Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. also called Beat Generation
  2. 4. The election where Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckenridge
  3. 9. a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular
  4. 10. class structure that is determined by birth Most prominent is India but was the basis of the encomienda system used by the Spanish
  5. 11. Americans put the japanese in prison and other kind of detention during WWII.
  6. 12. a town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity
  7. 13. type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, and syncopation
  8. 17. American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement
  9. 18. Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States
  10. 20. the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship
  11. 25. book that “started” the women's movement and 1960s feminism in the United States
  12. 28. fundamental document establishing the United States as a nation, adopted on July 4, 1776
  13. 33. A federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment
  14. 35. also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  15. 36. intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War
  16. 37. provided a broad statement of US and British war aims Joint declaration released FDR and Churchill
  17. 39. 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
  18. 40. landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
  19. 41. created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery
  20. 43. the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution
  21. 44. series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  22. 45. a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
  23. 46. 20th-century term for an attitude toward women's roles present in the emerging United States before, during, and after the American Revolution
  24. 47. Germany, Italy, and Japan, which were allied before and during World War II
  25. 48. sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification
  26. 50. the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence
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  1. 1. Purchase by Thomas Jefferson to expand the territory of the United States
  2. 3. law passed in 1787 to regulate the settlement of the Northwest Territory, which eventually was divided into several states of the Middle West
  3. 5. An amendment passed by the US Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
  4. 6. a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering; free enterprise
  5. 7. a commercial bank that is chartered under the federal government and is a member of the Federal Reserve System.
  6. 8. a member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people
  7. 9. A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides
  8. 14. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
  9. 15. Consisted of United States Armed Forces sent to Europe under the command of General John J Pershing
  10. 16. executive order issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control\
  11. 19. era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. American wages
  12. 21. one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
  13. 22. war between Spain and the United States, fought in 1898. The war began as an intervention by the United States on behalf of Cuba
  14. 23. Treaties between two or more countries to establish a free trade area where commerce in goods and services can be conducted across their common borders
  15. 24. a member of a militant political organization set up in the US in 1966 to fight for black rights
  16. 26. an opponent of imperialism
  17. 27. major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships
  18. 29. first written constitution of the United States
  19. 30. an advocate or supporter of federalism
  20. 31. the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
  21. 32. also known as the “New Negro Movement”
  22. 34. a bomb that derives its destructive power dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 38. 36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973)
  24. 42. the policy of promoting industry in the US by adoption of a high protective tariff and of developing internal improvements by the federal government (as advocated by Henry Clay from 1816 to 1828)
  25. 49. Darwinism theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals