civil rights tic tac toe

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Across
  1. 2. a protest in which people sit in a place and refuse to move until their demands are met
  2. 4. the state of hostility that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII
  3. 5. the United States gave more than $13 billion to help the nations of Europe after WWII
  4. 6. warmer states of the South and Southwest
  5. 7. founded in 1944 and aimed to promote the common welfare of Native Americans
  6. 8. this law banned literacy tests and other laws that kept African Americans from registering to vote
  7. 10. a program that provided help to the poor, the elderly, and women, and also promoted education and outlawed discrimination
  8. 14. a policy that promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom
  9. 15. a form of popular music that developed from rhythm and blues in the 1950s
  10. 16. a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States in the exploration of space
  11. 17. a conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950 to 1953
  12. 18. a residential area that surrounds a city
Down
  1. 1. this act banned segregation in public places and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  2. 3. the term for the generation born between 1946 and 1961, when the U.S. birthrate sharply increased
  3. 5. in 1955, African Americans boycotted the public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks
  4. 9. founded in 1966, pushed to get women good jobs at equal pay
  5. 11. in 1964, the SNCC organized a voter registration drive
  6. 12. a program that called for new projects to create jobs, new public housing, and an end to racial discrimination in hiring
  7. 13. a group that coordinated civil rights protests across the South
  8. 18. formed in 1960, created to give young people a larger role in the civil rights movement