states and capitals Crossword Puzzles

History Vocab Crossword Puzzle 2022-10-11

History Vocab Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
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  1. Someone who supports the U.S. constitution
  2. Well known republican leader
  3. first federal government system of the United States
  4. Who won the election as President in 1796
  5. A tax by the government
  6. Money that the government owes to other countries or people
  7. Introduction of the constitution
  8. Treaty made to solve issues between the U.S. and Spain
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  1. Speech made by someone upon their leave
  2. Strong supporter of the federalist group
  3. Their role is to support and advise the president
  4. document written to declare the United States’ neutrality in the fight of France and Britain
  5. Someone who believes that the U.S. government should have little power over the states
  6. Act Act which set a system for the Supreme Court
  7. Rebellion which proved the government was strong enough to settle issues in the U.S.
  8. first president of the United States
  9. Agreement between Britain and the U.S. made by John Jay
  10. this describes an action that guides other after and sets traditions
  11. ceremony in which the elected President takes office
  12. revolution which tested the United States’ neutrality between 2 countries

20 Clues: A tax by the government • Well known republican leader • Introduction of the constitution • first president of the United States • Speech made by someone upon their leave • Strong supporter of the federalist group • Who won the election as President in 1796 • Someone who supports the U.S. constitution • Act Act which set a system for the Supreme Court • ...

Voc 6 warren 2018-02-07

Voc 6 warren crossword puzzle
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  1. a male trapper and explorer who lives in the wilderness
  2. a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution
  3. a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States
  4. Conflict and Economic Crisis
  5. Oregon Country
  6. an American politician who served as the 11th President of the United States
  7. officially titled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic
  8. an American empresario. Known as the "Father of Texas", and the founder of Texas
  9. for Texas
  10. a series of educational computer games that began with the very first edition originally developed by Don Rawitsch
  11. an American statesman who served as a diplomat, minister and ambassador to foreign nations
  12. an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina, and the seventh Vice President of the United States
  13. an American statesman who served as the eighth President of the United State
  14. Act a United States sectional political crisis in 1832-33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson
  15. give up
  16. append or add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document.
  17. the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S.
  18. a prospector in the California gold rush of 1849.
  19. Destiny in California and the Southwest
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  1. an American soldier and politician. His victory at the Battle of San Jacinto secured the independence of Texas from Mexico in one of the shortest decisive battles in modern history
  2. one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States
  3. signed by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830.
  4. the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
  5. fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas
  6. the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government.
  7. an American military officer, a principal contributor in the War of 1812
  8. a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Independence
  9. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
  10. the right to vote in political elections
  11. an American lawyer
  12. a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States
  13. a series of forced relocation, sometimes at gunpoint Westward Movement
  14. Americans and the Frontier
  15. an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, politician, and a settler in the Western United States
  16. a canal in New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System.
  17. the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.
  18. the tenth President of the United State

37 Clues: give up • for Texas • Oregon Country • an American lawyer • Americans and the Frontier • Conflict and Economic Crisis • a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution • the tenth President of the United State • Destiny in California and the Southwest • the right to vote in political elections • a prospector in the California gold rush of 1849. • ...

North American Countries 2019-09-14

North American Countries crossword puzzle
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  1. Dominica
  2. British Virgin Islands
  3. Aruba
  4. Barbados
  5. Grenada
  6. Haiti
  7. Costa Rica
  8. United States Minor
  9. Bahamas
  10. Antigua And Barbuda
  11. Canada
  12. Guatemala
  13. Salvador El Salvador
  14. Nicaragua
  15. Saint Lucia
  16. Martinique
  17. Puerto Rico
  18. Anguilla
  19. Saint Martin
  20. Saint Barthélemy
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  1. Belize
  2. Cuba
  3. Saint Pierre And Miquelon
  4. Honduras
  5. United States
  6. Curacao
  7. Cayman Islands
  8. Mexico
  9. Dominican Republic
  10. Sint Maarten
  11. Bermuda
  12. United States Virgin Islands
  13. Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
  14. Jamaica
  15. Saint Kitts And Nevis
  16. Panama
  17. Montserrat
  18. Greenland

38 Clues: Cuba • Aruba • Haiti • Belize • Mexico • Canada • Panama • Curacao • Grenada • Bermuda • Bahamas • Jamaica • Dominica • Honduras • Barbados • Anguilla • Guatemala • Nicaragua • Greenland • Costa Rica • Martinique • Montserrat • Saint Lucia • Puerto Rico • Sint Maarten • Saint Martin • United States • Cayman Islands • Saint Barthélemy • Dominican Republic • United States Minor • Antigua And Barbuda • Salvador El Salvador • Saint Kitts And Nevis • ...

History Vocab 2020-09-30

History Vocab crossword puzzle
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  1. was issued by King George III on October 7, 1763,
  2. This act, passed on July 1, 1862, provided Federal subsidies in land and loans for the construction of a transcontinental railroad across the United States.
  3. granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
  4. the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781
  5. British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses
  6. American political leader, military general, statesman, and founding father
  7. Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
  8. United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
  9. a tax on the legal recognition of documents
  10. comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
  11. form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly.
  12. was a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature.
  13. American statesman, politician, legal scholar, military commander, lawyer, banker, and economist.
  14. known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand
  15. was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary
  16. a large-scale estate meant for farming that specializes in cash crops.
  17. were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
  18. began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America
  19. was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848. ... It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845
  20. authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots.
  21. massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29,
  22. was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement
  23. fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9
  24. was a conflict fought between the United States and its allies, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its allies
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  1. Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln
  2. was a 2,170-mile east-west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
  3. signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico
  4. pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.
  5. American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father
  6. was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the US Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black people
  7. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
  8. was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
  9. a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
  10. is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group.
  11. was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham
  12. The plan was created in response to the Virginia Plan, which called for two houses of Congress, both elected with apportionment according to population.
  13. the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
  14. to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
  15. King of Great Britain and King of Ireland
  16. was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
  17. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
  18. series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade trade between the imperialist states and the colonial and dependent countries
  19. acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803.
  20. is a form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and a democracy

44 Clues: King of Great Britain and King of Ireland • a tax on the legal recognition of documents • the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781 • was issued by King George III on October 7, 1763, • belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism. • was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham • ...

CIVIL WAR CROSSWORD 2023-01-25

CIVIL WAR CROSSWORD crossword puzzle
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  1. A long blade or knife attached to the end of a musket. Soldiers would use it like a spear in close combat.
  2. A nickname given to people in the South supporting the Confederate States.
  3. Large caliber firearms like cannons and mortars.
  4. When a person is murdered for political reasons.
  5. A term meaning "before war". It was often used to describe the United States before the Civil War.
  6. The northern states of the United States, also called the Union.
  7. A boundary or border that split the free states from the slave states. It went between Pennsylvania to the north and Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware to the south.
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  1. A long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers shot from the shoulder.
  2. An army of citizens used during emergencies.
  3. A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle.
  4. These states were slave states that did not leave the Union, but largely supported the cause of the Confederates. They included Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware.
  5. A decision made by the Supreme Court that said Congress could not outlaw slavery and that people of African descent were not necessarily U.S. citizens.Fugitive Slave Law A law passed by Congress in 1850 that said escaped enslaved people in free states had to be returned to their owners.
  6. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port.
  7. A large farm in the southern United States. Before the Civil War many of the workers on plantations were enslaved.
  8. A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
  9. The rebuilding of war torn southern states so they could be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War.

16 Clues: An army of citizens used during emergencies. • Large caliber firearms like cannons and mortars. • When a person is murdered for political reasons. • A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle. • A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery. • The northern states of the United States, also called the Union. • ...

