US History Review

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Across
  1. 3. The Great Plains is also known as America’s ***********
  2. 7. This new technology allowed for messages to be sent long distances instantly
  3. 9. The acronym for the reasons World War I started
  4. 10. The sinking of a ship in Cuba and Yellow Journalism brought the United States into a war with this nation in 1898
  5. 12. Andrew Carnegie and JD ********** are both examples of big business owners
  6. 14. Trust Busters broke these up
  7. 16. The main form of warfare in World War I
  8. 17. The name of the investigative journalists who shed a light on the problems of the late 1800s in America
  9. 21. Name of the Northern Army in the Civil War
  10. 24. The name of the attempt to rebuild the South after the Civil War
  11. 26. This proclamation stated that slavery was no longer legal in the Confederate States
  12. 27. After 1890, most immigrants came to the United States from ******* Europe
  13. 28. The name of the passenger liner sunk by Germany in WWI
Down
  1. 1. The location of the canal that was dug by America and linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
  2. 2. The 19th Amendment gave women the right to
  3. 4. This is what killed the most people in the Civil War and World War I
  4. 5. The name of the telegram intercepted by the United States that got us into WWI
  5. 6. Reason the Civil War was fought
  6. 7. This railroad linked the East and West Coasts
  7. 8. This amendment ended slavery in the United States
  8. 11. Chicago and this town in Wisconsin both had fires on October 8, 1871
  9. 13. The Plessy vs. ******** case ruled that segregation was legal.
  10. 15. When people are divided based on the color of their skin
  11. 18. The president behind the Square Deal
  12. 19. These schools were where Native American children were taken to be assimilated into the United States.
  13. 20. A form of farming where people rented farm and lived in perpetual poverty
  14. 22. The name of the ships that the Germans used to sink ships in the ocean.
  15. 23. The Battle of Little ******* is also known as Custer’s Last Stand
  16. 25. The name of the ship that was sunk in 1898 and launched the United States into a war was the USS
  17. 26. This invention brought light into homes and powers most of our appliances.