Roaring Twenties
Across
- 2. long period of drought led to Dust Storms throughout the Great Plains.
- 4. radio addresses in which FDR spoke directly to the people to inform them of his plan for economic recovery.
- 8. A plan created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to battle the Depression and aid economic recovery.
- 10. The movement of African Americans from the south to cities in the north after World War I.
- 11. The first mass produced car
- 15. the day that the stock market crashed
- 16. World War I veterans who wanted early payment of a military bonus.
Down
- 1. John T. Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution in Tennessee.
- 3. a period of economic slowdown where people are laid off and businesses close.
- 5. purchasing stocks on credit, or with borrowed money
- 6. An explosion in the popularity of jazz music.
- 7. young women who cut their hair, wore short dresses and openly challenged the ideas of how women should behave.
- 9. a period of African American artistic achievement.
- 12. Amendment- Ended prohibition.
- 13. A fear of communists in the United States.
- 14. Act- provided financial security for the elderly, disabled, children and the unemployed.