The Roaring Twenties Crossword

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Westward Expansion & Industrialization has 18 clues. Answers range from 9 to 19 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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African-American poet who used jazz & blues themes & rhythms in poetry. He was from MO.
Writer and playwright whose novel, Babbitt, ridiculed Americans for their conformity and materialism; First American to receive Nobel prize in literature
Banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages.
Female lyrical poet & playwright who received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1923.
An American artist. Her paintings were highly symbolic.
African-American art and literature flourished during this time and it centered in the Harlem community of NYC
Encouraged African Americans to build a separate society & eventually return to Africa to establish a country of their own.
A sensational 1925 court case in which biology teacher, John Scopes, was tried for challenging a TN law outlawing teaching evolution.
A set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women.
"Empress of the Blues"
American writer who coined the phrase, "The Jazz Age." Wrote The Great Gatsby
Won Nobel prize for literature in 1954, wrote A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea
Smuggled alcoholic beverages into US during Prohibition.
An American composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed for musical comedies.
"Royal" Jazz composer and piano player.
A place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during Prohibition.
Trumpet player - perhapsthe most influential jazz musician of all time.
John Scopes's attorney and one of the founders of the ACLU

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