Across
- 2. "54'40" or Fight" was a rallying cry related to this territory
- 4. A bus boycott here began with Rosa Parks
- 6. The US gained control of this island during the Spanish-American War (War of 1898)
- 8. Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders charged San Juan Hill on this island
- 11. The first state to ratify the Constitution
- 14. President Nixon's trip to this Chinese city was a great foreign relations move
- 20. A women's convention here resulted in a declaration of women's equal rights
- 22. Paul Revere warned of the British departure from this city
- 23. A battle here took place after the War of 1812 had been ended by treaty
- 25. the Alamo is in this Texas city
- 27. The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on this Japanese city
- 28. A treaty outside of this French capital ended World War I
- 30. A march for civil rights ended tragically here
- 32. The "shot heard round the world" was fired here
- 33. This city was burned by Union General William Sherman
- 34. The "Golden Spike" completing the transcontinental railroad was driven into the ground in this state
Down
- 1. a symbolic place in South Dakota representing the maltreatment of the Native Americans
- 3. Joseph McCarthy, the leader of the Red Scare in the 1950's, was from this state
- 5. Where the Second Continental Congress met
- 7. The purchase of this territory was a tremendous real estate deal
- 9. The battleship Maine exploded in the harbor of this city
- 10. A major turning point of the Civil War took place in the Pennsylvania town
- 12. The first woman on the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor, was from this state
- 13. The Missouri Compromise allowed this state to enter as a free state
- 15. President Reagan challenged the Soviet leader to "take down this wall"
- 16. A Union victory in this Mississippi river town gave the Union control of the Mississippi River
- 17. One of the states where popular sovereignty was attempted to solve the slavery question, but it turned out bloody
- 18. Lewis and Clark left this city on their "Voyage of Discovery"
- 19. The New Deal program constructed the hydroelectricity infrastructure along this southern river
- 21. The firing on Fort Sumter in this state started the Civil War
- 24. Our nation's first capital city
- 26. Riots in this section of Los Angeles were part of the 1960's violence
- 28. An engineering wonder here reduced the travel time from San Francisco to New York City tremendously
- 29. The Democrat National Convention of 1968 in this city was marked by violence and demonstrations against the Vietnam War and civil rights
- 31. Known as "Seward's Folly"
- 35. the last state to enter the Union