US History Unit 10: Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. The federal economic polices of the Reagan administration, elected in 1981. These policies combined a monetarist fiscal policy, supply-side tax cuts, and domestic budget cutting. Their goal was to reduce the size of the federal government and stimulate economic growth.
  2. 3. Control efforts by a government to regulate or control the sale of guns
  3. 6. Deficit An excess of imports over exports
  4. 7. that group of quiet honest hard-working middle class Americans who do their job, respect their country and support gov. Nixon wants their votes in 1968 and 1972
  5. 8. A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and older
  6. 9. 3 day rock concert in upstate N.Y. August 1969, exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s, nearly 1/2M gather in a 600 acre field
Down
  1. 1. Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private members, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developers.
  2. 4. North American Free Trade Agreement; allows open trade with US, Mexico, and Canada.
  3. 5. extremists religious adherents who believe that their religion is the one true religion and others must be done away with
  4. 9. A break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in Washington was carried out under the direction of White House employees. Disclosure of the White House involvement in the break-in and subsequent cover-up forced President Nixon to resign in 1974 to avoid impeachment.