Unit 4 2021-12-08

Unit 4 crossword puzzle
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  1. This group was created to assist newly freed people in establishing a new life.
  2. This act was included in the Compromise of 1850 and required any escaped enslaved person to be returned (3 words)
  3. This day celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.
  4. These states allowed slavery but did not secede from the Union: Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia
  5. Sherman and his troops' journey from Atlanta to Savannah
  6. Individuals that wanted to end slavery everywhere
  7. The plan to surround the seceded states and suffocate or squeeze them of supplies
  8. Another term for "total war" that invloves burning to the ground
  9. Winner of the Presidential election of 1860.
  10. This amendment ended slavery across the entire United States after the Civil War
  11. Union army general that believed in total war
  12. This plan for reconstruction was much more harsh on the Confederate states and sent Union troops to the south to oversee reconstruction.
  13. Sherman believed in this approach to war
  14. When a change is made to the constitution it is called an
  15. another word for taxes
  16. Under this arrangement, laborers with no land of their own worked on farm plots owned by others, and at the end of the season landowners paid workers a share of the crop.
  17. This event lasted 4 years and took place within the United States between the North and the South.
  18. This person became president after Lincoln's assassination.
  19. This compromise brought California into the Union as a free state (three words)
  20. The northern and western states that remained united during the Civil War were called this
  21. Series of battles that took place in Atlanta resulting in the destruction of the city and railroads under William Sherman
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  1. These plans for reconstruction were considered too lenient or easy on the Confederate states
  2. This amendment states that all people born or naturalized in the United States are considered citizens and have basic rights, regardless of color.
  3. The south's economy was based on this.
  4. The southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War were called this
  5. When union troops blocked the southeastern coastline, preventing southern states from importing or exporting goods
  6. The action of cancelling or ignoring a federal law deemed unconstitutional by an individual state.
  7. governmental power reserved for individual states. Southern states intended to use this to allow slavery.
  8. This declaration from Abraham Lincoln freed slaves, but only in Confederate States
  9. Georgia's response to the Compromise of 1850 which said that Georgia would agree to the compromise if the Fugitive Slave Act was included.
  10. This Civil War battle was fought in northern Georgia, near Chattanooga, Tennessee
  11. Black men that served in Georgia's General Assembly until removed from office in 1876
  12. This amendment gave all men the right to vote.
  13. Under this arrangement, laborers with no land of their own worked farm plots owned by others, but owned their own supplies and kept around 2/3 of their harvest.
  14. The the years immediately following the end of the Civil War are called
  15. Prison camp in Georgia that inhumanely held Union soldiers
  16. Terrorist group developed by Confederate veterans to support white supremacy
  17. When the citizens of an individual state vote on the legalization of slavery (two words)
  18. To separate from
  19. This person took his owner to court to sue for his freedom. The case ruled that African Americans were not considered citizens and did not have rights.

40 Clues: To separate from • another word for taxes • The south's economy was based on this. • Sherman believed in this approach to war • Winner of the Presidential election of 1860. • Union army general that believed in total war • This amendment gave all men the right to vote. • Individuals that wanted to end slavery everywhere • ...

famous peoples in 70s 2024-02-22

famous peoples in 70s crossword puzzle
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  1. Actress and Hollywood icon.
  2. Lead vocalist of The Rolling Stones.
  3. Former First Lady of the United States.
  4. Guitarist and rock icon.
  5. Lead vocalist of Queen.
  6. Boxer and cultural figure.
  7. Musician and member of The Beatles.
  8. King of Rock and Roll.
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  1. Director known for films like "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
  2. 37th President of the United States.
  3. 39th President of the United States.
  4. Singer-songwriter and musician.
  5. Singer and actress.
  6. Artist and leading figure in the pop art movement.
  7. Iconic Swedish pop group.
  8. Actress and model, known for "Charlie's Angels."
  9. Godfather of Soul.
  10. Musician and actor.
  11. Actor known for "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease."
  12. Martial artist and actor.

20 Clues: Godfather of Soul. • Singer and actress. • Musician and actor. • King of Rock and Roll. • Lead vocalist of Queen. • Guitarist and rock icon. • Iconic Swedish pop group. • Martial artist and actor. • Boxer and cultural figure. • Actress and Hollywood icon. • Singer-songwriter and musician. • Musician and member of The Beatles. • 37th President of the United States. • ...

Classroom Behavior and Owl Moon 2018-01-28

Classroom Behavior and Owl Moon crossword puzzle
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  1. When we say "please" and "thank you", we are being _______________.
  2. In Owl Moon, the child and father live on a _____________.
  3. This is one of our most frequent types of errors.
  4. In Owl Moon, the child and father have to be very ___________ to see an owl.
  5. "Please pay ___________________!" the teacher exclaimed.
  6. These are two words that have about the same meaning.
  7. When we begin talking before someone else is finished.
  8. Polite and impolite are _______________________.
  9. Interrupting someone when they are talking is very _____________.
  10. Free time is the best time to _________________.
  11. This is when you are able to control yourself.
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  1. When you are too silly, you can ____________ the class.
  2. This is another frequent error of ours, when we do not write in big letters.
  3. You do this with open ears, closed mouth and by showing attention.
  4. Periods, commas, and exclamation marks are examples of this.
  5. You _______________ when you pay attention to one thing only.

16 Clues: This is when you are able to control yourself. • Polite and impolite are _______________________. • Free time is the best time to _________________. • This is one of our most frequent types of errors. • These are two words that have about the same meaning. • When we begin talking before someone else is finished. • ...

Tema 1 L'inici de l'edat mitjana 2014-12-10

Tema 1 L'inici de l'edat mitjana crossword puzzle
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  1. La nova capital l'imperi musulmà
  2. Art bizantí que cobrien les parets i sostres de palaus i esglésies
  3. Va derrocar l'últim monarca franc
  4. Dirigia l'exercit, l'administració i era el cap religiós.
  5. Separació entre l'església catòlica i l'ortodoxa
  6. Va intentar reconstruir l'Imperi romà
  7. Van firmar el tractat de Verdun
  8. Eren els jutges
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  1. Púlpit des d'on l'imam dirigeix l'oració
  2. Per ajudar els pobres
  3. La capitals era la ciutat Constantinoble
  4. Governava províncies
  5. Es van establir a Hispnica

13 Clues: Eren els jutges • Governava províncies • Per ajudar els pobres • Es van establir a Hispnica • Van firmar el tractat de Verdun • La nova capital l'imperi musulmà • Va derrocar l'últim monarca franc • Va intentar reconstruir l'Imperi romà • Púlpit des d'on l'imam dirigeix l'oració • La capitals era la ciutat Constantinoble • Separació entre l'església catòlica i l'ortodoxa • ...

Australia and its Neighbours 2013-09-16

Australia and its Neighbours crossword puzzle
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  1. The main religion practiced in Bangladesh
  2. Has the worlds largest population
  3. An island under Chinese rule
  4. This country starts with 'M' and ends in 'A'
  5. Previously known as Burma
  6. The Currency of Thailand
  7. Sits to the south of India
  8. The home of the Kokoda track which was made famous during WW2
  9. This island is part of Indonesia and is very popular with Australian tourists
  10. Has a dragon on its flag
  11. The native language of Nepal
  12. The 'S' is silent
  13. Home of the Singapore noodles
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  1. One of the 3 capitals of Tadzhikstan
  2. The capital of Vietnam
  3. Sits between Afghanistan and India
  4. The Khmer Rouge carried out genocide in this country
  5. This country is the largest landlocked country in the world
  6. Has a rising sun symbolised on its flag
  7. This country is made up of over 7000 islands
  8. This capital has two y's and two g's in the name
  9. The 2000 Summer Olympic games were held in this country
  10. The Capital of South Korea

23 Clues: The 'S' is silent • The capital of Vietnam • The Currency of Thailand • Has a dragon on its flag • Previously known as Burma • Sits to the south of India • The Capital of South Korea • An island under Chinese rule • The native language of Nepal • Home of the Singapore noodles • Has the worlds largest population • Sits between Afghanistan and India • ...

Language Challenge 2022 2022-09-22

Language Challenge 2022 crossword puzzle
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  1. Fe? What symbol am I?
  2. A government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period to an invention.
  3. The battle between FREEDOM and … in the Wild. (antonym)
  4. Giving human feelings or reactions to objects or ideas.
  5. The country from which English 'borrowed' the word siesta.
  6. What part of speech is the word in capitals? Steve Jobs gave INVENTING a whole new meaning.
  7. An optical illusion which occurs is a
  8. Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and INNOVATOR. (synonym)
  9. The best of both … (idiom)
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  1. Ideas and feelings a word suggests to you as well as its meaning.
  2. China is to Beijing as Egypt is to ?
  3. Misery loves …
  4. The story of UNITY and … in Southern Africa. (antonym)
  5. Scholar is to school as inmate is to...
  6. Someone who introduces new methods, ideas, or products.
  7. A synonym for CHANGE.
  8. Favouring one thing, idea or person over another, usually unfairly.
  9. The name of the snake in Kipling's 'The Jungle Book.'
  10. To get bent out of … (idiom)
  11. Fools rush in where angels fear to …

20 Clues: Misery loves … • Fe? What symbol am I? • A synonym for CHANGE. • The best of both … (idiom) • To get bent out of … (idiom) • China is to Beijing as Egypt is to ? • Fools rush in where angels fear to … • An optical illusion which occurs is a • Scholar is to school as inmate is to... • The name of the snake in Kipling's 'The Jungle Book.' • ...

