Roaring 20s Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. A totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production
  2. 6. A particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
  3. 8. Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster
  4. 11. A bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922,
  5. 12. Borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock.
  6. 14. Gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion
  7. 15. A generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
  8. 17. 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921, until his death in 1923
  9. 18. A person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power.
  10. 19. The 30th President of the United States
  11. 20. The movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
  12. 22. Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution;
  13. 23. High school teacher John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man.
  14. 24. An illicit liquor store or nightclub.
  15. 25. An American aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
  16. 27. A condition in which securities prices fall and widespread pessimism causes the stock market's downward spiral to be self-sustaining.
  17. 28. To make, sell, or transport (alcoholic liquor) for sale illegally.
  18. 29. Believe that the statements in the Bible are literally true.
  19. 30. A Jamaican black-rights activist and loyal leader of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements.
Down
  1. 1. The natural rise and fall of economic growth that occurs over time.
  2. 2. a law restricting the number of new immigrants to the United States.
  3. 4. A system for paying for goods by installments. installment plan, time plan ยท regular payment - a payment made at regular times.
  4. 5. A twentieth-century American author known for his short stories and for his novels, including The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise.
  5. 7. The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920.
  6. 9. The United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol
  7. 10. A cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
  8. 13. The way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920.
  9. 16. An American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.
  10. 21. A financial market of a group of securities in which prices are rising or are expected to rise.
  11. 26. An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.