US History and Geography Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 7. The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem
  2. 10. illegal production, transport, and sale of illegal alcohol known as bootlegging.
Down
  1. 1. women were fighting for the right to vote, which also paved the way for women to attend higher education.
  2. 2. A group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s
  3. 3. First urged moderation, then encouraged drinkers to help each other to resist temptation, and ultimately demanded that local, state, and national governments prohibit alcohol outright.
  4. 4. English-speaking immigrants and native-born Americans reacted to the growing cultural diversity with growing racism and suspicion.
  5. 5. half of urban families owned it
  6. 6. Banks offered the country's first home mortgages. Manufacturers of everything--from cars to irons--allowed consumers to pay "on time."
  7. 8. some religious fundamentalists charged that teaching evolution was destroying people's faith in God and in the Bible
  8. 9. cluster of doctrines and attitudes centered on the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary.