End of Year Review

2. Law that allowed any head of household over the age of 21 to claim 160 acres of land
3. Amendment that gave women the right to vote
5. Music that blends different music forms and is often composed on the spot (Louis Armstrong is a prominent jazz musician)
9. Creator of hundreds of inventions, including the light bulb and the first research library
12. Movement to ban making, selling, and transporting alcoholic drinks.
14. Immigration station in New York Harbor
19. October 29, 1929 - the worst day of the stock market crash
21. Great Britain, France, and Russia
22. Oil tycoon; founder of Standard oil
24. Belief that women and men should be socially, politically, and economically equal to men
25. Germany, Japan, and Italy
28. Young woman who behaved in non traditional ways in the 1920s
29. Payments for damages and expenses caused by the war
31. Era of high tension and bitter rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union
32. Code name for the day Operation Overlord would begin (invading Europe through Normandy, France)
33. Steel tycoon; gave away $350 million to charity
34. place where nine African American students blocked from entering school by the Arkansas National Guard in 1957
36. competitions between nations to build more and more weapons

1. Murder of an individual by a group or a mob
4. Railroad that crossed the entire country
6. FDR’s program for ending the Great Depression
7. The use of violence by individuals or small groups to advance political goals
8. The organized murder of Jews and others by the Nazis
10. Court case overturning segregation in schools
11. Missile Crisis between the US and the Soviets over Soviet missiles in Cuba
13. Dramatic rise in the birthrate after WWII
15. Joseph McCarthy’s tactics of spreading fear and making baseless charges of being a communist
16. Machine for sending messages over wires with electricity
17. Constitutional amendment ending slavery in the United States
18. Inventor of the telephone
20. An organization meant to encourage cooperation among nations and prevent future wars
23. Posters, newspaper stories, and other materials designed to influence people's opinions
25. Astronaut on Apollo 11; first human being to set foot on the moon
26. President who took office during the Great Depression and led the country through WWII
27. People who seek the equal distribution of wealth and the end of all private property
29. Widespread fear of communism
30. Smuggler of illegal liquor
35. First automaker to build inexpensive cars by using assembly lines