US History T5 L5 & L6
Across
- 1. Italian immigrant convicted of murder and executed in 1927 (LAST NAME)
- 3. Secret society formed in the South intention to promoted white supremacy and denying African Americans the exercise of their new rights (Abbreviation)
- 5. 1925 trial Tennessee school teacher for breaking a law that forbade teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution
- 6. Ban production and sale of alcohol
- 7. Secretary Treasury 1921-1932 reforming the US tax structure by lowering marginal tax rates for individuals and businesses (LAST NAME)
- 9. Agreement US loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payments to British and French
- 11. Idea that human race can be improved by controlling which people have children
- 13. Italian immigrant convicted of murder and executed 1927 (LAST NAME)
- 14. One who sells illegal alcohol
- 15. Fear that communists were working to destroy American way of life
- 16. Secretary Commerce and later POTUS 1929-1933 during Great Depression. Widely criticized for “ineffective” response to Great Depression (LAST NAME)
- 17. Artistic and literary movement sparked by a break with past conventions
Down
- 1. ________ Act that Enforced the Eighteenth Amendment by federal agents
- 2. ___ ___ Dome scandal- Harding administration scandal in which Interior Secretary leased government oil reserves to private oilmen for bribe
- 4. _______-______ Pact= 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war
- 6. Series of raids in 1920’s initiated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, against suspected radicals and communists
- 8. POTUS 1921-1923 promoted “Return to Normalcy” following WWI. (LAST NAME)
- 10. Movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic religious principles
- 12. POTUS 1923-1929, acceded to office after death of Harding, Pro-Business policies (LAST NAME)