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Across
- 2. The US entered this "greatest war of all time" when attacked at Pearl Harbor by Japan (2 words and a number)
- 7. Era in America after Civil War when it needed to "rebuild"
- 10. Wrote the Declaration of Independence. Also President #3
- 12. Terrible economic condition that hit America in the 1930s (2 words)
- 14. Term used after WW2 describing rivalry between US-USSR (2 words)
- 15. America fought this familiar foe in the War of 1812
- 20. Britain controlled what became the first American states and called them this
- 21. _______ Destiny - Term used for the settlement of America coast-to-coast
- 22. President in the 1980s credited for ending the Cold War
Down
- 1. Era in America where government offered more reform and gained power over the American citizen
- 3. Term given the 1920s in America for its prosperity (2 words)
- 4. Term used for the rivalry of US-USSR in Space (2 words)
- 5. _______Age = Rise of the computer and internet
- 6. The U.S. started neutral but entered this devastating war in 1917 (2 words and a number)
- 8. Know as "Father of the Constitution". Also our fourth President
- 9. Geographic region of America that one the Civil War
- 11. When elected President, it led to secession and the Civil War
- 13. Great American Revolutionary War hero and our first President
- 16. This American state was originally its own country right after it defeated Mexico
- 17. This necessary mineral was in abundance in America helping it to ignite the Industrial Revolution
- 18. "Age" in America with immense wealth due to industrialization
- 19. Country represented by Italian Christopher Columbus when he discovered the New World for Europe