1920s
Across
- 4. people who would smuggle alcohol from Canada or the Caribbean in the US during prohibition
- 8. Author who wrote about flappers in the Great Gatsby that embodied the 1920s
- 11. it allowed average Americans to buy consumer goods like homes and cars for the first time
- 12. repealed the 18th Amendment in 1932
- 13. In 1917 Russian Revolution made some Americans fear the spread of communism in the United States
- 14. belief that one country should stay out of another country's problems
- 15. 18th Amendment banned the sale of alcohol
- 16. started bootlegging/speakeasies in chicago
- 17. feeling of White American superiority- prejudice against foreigners
Down
- 1. Two Italian immigrants were convicted of robbery and murder
- 2. mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses, it was one of the worst incident of racial violence in American history
- 3. working class has the power
- 5. underground illegal bars, ran by gangs
- 6. women who desired independence because of the 19th Amendment and who were rebelling against the previous generation
- 7. cultural movement in NYC that brought jazz music, black artists and ideas to mainstream culture for the first time
- 9. radio stations and increased sales of radios and phonographs
- 10. leader of the Harlem Renaissance