US HISTORY

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Across
  1. 4. On Washington: an event where civil rights leaders went to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress.
  2. 5. Market: a market in which share prices are rising, encouraging buying.
  3. 6. Flagler: He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida
  4. 8. The U.S. has military bases all over the world and outright occupies Iraq and Afghanistan is an example of?
  5. 9. Amendment: prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
  6. 11. a pact, coalition or friendship between two or more parties.
  7. 16. a belief in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government
  8. 18. Migration: the movement of 6 million African Americans
Down
  1. 1. Amendment: addresses citizenship rights and equal protection
  2. 2. Renaissance: cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets
  3. 3. Dubious: felt that African Americans had the same rights as Whites and should not have to sacrifice their constitutional rights to gain a status they already deserved.
  4. 6. more than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals, were murdered at concentration camps .
  5. 7. during the war the United States maintained its___.
  6. 10. Island: Europeans came through this island.
  7. 12. Island: Chinese people came through this island.
  8. 13. System: ships sailing in groups and protected by armed vessels
  9. 14. Exclusion Act: was the first law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States
  10. 15. T. Washington: believed that the best interests of black people in the post-Reconstruction era could be realized through education in the crafts and industrial skills
  11. 17. Age: coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald