Technology helped navigation for people because back a long time ago sailors had to see the wind and have to actually look and watch for what they were.Now that technology is made you can go to google maps and thats all it takes.
For starters, he cut down taxes on companies. He believed that the companies could then increase salaries and create new job opportunities. People could also join the market easier and open their own companies since the taxes were smaller. With more companies in the market, the competition was greater, the prices and the products were better. Or at least that's how it was supposed to work in theory.
They helped show the American public that there was little evidence of communism in the country.