States of the UNITED states 2023-04-20

States of the UNITED states crossword puzzle
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  1. Fat virginia
  2. Mountains
  3. Cowboys
  4. Cleveland
  5. Small guy
  6. Gun-holders
  7. First president
  8. Hoboken
  9. Richmond
  10. Cheese state
  11. Car place
  12. State with weird dating policy
  13. No water
  14. The music state
  15. Worse Dakota
  16. Salt lake
  17. Kool Aid
  18. Chicago
  19. Lumberjacks
  20. River place
  21. "Indian" place
  22. Massachussetts the II
  23. French guys
  24. Oil Land
  25. Tornado land
  26. Rushmore
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  1. Las Vegas
  2. MrBeast state
  3. Michael Jackson
  4. South MrBeast state
  5. West Maine
  6. Maple Syrup
  7. Green Chili
  8. Big city
  9. Steel
  10. Connect Boston to New York
  11. Corn
  12. Potato palace
  13. Boston
  14. Baltimore
  15. Pacific
  16. Idiot's state of choice
  17. No one
  18. North star state
  19. Big river boy
  20. Has the same name a country in transcaucasia
  21. No houses
  22. No sleep
  23. Diamonds
  24. Dry

50 Clues: Dry • Corn • Steel • Boston • No one • Cowboys • Hoboken • Pacific • Chicago • Big city • Richmond • No water • Kool Aid • No sleep • Oil Land • Diamonds • Rushmore • Las Vegas • Mountains • Cleveland • Small guy • Car place • Baltimore • Salt lake • No houses • West Maine • Maple Syrup • Green Chili • Gun-holders • Lumberjacks • River place • French guys • Fat virginia • Cheese state • Worse Dakota • Tornado land • MrBeast state • Potato palace • ...

Unit #5- Manifest Destiny, pre-causes of the Civil War 2020-02-21

Unit #5- Manifest Destiny, pre-causes of the Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. State in which slavery was legal.
  2. Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo.
  3. Were forces that fought principally on horseback, armed with carbines, pistols, and sabers. Only a small percentage of Civil War forces met this definition—primarily Union mounted forces in the Eastern Theater during the first half of the war.
  4. Is a treaty between Great Britain and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington, D.C.
  5. An organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon.
  6. Was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
  7. Was a U.S. state in which the practice of slavery was legal at a particular point in time and the other was one in which slavery was prohibited.
  8. Waged between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, helped to fulfill America's "manifest destiny" to expand its territory across the entire North American continent.
  9. Is the administrative action and concept in international law relating to the forcible acquisition of one state's territory by another state and is generally held to be an illegal act.
  10. A river in North America, rising in SW Colorado and flowing southeast to the Gulf of Mexico, forming the border between the US and Mexico.
  11. Is loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.
  12. A year later with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2nd, 1848. ... The frenzy of the California Gold Rush drew in hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world and propelled California into becoming a state in 1850.
  13. Polk called for expansion that included Texas, California, and the entire Oregon territory. The northern boundary of Oregon was the latitude line of 54 degrees, 40 minutes.
  14. Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state.
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  1. Was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War.
  2. Was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845.
  3. Was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that the Constitution of the United States was not meant to include American citizenship.
  4. Was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
  5. Was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849.
  6. Was a politician who served as the 14th vice president of the United States and as a Confederate general during the Civil War
  7. Was the 12th president of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850.
  8. Played a major role in formulating the three landmark sectional compromises of his day: the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Tariff Compromise of 1833, and the Compromise of 1850.
  9. A state of the US in which slavery was illegal.
  10. Was an 1859 effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
  11. Is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives, who are the source of all political power.
  12. Was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological conflict over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
  13. Was a widely held belief in the 19th-century United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America.
  14. Was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar, killing the Texian and immigrant occupiers.
  15. Was the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War.
  16. Was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805, until June 4, 1812, when it was renamed the Missouri Territory.
  17. Was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin emerged triumphant.

31 Clues: State in which slavery was legal. • A state of the US in which slavery was illegal. • Was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. • Is loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole. • Was the 12th president of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850. • ...

Interim Review Crossword Puzzle 2023-11-27

Interim Review Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Process where a government's executive is subject to review by the judiciary.
  2. France fought against shifting European powers.
  3. War between the US and indigenous allies against the UK and indigenous allies.
  4. New constitution written in Philadelphia during 1787.
  5. War between British Army and the United States Army in 1815.
  6. Guide person for Lewis and Clark's expedition.
  7. British navy enslaving men into their army during 1812
  8. Adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777.
  9. Land deal between the United States and France, bought 827,000 square miles of land west for $15 million.
  10. The United States anthem.
Down
  1. An official way to verify a treaty.
  2. The first ten amendments in the Constitution.
  3. Movement against the creation of a stronger U.S. government.
  4. A new method for admitting new states to the Union.
  5. Fort used during the Battle of Baltimore.
  6. A serious felony punishable by fines and prison time.
  7. An agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
  8. A collection of articles written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.
  9. Established judicial review in the United States in 1803.
  10. Violent uprising in the Massachusetts countryside from 1786-1787.

20 Clues: The United States anthem. • An official way to verify a treaty. • Fort used during the Battle of Baltimore. • The first ten amendments in the Constitution. • Guide person for Lewis and Clark's expedition. • France fought against shifting European powers. • A new method for admitting new states to the Union. • New constitution written in Philadelphia during 1787. • ...

Year 8 • Year 8 Temperature is rising 2023-05-17

Year 8 • Year 8 Temperature is rising crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Famous lightouse in IOM (won't let go)!
  2. Athletic event/bang in some nails with this.
  3. manx fish/ sounds like a posh ball
  4. Huge objects/solid/not Earth but in our galaxy
  5. Famous word game/struggle to pick up letters
  6. What do you called a man hanging of a wall
  7. use these at the start of names and MOY
Down
  1. What do you called a man sitting in barely warm water
  2. part of a horses face/bridle goes here
  3. What is this word missing?
  4. What do you call a man who fixes pot holes.
  5. Not from our planet
  6. Opposite to rough
  7. A man reading part of a book/rip part of clue

14 Clues: Opposite to rough • Not from our planet • What is this word missing? • manx fish/ sounds like a posh ball • part of a horses face/bridle goes here • Famous lightouse in IOM (won't let go)! • use these at the start of names and MOY • What do you called a man hanging of a wall • What do you call a man who fixes pot holes. • Athletic event/bang in some nails with this. • ...

Civil War Vocab 2023-01-20

Civil War Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Puts the local interests
  2. nickname for people from the North
  3. When the southern states leave the USA
  4. fought for the north in the civil war
  5. Soldiers that fight and travel by foot.
  6. Law was A law passed by Congress in 1850
  7. The northern states of the United States
  8. The side of an army or military unit.
  9. A nickname for the Confederate States of America
  10. When a person is killed for political rsn
  11. A person who wanted to eliminate slavery
Down
  1. An army of citizens used during emergencies
  2. An attempt to stop people and items
  3. The rebuilding of war southern states
  4. was A nickname for the South.
  5. slave states who didn't leave the union
  6. Fought for the south in the civil war
  7. soldier that is wounded,killed during battle

18 Clues: Puts the local interests • was A nickname for the South. • nickname for people from the North • An attempt to stop people and items • The rebuilding of war southern states • fought for the north in the civil war • Fought for the south in the civil war • The side of an army or military unit. • When the southern states leave the USA • slave states who didn't leave the union • ...

Country Capitals 2015-05-04

Country Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Portugal
  2. Italia
  3. Grecia
  4. EUA
  5. Equador
  6. Belgica
Down
  1. Holanda
  2. Peru
  3. França
  4. Brasil
  5. Romenia
  6. Viena
  7. Mexico
  8. Inglaterra

14 Clues: EUA • Peru • Viena • França • Brasil • Italia • Grecia • Mexico • Holanda • Romenia • Equador • Belgica • Portugal • Inglaterra

State Capitals 2020-08-11

State Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Mississippi
  2. Arkansas
  3. Massachusetts
  4. Texas
  5. Hawaii
  6. Wyoming
  7. Louisiana
Down
  1. Arizona
  2. New Hampshire
  3. Alabama
  4. Nebraska
  5. New Mexico
  6. New York
  7. Georgia

14 Clues: Texas • Hawaii • Arizona • Alabama • Georgia • Wyoming • Arkansas • Nebraska • New York • Louisiana • New Mexico • Mississippi • New Hampshire • Massachusetts

State Capitals 2022-11-15

State Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Colorado
  2. Florida
  3. Louisiana
  4. Delaware
  5. Connecticut
  6. Kansas
  7. Kentucky
Down
  1. Indiana
  2. California
  3. Arkansas
  4. Alabama
  5. Georgia
  6. Illinois
  7. Iowa

14 Clues: Iowa • Kansas • Indiana • Alabama • Georgia • Florida • Arkansas • Colorado • Illinois • Delaware • Kentucky • Louisiana • California • Connecticut

The End of the War 2023-07-06

The End of the War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The United States soldiers were untrained and lacked ______
  2. The battles of ______ and Concord marked the start of the war
  3. Great Britain was ______ with the territory
  4. The United States had strong ______ from officers
  5. Great Britain had _____ leadership and officers
  6. Great Britain had a powerful _____ government
  7. Great Britain had a strong and ______ army
  8. The United States fought for an unorganized ______
Down
  1. The army for the United States was called the ______ army
  2. Being familiar with the surrounding area is a strength for which country
  3. Having motivationally charged soldiers was a ______ for the United States
  4. The acting commander-in-chief during the Revolutionary War
  5. Great Britain had support from _____
  6. The United States lacked proper ______
  7. The soldiers for Great Britain were ______ from home

15 Clues: Great Britain had support from _____ • The United States lacked proper ______ • Great Britain had a strong and ______ army • Great Britain was ______ with the territory • Great Britain had a powerful _____ government • Great Britain had _____ leadership and officers • The United States had strong ______ from officers • The United States fought for an unorganized ______ • ...

