Unit 12: Civil Rights and Conservatism

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Across
  1. 7. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  2. 8. Economic system of the United States that focuses on making profit and private ownership
  3. 11. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  4. 12. Prevents employers from discriminating based on race, color, religion, gender
  5. 14. Fight between the United States and Soviet Union that never escalated to physical war
  6. 15. Soviet satellite launched into space which started the space race
  7. 17. Civil Rights activist that gave a speech entitled "I Have a Dream"
  8. 18. To end segregation (racial or otherwise)
  9. 19. A law created to protect students from facing gender discrimination
Down
  1. 1. Prevents the use of literacy tests, poll taxes to discourage minorities from voting
  2. 2. Supreme Court Case that ended "separate but equal"
  3. 3. League of Latin American Citizens
  4. 4. Early childhood education for lower income families
  5. 5. Growing political party in Texas
  6. 6. International Space Station
  7. 9. Health insurance for senior citizens
  8. 10. Vice President that took over after Kennedy was assassinated
  9. 13. Economic system of the Soviet Union that focuses on collective ownership and equal distribution
  10. 16. President of the U.S. that promised to get a man to the moon