Calvin+Coolidge

=**Calvin Coolidge **= //Beliefs/ Themes/ Key Changes// =Works Cited=
 * Background:**
 * Birth July 4, 1872- January 5, 1933
 * 30th President of the United States
 * Republican lawyer from Vermount eventually became the governor of Massachussettes
 * Elected the 29th Vice Preisdent in 1920 and succeeded to President upon the death of W.G. Hardding in 1923
 * re-elected in 1924
 * married to Grace Coolidge and had two children, both boys: John and Calvin Coolidge
 * served as the Luietnent governor of Mass.
 * TIme in Office:** August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929
 * Presidency:**
 * restored public confidence in the White House after the supposed scandals of the Hardding Administration
 * Succeeded Hardding on August 2, 1923 after his sudden death
 * first presidential speech to be broadcasted over the radio
 * Immigration Restriction
 * "The need for government to attribute the coal strikes in Pensiylvania"
 * **Washington Naval Treaty-** initiated one month into Cooldiges presidency-- a treaty that limited the naval armaments of its five signatories: the United States of America, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy; agreed at the Washington Naval Conference and signed by representatives of the treaty nations on 6 February 1922.- served as an was an attempt to prevent a naval arms race that began after World War I.
 * **World War Adjustment Compensation Act-** federal law passed on May 19, 1924 that granted benefits to American WW1 vetrans[[image:coolcalv.jpg align="right"]]
 * **Immigration Act of 1924 was enacted**
 * **Revenue Act of 1924-** cut US federal tax rates and created the US Board of Tax Appeals
 * Industry/trade-- "**Roaring Twenties"--** American economy experienced rapid economic growth; Coolidge had a "lasizz-faire" ideology (Many people claimed that his work within the economy led to the Great Depression)
 * Taxation Policy-- lower taxes and less people having to pay taxes
 * In favor of civil rights-- appointed no KKK members to government positions, June 1924, passed the **Indian Citizenship Act** (granted full US citizenship to all American Indians)
 * Foriegn Policy-- **Isolationist**
 * **1924 Election**
 * ran against Henry Ford of Michingan -- republican canidate
 * The Republican delegates chose Charles Dawes of Illinois to run with him as the vice presidential candidate.
 * John Davis- Demoncratic canidate
 * Robert LaFollette - Progressive party canidate
 * Coolidge won the electoral votes of thirty-five states to just twelve for Davis of the Democrats. LaFollette won only Wisconsin, his home state. Coolidge also won more popular votes than the other two candidates together
 * wasnt fully in the election because his younger son Calvin had died during the campaign and it had taken a toll on his Presidential campaign himself
 * **1928 Election**
 * =Decided not to run : " If I take another term, I will be in the White House till 1933 … Ten years in Washington is longer than any other man has had it—too long!"- Coolidge=
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