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