US History
Across
- 2. Sioux religious awakening movement that they believed would drive white people away
- 4. belief that women should have more rights and education so that they can teach their sons and aide their husbands
- 6. Act that gives elderly people a pension
- 9. a state has the legal right to declare a law null and void within its borders
- 10. Form of transportation that connected the east and west coast
- 11. A law in the Compromise of 1850 that required authorities to returned escaped and runaway slaves in the north to the south
- 15. Anti-immigrant party formed from some former Whigs and unhappy northern democrats
- 16. agreement for bicameral legislature where the house is proportional and the senate is per state
- 20. Idea that white Americans were called by God to expand westward
Down
- 1. Supreme court case that said that slaves had no rights and called the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, meaning he wasn't actually free
- 3. Included the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the expansion of the Freedman's Bureau. Time after the civil war when a group of officeholders led racial changes
- 5. Type of journalism where journalists would expose corrupt business practices and poor working conditions
- 7. Name for program where supplies were delivered to Berlin while the Soviet Union blocked all other western contact
- 8. US wouldn't allow further European colonization of the western hemisphere
- 12. General term for racially discriminatory laws passed after the civil war
- 13. Questionable Act where speech against the country was prohibited to help the war effort during WWI
- 14. Shantytowns that were named after a president
- 17. US pacific war strategy in WWII that skipped some islands and focused on others
- 18. Mass movement of African Americans from the south to the North
- 19. Convention in New York where women demanded legal rights and equality