US HISTORY
Across
- 4. On Washington: an event where civil rights leaders went to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress.
- 5. Market: a market in which share prices are rising, encouraging buying.
- 6. Flagler: He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida
- 8. The U.S. has military bases all over the world and outright occupies Iraq and Afghanistan is an example of?
- 9. Amendment: prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
- 11. a pact, coalition or friendship between two or more parties.
- 16. a belief in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government
- 18. Migration: the movement of 6 million African Americans
Down
- 1. Amendment: addresses citizenship rights and equal protection
- 2. Renaissance: cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets
- 3. Dubious: felt that African Americans had the same rights as Whites and should not have to sacrifice their constitutional rights to gain a status they already deserved.
- 6. more than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals, were murdered at concentration camps .
- 7. during the war the United States maintained its___.
- 10. Island: Europeans came through this island.
- 12. Island: Chinese people came through this island.
- 13. System: ships sailing in groups and protected by armed vessels
- 14. Exclusion Act: was the first law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States
- 15. T. Washington: believed that the best interests of black people in the post-Reconstruction era could be realized through education in the crafts and industrial skills
- 17. Age: coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald