Roaring 20s

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Across
  1. 2. An area in New York City where many music publishers and songwriters were located, shaping popular music.
  2. 9. Manufacturing process that allowed for mass production and lower prices of consumer goods.
  3. 10. A major bribery scandal involving government oil reserves during President Warren G. Harding's administration.
  4. 11. Laws passed in the 1920s (Emergency Quota Act) to limit the number of immigrants entering the U.S.
  5. 14. Industrialist who used the assembly line to mass-produce the Model T, making cars affordable for the average American.
  6. 16. The amendment that granted women the right to vote (Women’s Suffrage) in 1920.
  7. 17. The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to Northern industrial cities for jobs and better opportunities.
  8. 18. Young women of the 1920s who challenged traditional values with shorter hair, shorter skirts, and new social freedoms.
Down
  1. 1. Leader who promoted "Black Nationalism" and the "Back to Africa" movement.
  2. 3. The period when the 18th Amendment made the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol illegal.
  3. 4. An illegal underground bar or nightclub where people went to drink alcohol during Prohibition.
  4. 5. RENAISSANCE An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, and literature in New York City.
  5. 6. The first pilot to complete a solo, non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
  6. 7. A period of intense fear of communism and anarchism following the Russian Revolution.
  7. 8. The popular style of music in the 1920s that originated in African American communities and featured improvisation.
  8. 12. President Warren G. Harding’s campaign slogan promising a return to life as it was before WWI.
  9. 13. The famous court case in 1925 that centered on the teaching of evolution versus creationism in schools.
  10. 15. A famous poet and writer who was a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance.