US History since 1877

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Across
  1. 2. period in which government made changes and groups gained power
  2. 3. president of the Great Society
  3. 5. a cultural separation between parents and their children
  4. 7. executed the assassin of President Kennedy
  5. 10. must inform suspects of their rights prior to questioning
  6. 11. president during World War I
  7. 13. president during the Great Depression and most of World War II
  8. 15. president that first use the atomic bomb
  9. 16. civic leader that proposed peaceful confrontation for civil freedom
  10. 18. could not used evidence obtained illegally
  11. 19. first artificial satellite put into space by the Russians
  12. 20. no official prayers in school
  13. 23. allowed for the purchase of contraceptives
  14. 25. Russian leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
  15. 26. ruling that federal courts had jurisdiction to hear lawsuits seeking to force states to redraw electoral districts
  16. 27. president of the New Frontier
  17. 28. location of the landings in Cuba by Cuban Rebels
  18. 29. a type of blockade used by Kennedy in the Cuban Missile Crisis
Down
  1. 1. assassin of President Kennedy
  2. 4. civic leader that proposed violence as a means to confront civil change
  3. 6. president that improved American Highways
  4. 8. pushing to the edge of war and then backing down
  5. 9. right to remain silent
  6. 12. president that increased national parks and forests
  7. 14. "one person, one vote"
  8. 17. an imaginary marker used as a figure to reflect the minimum income required to support a family
  9. 21. right to an attorney
  10. 22. cannot force bible reading in public school
  11. 24. era in which things were "coated" and not as they seem