PUZZL 1950S 2024-04-23

PUZZL 1950S crossword puzzle
Across
  1. - The act of safely bringing a spacecraft to the ground.
  2. - The name of a series of United States satellites launched during the Space Race.
  3. - A series of United States space missions launched in the late 1950s.
  4. - A vehicle propelled by engines that expel gases at high speeds.
  5. - Relating to the Moon, as in "lunar landing" or "lunar orbit."
  6. - The United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration, founded in 1958.
  7. - The site of many United States space launches during the Space Race.
  8. - The first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
  9. - A Soviet astronaut or space traveler.
Down
  1. - A series of United States satellites, including the first American satellite launched in 1958.
  2. - A vehicle designed for travel or operation in outer space.
  3. - The moment when a rocket begins its ascent into space.
  4. - The first United States human spaceflight program.
  5. - The act of an astronaut moving around in space outside a spacecraft.
  6. - The celestial body orbited by both Soviet and American spacecraft during the Space Race.
  7. - The name of a family of United States rockets used during the Space Race.
  8. - The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve milestones in space exploration.
  9. - The name of a series of Soviet spacecraft sent to the Moon.
  10. - The second Soviet spacecraft to reach the Moon, launched in 1959.
  11. - The path followed by a spacecraft as it revolves around another object in space.

20 Clues: - A Soviet astronaut or space traveler. • - The first United States human spaceflight program. • - The moment when a rocket begins its ascent into space. • - The act of safely bringing a spacecraft to the ground. • - A vehicle designed for travel or operation in outer space. • - The name of a series of Soviet spacecraft sent to the Moon. • ...

Civil War Vocab 2021-03-23

Civil War Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Part of a country leaves
  2. To print something from a flat surface, the first photos
  3. Court house where surrender was signed
  4. A group working against something (violent)
  5. The South during the Civil war
  6. Reporting and the news
  7. Sumper First battle of the War, Confederate Victory
  8. When you get pooled to go to war
  9. Ending Slavery
  10. President of the Confederate States of America
  11. illegal war materials, stolen
  12. Address Speech given by Lincoln, turning point in the War
  13. states Slave states that stayed connected with the free states
Down
  1. Carolina First state to secede from the Union
  2. To free
  3. President of the United States
  4. The North (United States) during the Civil war
  5. The differences between the Northern & Southern states that pushed them to war
  6. Proclamation - War tactic by Lincoln "military necessity"
  7. Morse code texting over lines

20 Clues: To free • Ending Slavery • Reporting and the news • Part of a country leaves • Morse code texting over lines • illegal war materials, stolen • President of the United States • The South during the Civil war • When you get pooled to go to war • Court house where surrender was signed • A group working against something (violent) • Carolina First state to secede from the Union • ...

Makenzie Bass - Georgia Geography 2022-05-12

Makenzie Bass - Georgia Geography crossword puzzle
Across
  1. How many regions does georgia have?
  2. What region is in the middle of Blue Ridge and the Appalachainplateau?
  3. What continent is georgia on?
  4. Which region is Atlanta and the Chattahoochee River located in?
  5. Which region is Brasstown Bald. located in?
  6. What state is west of Georgia?
  7. What is the abbreviation for all of Georgia capitals in order?
  8. What region of the country is Georgia in?
  9. What state is east of Georgia?
  10. Which region has the TAG corner?
  11. What is a natural zone that seperates the Piedmont region and the costal plain region?
  12. The basic unit of study in geography.
Down
  1. Chain of islands off the coast of Georgia.
  2. What is the largest freshwater swamp called?
  3. What is the abbreviation for Georgia?
  4. What river is formed aroud the Georgia and Alabama border?
  5. What is the largest region?
  6. Study of the earth as the home of human kind.
  7. What river is located in Savannah
  8. What is the capital of Georgia today?
  9. What is georgia's state fruit?

21 Clues: What is the largest region? • What continent is georgia on? • What state is west of Georgia? • What state is east of Georgia? • What is georgia's state fruit? • Which region has the TAG corner? • What river is located in Savannah • How many regions does georgia have? • What is the abbreviation for Georgia? • What is the capital of Georgia today? • ...

1st Semester Vocab review project 2020-12-15

1st Semester Vocab review project crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Man who assassinated Abraham lincoln.
  2. The North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France are known as the Seven Years' War.
  3. An amendment to the United States Constitution that gave all persons who were born in the United States to have citizenship in the United States.
  4. Third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.
  5. A person who sought to abolish slavery during the 19th century.
  6. A huge land deal between the United States and France.
  7. An amendment to the United States Constitution that protects the voting rights of all citizens, regardless of race or color.
  8. An idea that the United States had. A god-given right to take over every part of Northern American.
  9. 5 men were appointed by Continental Congress to write to the King the grievances and reason for Independence.
  10. All Legal documents and printed papers used have to be stamped.
  11. Patriots dressed as natives to dump over 342 chests of tea.
  12. Protects freedom.
  13. Native Americans were marched over 1,200 miles of land. Over 4,000 died.
  14. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
Down
  1. A form of government in which the people elect or choose their leaders.
  2. A form of government where all laws are created by a general vote of society.
  3. Ruled Great Britain during the American Revolution.
  4. an order issued by President Lincoln in 1862 to free the slaves, effective January 1, 1863.
  5. An agency created by the government that helped and protected newly freed African Americans to find jobs, homes, education, and a better life.
  6. An amendment to the United States Constitution that abolished slavery.
  7. A country attempts to mass wealth through trade with other countries.
  8. First railroad built that crosses the Atlantic to Pacific ocean.
  9. Americans could not settle in or buy any land in the west of the Appalachian mountains.
  10. 675 U.S. troops made a surprise attack on a surrendered Cheyenne Indian Camp.
  11. Conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.
  12. A abolitionist who escaped slavery. Became a leader in the abolitionist movement.
  13. 1st President of the United States.
  14. Tax on sugar, molasses, coffee, and indigo.
  15. A large area of land where crops are grown and harvested.
  16. A trail used by American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west.

30 Clues: Protects freedom. • 1st President of the United States. • Man who assassinated Abraham lincoln. • Tax on sugar, molasses, coffee, and indigo. • Ruled Great Britain during the American Revolution. • A huge land deal between the United States and France. • A large area of land where crops are grown and harvested. • ...

Geography - Africa 2021-11-02

Geography - Africa crossword puzzle
Across
  1. this is located on the horn of Africa and borders Ethiopia
  2. the "Arab Spring" started in this country
  3. The country with the largest population in West Africa
  4. the capital of this country is Accra
Down
  1. The capital of this country is Narobi
  2. The newest country in Africa
  3. this country is home to the namib desert
  4. This African nation has three capitals
  5. this country suffered a genocide in the 1990's
  6. Most of the Nile is found in this country

10 Clues: The newest country in Africa • the capital of this country is Accra • The capital of this country is Narobi • This African nation has three capitals • this country is home to the namib desert • the "Arab Spring" started in this country • Most of the Nile is found in this country • this country suffered a genocide in the 1990's • ...

Cold War Crossword 2014-03-04

Cold War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. United States' political system
  2. United States' economic system
  3. Commander of UN forces in Korean War and oversaw Japanese occupation
  4. international peace organization created in Yalta Conference
  5. Plan that gave $13 billion in loans to Western European countries
  6. symbolic line between communist and democratic countries in Europe
  7. Money to veterans for scholarships, farms, houses, and businesses
  8. Alliance between Soviet Union and satellites
  9. The dividing line between North and South Korea is the 38th _________
  10. Doctrine that gave aid to Greece and Turkey to resist communism
  11. 1945 conference that divided Germany into four zones
  12. _________ Korea invaded South Korea in 1950
Down
  1. ideological war between Soviet Union and United States
  2. Event in which U.S. airlifted supplies after the Berlin Blockade
  3. Congressional act against labor unions
  4. Temporary loans to support war effort
  5. Truman gave labor unions higher minimum wage and expanded Social Security benefits
  6. Political system of North Korea
  7. Senator who led investigations on federal employees
  8. Alliance between United States, Iceland, Canada, and Western Europe

20 Clues: United States' economic system • United States' political system • Political system of North Korea • Temporary loans to support war effort • Congressional act against labor unions • _________ Korea invaded South Korea in 1950 • Alliance between Soviet Union and satellites • Senator who led investigations on federal employees • ...

