Across
- 4. from Florida to California...warmer climates, lower taxes, and economic opportunities prompted families uprooted by the war to move to these areas
- 9. a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957
- 11. organization signed into law by Nixon in 1970 designed to regulate pollution, emissions and other factors that negatively influence the natural environment
- 12. landmark Supreme Court case that resulted in a unanimous decision which ordered a U.S. President to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials to a federal district court
- 14. election
- 15. book by Betty Friedan, widely credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States, also featured in a 90s romcom
- 16. Peace Accords of January 27, 1973 intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War
- 17. Nuclear accident near the city of Pripyat, Russia, in which the No. 4 reactor melted and exploded, which later caused the threat of nuclear contamination of almost 50% of Europe, worst nuclear disaster in history
- 20. neoliberal economic policies promoted by a U.S. President during the 1980s
- 21. a media stereotype prevalent throughout the late 1940s, 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s
- 22. a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community.
- 24. famous speech given during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963
- 25. The first woman to be in the Supreme Court, Appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1981
Down
- 1. Society series of policy initiatives, legislation and programs spearheaded by President Lyndon B. Johnson with the main goals of ending poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality and improving the environment
- 2. political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama, most popularly known display by Rosa Parks
- 3. a temporary marked increase in the birth rate, especially the one following World War II
- 5. prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax
- 6. amendment of the Constitution of California enacted during 1978
- 7. organization protested government policies and injustices suffered by Native Americans and fought for the rights of Indigenous people
- 8. Nuclear accident was a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island, Unit 2 reactor in Pennsylvania, United States, also known as America’s Chernobyl
- 10. civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability effective: July 26, 1990
- 13. major political scandal in the United States which directly involved the president from 1972-1974
- 18. progressive movement, architects and city planner, aimed to promote order, harmony and virtue while beautifying the nation's new urban spaces
- 19. environmental science book by Rachel Carson. Published on September 27, 1962, the book documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides
- 23. was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, widely accredited pop culture staple