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Apush Crossword Pd. 5-9

Across
A late-nineteenth century branch of reform-minded Republicans who left their party in 1884 to support Democratic presidential candidate Grover Cleveland
first black President
A military alliance established in Eastern Europe in 1955 to counter the NATO alliance; it included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungry, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union
A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941
Pioneering progressive idea, enacted in Wisconsin, Oregon, California, and other states that gave citizens the right to remove unpopular politicians from office through a vote.
Deadly disease that killed nearly 100,000 people in the United States in the 1980s
The labour system by which landowners and impoverished southern farmworkers, particularly African Americans, divided the proceeds from crops harvested on the landowner's property
novelist. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about a slave who is treated badly, in 1852. The book persuaded more people, particularly northerners, to become anti-slavery.
An authoritarian system of government characterized by a dictatorial rule, extreme nationalism, disdain for civil society, and a conviction that imperialism and warfare are principal means
An international organization of the leading capitalist industrial nations: the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, and Russia.
The defense policy of the Eisenhower administration that stepped up production of the hydrogen bomb and developed long-range bombing capabilities
The domestic policy agenda announced by President Roosevelt in 1949.
monopolized the steel industry, originally a poor Scottish immigrant, tycoon behind the Homestead Strike
System of racial segregation in the South that lasted a century, from the civil war to 1960s
small group of literary figures based in NYC and San Francisco in the 1950s who rejected mainstream culture and instead celebrated personal freedom, which often included drug consumption and casual sex
A literary movement that suggested that human beings were not so much rational agents and shapers of their own destinies as blind victims of forces beyond their control
The process of voting directly on a proposed policy measure rather than leaving it in the hands of elected legislators' a progressive reform
This was a strategy used by Richard Nixon in dealing with foreign and hostile nations, particularly the USSR in the 1970's.
Down
Democratically elected group in Nicaragua that President Reagan accused of threatening U.S.
muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle
Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction and were ridiculed by ex-Confederates as worthless traitors
The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920 with the 18th Amendment.
a global militant Sunni Islamist terrorist group founded by Osama bin Laden, responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
1972; Nixon feared loss so he approved the Commission to Re-Elect the President to spy on and espionage the Democrats. A security gaurd foiled an attempt to bug the Democratic National Committe Headquarters, exposing the scandal.
A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and make up,
A building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety
The more than 80,000 settlers who arrived in California in 1849 as part of the territories gold rush
term for a young adult. American youth culture, focused on the spending power of the "teenager," emerged as a cultural phenomenon in the postwar decades
President during the Civil War who put an end to slavery
Austrian-born founder of the German Nazi Party and chancellor of the Third Reich
The ideology that women should enter the public sphere not only to work on behalf of others, but also for their own equal rights and advancement
informal name for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, formed by the president to investigate the causes of the 1967 urban riots
the world's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
A term in the 1920s describing the late nineteenth century as a period of ostentatious displays of wealth, growing poverty, and government inaction in the face of income inequality
leader of the Al-Qaeda who was responsible for majority of the terrorist attacks
small group of associates to hold stock from a group of combined firms, managing them as a single entity. Evolved into other centralized business forms