Nominated Taft as Chief Justice

Teapot Dome Scandal

Budget and Accounting Act 1921

This was the law that officially ended US involvement in World War One.

Major events

American Relief Administration

Knox-Porter Resolution

Former president, William Howard Taft, was appointed to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Government officials secretly leased oil reserves in Teapot, Wyoming to private companies.

Harding signs the Budget and Accounting Act in order to better organize the federal government's accounts. The act establishes the Bureau of the Budget and the General Accounting Office under the Treasury Department.

American Relief Administration was an American relief mission to Europe and later post-revolutionary Russia after World War I.