Places in US History

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Across
  1. 2. "54'40" or Fight" was a rallying cry related to this territory
  2. 4. A bus boycott here began with Rosa Parks
  3. 6. The US gained control of this island during the Spanish-American War (War of 1898)
  4. 8. Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders charged San Juan Hill on this island
  5. 11. The first state to ratify the Constitution
  6. 14. President Nixon's trip to this Chinese city was a great foreign relations move
  7. 20. A women's convention here resulted in a declaration of women's equal rights
  8. 22. Paul Revere warned of the British departure from this city
  9. 23. A battle here took place after the War of 1812 had been ended by treaty
  10. 25. the Alamo is in this Texas city
  11. 27. The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on this Japanese city
  12. 28. A treaty outside of this French capital ended World War I
  13. 30. A march for civil rights ended tragically here
  14. 32. The "shot heard round the world" was fired here
  15. 33. This city was burned by Union General William Sherman
  16. 34. The "Golden Spike" completing the transcontinental railroad was driven into the ground in this state
Down
  1. 1. a symbolic place in South Dakota representing the maltreatment of the Native Americans
  2. 3. Joseph McCarthy, the leader of the Red Scare in the 1950's, was from this state
  3. 5. Where the Second Continental Congress met
  4. 7. The purchase of this territory was a tremendous real estate deal
  5. 9. The battleship Maine exploded in the harbor of this city
  6. 10. A major turning point of the Civil War took place in the Pennsylvania town
  7. 12. The first woman on the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor, was from this state
  8. 13. The Missouri Compromise allowed this state to enter as a free state
  9. 15. President Reagan challenged the Soviet leader to "take down this wall"
  10. 16. A Union victory in this Mississippi river town gave the Union control of the Mississippi River
  11. 17. One of the states where popular sovereignty was attempted to solve the slavery question, but it turned out bloody
  12. 18. Lewis and Clark left this city on their "Voyage of Discovery"
  13. 19. The New Deal program constructed the hydroelectricity infrastructure along this southern river
  14. 21. The firing on Fort Sumter in this state started the Civil War
  15. 24. Our nation's first capital city
  16. 26. Riots in this section of Los Angeles were part of the 1960's violence
  17. 28. An engineering wonder here reduced the travel time from San Francisco to New York City tremendously
  18. 29. The Democrat National Convention of 1968 in this city was marked by violence and demonstrations against the Vietnam War and civil rights
  19. 31. Known as "Seward's Folly"
  20. 35. the last state to enter the Union