Across
- 5. Suspicion of foreign-born people
- 7. movie star from silent films, starred as the "Little Tramp"
- 12. Pulling away from involvement in world affairs
- 13. people who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the US during Prohibition
- 14. Harding’s rowdy, poker-playing cronies from back home; members of his cabinet who were involved in corruption and graft
- 15. made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic
- 16. composer who was among the first to combine American jazz with traditional musical forms
- 17. An economic and political system based on a single-governmental party, equal distribution of resources, no private property, and rule by a dictatorship
- 21. an arrangement in which a purchaser pays over an extended time, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase
- 23. A period of panic about suspected radical Communism in the US in the 1920s
- 26. a Protestant movement grounded in a literal interpretation of the Bible
- 29. a court case that challenged a Tennessee law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in schools
- 31. a pact signed by 65 nations, including US, which renounced war as an instrument of national policy; promised not to use war as a way of settling issues; but there was no way to enforce it
- 32. President from 1920-1923; ran on a platform of "returning to normalcy"
- 33. legendary 1920s baseball star
- 34. first woman to swim the English Channel in 1926
Down
- 1. Turning away from the governmental activism of the progressive era
- 2. the movement to outlaw alcohol in the US
- 3. scandal in which government had set aside oil-rich public lands for the navy; Albert B. Fall got it transferred to the Interior Department, where he secretly leased it to private companies and got rich from it
- 4. a free-thinking young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920s
- 6. Became more popular after 1915; wanted US to be white and Protestant; opposed Jews, Roman Catholics, African Americans, labor unions, communists, etc.; supported Prohibition
- 8. president of the coal miners' union
- 9. Tariff passed in 1922 that raised the tax on imports to its highest level ever (almost 60%); intended to protect American manufacturing from foreign competition
- 10. a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women
- 11. famous Harlem Renaissance poet from Missouri
- 18. places where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during Prohibition
- 19. Anarchist Italian immigrants who were accused of and tried for a murder and robbery; evidence was circumstantial and they both had alibis, but were convicted and executed anyway because of nativist prejudice/racism
- 20. Harding's VP; president from 1923-1928; believed government should foster business growth
- 22. cities spreading out unplanned
- 24. famous jazz pianist and composer of the Harlem Renaissance
- 25. Established the maximum number of people who could enter the US from each foreign country; based on immigration levels from before 1890; discriminated against immigrants from eastern and southern Europe (mostly Jews and Catholics); excluded Japanese immigrants entirely
- 27. People who oppose any and all forms of government
- 28. author of The Great Gatsby
- 30. famous painter who produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York