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Down: 1) born in 1882 and in 1921, he contracted the deadly disease of polio and was crippled for the rest of his life; elected 32nd President of the US; proposed the New Deal to combat economic depression; led the US during WW2; elected to 4 terms as President3) born in Pennsylvania in 1745; a prominent physician, writer and one of the founders of the United States of America; in the Sons of Liberty in Philadelphia; attended the Continental Congress; signed the Declaration of Independence; served as Surgeon General to the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; served as the Treasurer of the US Mint6) First Lady of the US; supported programs for youth employment and helped the poor during the Great Depression; fought for civil rights for African-Americans; visited American soldiers during WW2; helped craft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights8) born in 1911; he had a notable career as an actor as well as serving as governor of California; became the 40th President of the US; built the largest peacetime military in US history; he is given credit for playing a critical role in the fall of the Soviet Union and the ending of the Cold War9) born in 1913 in Tuskeegee, AL; best known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement;" she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama to a white rider Across: 2) born in El Paso, TX in 1930; first woman appointed to the US Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 19814) born in 1924; opponent of the feminist movement; campaigned against the Equal Rights Amendment; founded her own pro-family movement; leader in the conservative movement5) born in Maryland in 1878; authored over 90 books and was a Pulitzer Prize winner; one of his early books, The Jungle, became a critically acclaimed expose of the meat packing industry and led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act7) born in Missouri; appointed to West Point; guarded the frontier against Sioux and Apaches; fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War; fought in the Philippines in 1903; took command of a troop of the 10th Calvary Regiment, one of the Buffalo Soldier regiments composed of African Americans and was nicknamed "Black Jack;" sent to the Mexican border to capture the revolutionary Mexican leader, Pancho Villa; in WW1 he was named Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces10) born in New York City; educated at Harvard; gained national attention when he commanded the volunteer cavalry unit known as the "Rough Riders;" elected Governor of New York; elected 26th President of the US; known as the "trust buster;" won Nobel Peace Prize for helping to mediate the Russo-Japanese War11) born in 1885; graduated from West Point; served as a member of General Pershing's staff in search of Pancho Villa; became the first member of the famous US Tank Corps; in WW2 he was with the allied forces during the invasion of North Africa, Sicily, and Italy; commanded the Third Army at the Battle of the Bulge
 

 

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