US HISTORY KEYWORDS AND TOPICS CROSSWORD

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Across
  1. 1. Lincoln’s speech honoring soldiers and national unity.
  2. 5. First U.S. government framework with weak central power.
  3. 6. First 10 amendments protecting individual freedoms (1791).
  4. 7. Period of rapid industrial growth and political corruption after the Civil War.
  5. 8. Document declaring American independence from Britain (1776).
  6. 13. British tax on printed materials that angered colonists (1765).
  7. 19. Movement of people to the U.S. for opportunity and freedom.
  8. 20. Global war from 1914–1918; U.S. joined in 1917.
  9. 22. 1803 land deal doubling the size of the U.S.
  10. 26. Settlement of people from one country in a new land (1600s America).
  11. 28. War for independence between colonies and Britain (1775–1783).
  12. 29. Person working to end slavery.
  13. 30. Movement Effort to end racial segregation and discrimination (1950s–1960s).
Down
  1. 2. Lincoln’s order freeing enslaved people in Confederate states (1863).
  2. 3. Agreement by Pilgrims to create self-government in Plymouth Colony.
  3. 4. Commander of the Continental Army and first U.S. president.
  4. 9. Organization of workers seeking better conditions and wages.
  5. 10. of rebuilding the South after the Civil War (1865–1877).
  6. 11. Movement of settlers west across North America.
  7. 12. Protest against British taxation by dumping tea into Boston Harbor (1773).
  8. 14. Framework of government established in 1787.
  9. 15. Journalist exposing corruption and social problems.
  10. 16. Conflict between North and South over slavery and states’ rights (1861–1865).
  11. 17. Farming system where workers paid rent with part of their crops.
  12. 18. FDR’s programs to address the Great Depression.
  13. 21. Growth of factories and industry in the late 1800s.
  14. 23. Belief that the U.S. was destined to expand westward.
  15. 24. Collapse of stock prices in 1929 starting the Great Depression.
  16. 25. Severe economic downturn beginning in 1929.
  17. 27. Time of social and political reform in the early 1900s.