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__Coolidge Attacks__ **By:Alissandra De Sosa and John Parra.**


 * Vice president Calvin Coolidge became president when Harding died.He became the 30th president of the United States.Born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, Coolidge was the son of a village storekeeper.He graduated from Amherst College with honors, and entered law and politics in Northampton, Massachusetts.Coolidge was a Republican and as president he served from 1923 to 1929.Coolidge and those who voted for him felt that prosperity would be rewarded of those who worked hard.In 1925 Coolidge started his belief that "the chief business of the people of American people is business."Under the Coolidge administration,business prospered and so did many Americans.Coolidge also believed that is was not the government's job to help with social and economic problems.****Coolidge restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals that occured when Warren Harding left presedency.**
 * Farmers were one of the groups that Coolidge refused to help,because food prices were dropping.Calvin Coolidge was an isolationist,he beleived that the United States should stay out of other nations affairs excpt in self-defense.** **Coolidge's nickname was "Silent Cal." He was known for his silence, he believed that the government should have as small a role as possible in the country. He believed that the country's well-being was best preserved by allowing business to create wealth.There was a dinner at the White house once and a reporter told Calvin****"I made a bet with a friend that I couldn't get you to say two words".He told her "you lose".Calvin was married Grace Coolidge,he married her when he was 33 years old.Calvin Coolidge died on January 5,1933.He died in Northampton,Massachussets.**
 * Sources:** [] and the social studies textbook