Coolidge

White House

Official presidential residence

• Oval OfficePresident's formal workspace
• administrationOrganizational oversight and control
• cabinetEnclosed storage furniture

inauguration · Harding · Hoover · vice president · succession · executive · veto · Republican · Massachusetts · governor

genealogy

Study of family descent

• ancestryFamily line of descent
• family nameHereditary portion of identity
• heritageInherited cultural legacy

lineage · New England · Vermont · descendants · family tree

laconic

Brief in expression

• reservedRestrained in manner
• quietLacking in sound
• reticentDisinclined to speak freely

stoic · tight-lipped · understated · brevity · dry wit · economy of words · New England · poker-faced · impassive · undemonstrative

laissez-faire

Noninterference in commerce

• tax cutsDecreased government assessments
• fiscal restraintControlled government spending
• limited governmentOfficially bounded political authority

free market · prosperity · budget surplus · deregulation · business · tariffs · trade · inflation · growth · small government

Roaring Twenties

Prosperous 1920s era

• jazzImprovisational American music genre
• flappers1920s modern young women
• prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban

speakeasy · Charleston · bootleggers · Model T · radio · Harlem Renaissance · Great Gatsby · talkies · Babe Ruth · Louis Armstrong

• World LeadersChurchill, Winston Churchill, Eisenhower, Gorbachev, Thatcher
• 1920s AmericaCharles Lindbergh, Jazz Age, Spirit of St. Louis, flappers, transatlantic flight
• ArizonaPhoenix, Tucson, Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale
• presidencyOval Office, president, Washington, executive branch, veto
• Interwar EraLeague of Nations, Weimar Republic, Treaty of Versailles, Treaty of Trianon, Versailles Treaty
• Interwar LeadersHitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt