POSITIVES~~~~~~~
During the Harding-Coolidge era, America experienced the most vibrant eight year burst of industry and innovation in our nation's history. He lowered taxes from 73% to 25% on the highest earners and 4% to 1.5% on the lower incomes, and the country's debt fell from $24 billion to $18 billion. Unemployment dropped to an unheard of low of 2%. Coolidge did approve of legislation that help to promote the growth of radio and the aviation industry so he was not hopelessly mired in the past simply that he believed that less government was better then excessive government. The Immigration Act of 1924 at cut the amount of immigrants allowed into the U.S. so that only 150,000 total individuals were allowed in each year. The law favored immigrants from Northern Europe over Southern Europeans and Jews. Japanese immigrants were not allwoed in at all.
NEGATIVES~~~~
The Negatives were the fact that he really didn't do anything. He kind of sat by and kind of watched as everyone else did it all. He didn't want the government to deal with everything in America and actually wanted to try to do things. He failed at that though.
MY THOUGHT~~~~
All in all he was an ok president. He didn't totally mess up our hole country.
SOURCES:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/calvincoolidge
Comments
Perhaps a tad brief but good!
Didn't fail he succeeded