Unit 8 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. government-led effort to revive cities by demolishing slums and undesirable areas
  2. 5. a movement that rebelled against typical American culture
  3. 9. civil rights activists who rode interstate buses to protest bus segregation
  4. 10. civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus
  5. 11. civil rights leader who advocated for rights by any means necessary
  6. 13. policies designed to improve opportunities for minorities
  7. 18. made to investigate the assassination of JFK
  8. 20. first secretary of the Russian Communist Party
  9. 23. supreme court case that determined segregation was unconstitutional
  10. 24. economic and social proposals by President Harry Truman
  11. 26. 35th president of the United States who was assassinated
  12. 27. 36th president of the United States who took over after JFK's death
  13. 28. civil rights activist and first to integrate the University of Mississippi
  14. 29. political slogan aiming for social/economic reform by JFK
  15. 30. a heavily and openly conservative U.S. attorney
Down
  1. 1. a drawn-out period of tension between the U.S. and USSR that threatened nuclear war
  2. 2. program that provides low cost healthcare to those in need
  3. 4. the most liberal Supreme Court in U.S. history
  4. 6. progressive left-feminist association founded in 1966
  5. 7. founded with the core ideals of Black nationalism and self-sufficiency
  6. 8. the redistribution of the 435 House of Representatives seats
  7. 12. a grassroots movement to address systemic poverty
  8. 14. millions of Mexican railroad and agriculture laborers
  9. 15. Southern Democrats who formed the States' Rights Party
  10. 16. diverse forms of communication designed to share information
  11. 17. communication link between the U.S. and USSR to prevent nuclear war
  12. 19. counterculture movement that rebelled against societal norms
  13. 21. residential areas on the outskirts of major cities
  14. 22. programs enacted by Lyndon b. Johnson to end poverty
  15. 25. American virologist who developed one of the first polio vaccines