Calvin Coolidge Flashcards
how did Coolidge win the 1924 election
promised to continue Harding’s policy and gets credit for Harding’s successful booming economy and isolationist policies
give 4 examples of Cooldiges domestic policy
-lowered taxes twice
-refused to give bonuses to veterans
-heavily relied on his cabinet
-continues Hardings policies eg minimising gov spending and decreasing gov intervention
what did Andrew Mellon propose as Secretary of the Treasury
cutting tax rates from 73% down to 25% so businesses could put money back into the economy and wartime tax rates discouraged business expansion and decreased revenue
why was Andrew Mellons proposal criticised
ppl said he was too detached to manage the economy
give a statistic for debt in america (proves Andrew Mellons proposal to be successful ?)
1920 debt was 26 billion
1921 debt was 17 billion
what was Coolidges immigration policy and when was it passed
the National Origins Act 1924; reduced max number of immigrants to 150,000 per year and cut the quote to 2% basses on US population in 1890
what was the National Origins Act an expansion of
The 1921 Emergency Quota Act which restricted number of immigrants to 357,000 per year and quota set to 3% of the total population
in 1907 how many immigrants were processed on Ellis Island
1.25 million
between 1900-1914 how many immigrants arrived from mainly southern and eastern europe
13 million
give 2 ways Harding/Coolidges policies changed from previous republican presidents
-stricter immigration legislation
- less gov intervention compared to progressivism
give 6 ways Harding/Coolidges policies continued the republican presidents policies
-continued prohibition
-lack of change for AA
-still scandals eg Teapot Dome which highlights failure if Guilded Age to stop corruption
-isolationist foreign policy
-laissez faire
-anti immigration feelings
