The main thing that businesses and industries did during this time that caused the economy to slow down was to invest carelessly in business, to the point where they became wildly overvalued--leading to an economic bubble that "burst".
He was more of a democratic, which the Whig party didn't liked since they looked out only for the high class and not the middle or low class.
The Whigs disliked John Tyler because during his presidency, he vetoed many bills from then. He was also known for impriving the relationship between Great Britain and the United States.
He was William Henry Harrison's Vice President but Harrison died 32 days later after being chosen for president because of pneumonia.
