1920s

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Across
  1. 4. people who would smuggle alcohol from Canada or the Caribbean in the US during prohibition
  2. 8. Author who wrote about flappers in the Great Gatsby that embodied the 1920s
  3. 11. it allowed average Americans to buy consumer goods like homes and cars for the first time
  4. 12. repealed the 18th Amendment in 1932
  5. 13. In 1917 Russian Revolution made some Americans fear the spread of communism in the United States
  6. 14. belief that one country should stay out of another country's problems
  7. 15. 18th Amendment banned the sale of alcohol
  8. 16. started bootlegging/speakeasies in chicago
  9. 17. feeling of White American superiority- prejudice against foreigners
Down
  1. 1. Two Italian immigrants were convicted of robbery and murder
  2. 2. mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses, it was one of the worst incident of racial violence in American history
  3. 3. working class has the power
  4. 5. underground illegal bars, ran by gangs
  5. 6. women who desired independence because of the 19th Amendment and who were rebelling against the previous generation
  6. 7. cultural movement in NYC that brought jazz music, black artists and ideas to mainstream culture for the first time
  7. 9. radio stations and increased sales of radios and phonographs
  8. 10. leader of the Harlem Renaissance