The Twenties1920-29 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| The banning(not allowing)of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcohol. | prohibition |
| A place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during prohibition | Speakeasy |
| A person who smuggled(hid) alcoholic beverages into the United States during prohibition | Bootlegger |
| Fear of revolution and the communism and attempt to bomb prominent(important) leaders led to a crack down by the government. | Red Scare and the Palmer Raids |
| Granted women the suffrage(right of women to vote and hold office) | 19th Amendment |
| Two Italian immigrants and anarchists (one who uses violent means to overthrow the established order) were tried for murders. | Sacco & Vanzetti |
| A Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all stories and details in the Bible are literally true. | Fundamentalism |
| The defending attorney for John Scopes | Clarence Darrow |
| A sensational 1925 court case in which the biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution. | Scopes Trial |
| An emancipated(free of control) young woman who embraced(loved) the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day. | Flapper |
| The growth of African American literature and arts | Harlem Renaissance |
| Famous jazz club located in Harlem where the musicians of the Harlem Renaissance often played. | Cotton Club |
| Act by Congress that limited immigration | Emergency Quota Act |
| Bribery scandal involving president Harding's Secretary of the Interior. | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| 15 nations agreed that all conflicts should be settled peacefully | Kellogg-Briand pact |
| Based on the post-Civil War terrorist organization, the Invisible Empire was gounded to fight the growing "influence" of blacks, Jews and Catholics in U.S. Society. | Ku Klux Klan |
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