General Terms of the 1920s!

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Across
  1. 1. people who leave their home country to live elsewhere
  2. 5. Ford acheived his goal by building a sturdy and reliable car' nicknamed the Tin Lizzie
  3. 6. many young Americans; was important part of this new independence; High School attendance doubled during the decade
  4. 7. they became a major national passion; early motion pictures had no sound; opened exciting adventures afor audiences; "The Jazz Singer" where the actor Al Jolson shouted the line, "You ain't heard nothin' yet!"; talkie; Mary Pickfor in United Artists - American Sweetheart
  5. 8. a period of African American artistic accomplishment
  6. 11. many advertisers targeted women trying to convince them that they needed these; washing machines, vacuums, refreigerators
  7. 17. writers who criticized American society in the 1920s; members of this moved to Paris in the 1920s and formed a community of expatriates; Ernest Hemmingway and F. Scott Fitzerald and Gertrude Stein
  8. 20. because baseball was segregated African American players and business leaders started their own league; best players in history were Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson
  9. 21. to forbid by law to make or sell alcohol;hard to enforce it
  10. 23. 1925; Nellie Tayloe Ross(Wyoming); Miriam "Ma" Ferfuson (Texas); 1st women to serve as this in the U.S.
  11. 24. to return the coutnry to stabilty and prosperity
Down
  1. 2. let people pay a small amount of the cost every month until the entire car was paid for
  2. 3. they presented teh harsh facts about the large number of lynchings taking place across the South
  3. 4. during World War 1 large numbers of African Americnas began leaving the south to take jobs in northen factories
  4. 9. this system used conveyer belts to move parts and partly assembled cars form one group of workers to another
  5. 10. a tupe of music that came from the rural south of the Mississippi Delta; gained national popularity in the 1920s; began as an expression of the suffering of African Americans during slavery
  6. 12. young women who cut thier hair short; wore makeup and short dresses; openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave
  7. 13. illegal clubs serving alcohol during prohibition
  8. 14. a racist group that had terrorized African Americans during Reconstruction; also harassed Cathlics, Jews, and immigrants
  9. 15. number of women continued to grow;with college degrees women worked as nurses, teachers, librarians, and social workers; women were also finding new opportunties in politics
  10. 16. a new style of dance that swept the nation; new magazines arose that taught dance steps to subscribers
  11. 17. motion picture with sound
  12. 18. the first commerical radio station; announced that Warren Harding won the presidential election; National Broadcasting Company(NBC) and Columbia Broadcasting System(CBS)-allowed people all over the country to listen to the same thing; Consumerism and Tabloid
  13. 19. an expression in the popularity of jazz music gave the decade this nickname; jazz developed in New Orleans; blended spirituals with European harmonies and West African rhythms
  14. 22. organized criminals; quickly seized control of the illegal alcohol or sumggled it in from Canada or Mexico