Across
- 6. A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.
- 8. a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union; the closest we got to nuclear war during the Cold War.
- 10. Land acquisition that doubled the size of the US.
- 12. Refers to the industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages.
- 13. a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
- 17. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
- 18. laws passed to discriminate against African-Americans in the South during Reconstruction
- 19. the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest
Down
- 1. survival of the fittest in society
- 2. Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy African Americans and helped them get jobs
- 3. A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere.
- 4. a position of not taking a side
- 5. The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional.
- 7. A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.
- 9. ______ vs. Board of Education; Supreme Court case that overturned the "separate but equal" discrimination ruling.
- 11. strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism.
- 14. Attack from the Japanese that caused America to join WW2
- 15. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
- 16. the 19th century belief that America's westward expansion was inevitable and justified.