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Which of the following quotes from the article supports this claim:
"Unfettered capitalism was to blame for the stock market crash."*
Like Harding, Coolidge proposed to roll back taxes of the wealthy one percent of
Americans who controlled 40 percent of the country's wealth, and "assiduously
followed the maxim that the government that governs the least, governs best."
Americans were thrilled to see innovations and progress - but the boom contained its
own seeds of a bust.
The most unpopular and disregarded law of the era, it was so disliked that an
estimated 80% of U.S. Senators, Congressmen and high government officials -
including the three U.S. presidents of the era - imbibed 10 the banned alcohol.
It was the misfortune of the post-WWI generation that during one of its greatest
O periods of progress, America was led by two of the least dynamic and innovative
presidents in the U.S. history