US History Final Project

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Across
  1. 3. A scandal involving Richard Nixon
  2. 5. Formally abolished slavery in the United States
  3. 8. population of slaves would be counted as three-fifths in total when apportioning Representatives
  4. 11. Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages
  5. 13. Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration
  6. 17. A diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States
  7. 18. A civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation
  8. 19. A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba
  9. 20. He served as the 28th President of the United States
Down
  1. 1. a document signed on July 4, 1776
  2. 2. Gave women the right to vote
  3. 4. written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain
  4. 6. Colonies' fight for independence from Britain
  5. 7. The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism
  6. 9. This war began as an intervention by the United States on behalf of Cuba
  7. 10. laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 that affected the freedom of African Americans
  8. 12. An act imposing a tax on documents and printed items such as wills, newspapers, and playing cards
  9. 14. State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States
  10. 15. The 1st president of the United States
  11. 16. Laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars