1920's People and Vocab

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Across
  1. 6. panic and fear of communism
  2. 8. he glorified the black movement and supported that African Americans go back to Africa
  3. 10. Hate group that intimidated African Americans and suppressed them from their newly found rights
  4. 12. wrote "the lynching" and "if we must die"
  5. 13. created the model T car and introduced the assembly line which allowed for quickened production
  6. 15. new music genre that was unique to the US
  7. 16. films were initially silent. 1st talking movie was "the jazz singer." Many silent film actors lost their jobs with the transition to sound
  8. 20. wrote the Great Gatsby
  9. 21. warded a Pulitzer Prize "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching
  10. 23. process of making illegal alcohol
  11. 24. educator and reformer, the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute; he pushed for vocational training and many felt he did not do enough for African Americans
  12. 26. artistic flowering of the “New Negro” movement as its participants celebrated their African heritage and embraced self-expression, rejecting long-standing—and often degrading—stereotypes
Down
  1. 1. most important black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century; he was a founder of the NAACP
  2. 2. Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies. In exchange, Fall allowed the companies to control government oil reserves
  3. 3. novelist who wrote "For who the bell told"; fought in WW1
  4. 4. a series of government raids on suspected radicals in the U.S. led by the U.S. Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer. The---- were highly unsuccessful in finding radical communists
  5. 5. An act that used the 1910 census to determine that 3% of the number from that census could come to the US each year
  6. 7. 29th president who passed the Emergency Quota Act
  7. 9. two Italians who were convicted of a robbery and put to death. As the years passed, evidence has come forward seeming to prove that Vanzetti may have been innocent. (Fueled by people's dislike for anarchist)
  8. 11. illegal bars where patrons could consume illegal alcohol
  9. 14. His airplane was called "the spirit of St. Louis." His transatlantic travel inspired commercial airlines
  10. 17. leading writer and voice of African American experience
  11. 18. 1st writer that made African American woman the protagonist of a book
  12. 19. United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs
  13. 22. a US boxer who was the World Heavyweight Champion from 1919 to 1926
  14. 25. organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination
  15. 27. big technology of 1920's and in 1928, the first presidential campaign that used radio