Roaring Twenties
Across
- 3. A talented jazz musician and trumpet player who helped spread jazz across America.
- 5. A period when businesses grow quickly and people have more money to spend.
- 6. A method of making products faster by having each worker do one small part of the job.
- 7. A movie with sound; The Jazz Singer was the first one made in 1927.
- 8. The music, art, ideas, and customs shared by a group of people.
- 9. A car; more people owned them in the 1920s because they were cheaper to make with Henry Ford’s assembly line.
- 12. A young woman in the 1920s who wore short dresses, bobbed her hair, and liked to dance to jazz music.
- 14. A secret bar or nightclub where people went to drink alcohol during Prohibition.
- 17. A movie without sound; actors used expressions and actions to tell the story.
- 18. A time of great economic hardship that began after the stock market crash in 1929.
- 19. A popular invention that let people listen to music, news, and shows at home.
Down
- 1. A place where people buy and sell small parts (shares) of companies.
- 2. A cultural movement in the 1920s celebrating African American art, writing, and music, centered in Harlem, New York.
- 4. A time from 1920 to 1933 when it was illegal to make, sell, or transport alcohol in the United States.
- 8. The first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean in his airplane, The Spirit of St. Louis.
- 10. A famous baseball player who became a hero for hitting record-breaking home runs.
- 11. A nickname for the 1920s, a time of excitement, new inventions, and big cultural changes in the United States.
- 13. A lively style of music with strong rhythms and improvisation that became popular in the 1920s.
- 15. The popular styles of clothing that changed quickly during the 1920s.
- 16. A new idea or creation that makes life easier or more interesting.