Across
- 2. The federal economic polices of the Reagan administration, elected in 1981. These policies combined a monetarist fiscal policy, supply-side tax cuts, and domestic budget cutting. Their goal was to reduce the size of the federal government and stimulate economic growth.
- 3. Control efforts by a government to regulate or control the sale of guns
- 6. Deficit An excess of imports over exports
- 7. that group of quiet honest hard-working middle class Americans who do their job, respect their country and support gov. Nixon wants their votes in 1968 and 1972
- 8. A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and older
- 9. 3 day rock concert in upstate N.Y. August 1969, exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s, nearly 1/2M gather in a 600 acre field
Down
- 1. Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private members, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developers.
- 4. North American Free Trade Agreement; allows open trade with US, Mexico, and Canada.
- 5. extremists religious adherents who believe that their religion is the one true religion and others must be done away with
- 9. A break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in Washington was carried out under the direction of White House employees. Disclosure of the White House involvement in the break-in and subsequent cover-up forced President Nixon to resign in 1974 to avoid impeachment.