Across
- 1. people who leave their home country to live elsewhere
- 5. Ford acheived his goal by building a sturdy and reliable car' nicknamed the Tin Lizzie
- 6. many young Americans; was important part of this new independence; High School attendance doubled during the decade
- 7. they became a major national passion; early motion pictures had no sound; opened exciting adventures afor audiences; "The Jazz Singer" where the actor Al Jolson shouted the line, "You ain't heard nothin' yet!"; talkie; Mary Pickfor in United Artists - American Sweetheart
- 8. a period of African American artistic accomplishment
- 11. many advertisers targeted women trying to convince them that they needed these; washing machines, vacuums, refreigerators
- 17. writers who criticized American society in the 1920s; members of this moved to Paris in the 1920s and formed a community of expatriates; Ernest Hemmingway and F. Scott Fitzerald and Gertrude Stein
- 20. because baseball was segregated African American players and business leaders started their own league; best players in history were Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson
- 21. to forbid by law to make or sell alcohol;hard to enforce it
- 23. 1925; Nellie Tayloe Ross(Wyoming); Miriam "Ma" Ferfuson (Texas); 1st women to serve as this in the U.S.
- 24. to return the coutnry to stabilty and prosperity
Down
- 2. let people pay a small amount of the cost every month until the entire car was paid for
- 3. they presented teh harsh facts about the large number of lynchings taking place across the South
- 4. during World War 1 large numbers of African Americnas began leaving the south to take jobs in northen factories
- 9. this system used conveyer belts to move parts and partly assembled cars form one group of workers to another
- 10. a tupe of music that came from the rural south of the Mississippi Delta; gained national popularity in the 1920s; began as an expression of the suffering of African Americans during slavery
- 12. young women who cut thier hair short; wore makeup and short dresses; openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave
- 13. illegal clubs serving alcohol during prohibition
- 14. a racist group that had terrorized African Americans during Reconstruction; also harassed Cathlics, Jews, and immigrants
- 15. number of women continued to grow;with college degrees women worked as nurses, teachers, librarians, and social workers; women were also finding new opportunties in politics
- 16. a new style of dance that swept the nation; new magazines arose that taught dance steps to subscribers
- 17. motion picture with sound
- 18. the first commerical radio station; announced that Warren Harding won the presidential election; National Broadcasting Company(NBC) and Columbia Broadcasting System(CBS)-allowed people all over the country to listen to the same thing; Consumerism and Tabloid
- 19. an expression in the popularity of jazz music gave the decade this nickname; jazz developed in New Orleans; blended spirituals with European harmonies and West African rhythms
- 22. organized criminals; quickly seized control of the illegal alcohol or sumggled it in from Canada or Mexico