1920s Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. The greatest scientist of the early twentieth century.
  2. 7. A New York governor who lost the 1928 presidential election.
  3. 8. Making monthly payments on an item until it is paid off.
  4. 9. Two Italian-born immigrants were accused of murder and sentenced to death despite a lack of evidence in the case.
  5. 12. This reduced German reparation payments significantly and encouraged private American institutions to lend money to Germany.
  6. 15. Black intellectuals, writers, musicians, artists, and entertainers gained greater social visibility in New York in the 1920s.
  7. 16. This law set quotas that restricted immigration to the United States.
  8. 17. The most infamous gangster of the 1920s.
  9. 20. The third Republican president of the 1920s.
  10. 22. This high tariff established a nearly insurmountable wall restricting European trade with the United States.
  11. 25. A secretive, ritualistic group patterned after the organization founded during Reconstruction.
  12. 26. The belief that certain exceptions to biblical doctrine should be allowed in the name of Christian unity.
  13. 27. A stock market characterized by optimism and rising stock prices.
  14. 28. Americans' fear of communism and anarchy.
  15. 29. A high school teacher who stood trial in Tennessee for teaching Darwinian evolution.
  16. 31. This brought foreign diplomats to the nation's capital to negotiate an agreement limiting the growth of naval power.
Down
  1. 1. An international agreement outlawing war. It didn't work.
  2. 2. The bottom fell out of the stock market on this day.
  3. 3. He was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris.
  4. 5. Free-enterprise economy with minimal government regulation.
  5. 6. Buying something with the hope of selling it later at a profit.
  6. 8. Americans' refusal to involve themselves in world affairs.
  7. 10. Warren G. Harding's political philosophy.
  8. 11. The worst scandal of Harding's presidency.
  9. 13. An Austrian psychologist who believed that emotional problems were caused by repressing sexual disturbances in childhood.
  10. 14. The belief that certain fundamental doctrines exist that no one can deny and still be a Christian.
  11. 18. A stock market characterized by pessimism and decling stock prices.
  12. 19. The idea that space, time, and matter are not absolute dimensions but are relative to the location and motion of the observer.
  13. 21. The beginning of the Great Depression.
  14. 23. The first Republican president of the 1920s.
  15. 24. Buying stock through a broker but only paying about 10 percent of the purchase price.
  16. 26. The leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association who organized urban African Americans into a potent force.
  17. 30. Harding's vice president who succeeded him after he died.