Across
- 2. a period of an economic contraction, sometimes limited in scope or duration.
- 5. the ideological battle between the US and the USSR from the end of WW2 until 1989
- 10. it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia.
- 11. A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians.
- 16. CCC, organized to utilize the nation's unemployed youth by building roads, planting trees, improving parks, etc.
- 18. United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
- 19. an act of Congress (1820) by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri.
- 23. leader of the non-violent approach to the Civil Rights Movement
- 24. May 8, 1945, the day of victory in Europe for the Allies in World War II
- 25. those of the major war criminals and these were held from November 20th, 1945 to October 1st, 1946.
- 29. gave former slaves US citizenship
- 30. comprehensive plan to defeat the Confederacy at the start of the American Civil War. North squeezes the south
- 31. Formally ended slavery
- 32. the ship that exploded that caused the start of the Spanish American War
- 33. a member of a gang of criminals, especially a racketeer.
Down
- 1. the country that used the tacit of unrestricted submarine warfare
- 3. the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
- 4. The Palmer Raids were a series of raids in late 1919 and early 1920 by the United States Department of Justice intended to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States.
- 6. the act of Congress in 1854 annulling the Missouri Compromise, providing for the organization of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and permitting these territories self-determination on the question of slavery.
- 7. presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.
- 8. . On June 29, 1892, workers belonging to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers struck the Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead, Pa. to protest a proposed wage cut.
- 9. A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah.
- 12. North America Treaty Organization
- 13. gave women the right to vote
- 14. nominations of candidates for office are made by direct vote.
- 15. leader in the black power movement
- 17. a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
- 20. gave former slaves the right to vote
- 21. a district lying immediately outside a city or town, especially a smaller residential community.
- 22. established in the War Department by an act of March 3, 1865. The Bureau supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen, including issuing rations, clothing and medicine.
- 26. an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- 27. the name of the speech that President Wilson gave on how to achieve freedom after WW1
- 28. an arrangement made in 1941 whereby the US supplied military equipment and armaments to the UK and its allies, originally as a loan in return for the use of British-owned military bases.