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- 5. people who are jobless
- 6. was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music
- 9. was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes
- 10. the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970
- 12. was an American trumpeter, composer, vocalist, and actor who was among the most influential figures in jazz
- 14. was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States
- 17. an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s
- 18. was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s
- 19. a tax on imports or exports between sovereign states
- 20. the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks, which represent ownership claims on businesses
- 21. was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra
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- 1. an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age.
- 2. as a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 3. an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings
- 4. a peice of a company
- 7. was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright
- 8. an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945
- 11. was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres
- 13. rican-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life
- 15. the central banking system of the United States of America. It was created on December 23, 1913
- 16. to assume an excessive amount of business risk in speculating on something (such as stocks)