The Roaring 20s and the Great Depression
Across
- 1. A major problem during the Great Depression
- 5. Nickname for shantytowns built by homeless families
- 6. New Deal agency that created jobs in construction and arts
- 7. Pilot who became famous for flying solo across the Atlantic
- 8. The scientific theory at the center of the 1962 "Monkey Trial"
- 10. Radio talks FDR to gave to reassure American people
- 13. New Deal goal to chnage laws so the depression wouldn't happen again
- 15. The day the stock market crashed in 1929
- 17. The economic crisis that started in 1929 and lasted through the 1930s
- 22. People bought and sold this during the 1920s boom
- 23. Popular new music style during the Roaring Twenties
- 25. A rebirth of African American culture in the 1920s
- 26. President elected in 1932 who promised a New Deal
- 28. Upbeat style of jazz music popular in the 1930s
- 29. Sector that failed in the early 1930s, leading to reforms
Down
- 2. Movement of people,especially from farms to cities to westward
- 3. Ford's affordable car that changed transportation
- 4. New Deal program that provided pensions for the elderly
- 9. New York neighborhood at the heart of a cultural movement
- 11. New Deal program that hired young men to plant trees and build parks
- 12. Part of the New deal focused on immediate help for the poor
- 13. New form of mass media that united the country in the 1920s
- 14. New Deal goal to fix the economy long-term
- 16. The nationwide ban on alcohol from 1920 to 1933
- 18. Secret bar where people drank illegally during the Prohibition
- 19. Disaster that forced many farmers to leave their land
- 20. Last name of a teacher who went on trial for teaching evolution
- 21. A young fashionable young women in the 1920s who broke traditional norms
- 24. Famous gangster who made millions selling alcohol
- 27. FDR's plan to recover from the Great Depression