Chapter 2 Definition 2023-10-05

Chapter 2 Definition crossword puzzle
Across
  1. having a single legislative chamber
  2. a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented during the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
  3. government based on consent of the people.
  4. a person who advocates or supports a system of government in which several states unite under a central authority.
  5. an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801
  6. an organization which consists of a number of parties
  7. a political structure where laws are limited
Down
  1. Connecticut is a U.S. state in southern New England that has a mix of coastal cities and rural areas dotted with small towns
  2. an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism
  3. the best-known description of the doctrines of English law.
  4. great charter
  5. an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, abolitionist
  6. Daniel Shays was an American soldier, revolutionary and farmer famous for allegedly leading Shays' Rebellion
  7. an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States.
  8. a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government
  9. the action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid.
  10. a Scottish-born American Founding Father, legal scholar, jurist, and statesman who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1789 to 1798
  11. a person sent or authorized to represent others
  12. a person who shapes or creates a concept, plan, or system.
  13. an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817.

20 Clues: great charter • having a single legislative chamber • government based on consent of the people. • a political structure where laws are limited • a person sent or authorized to represent others • an organization which consists of a number of parties • an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, abolitionist • a person who shapes or creates a concept, plan, or system. • ...

Fifty States Of United States 2021-10-14

Fifty States Of United States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Second State
  2. Forty Four State
  3. Sixteenth State
  4. Thirty-Seventh
  5. Forty-Two State
  6. Twenty-Sixth State
  7. Fourteenth State
  8. Twenty-Seventh State
  9. Fourth State
  10. Twenty-Ninth State
  11. Tenth State
  12. Forty
  13. First State
  14. Thirty-Ninth State
  15. Nineteen State
  16. Forty-Eight State
  17. Forty Sixth State
  18. Thirty-One State
  19. Fifthteen State
  20. Twenty-Fifth State
  21. Forty-Third State
  22. Thirty-Third State
  23. Eighteenth State
  24. Forty-Fifth State
  25. Thirty-Two State
  26. Twenty State
  27. Thirty -Fifth State
Down
  1. Fifth State
  2. Twenty-Fourth State
  3. Thirty-Fourth State
  4. Ninth State
  5. Twenty-Eight State
  6. Twenty-One State
  7. Twelfth State
  8. Thirty
  9. Forty-Seventh State
  10. Twenty-Two State
  11. Forty-One State
  12. Thirty-Eight State
  13. Third State
  14. Eleventh State
  15. Eighth State
  16. Fifty
  17. Thirteenth State
  18. Forty-Ninth State
  19. Twenty-Third State
  20. Sixth State
  21. Thirty-Sixth State
  22. Seventeenth State
  23. Seventh State

50 Clues: Forty • Fifty • Thirty • Fifth State • Ninth State • Tenth State • First State • Third State • Sixth State • Second State • Fourth State • Eighth State • Twenty State • Twelfth State • Seventh State • Thirty-Seventh • Nineteen State • Eleventh State • Sixteenth State • Forty-Two State • Forty-One State • Fifthteen State • Forty Four State • Twenty-One State • Twenty-Two State • Fourteenth State • Thirteenth State • ...

Adams to Jackson 2020-02-21

Adams to Jackson crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835
  2. Poor men had a rise for rights and suffrage
  3. peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom
  4. Telling Europe to stay on the Eastern hemisphere
  5. Protestant revival movement during the early nineteenth century
  6. Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809
  7. marked the first time that power in America passed from one party to another
  8. Lewis and Clarke
  9. Plan by Henry Clay to pass high tariffs (taxes) on imports to protect American businesses and to increase revenues
  10. transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States
  11. U.S. Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review
  12. strong federal government political party in the middle of the 19th century
  13. connecting Lake Erie with the Hudson River
  14. Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States, from 1797 to 1801
Down
  1. authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River
  2. moderation or voluntary self-restraint of alcohol
  3. established by Marbury v Madison
  4. acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803
  5. suffrage to most white men over the age of 21 under Jackson
  6. fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825
  7. to make education available to more children by Horace Mann
  8. passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote
  9. soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837
  10. began in 1848, when a women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York
  11. American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer
  12. Advocates to end slavery
  13. explorers who went on the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the U.S.
  14. conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom during Napoleonic Wars
  15. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement
  16. confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government
  17. Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817
  18. first publicly known white American female advocates of abolition of slavery and women's rights

32 Clues: Lewis and Clarke • Advocates to end slavery • established by Marbury v Madison • connecting Lake Erie with the Hudson River • Poor men had a rise for rights and suffrage • Telling Europe to stay on the Eastern hemisphere • moderation or voluntary self-restraint of alcohol • Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835 • ...

POS124 2014-02-22

POS124 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. amendment: ratified in 1797 and reserving powers to the state.
  2. The ability of government to respond effectively to change, make decisions efficiently and responsively, and manage conflict.
  3. This conflict is particularly common in two policy areas very dear to state and local governments.
  4. reducing the size and cost of something, especially government.
  5. This is an unofficial region of the united states, generally compromising the South and the West.
  6. As a rule, state governments prefer to increase user charges, gasoline taxes, and so-called sin taxes on alcohol and tobacco and only reluctantly raises sales and income taxes.
  7. This is an unofficial region of the United States, generally consisting of the Northeast and the Midwest.
Down
  1. the first state sponsored program to help residents buy cheaper prescription drugs in Ireland and Canada
  2. This state gives the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally.
  3. What is the United States a nation of?
  4. to citizenship: A federal proposal that sets up a procedure for becoming a legal resident.
  5. system in government in which powers are divided between a national government and state governments.
  6. An anticipatory condition, as opposed to a reactive one.
  7. Wars: These are political conflicts that emerge from deeply held moral values.
  8. A characteristic of a government that is open and understandable, one in which officials are accountable to the public.
  9. Territorial range of government authority.
  10. culture: The attitudes, values, and beliefs that people hold toward government.
  11. day funds: money set aside when a states finances are healthy, for use when state revenues decline.
  12. Mandates: the costly requirements that federal legislation imposes on states and localities.
  13. What is the most intractable problem for states and localities.
  14. Foundation: Each year they sponsor Innovations in American Government.

21 Clues: What is the United States a nation of? • Territorial range of government authority. • An anticipatory condition, as opposed to a reactive one. • amendment: ratified in 1797 and reserving powers to the state. • reducing the size and cost of something, especially government. • What is the most intractable problem for states and localities. • ...

ERGENT 2021-02-18

ERGENT crossword puzzle
Across
  1. there are lower case letters and _________ letters (plural).
  2. a different one opens every door.
  3. when you go inside you are going __.
  4. a way to communicate used by spies.
Down
  1. when you capture someone you hold them _______.
  2. the most used determiner in the english language.
  3. there are three ways of spelling this word.

7 Clues: a different one opens every door. • a way to communicate used by spies. • when you go inside you are going __. • there are three ways of spelling this word. • when you capture someone you hold them _______. • the most used determiner in the english language. • there are lower case letters and _________ letters (plural).

10 2021-11-12

10 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. where Abraham Lincoln defeated three opponents to win the presidency; upon
  2. the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves.
  3. – 1865) - The 16th president of the United States, Lincoln preserved the Union
  4. election Southern states seceded from the Union. -
  5. in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
  6. eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.
  7. of 1850.
  8. position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who supported the
  9. machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 that quickly removed seeds from the cotton
  10. - important Georgia politician who was a U.S. Senator, Georgia
  11. - Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.
  12. in the United States.
Down
  1. (1850) - act that required runaway slaves to be returned to their masters if caught
  2. (1820) - compromise that brought Missouri into the Union as a slave state and
  3. as a free state; in addition, Congress banned slavery north of the 36˚20’ line of latitude.
  4. act of making legally null and void.
  5. compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the
  6. and Vice-President of the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.).
  7. the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent; the withdrawal

19 Clues: of 1850. • in the United States. • act of making legally null and void. • in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act. • election Southern states seceded from the Union. - • - important Georgia politician who was a U.S. Senator, Georgia • the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves. • ...

Mesopotàmia i Egipte 2013-11-11

Mesopotàmia i Egipte crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Riu de Mesopotàmia
  2. Déu egipci dels morts
  3. Regió de Mesopotàmia
  4. Capital del Baix Egipte
  5. Regió d'Egipte on hi ha el delta del Nil
  6. Temple típic de Mesopotàmia
  7. Element arquitectònic que van utilitzar els mesopotpamics
  8. Sembla ser que eren tombes que acabaven en punxa
  9. Nom amb el que es coneix al rei d'Egipte
  10. Suport sobre on escribien els egipcis
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  1. Capitals de l'Alt Egipte
  2. Nom de l'escriptura de Mesopotàmia
  3. Déu egipci del Sol
  4. Fang del riu Nil
  5. Vasos que es feien servir per guardar-hi les vísceres.
  6. Persones d'Egipte que sabien escriure
  7. Regió d'Egipte que la seva capital és Tebes
  8. Riu de Mesopotàmia
  9. Tomba de forma rectangulat
  10. Riu d'Egipte

20 Clues: Riu d'Egipte • Fang del riu Nil • Déu egipci del Sol • Riu de Mesopotàmia • Riu de Mesopotàmia • Regió de Mesopotàmia • Déu egipci dels morts • Capital del Baix Egipte • Capitals de l'Alt Egipte • Tomba de forma rectangulat • Temple típic de Mesopotàmia • Nom de l'escriptura de Mesopotàmia • Persones d'Egipte que sabien escriure • Suport sobre on escribien els egipcis • ...

