Module 8 Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. American labor leader, president of the United Mine Workers, and founder of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO); he helped win labor victories through strategies such as the sitdown strike.
  2. 5. favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people.
  3. 9. a person who opposes all forms of government.
  4. 11. African American writer who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; his work expressed the pain of life in black ghettos and urged African Americans to resist discrimination.
  5. 17. African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. He wrote of African American hope and defiance, as well as the culture of Harlem and had a major impact on the Harlem Renaissance.
  6. 18. African American leader who promoted self-reliance for African Americans; he started the Universal Negro Improvement Society (UNIA), which urged African Americans to take pride in their heritage.
  7. 19. Thirtieth president of the United States; he became president upon the death of Warren G. Harding. He was known for his honesty and his pro-business policies.
  8. 20. African American blues singer who played an important part in the Harlem Renaissance.
  9. 21. African American composer and jazz musician; he was one of the key figures in the Harlem Renaissance. His orchestra was popular with audiences nationwide.
  10. 24. the unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions.
  11. 25. one of the free-thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920s.
  12. 28. an unreasoned fear of things or people seen as foreign or strange.
  13. 29. a preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods or acquiring goods in ever-greater amounts.
Down
  1. 1. an economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property.
  2. 2. opposition to political and economic entanglements with other countries
  3. 4. U.S. Secretary of the Interior in the Harding administration; he was found guilty of bribery for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal.
  4. 6. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; much of her work celebrated simple folkways and traditional values of people who had survived slavery.
  5. 7. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall’s secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land.
  6. 8. a Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true.
  7. 10. Famous American criminal lawyer; he defended John Scopes's right to teach evolution in the Scopes Trial.
  8. 12. American pilot; he became the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean nonstop in 1927. He was a hero to millions of Americans.
  9. 13. a system that sets limits on how many immigrants from various countries a nation will admit each year
  10. 14. a person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the United States during Prohibition.
  11. 15. a group of close friends and political supporters whom President Warren G. Harding appointed to his cabinet.
  12. 16. a sensational 1925 court case in which the biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution.
  13. 22. Leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpeter whose style influenced many later musicians.
  14. 23. Twenty-ninth president of the United States; his policies favored business, but his administration was known for scandals.
  15. 26. the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People—an organization founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality.
  16. 27. a place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during Prohibition.