Across
- 1. The military campaign launched by the United States in 2001 against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
- 4. The campaign founded by Tarana Burke that brought widespread attention to sexual harassment and abuse.
- 6. The candidate whose 2008 victory made him the first African American elected president of the United States.
- 8. The civil-rights, feminist, antiwar, gay-liberation, and countercultural movements that transformed American society.
- 12. Biblical image used by John Winthrop in 1630 to describe the exemplary society the Puritans hoped to build.
- 13. The 1975 capture of South Vietnam’s capital that marked the end of the Vietnam War.
- 16. The 1911 New York factory disaster that killed 146 workers and encouraged workplace-safety reforms.
- 19. The legal right recognized nationwide following the 2015 Obergefell decision.
- 21. The 1776 document announcing that the thirteen colonies were separating from Great Britain.
- 22. The 1969 resistance to a police raid at a New York City gay bar that energized the modern LGBTQ rights movement.
- 24. The movement founded in 2013 to oppose racism and violence against Black people.
- 25. The 1954 Supreme Court decision that ruled racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Down
- 2. The 2001 terrorist attacks that targeted the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
- 3. The conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815.
- 5. The 1995 domestic terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
- 7. The 1990 law prohibiting discrimination based on disability.
- 9. The 1890 killing of hundreds of Lakota people by United States soldiers in South Dakota.
- 10. The large-scale movement of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, Midwest, and West.
- 11. The 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.
- 14. The 1945 attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that contributed to the end of the Second World War.
- 15. The collective-defence alliance formed by the United States, Canada, and Western European countries in 1949.
- 17. The part of the Bill of Rights concerning militias and the right to keep and bear arms.
- 18. The 1969 Apollo 11 achievement in which humans first walked on another celestial body.
- 20. The businessman and television personality who won the 2016 presidential election.
- 23. The American naval base attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941.
