American history key terms

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Across
  1. 3. African-American sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist.
  2. 7. Founder of the American Red Cross, nurse, and humanitarian.
  3. 8. Inventor of the telephone.
  4. 13. 13th President of the United States.
  5. 14. the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, was a planter, politician and soldier born in Kentucky and raised in Mississippi.
  6. 15. Social reformer and women's rights activist, a leader in the women's suffrage movement.
Down
  1. 1. U.S. foreign policy approach under President Taft, using economic influence to promote stability and open trade in other nations.
  2. 2. a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and inspired the agrarian movement called Zapatismo.
  3. 4. American financier and statesman, advisor to several U.S. presidents.
  4. 5. An addition to the Monroe Doctrine asserting the right of the United States to intervene in the affairs of Latin American nations.
  5. 6. Artificial waterway in Panama connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, important for global maritime trade.
  6. 9. politician of the American Revolution, leader of the Massachusetts "radicals," who was a delegate to the Continental Congress (1774-81) and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
  7. 10. Civil rights activist and leader in the Black Power movement.
  8. 11. American statesman and political theorist, known for his defense of slavery and states' rights.
  9. 12. U.S. Army general who led American forces during World War I.