1920s Great Depression Vocab

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Across
  1. 4. A system of limiting the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S.by nationality
  2. 5. People who illegally manufactured, transported, distributed or sold alcoholic beverages during the prohibition period.
  3. 9. Industrial relations policies of large, usually non-unionised, companies that have developed internal welfare systems for their employees.
  4. 13. Used to protect a country's wealth and power
  5. 14. The method of buying large ticket items with a small deposit and installment payment
  6. 15. Highly publicized trial, also known as the Monkey Trail, was a trial against a Tennessee high school teacher and he violated state law by teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to his students.
Down
  1. 1. The act of buying something with the expectation that it's value would increase so that they could resell it at a higher price in order to get a profit out of it.
  2. 2. Nickname for any variety of makeshift shelters for homeless people that contain mostly victims of the great depression.
  3. 3. The time period when jazz gained widespread popularity throughout the whole of the U.S.
  4. 5. The practice of buying an asset where the buyer pays only a percentage of the assets value and borrows the rest from the bank or a broker.
  5. 6. The period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans between the end of WW1 and the onset of the great depression leading up to WW2
  6. 7. An economy driven by consumer spending as a high percentage of its gross product
  7. 8. A place where alcoholic beverages were illegally sold
  8. 10. An event that made many people fear new immigrants
  9. 11. a gathering of WW1 veterans in Wahington D.C.
  10. 12. Young women who like to party and wear shorter skirts