American History

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Across
  1. 3. law established by previous court decisions
  2. 4. a minimum level of income needed to support a family
  3. 9. used in or produced by nuclear reaction
  4. 12. the following of procedures established by law
  5. 15. a ruler who holds absolute power
  6. 16. to express a formal disapproval of an action
  7. 19. force
  8. 20. an official document, signed by a judge, authoriziing an arrest or a search of one's property
  9. 21. radioactive particles dispersed by a nuclear explosion
  10. 22. a colony consisting of Veitnam, Cambodia, and Laos ruled by France in the second half of the nineteenth century
  11. 24. the expulsion, imprisonment, or killing of ethnic minorities by a dominant majority group
  12. 25. money given by the government to people
  13. 26. spanish for "village"; term used by early spanish explorers to denote large housing structures built by the anasazi
  14. 29. the state of making something better or more tolerable
Down
  1. 1. method of boycotting work by sitting down at work and refusing to leave the establishment
  2. 2. a system in which union membership is a condition of employment
  3. 5. overthown
  4. 6. a line of posts set firmly to form a defense
  5. 7. a tax on imports and exports
  6. 8. the establishment of electoral districts based on their populations
  7. 10. corrective; meant as a remedy
  8. 11. a person who risks money in hopes of a financial profit
  9. 13. monthly plan made to pay off the cost of an item when buying it on credit
  10. 14. someone who travels over the land to the west
  11. 17. process whereby a neutral party hears arguments from two oppoing sides and makes a decision that both must accept
  12. 18. during World War II, a Japanese suicide pilot whose mission was to crash into his target
  13. 22. a state of extreme poverty and hardship
  14. 23. provided
  15. 27. conflict over ideological differences that does not involve warfare or overt military action
  16. 28. a jellied gasoline used for bombs