Some Social Developments of the 1930’s
Directions: Using Chapter 23 sections 3 and 4, read the clues and fill in the answers in the
appropriate spot.
Across
1. Where union members sit down in the factory to halt production
4. the person who works hardest for rights for African Americans during FDR's presidency
6. War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane
8. Their Eyes Were Watching God (you’ll need to add a box to the end)
10. large labor union of skilled workers
11. Groucho, Harppo, Zeppo star in Duck Soup
13. American Gothic painter
15. Commissioner of Indian Affairs; worked for rights of Native Americans
16. How FDR got his message across to the American people
18. group of African Americans from the South who sought to protect rights of tenant
farmers and sharecroppers
20. Reform mayor of New York from 1939 to 1945
22. Southern Democrats, African Americans, urban groups, union workers
24. style of art from the American midwest portraying America's rural lifestyle
28. radio soap opera that eventually transitions to TV
29. famous Mexican mural painter who inspired a number of WPA projects
30. Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh star in this movie about Southern plantation owners at
the end of the Civil War. Frankly my dear...
31. United Mine Workers leader who ends up being an organizer for the CIO
32. African author of Native Son
Down
1. First full length, color, animated feature
2. wrote Our Town a play about a small New England town
3. woman in Democratic who was instrumental in 1936 election
5. “HiYo Silver...Away!” radio show for kids about a crime fighting cowboy and his Native
American sidekick named Tonto
7. First color live action film, Populist allegory
9. author of the National Labor Relations Act
11. African American singer snubbed by the DAR and performed at the Lincoln
Memorial
12. Piece of legislation intended to get Native Americans to assimilate culturally in the US
passed in 1887
14. African American woman who was a close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt and head of the
NYA
16. director of feel good movies…Its a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
Some of the Our Gang shorts, and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
17. African American in the department of the Interior
19. African American movement in the 1930's to protest discriminatory practices during
the New Deal
20. first female Secretary of Labor
21. Grapes of Wrath author--story of the Joad family and their search for jobs in the
promised land of California
23. parent agency of the Federal Art Project
25. James Cagney, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich all were these
26. 90% of families have one by the end of the 1930s
27. union that splits from the AFL for unskilled industrial workers
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