"... the chief business of the American people is business." he once said.
Coolidge followed a laissez-faire economic policy, whereby the government doesn't interfere in the national economy unless absolutely necessary, and even then its actions should be limited to gentle nudges to get the economy back on track rather than large scale intervention.
So, Coolidge's attitude toward business was 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' - leave business alone to prosper.
By the time World War II ended, most American officials agreed that the best defense against the Soviet threat was a strategy called “containment.” In his famous “Long Telegram,” the diplomat George Kennan (1904-2005) explained the policy: The Soviet Union, he wrote, was “a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with the U.S. there can be no permanent modus vivendi [agreement between parties that disagree].” As a result, America’s only choice was the “long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.” “It must be the policy of the United States,” he declared before Congress in 1947, “to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation…by outside pressures.” This way of thinking would shape American foreign policy for the next four decades.
A war in Mexico would be under the Northern command
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In the early 1940s, the United States was determined to prove to the world that her motives for entering World War II were "<span>to re-establish peace in the world," since most of the US was isolationist at this time. </span>
The doctrine of popular sovereignty was used. That meant that people in those states could choose to vote to support slavery and since they were majority then slavery would be permitted. There were even states that were at first non-slave states but then things changed and they voted to introduce slavery into the state and people voted for this and supported this.
