 20th century, all these presidents sucked rear end, and teapot dome happened. it was bad. that's all you need to know, and your textbook has a single paragraph if you're interested. By the way wikipedia is unreliable so don't bother looking into it we have to study for the texas assessment of knwoeledge and skills i can't have your brains cluttered with century old scandals. Wikipedia is actually about as accurate as a regular encyclopedia. Which is to say, not that accurate.
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Sep 8, 2016 19:08
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Thankfully it is too early in the semester for their poor schooling to be my fault yet. but you are right, they may have simply had bad teachers in the past! Let's all do our best to make people love history!
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Sep 8, 2016 19:15
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