Across
- 3. American President who did not like to give out ‘handouts’ during the Great Depression
- 4. Journalists who would go undercover to expose poor working conditions
- 6. Conservation,corporate law, consumer protection
- 7. president who came up with the New Deal
- 8. young women who went against societal constraints
- 9. A novelist and essayist who wrote The Great Gatsby
- 10. Empress of the Blues, an African American jazz and blues singer
- 11. The author who wrote The Jungle
- 12. Alcohol smugglers who hid their goods in the legs of their boots
- 13. an African American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright
- 17. an activist that dedicated her life to social reform around labor and racial discrimination
- 20. US president and tenth chief justice
- 21. an economic crash in the 30s
- 25. immediate assistance provided by the government for people in need, especially during natural disasters or economic problems
- 26. A civil rights group advocating for full civil equality for African Americans
- 27. An African American writer, folklorist, and anthropologist
- 29. created by the Immigration Act of 1924
- 30. Laws that oppressed African Americans and their rights
- 32. A strict and literal translation of religious texts
- 33. a civil rights group for African Americans founded in 1909
- 35. A law that raised tariffs to protect farms and goods
- 37. The banning of alcohol
- 38. an African American educator and author who founded the Tuskegee Institute
- 39. a scandal involving bribes paid to the Secretary to the Interior by oil tycoons
- 40. a boom of African American culture in Harlem, New York
Down
- 1. gave women the right to vote
- 2. A period of general social reforms and political movements
- 5. financial risk taking
- 14. two immigrants who were accused of murder and executed despite there not being sufficient evidence
- 15. A teacher got in trouble and went to court because he taught evolution
- 16. FDR’s plan to provide immediate economic relief and stability
- 18. an African American sociologist, socialist, and civil rights activist
- 19. Warren G Harding’s personal group
- 22. A book exposing the bad parts of the meatpacking industry
- 23. secret alcohol saloons you had to know the password for
- 24. The day the Stock Market crashed
- 28. A famous African American jazz player
- 31. Also called Hoovervilles, small camps built out of scrap during the Great Depression
- 34. A novelist and storywriter who satirized middle class America
- 36. over farmed land that caused soil to become dusty, a large portion of the Midwest