Eastern Europe Countries and Capitals 2014-02-25

Eastern Europe Countries and Capitals crossword puzzle
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  1. Bratislava
  2. Podgorica
  3. Sofia
  4. Budapest
  5. Prague
  6. Skopje
  7. Belgrade
  8. Tirane
  9. Bucharest
  10. Riga
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  1. Vilnius
  2. Tallinn
  3. Sarajevo
  4. Zagreb
  5. Ljubljana
  6. Warsaw
  7. Chisinau

17 Clues: Riga • Sofia • Zagreb • Prague • Warsaw • Skopje • Tirane • Vilnius • Tallinn • Sarajevo • Budapest • Chisinau • Belgrade • Podgorica • Ljubljana • Bucharest • Bratislava

Articles of Confederation - A New Nation 2024-02-27

Articles of Confederation - A New Nation crossword puzzle
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  1. The branch that interprets laws
  2. The Articles did not let Congress recruit this, only the states
  3. The branch that carries out laws
  4. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
  5. The chamber of Congress where each state gets two votes
  6. In the House of Representatives, the number of votes a state gets depends on its:
  7. Under the Virginia Plan, these states would have more power
  8. One problem was that states charged these on goods from other states
  9. A group of individuals united for a purpose
  10. States must treat their own citizens and other states’ citizens this way
  11. Fraction of states that must agree to change the Constitution
  12. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
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  1. The only state that did not attend the Constitutional Convention
  2. The branch that makes laws
  3. The Constitution says laws passed by Congress are __________________ to state laws.
  4. States send these to Congress
  5. The Articles of Confederation was the first plan for a U.S.:
  6. Under the New Jersey plan, these states would have more power
  7. These were the “individuals” in the “confederation” created by the Articles
  8. Under the A of C, Congress could not do this to its laws, so states could just ignore laws
  9. The Articles of Confederation created a government that had only one of these
  10. The document that replaced the Articles of Confederation
  11. Under the Articles, the U.S. did not have one of these

23 Clues: The branch that makes laws • States send these to Congress • The branch that interprets laws • The branch that carries out laws • A group of individuals united for a purpose • One of two things people were afraid states might lose • Under the Articles, the U.S. did not have one of these • One of two things people were afraid states might lose • ...

Constitution Unit Crossword 2021-01-08

Constitution Unit Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. government can’t take property without pay
  2. amendment one, freedom of
  3. a jury, normally of twenty-three jurors, selected to examine the validity of an accusation before trial.
  4. sets the number of state ratifications necessary in order for the Constitution to take effect and prescribes the method through which the states may ratify it.
  5. amendment two, the right to
  6. A group of people selected from each of the states to cast votes in presidential electionsfederalism U.s. system of government in which power is distributed betweena central government and individual states.
  7. stating that all laws made furthering the Constitution and all treaties made under the authority of the United States are the
  8. enforce laws
  9. printed lies
  10. Checks and B_____es a system established by the constitution that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful.
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  1. provides framework for government in united states states
  2. official changes, corrections, or addition to law or constitution
  3. laws apply to all
  4. Congress can only make laws that the constitution gives them direct authority over
  5. makes laws
  6. bill of ___ the first 10 amendments to the constitution
  7. first ten amendments
  8. A set of basic principles that determines the powers and duties of a government.
  9. the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods
  10. the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation

20 Clues: makes laws • enforce laws • printed lies • laws apply to all • first ten amendments • amendment one, freedom of • amendment two, the right to • government can’t take property without pay • bill of ___ the first 10 amendments to the constitution • provides framework for government in united states states • official changes, corrections, or addition to law or constitution • ...

A More Perfect Union 2014-11-11

A More Perfect Union crossword puzzle
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  1. plan the plan that called for the legislative branch of the central government to be made up of two houses with the representation for states based on their population.
  2. ordinance set up the three-step process of admitting new states
  3. Madison often called the "Father of the Constitution"
  4. Convention The meeting of delegates in which the Articles of Confederation were scrapped in favor of a new United States Constitution
  5. the division of government between the central government and the constituent units as in the national government and the states
  6. a period when business activity slows prices and wages drop, and unemployment rises
  7. Sherman framer of the Constitution from Connecticut who believed common people could not be an integral part of the government decision making
  8. branch the branch of government that makes laws
  9. branch the branch of government that enforces the laws
  10. three-fifths compromise decided how slaves would be counted for states' populations
  11. person who officially represents their state
  12. to approve something formally
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  1. a document stating the rules under which a government will operate
  2. against the Constitution and favored states having more power than the central government
  3. of confederation The United States' first written plan for government
  4. Morris framer of the constitution from Pennsylvania who believed common people were the cornerstone of the democratic process
  5. and balances the idea that each branch of government has specific ways to limit the power of the other branches.
  6. branch: the branch of government that is a system of courts set up to interpret the laws
  7. supported the Constitution and favored a strong central, or national, government
  8. Washington President of the Constitutional Convention
  9. a change or addition to a document
  10. Jersey plan the plan that called for a one house legislative branch with each state being equally represented
  11. rebellion The Massachusetts farmers' uprising that made it clear to many that the central government was too weak to protect states from popular unrest

23 Clues: to approve something formally • a change or addition to a document • person who officially represents their state • branch the branch of government that makes laws • Madison often called the "Father of the Constitution" • Washington President of the Constitutional Convention • branch the branch of government that enforces the laws • ...

Savannah and Forest States 2023-03-06

Savannah and Forest States crossword puzzle
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  1. For this reason slaves were taken almost fully from the forest region.
  2. Small settlements were transformed into______ due to the trade to the North.
  3. Sold by merchants
  4. Number of regions Africa was divided into.
  5. Is a Forest state.
  6. Wide belt of grassland that lay between the forest in the South and the desert in the north.
  7. These were traded when the trade to the North expanded.
  8. One of the main ways of living among Africans from the Savannah states.
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  1. One of the Savannah states.
  2. These people were one of the most organized in the forest region.
  3. African Kings gain a lot of riches by doing this to merchants.
  4. A type of currency used in the Savannah states
  5. These were among the items traded to the North.
  6. Africans in the forest states planted this in order to gain food.
  7. One of the Forest states.

15 Clues: Sold by merchants • Is a Forest state. • One of the Forest states. • One of the Savannah states. • Number of regions Africa was divided into. • A type of currency used in the Savannah states • These were among the items traded to the North. • These were traded when the trade to the North expanded. • African Kings gain a lot of riches by doing this to merchants. • ...

"Just Right" Government 2021-01-15

"Just Right" Government crossword puzzle
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  1. Articles did not let Congress create this
  2. Under the Virginia Plan, these states would have more power
  3. The branch that interprets laws
  4. The Articles of Confederation created a government that had only one of these
  5. The Constitution says laws passed by Congress are ___ to state laws.
  6. A group of individuals united together for a purpose
  7. The Articles of Confederation was America’s first plan for _____.
  8. Fraction of states that must agree to change the Constitution
  9. The branch that makes laws
  10. Under the Articles of Confederation, congress could not do this to its laws, so states could just ignore laws
  11. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
  12. Under the Articles, America did not have one of these
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  1. In the House of Representatives, the number of votes a state gets depends on this
  2. These were the “individuals” in the “confederation” created by the Articles
  3. Under the New Jersey plan, these states would have more power
  4. One problem was that states charged these on goods from other states
  5. States send these to Congress
  6. The document that replaced the Articles of Confederation
  7. The chamber of Congress where each state gets two votes
  8. States must treat their own citizens and other states’ citizens this way
  9. Early Americans had something in common with this fictional character!
  10. the branch that carries out laws
  11. One of two things people were afraid states might lose

23 Clues: The branch that makes laws • States send these to Congress • The branch that interprets laws • the branch that carries out laws • Articles did not let Congress create this • A group of individuals united together for a purpose • Under the Articles, America did not have one of these • One of two things people were afraid states might lose • ...

