Vocab #8
Across
- 3. - a 20th-century Protestant movement asserting literal adherence to inerrant scripture, emerging to combat modernist theology and secular societal changes
- 9. - a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
- 10. - Social Security is a US federal program designed to provide financial protection through monthly benefits to retired workers, people with disabilities, and families of deceased workers
- 11. - a vibrant flowering of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, centered in Harlem
- 13. - investigative journalist or writer who exposes corruption, scandal, or societal ills in politics and business, often to prompt reform
- 14. - a U.S. law that raised import duties to historically high levels, aiming to protect American farmers and industries from foreign competition during the onset of the Great Depression
- 17. - the first federal law in the U.S. designed to protect consumers by prohibiting the interstate sale of adulterated, misbranded, or poisonous food and drugs
- 19. - a series of federal programs, public work projects, and financial reforms enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Down
- 1. - the mass movement of over 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the North, Midwest, and West
- 2. - a severe, decade-long (1930s) environmental and agricultural disaster in the Great Plains, caused by extreme drought and poor land management
- 4. - the nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
- 5. - (during Prohibition) an illicit liquor store or nightclub
- 6. - a landmark legal case where high school teacher John Scopes was accused of violating the Butler Act, which banned teaching human evolution in state-funded schools
- 7. - finalized a decades-long women's suffrage movement, legally guaranteeing women the right to vote
- 8. - an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community
- 12. - a person who makes, distributes, or sells goods illegally
- 15. - (in the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
- 16. - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- 18. - a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.