Across
- 4. Migration, Hundred of thousands of African Americans migrated from the rural south to industrial cities in the North.
- 5. Wharton, Used irony and humor to critique upper class ignorance and pretensions.
- 10. Idea that the United States would keep out of the world affairs it would be safer and more successful.
- 13. Hughes, Prolific, original and versatile writer who became a leading voice of the African American experience in American.
- 14. individualism, Idea that involved encouraging businesses to form trade associations that would voluntarily share information with the federal government.
- 16. Origins Act, Law that set quotas at 2 percent of each national group represented in the US census of 1890.
- 17. Cather, Writers who wrote about life on the Great Plains.
- 19. Sandburg, Novelist who used common speech to glorify the midwest.
- 21. A style of music influenced by Dixieland blues and ragtime, with its syncopated rhythms and improvisational elements.
- 22. Belief that the Bible was completely true and without error.
- 23. A soulful style of music that evolved from African American spirituals.
- 25. Quota Act, The act restricted annual admission to the US to only 3 percent of people of any ethnic group living in the nation.
- 27. Hurston, Important Harlem Renaissance figure whose personal and spirited portrayals of rural African American culture was an important jumping point in history.
Down
- 1. Secret bars where people could purchase alcohol.
- 2. The belief that God created the world.
- 3. Dawes, Negotiated an agreement with France, Britain, and Germany in which American banks would make loans to Germany enabling it to make reparation payments for World War I.
- 6. Dome, scandal in which Harding's cabinet member secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing oil reserves.
- 7. Club, The moth famous nightclub in Harlem that served African American entertainers.
- 8. Belief that human beings developed from lower forms life over millions of years.
- 9. People who oppose all forms of government.
- 11. side economics, "trickle down" economics.
- 12. Artistic and unconventional lifestyle of neighborhoods that allowed young artists, musicians and writers greater freedoms to express themselves.
- 14. Hughes, Proposed a 10 year moratorium on the construction of new warships.
- 15. Renaissance, Boom of African American arts in the north after the Great Migration.
- 18. Hemingway, Writer who described the experience of war in novels “A farewell to arms” and “For whom the bell tolls”.
- 19. Mckay, First important writer of the Harlem Renaissance.
- 20. Media, Radio, movies, magazines, and papers aimed at a broad audience.
- 24. Briand Pact, Stated that all sighing nations of the Washington Conference agreed to abandon war and settle all disputes by peaceful means.
- 26. A belief that one's native lands needs to be protected against immigrants.
