8th grade final review Name: ____________________

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Across
  1. 4. the event that brought America into WW2
  2. 6. - young, modern women who wanted to break away from traditional gender roles
  3. 7. - FDR's plan to get the country out of the Great Depression
  4. 9. - achieved through the passage of the 18th amendment
  5. 11. law passed to limit the number of immigrants coming into the US
  6. 16. people who used their talents to expose corruption in society
  7. 17. - America became involved in this to stop the spread of communism in Asia
  8. 20. - this coming down was the symbolic end to the Cold War
  9. 24. - law passed due to Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle"
  10. 25. granted all men 21 and over the right to vote regardless of race
  11. 26. - country which the US had tension and hostility with during the Cold War
Down
  1. 1. - The US became involved in this because of the use of yellow journalism
  2. 2. - an environmental crisis of the Plains region caused by drought
  3. 3. a law that granted 160 acres of free land in exchange for a small filing fee
  4. 5. welcomed immigrants into the US
  5. 8. abolished slavery in the US
  6. 10. - ruled separte but equal was unconstitutional
  7. 12. the president that decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan
  8. 13. - achieved through the passage of the 19th amendment to the constitution
  9. 14. defined citizenship as all persons born or naturalized in the US
  10. 15. - 13 day standoff between US and USSR that was the closest the world ever came to Nuclear War
  11. 18. - a term used to criticize Herbert Hoover's lack of direct aid during the Great Depression
  12. 19. used in Southern states to keep African Americans from voting
  13. 21. - to add
  14. 22. - taken over by force and later became a state
  15. 23. - to adopt the ways of another culture