The 1920s

3. Thanks to the advent of alternating current, this was available in more American homes.
4. With bars becoming illegal, these places were like little cafes with secret bars in the back.
7. This president balanced the budget, reduced the size of government and said very little (perhaps because his son died in office). He is often quoted for saying "The Business of the American People, is Business."
8. The idea that a religion (especially Christianity in early 20th Century America) needs to be returned to its basics.
12. A maximum or minimum limit to something, especially when made official by law.
13. This tariff greatly reduced Europe's ability to repay American loans, and also disappointed our European allies.
17. The name given to the anti-communist sentiment in the 1920s (and again in the 1950s).
18. A way of buying something by paying a little each month. This is common in purchasing cellphones and the like.
20. The feeling that a country should refrain (stay out of) foreign affairs altogether.
21. These occurred in large numbers in 1919, as workers in various industries were dissatisfied with their pay.
22. The word created by Warren G. Harding to describe the peace and relative prosperity of pre-war America.
23. Someone who sells something (especially alcohol) illegally.

1. The number of a famous highway built from Chicago to L.A. Route ___
2. Two Italian anarchists who were tried for murder, though with little evidence most believe now they were killed for their political beliefs.
5. This Eastern European country saw the number of emigrants to the USA limited under the Quota System.
6. A region home to some oil reserves owned by the American public, that some Harding cabinet members tried to make money by selling the oil from.
9. John L. Lewis represented this group of workers in a rather successful strike in Appalachia.
10. The name of a biology teacher who dared teach evolution (and eugenics) to his students in Tennessee.
11. He promised America a "return to normalcy," though it later turned out he brought a return to the corruption of Gilded Age politics.
14. This Southern European country saw the number of emigrants to the USA limited by the Quota System.
15. With all the emphasis on American identity, this group equated American identity with White Anglo-Saxon Protestant identity.
16. The forbidding of the sale of alcohol in the United States.
19. This political and economic system had come to power in Russia, and the American government greatly opposed it.