U.S. History Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Name given to the area of the southern Great Plains severely damaged by droughts and dust storms during the 1930s
  2. 5. A policy of transporting children to schools outside their neighborhoods to achieve greater racial balance
  3. 6. A motion that ends debate and calls for an immediate vote, possible in the U.S. Senate by a vote of 60 senators
  4. 7. Name given to sudden violent offensive attacks the Germans used during WWll; "Lightning War"
  5. 8. The giving out of scarce items on a limited basis
  6. 9. Freedom from prosecution
  7. 13. Buying an item on credit with a monthly plan to pay off the value of the good
  8. 15. A workplace where workers are not required to join a union
  9. 17. To deprive of the right to vote
  10. 19. The state or fact of being normal
  11. 20. Style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound
Down
  1. 2. A systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretely from within
  2. 3. American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues and which uses syncopated rythms and melodies
  3. 4. Name given to the mass slaughter of Jews and other groups by the Nazis during WWll
  4. 10. A political system headed by a dicator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition
  5. 11. To express a formal disapproval of an action
  6. 12. General agreement
  7. 14. Investing money at great risk with the anticipation that the price will rise
  8. 16. Closing of banks during the Great Depression to avoid bank runs
  9. 18. A jellied gasoline used for bombs