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- 3. celebrating the exploration of the Americas by European sailors
- 4. a day set aside to pay tribute to working men and women; This came about after the formation of labor unions
- 5. abolishment of slavery
- 7. freedom of religion, right to assembly, speech, and press
- 8. term for the stock market crash of 1929
- 9. an economic downturn which started in 1929 and lasted through most of the 1930s
- 11. of Labor one of the first labor unions in the United States. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio om 1886 by Samuel Gompers
- 15. the term used to describe the first 10 amendments to the US consitution
- 16. Women are given the right to vote
- 17. an American general and politician who was elected the 18th president of the US. He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War
- 18. an American politician who was elected the 16th president of the US and was the first president from the Republican party
- 19. honor those who have serves in the military
- 20. the supreme law of the USA; it was adopted in its original form on September 17, 1787
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- 1. local, state, and national
- 2. honor US military members who have died while serving the country
- 3. famous for helping injured soldiers in the Civil War;founded the American Red Cross
- 6. an act of the Second Continental Congress, adopted on July 4, 1776, which declared that the Thirteen Colonies were independent of Great Britain; was chiefly written by Thomas Jefferson
- 10. right to vote regardless of race
- 12. a person who is in favor of abolishing (getting rid of) slavery
- 13. one of the most foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War
- 14. general in chief of the Confederate armies in the American Civil War