"Wanted: Just Right Government" Crossword Puzzle 2020-12-21

"Wanted: Just Right Government" Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
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  1. The Articles of Confederation created a government that had only one of these
  2. In the House of Representatives, the number of votes a state gets depends on this
  3. Under the New Jersey plan, these states would have more power
  4. Under the Virginia Plan, these states would have more power
  5. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
  6. Fraction of states that must agree to change the Constitution
  7. One problem was that states charged these on goods from other states
  8. Early Americans had something in common with this fictional character!
  9. The Articles let Congress create this but not pay for it
  10. Under the Articles of Confederation, congress could not do this to its laws, so states could just ignore laws
  11. These were the “individuals” in the “confederation” created by the Articles
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  1. The Constitution says laws passed by Congress are ___ to state laws.
  2. The branch that interprets laws
  3. The branch that makes laws
  4. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
  5. the branch that carries out laws
  6. A group of individuals united together for a purpose
  7. The document that replaced the Articles of
  8. Under the Articles, America did not have one of these
  9. The Articles of Confederation was America’s first plan for this
  10. States send these to Congress
  11. The chamber of Congress where each state gets two votes
  12. States must treat their own citizens and other states’ citizens this way

23 Clues: The branch that makes laws • States send these to Congress • The branch that interprets laws • the branch that carries out laws • The document that replaced the Articles of • A group of individuals united together for a purpose • Under the Articles, America did not have one of these • One of two things people were afraid states might lose • ...

Famous Politicians 2023-06-09

Famous Politicians crossword puzzle
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  1. - 42nd President of the United States, remembered for his economic prosperity, welfare reform, and controversial impeachment proceedings.
  2. - Collective name for two influential American presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd President), known for his New Deal policies, and Theodore Roosevelt (26th President), known for his progressivism and conservation efforts.
  3. - French President, serving as the 25th President of France, known for his centrist policies, economic reforms, and efforts towards European integration.
  4. - Indian Prime Minister, currently serving as the 14th Prime Minister of India, known for his economic reforms, nationalist agenda, and digital initiatives.
  5. - 37th President of the United States, who resigned from office amid the Watergate scandal, leaving a lasting impact on American politics.
  6. - Russian President, currently serving as the President of Russia, known for his strong leadership, assertive foreign policy, and consolidation of power.
  7. - 16th President of the United States, who led the country through the American Civil War and played a pivotal role in abolishing slavery.
  8. - 33rd President of the United States, who made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II.
  9. - British Prime Minister, also known as the "Iron Lady," who implemented conservative policies and played a pivotal role in shaping modern British politics.
  10. - 40th President of the United States, known for his conservative policies, economic reforms, and role in ending the Cold War.
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  1. - American politician and former U.S. Secretary of State, known for her presidential campaign in 2016 and her long career in public service.
  2. - 16th President of the United States, known for leading the country during the American Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
  3. - Long-serving German Chancellor, known for her pragmatic leadership, handling of the European debt crisis, and refugee policy.
  4. - British statesman and Prime Minister during World War II, renowned for his leadership, powerful speeches, and unwavering resolve.
  5. - Indian independence leader and political figure, known for his nonviolent resistance against British colonial rule and advocacy for civil rights.
  6. - 44th President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office and known for his healthcare reform, economic policies, and efforts towards diplomacy.
  7. - 35th President of the United States, who inspired a generation with his charisma, leadership, and commitment to civil rights.
  8. - 46th President of the United States, known for his long political career, experience as Vice President under Obama, and focus on domestic and foreign policy challenges.
  9. - American businessman and politician, who served as the 45th President of the United States, known for his unconventional style, populist rhetoric, and controversial policies.
  10. - Canadian Prime Minister, currently serving as the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada, known for his progressive policies and charismatic leadership.

20 Clues: - 40th President of the United States, known for his conservative policies, economic reforms, and role in ending the Cold War. • - Long-serving German Chancellor, known for her pragmatic leadership, handling of the European debt crisis, and refugee policy. • ...

Our Puzzling Government #2 - Madeline Spears 2021-12-03

Our Puzzling Government #2 - Madeline Spears crossword puzzle
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  1. Laws relating to disputes between individuals, groups, or within the states
  2. Requirement set by the congress that prohibits a local or state government from exercising a certain power
  3. State must not discriminate against against citizens of another state
  4. The beginning procedure for admission
  5. Power to assume responsibility for a state government function
  6. Powers directly expressed or stated in the constitution by the founders
  7. Nearly all activities concerned with the production, buying, selling, and the transportation of goods
  8. Powers based on the necessary and proper clause, also known as the elastic clause
  9. Ratified in 1913
  10. Written agreements between two or more states
  11. Forbid racial discrimination in public accomidations
  12. Imposing mandates that take away
  13. Powers the constitution grants or delegates to the national government
  14. The certain powers congress gives to the states
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  1. Under this person the court often supported states’ rights against powers of the national government
  2. Powers the national government express simply because they can
  3. Each state must recognize the laws and legal proceedings of every other state
  4. Levied individual earnings
  5. Federal order requiring states to provide a service or undertake an activity in a manner that meets minimum national standards set by congress
  6. Main way national government provides money to the states
  7. Favors national action when dealing with federalism
  8. Court ruling between the national and state governments, the national government won, in 1819
  9. Return to the state
  10. Both the national government and the states have
  11. Favors state and local action when dealing with federalism

25 Clues: Ratified in 1913 • Return to the state • Levied individual earnings • Imposing mandates that take away • The beginning procedure for admission • Written agreements between two or more states • The certain powers congress gives to the states • Both the national government and the states have • Favors national action when dealing with federalism • ...

civil war crossword 2013-05-23

civil war crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. Term for a Northerner who opposed the war effort.
  2. Party/ The major political party in America most sympathetic to states rights and willing to tolerate the spread of slavery to the territories. Democrats opposed a strong Federal government. Most Southern men were Democrats before the War.
  3. Loyal to the government of the United States. Also known as Union, Yankee, or Northern.
  4. The effort by the North to keep ships from entering or leaving Southern ports
  5. Freedom from slavery
  6. A metal blade, like a long knife or short sword, that could be attached to the end of a musket or rifle-musket and used as a spear or pike in hand-to-hand combat.
  7. Long, cylindrical metal rod used to push the cartridge down the barrel of a musket in preparation for firing.
  8. Also called the South or the Confederate States of America, the Confederacy incorporated the states that seceded from the United States of America to form their own nation. Confederate states were: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
  9. To formally approve or sanction.
  10. Loyal to the Confederate States. Also Southern or Confederate.
  11. Actively attacking someone
  12. A soldier who was wounded, killed, or missing in action.
  13. To practice marching, military formations and the steps in firing and handling one's weapon
  14. A branch of the military using ships to conduct warfare. During the Civil War, “blue water” ships cruised the oceans and “brown water” boats floated up and down the rivers
  15. Monkey/ A sailor (sometimes a child) who carried explosives from the ship's magazine to the ship's guns
  16. A place where weapons and other military supplies are stored.
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  1. Troops, like the National Guard, who are only called out to defend the land in an emergency.
  2. The cruel killing of a number of helpless or unresisting people.
  3. Crop/ A crop such as tobacco or cotton which was grown to be sold for cash --not grown for food like corn or wheat
  4. A ship protected by iron armor.
  5. Gunboats using stacked cotton bales to protect themselves from enemy fire.
  6. Also called the Union or the United States the North was the part of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War. Northern states were: Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin. West Virginia became a Northern state in 1863 and California and Oregon were also officially Northern but they had little direct involvement in the War.
  7. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.
  8. Also called the North or the United States, the Union was the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War
  9. The science of growing crops or raising livestock; farming
  10. The long metal tube on a gun through which a projectile is fired
  11. Resisting or protecting against attack from someone
  12. Yell/ A high-pitched cry that Confederate soldiers would shout when attacking. First heard at First Manassas (First Bull Run) Union troops found the eerie noise unnerving.
  13. Loyal to the Confederacy. Also Southern or Rebel.
  14. To lie in wait for an unexpected attack
  15. States/ The states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri. Although these states did not officially join the Confederacy, many of their citizens supported the South.
  16. To rush towards the enemy.

32 Clues: Freedom from slavery • To rush towards the enemy. • Actively attacking someone • A ship protected by iron armor. • To formally approve or sanction. • To lie in wait for an unexpected attack • Term for a Northerner who opposed the war effort. • Loyal to the Confederacy. Also Southern or Rebel. • Resisting or protecting against attack from someone • ...

