US History Final 2015 1 Crossword
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
 
 
Down: 1) when the US went to war to help Cuba win independence from Spain.2) Former Nebraska Congressman, editor of the Omaha World Herald, and won the Democratic nomination.4) an unscrupulous plurocrat6) the extension of the Monroe Doctrine, announced by President Roosevelt in 1904, under which the United STates claimed the right to protest its economic interests by military intervention8) the deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular radical national or religious group9) The right to vote11) the policy of building up armed forces in aggressive preparedness for war and their use as a tool of diplomacy13) a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course16) A strike by workers who were angry that their wages were drastically cut but their rent was not. This was a violent strike.17) a sensational 1925 court case in which the biology teacher was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution18) enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions 20) the use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting to attract readers22) gave the government the right to collect taxes26) Also known as Open Door Notes. messages sent by Secretary of State, John Hay in 1899 to Germany, Russia, Great Britan, France, Italy and Japan asking the countries not to interfere with US trading rights in China27) allows voters to nominate senatorial candidates in direct primaries 128) a group of WWI veterans and their families who marched on Washington, DC in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of a bonus they had been promised for military service.30) a law passed in 1941, that allowed the US to ship arms and other supplies without immediate payment to nations fighting the Axis powers35) A communist party formed in the US with 70,000 members. 40) Participants in a trust turned their stock over to a group of trustees Across: 3) the first battle of the Spanish American War took place on the Phillippine Islands5) granted women the right to vote7) a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity.10) a flowering of African American artistic creativity during the 1920s, centered in the Harlem community of NY City12) a devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation14) the granting of concession to a hostile power in order to keep the peace15) President Roosevelt's program to alleviate the problems of the great depression focusing on relief of the needy, economic recovery and financial reform19) a party that was founded in 1892. This party demanded reforms to lift the burden to debt from farmers and other workers.21) a group of countries which support each other. Alliances provided a measure of international security because nations are reluctant to disturb the balance of power23) one of the free thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of 1920s24) journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines 25) prohibited the manufacture or sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages29) the region, including Texas Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico that was made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms during the 1930s31) A trial where two individuals were convicted of robbery and murder with circumstantial evidence.32) an increase in prices or decline in purchasing power caused by an increase in the supply of money33) the wave of people who came to America from Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th centuries34) paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest36) the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic political or military control over weaker territories37) Formed the American Railway Union which was comprised of unskilled and semi-skilled workers.38) an economic or social philosophy holding that a system of unrestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest.39) a system that sets limits on how many immigrants from various countries a nation will admit each year.41) how voters accepted or rejected a vote on an initiative42) overt favoritism toward native born Americans and prejudice against foreign born people43) from the German word meaning "lightening war" a sudden, massive attack with combined air and ground forces, intended to achieve a quick victory
 

 

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