Vocab Between Wars
Across
- 1. Renaissance A time when many African Americans moved near Harlem and created an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion.
- 6. The central banking system of the United States of America. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of financial panics led to the desire for central control of the monetary system in order to alleviate financial crises.
- 7. An American composer, composition teacher, and writer. He was called "the dean of American Composers"
- 8. An American politician who served as the 32nd president. He helped people during the Great Depression.
- 12. The worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939.
- 13. A poet that formed fis career in Harlem, New York.
- 14. The shares into which ownership of the corporation is divided. A single share of the stock represents fractional ownership of the corporation in proportion to the total number of shares.
- 16. A set of programs enacted by Roosevelt that helped recover from the Great Depression.
- 17. When a person above a certain age doesn't have an occupation.
- 18. An American composer that led a jazz orchestra for more than six decades.
- 20. An African American painter known for his portrayal of African American life.
Down
- 2. An American composer that was very influential in jazz.
- 3. The movement of 6 million African Americans out of rural areas to urban cities.
- 4. An Artist best known of her paintings of enlarged flowers.
- 5. An American composer who composed classical and popular genres.
- 9. Engagement in business transactions involving considering risk, but offering the chance of large gains.
- 10. An author that won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception".
- 11. A tax on imports and exports and exports between sovereign states.
- 15. An American blues singer that was the most popular female blue singer in the 1920's and 30's.
- 19. The aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks, which represent ownership claims on businesses.