Roaring 20s
Across
- 2. An area in New York City where many music publishers and songwriters were located, shaping popular music.
- 9. Manufacturing process that allowed for mass production and lower prices of consumer goods.
- 10. A major bribery scandal involving government oil reserves during President Warren G. Harding's administration.
- 11. Laws passed in the 1920s (Emergency Quota Act) to limit the number of immigrants entering the U.S.
- 14. Industrialist who used the assembly line to mass-produce the Model T, making cars affordable for the average American.
- 16. The amendment that granted women the right to vote (Women’s Suffrage) in 1920.
- 17. The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to Northern industrial cities for jobs and better opportunities.
- 18. Young women of the 1920s who challenged traditional values with shorter hair, shorter skirts, and new social freedoms.
Down
- 1. Leader who promoted "Black Nationalism" and the "Back to Africa" movement.
- 3. The period when the 18th Amendment made the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol illegal.
- 4. An illegal underground bar or nightclub where people went to drink alcohol during Prohibition.
- 5. RENAISSANCE An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, and literature in New York City.
- 6. The first pilot to complete a solo, non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
- 7. A period of intense fear of communism and anarchism following the Russian Revolution.
- 8. The popular style of music in the 1920s that originated in African American communities and featured improvisation.
- 12. President Warren G. Harding’s campaign slogan promising a return to life as it was before WWI.
- 13. The famous court case in 1925 that centered on the teaching of evolution versus creationism in schools.
- 15. A famous poet and writer who was a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance.