American History
Across
- 3. Financial reform regulations introduced by President FDR between 1933 and 1939 (2 words)
- 4. Collection of 85 essays written under the collective pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the Constitution (2 words)
- 7. NASA astronaut who stayed aboard the Columbia shuttle while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon (2 words)
- 9. Civil War battle fought on Sep. 17, 1862, bloodiest battle in American history with 22,727 deaths
- 10. New York site of the first women's rights convention held in 1848 (2 words)
- 13. Japanese city upon which the US dropped the first atomic bomb in history
- 15. Lemhi Shoshone woman who served as a guide for Lewis and Clark
Down
- 1. Name of the North Carolina city where the Wright Brothers successfully flew the first plane (2 words)
- 2. Convicted killer of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (3 words)
- 5. 19th century belief that American settlers had the right to expand and take over land in the United States (2 words)
- 6. Name of Thomas Jefferson's famous plantation in Virginia
- 8. Territory purchased in 1803 from the French First Republic nearly doubling the size of the nation
- 11. Famous immigrant landing point during the 19th century, current home of the Statue of Liberty (2 words)
- 12. Pseudonym used by Benjamin Franklin to publish writings in the New England Courant (2 words)
- 14. Political scandal during the early 1980s in which the Reagan administration secretly sold weapons to a foreign nation, breaking an arms embargo (3 words)