American Studies Final Exam Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. Government policy of not getting involved in business
  2. 3. Controversial activist who promoted back nationalism in the early 1900s
  3. 5. Early civil rights leader; founded the NAACP
  4. 6. Information used to try to influence public opinion to support a particular view, often used during wartime
  5. 7. NAACP lawyer who argued the Brown v Board of Education case; first African American Supreme Court Justice
  6. 10. Organized mass killing of a group of people
  7. 11. First black man to play Major League baseball in the modern era
  8. 13. Tax on imported goods that benefits U.S. businesses
  9. 15. Wrote the book The Feminine Mystique
  10. 16. Outspoken First Lady who played an important role in her husband’s presidency
  11. 18. Discrimination against Jewish people
  12. 22. The right to vote
  13. 24. A government that controls all aspects of life in a country
  14. 25. Senator from Wisconsin whose baseless accusations against suspected communists led to a second Red Scare in the 1950s
  15. 26. Type of government that emphasizes nationalism, expansionism, and the military
  16. 27. American general who played a prominent role in the Pacific Theater during WWII, but was fired by President Truman during the Korean War
  17. 28. Refusal to buy a certain product
  18. 29. Avoiding political or economic alliances
  19. 30. Infamous gangster from the Prohibition era
  20. 31. Applied the assembly line technique to the production of automobiles; produced the first affordable auto
Down
  1. 2. Separation of people by race
  2. 3. Preparation for war
  3. 4. A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons
  4. 8. Not taking sides in a conflict between two nations
  5. 9. Wrote the book Silent Spring, which helped to launch the modern environmental movement
  6. 12. Progressive reformer who led the settlement house movement and advocated for women’s rights
  7. 14. Fair and equal treatment under the law
  8. 17. American General who coordinated Allied operations in Europe and the Pacific during WWII; after the war, he became Secretary of State and created a plan to help rebuild Europe
  9. 19. Leader of the women’s suffrage movement
  10. 20. An extreme form of patriotism, marked by a feeling of superiority over other countries
  11. 21. 1920’s era writer whose poems described the experiences of black Americans in the early 20th century
  12. 23. A charge of misconduct made against an elected official