The Debauchery Decade: The 1920's Crossword

Tennessee educator found guilty for breaking the state law and teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in his classroom.
An aviator, first man to make the solo transatlantic airplane voyage between New York and Paris in 1927 in his plane, Spirit of St. Louis.
A navigator who made the first airplane journey over the North Pole, flying from King’s Bay, Spitsbergen, Norway, to the Pole and back.
An American writer who rose to prominence as a chronicler of the jazz age, most famous for writing The Great Gatsby.
The leader of the Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era, amassed a personal fortune estimated at $100 million as the head of the infamous crime syndicate.
A proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, inspiring the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement.
A type of investment fraud in which handsome returns are promised from made-up sources and early investors are supposedly compensated with money raised from later ones, first committed by Charles Ponzi during the 1920s.
An act limiting the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota, this act completely excluded Asian countries.
A term used to describe the music industry in New York, located between 48th and 52nd street.
A term used to describe illegal liquor made during the Prohibition Era.
A term first coined by American writer and satirist H.L. Mencken in 1925 during the Scopes Monkey Trial used to describe the region in the Southwest where Southern Baptists, Methodists, and evangelical Christians were the predominant religious group.
The first affordable car which allowed the American middle class to travel in personal cars produced by the Ford Motor Company.
A plan for the collection of the German reparations following World War 1.
U.S. ambassador who improved U.S.-Mexican relations, mediating the religious conflict in Mexico known as the Cristero Rebellion (1926–29), but also contributing to an easing of conflict between the two countries over oil.
An author during the Harlem Renaissance whose novel There Is Confusion explored the idea of black Americans finding a cultural identity in a white-dominated Manhattan, thus revising stereotypical representations of black life.
A legendary nightspot in the Harlem district of New York City that for years featured prominent black entertainers who performed for white audiences.
A Prohibition-era mob leader, hit man and bootlegger who was based in New York.
A bureau set up by the government in an effort to police prohibition, intended to deter organized crime but ultimately failed.
A black actor, singer, writer and activist who was at the center of the stage revolution during the Harlem Renaissance, is considered an inspirational figure for his role in Harlem’s cultural bloom.
A culture surrounding the buying and selling of products that rose in the 1920s as a result of mass production, new products on the market, and improved advertising techniques.
American swimmer, first woman to swim across the English Channel in 1926.
A fashion designer who set the stage for modern fashion in the 1920s by creating a signature style, a brand awareness, and a social buzz around herself like no one had ever done before.
An American scientist who in 1924, discovered that the universe is expanding, providing the foundation for the Big Bang Model that is currently in existence today.
A German philology student at the University of Chicago who in 1921 , alongside two scholars at other institutions, became the first African American women to receive PhDs from American universities.
A University of Chicago physiologist who in 1923 discovered the anesthetic use of ethylene gas, which in the following 20 years would come into general use as an anesthetic in major operations.
A man known as the father of black history, who was a forerunner in the creation of Black History Month and helped to transform how people think about black history, creating the peer-reviewed Journal of Negro History, establishing the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), and starting the ASALH Press.
An art movement that started to became very popular in the 1920s.
Starred in The Jazz Singer, the first feature film with synchronized speech, leading to the downfall of silent films.