Unit 3 Keywords Crossword (Part 1)

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  1. 3. A riot that erupted as a Black man was pulled over and an officer reached for his gun. It was the culmination of years of tension and police mistreatment of Black communities.
  2. 6. A bill that outlawed all segregation and discrimination on the basis of race.
  3. 7. A person who rejected traditional and conservative values in society
  4. 8. The spike in birth rate after World War 2
  5. 10. Civil rights activist who initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  6. 13. Established by Congress after the successful launch of Sputnik
  7. 16. A supreme court ruling that said segregation was constitutional since separate facilities were equal
  8. 18. A civil rights organization created in 1909 that became a defender of Black rights, standing up to discrimination.
  9. 20. An agency created in the Cold War to gather information on the Soviets.
  10. 25. Policy that Middle Eastern countries facing uprisings would receive support from the US
  11. 26. The closest the US and Russia came to military conflict in the Cold War- a blockade of US ships blocking Russia from planting missiles in Cuba.
  12. 29. Neighborhoods of single-family homes built around cities and generally more expensive and expansive than urban homes.
  13. 30. An event that shocked the nation, and made Lyndon B. Johnson step up to the role of President.
  14. 31. House committee to root out communism
  15. 32. Policies that enabled discrimination against African-Americans at voting booths
Down
  1. 1. Space during the Space Race.
  2. 2. The Americans who supported the war in Vietnam, but were never outspoken about it.
  3. 4. Government program established by President Kennedy that enables international volunteering for Americans.
  4. 5. The black power movement that promoted taking up arms to fight racial injustice.
  5. 8. A supreme court ruling that stated segregated schools were unconstitutional.
  6. 9. A policy agenda by President Lyndon B. Johsnon to improve society by preserving the environment, improvin quality of life, and fighting racial injustice.
  7. 11. The Civil Rights organization that organized nonviolent protests made by students.
  8. 12. A Civil Rights organization created by Chicago students to promote racial equality and harmony.
  9. 14. A bill that outlawed measures intended to prevent African-Americans from voting that were present in segregated states.
  10. 15. The father of the American Civil Rights movement. He believed in peaceful protesting.
  11. 17. Peaceful protest in which civil rights activists sat at white-only facilities in defiance.
  12. 19. A failed invasion of Cuba by American-backed revolutionaries who sought to overthrow Fidel Castro.
  13. 21. A Civil Rights movement in which activists rode interstate buses to test whether rulings against segregation on interstate buses would be upheld.
  14. 22. The lawyer who fought in Brown vs. BOE, and later became the Supreme Court's first African-American Justice.
  15. 23. Taking measures that drive towards direct conflict, but stop just short of it
  16. 24. A visual medium of media that reached almost all American homes.
  17. 27. The Civil Rights organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr.
  18. 28. A civil rights activist and the inspiration for the black empowerment movement.