Chapter 13: The Roaring Life of the 1920s
Across
- 4. Immigrant from Jamaica who wanted African Americans to have thier own society (UNIA)
- 5. Music that blended the blues and ragtime.
- 8. 1920s baseball player for the New York Yankees; 60 home runs in 1927.
- 9. Jazz trumpet player famous for his ability to improvise.
- 10. Wrote "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby".
- 13. Invention that caused the whole nation to "tune in".
- 14. First American to win a Nobel Prize in literature.
- 16. Literally and artistic movement celebrating Afican American culture.
- 19. Female blues singer singer; in 1927 she became the highest paid black artist in the world.
- 20. Women's tenni star of 1920s, won 8 singles titles in Wibledon and 7 in the U.S. Open.
Down
- 1. Trial of a young man who taught evolution in a Tennesse science class, where it was outlawed.
- 2. People who smuggled alcohol into the US (through their boots).
- 3. At age 19 she was the the first woman to swim the English Channel.
- 6. A man who traveled nonstop transatlantic from New York City to Paris.
- 7. women who wore modern clothes and hair that challenged old customs (short dresses and hair).
- 11. Protestant movement of literal interprentations of the Bible.
- 12. A woman who worked with a traveling theatre company who wanted 'the good life in America".
- 15. Amendment where the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol was illegal.
- 17. Wrote novels that criticized the glorification of war
- 18. Underground or hidden saloons.