Calvin Coolidge

White House

Official presidential residence

• vice presidentSecond-ranking executive officer
• HardingScandal-plagued 1920s president
• inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony

executive · administration · veto · legislation · Oval Office · Republican · Vermont · oath of office · succession · reelection

taciturn

Habitually uncommunicative

• reservedRestrained in manner
• laconicBrief in expression
• reticentDisinclined to speak freely

quiet · understated · dry wit · stoic · frugal · modest · austere · tight-lipped · unassuming · deadpan

laissez-faire

Noninterference in commerce

• tax cutsDecreased government assessments
• budget surplusRevenue exceeding outlays
• prosperityGood fortune, success

business-friendly · limited government · tariffs · deregulation · fiscal conservatism · balanced budget · commerce · trade · industrialization · stock market

Roaring Twenties

Prosperous 1920s era

• prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
• jazz age1920s American cultural era
• flappers1920s modern young women

speakeasies · Model T · radio · Harlem Renaissance · Charleston · art deco · bootleggers · suffrage · talkies · Babe Ruth

conservatism

Preference for existing institutions

• limited governmentOfficially bounded political authority
• individualismDoctrine of personal independence
• noninterventionistOpposing foreign policy involvement

isolationism · states' rights · self-reliance · traditionalism · free market · prudence · restraint · small government · anti-regulation · fiscal responsibility

• 1920s AmericaCharles Lindbergh, Jazz Age, Spirit of St. Louis, flappers, transatlantic flight
• 1920s IconsBabe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin, Al Capone, Charles Lindbergh, Duke Ellington
• Early 1900sroaring twenties, flapper, jazz, speakeasy, prohibition
• politicianspoliticians, Joe Biden, congressman, Nancy Pelosi, senator
• VeepsJoe Biden, Kamala Harris, Al Gore, Dick Cheney, Mike Pence
• Bay StatersJohn F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, John Adams, Abigail Adams