1920S Project Menu
Across
- 3. an establishment in the business of selling alcoholic beverages illegally
- 6. an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry
- 9. one of the largest movements of people in United States history
- 12. relations between members or communities of different races within one country
- 14. a period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans between the end of World War I (1917) and the onset of the Great Depression and lead up to World War II (the 1930s)
- 15. a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s
- 16. the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country
- 19. the rate at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit
- 20. a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly
Down
- 1. young women known for their energetic freedom, embracing a lifestyle viewed by many at the time as outrageous, immoral or downright dangerous
- 2. allowed for the sale of more consumer goods and put automobiles within reach of average Americans
- 4. a recording of moving images that tells a story and that people watch on a screen or television a device that receives television signals and reproduces them on a screen
- 5. He created the model T
- 7. an American lawyer who became famous in the early 20th century for his involvement in the Leopold and Loeb murder trial and the Scopes "Monkey" Trial
- 8. the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding”
- 10. hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War
- 11. the first man to successfully fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean
- 13. founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
- 17. the transmission and reception of electromagnetic waves of radio frequency, especially those carrying sound messages.
- 18. a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries