American History

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