Chapter 12 - Reconstruction 2024-06-06

Chapter 12 - Reconstruction crossword puzzle
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  1. guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
  2. the process of bringing charges against a government official for wrongdoing
  3. promoted a social liberal platform that includes support for Social Security and unemployment insurance. The New Deal attracted strong support for the party from recent European immigrants but diminished the party's pro-business wing.
  4. believed they should be given equal rights and have the same opportunities as white people. They also wanted the leaders of the Confederate States of America to be punished for any part they played in the Civil War.
  5. an American white supremacist hate group. It was started in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 24, 1865
  6. an American military officer and politician who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881.
  7. the 17th President of the United States, assumed office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and faced significant challenges during the Reconstruction era, fought with Congress over the integration of Southern states and the rights of freed slaves. His opposition to the Radical Republicans' policies led to his impeachment by the House, though he was acquitted by a single vote in the Senate.
  8. would also have abolished slavery, but it required that 50 percent of a state's White males take a loyalty oath to the United States (and swear they had never assisted the Confederacy) to be readmitted to the Union.
  9. an American politician and lawyer who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, being one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s.
  10. led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States
  11. a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.
  12. granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,”
  13. declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude.”
  14. outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.
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  1. military courts designed to judicially try members of enemy forces during wartime, operating outside the scope of conventional criminal and civil proceedings.
  2. abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories
  3. The right to vote in presidential elections
  4. the first institution of higher learning for African Americans
  5. an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management
  6. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.
  7. someone who is dishonest and untrustworthy
  8. a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
  9. provided assistance to tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the Southern States and the District of Columbia in the years following the war
  10. Republicans that might vote democratic
  11. a person who tries to take advantage of a group by joining it only for his own personal benefit.

25 Clues: Republicans that might vote democratic • someone who is dishonest and untrustworthy • The right to vote in presidential elections • the first institution of higher learning for African Americans • outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. • abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories • ...

Just Right Government 2021-03-04

Just Right Government crossword puzzle
Across
  1. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
  2. Under the Virginia Plan, these states would have more power
  3. The chamber of Congress where each state gets two votes
  4. fraction of states that must agree to change the constitution
  5. the branch that carries out laws
  6. One problem was that states charged these on goods from other states
  7. A group of individuals united together for a purpose
  8. In the House of Representatives, the number of votes a
  9. Under the New Jersey plan, these states would have more power
  10. The branch that makes laws
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  1. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
  2. Under the Articles of Confederation, congress could not do this to its laws, so states could just ignore laws
  3. The Articles of Confederation was America’s first plan for _____.
  4. The Articles of Confederation created a government that had only one of these
  5. Under the Articles, America did not have one of these
  6. These were the “individuals” in the “confederation” created by the Articles
  7. The document that replaced the Articles of
  8. The Constitution says laws passed by Congress are ___ to state laws.
  9. States must treat their own citizens and other states’ citizens this way
  10. The Articles did not let Congress create this
  11. The branch that interprets laws
  12. gets depends on this
  13. states send these to Congress
  14. Early Americans had something in common with this fictional

24 Clues: gets depends on this • The branch that makes laws • states send these to Congress • The branch that interprets laws • the branch that carries out laws • The document that replaced the Articles of • The Articles did not let Congress create this • A group of individuals united together for a purpose • Under the Articles, America did not have one of these • ...

A Just Right Government 2022-10-11

A Just Right Government crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The Articles did not let Congress create this
  2. These were the “individuals” in the “confederation” created by the Articles
  3. Under the Virginia Plan, these states would have more power
  4. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
  5. In the House of Representatives, the number of votes a state gets depends on this
  6. States must treat their own citizens and other states' citizens this way
  7. The Constitution says laws passed by Congress are ___ to state laws.
  8. Under the Articles, America did not have one of these
  9. fraction of states that must agree to change the constitution
  10. Early Americans had something in common with this fictional character!
  11. One problem was that states charged these on goods from other states
  12. the branch that carries out laws
  13. The chamber of Congress where each state gets two votes
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  1. A group of individuals united together for a purpose
  2. the branch that interprets laws
  3. The Articles of Confederation created a government that had only one of these
  4. Under the New Jersey plan, these states would have more power
  5. States send these to Congress
  6. Under the Articles of Confederation, congress could not do this to its laws, so states could just ignore laws
  7. The document that replaced the Articles of
  8. The branch that makes laws
  9. The Articles of Confederation was America’s first plan for _____.
  10. One of two things people were afraid states might lose

23 Clues: The branch that makes laws • States send these to Congress • the branch that interprets laws • the branch that carries out laws • The document that replaced the Articles of • The Articles did not let Congress create this • A group of individuals united together for a purpose • Under the Articles, America did not have one of these • ...

Just Right Crossword 2020-11-18

Just Right Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. Fraction of states that must agree to change the Constitution
  2. the Articles of Confederation created a government that had only one of these
  3. States must treat their own citizens and other states’ citizens this way
  4. In the House of Representatives, the number of votes a state gets depends on this
  5. Under the Virginia Plan, these states would have more power
  6. Under the Articles of Confederation, congress could not do this to its laws, so states could just ignore laws
  7. States send these to Congress
  8. the branch that carries out laws
  9. Early Americans had something in common with this fictional character!
  10. The Articles of Confederation was America’s first plan for _____.
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  1. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
  2. The Constitution says laws passed by Congress are ___ to state laws.
  3. These were the “individuals” in the “confederation” created by the Articles
  4. The document that replaced the Articles of Confederation
  5. A group of individuals united together for a purpose
  6. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
  7. The Articles did not let Congress create this
  8. Under the New Jersey plan, these states would have more power
  9. Under the Articles, America did not have one of these
  10. The branch that interprets laws
  11. The chamber of Congress where each state gets two votes
  12. the branch that makes laws
  13. One problem was that states charged these on goods from other states

23 Clues: the branch that makes laws • States send these to Congress • The branch that interprets laws • the branch that carries out laws • The Articles did not let Congress create this • A group of individuals united together for a purpose • Under the Articles, America did not have one of these • One of two things people were afraid states might lose • ...

Civil War Crossword 2022-05-23

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  2. an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election
  3. the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct.
  4. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.
  5. a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s.
  6. A case in which the Court held that the creation of a Louisiana slaughterhouse monopoly did not violate the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
  7. a United States federal law in force from 1867 to 1887 that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate.
  8. a largely historical term used by Southerners to describe opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War
  9. an American politician who served as the 25th Governor of New York and was the Democratic candidate for president in the disputed 1876 United States presidential election.
  10. an American politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator.
  11. granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
  12. a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
  13. the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869.
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  1. abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
  2. an American lawyer and politician who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881, after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and as governor of Ohio.
  3. tate and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  4. a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from the founding of the Republican Party in 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877.
  5. Bill required that 50% of all voters in the Confederate states, as opposed to Lincoln's proposed 10%, must pledge allegiance to the Union before reunification
  6. a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.
  7. a person who resides on land owned by a landlord.
  8. an American white supremacist terrorist hate group founded in 1865
  9. white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War
  10. the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877, during which the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states that had seceded and determining the legal status of African Americans.
  11. to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
  12. a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain.

25 Clues: a person who resides on land owned by a landlord. • an American white supremacist terrorist hate group founded in 1865 • the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. • abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. • tate and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. • ...

SOCIAL STUDIES Review UNIT 4 2023-11-30

SOCIAL STUDIES Review UNIT 4 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Responsible for educating students, maintaining
  2. US Constitution and government
  3. First president of the United States
  4. Guarantees freedom of speech and assembly
  5. Ensures laws are constitutional Judicial Branch Interprets laws, declares war, and coins money
  6. President Leader
  7. One of the Founding Fathers with qualities related to
  8. Refers to the individual states in the United States
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  1. Document believed by George Mason to be needed
  2. Protects people's rights and establishes the structure of the government
  3. Governor Leader
  4. Local Government Leader
  5. and sewers, and funding local police and fire
  6. Supports the actions of journalists
  7. Commands the armed forces
  8. protect the rights of the people

16 Clues: Governor Leader • President Leader • Local Government Leader • Commands the armed forces • US Constitution and government • protect the rights of the people • Supports the actions of journalists • First president of the United States • Guarantees freedom of speech and assembly • and sewers, and funding local police and fire • Document believed by George Mason to be needed • ...

Interin Word Review 2023-11-30

Interin Word Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Battle of Jan 8, 1815
  2. Bicameral
  3. Helped Lewis and Clark
  4. A violent upbringing in Massachusetts
  5. Recruited sailors by force
  6. Convention A government meeting in Philidelphia
  7. Land deal with the United States and France
  8. Wars continued the wars of the French revolution
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  1. group of people who wrote it wanted a strong federal government
  2. Is it constitutional?
  3. The Fort Star Spangled Banner is about
  4. The official method of adding states to the union
  5. Action to begin a uprising
  6. To urge New Yorkers to approve the US constitution
  7. National Anthem
  8. First 10 amendments
  9. Ordinances Cadastral survey and a plan to add states to the union
  10. of Confederation First attempt at a constitution
  11. A case that established the Judicial Review
  12. Established clear boundaries between Canada and the United States

20 Clues: Bicameral • National Anthem • First 10 amendments • Is it constitutional? • Battle of Jan 8, 1815 • Helped Lewis and Clark • Action to begin a uprising • Recruited sailors by force • A violent upbringing in Massachusetts • The Fort Star Spangled Banner is about • A case that established the Judicial Review • Land deal with the United States and France • ...

Civil War 2022-05-31

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A nickname given to people in the South supporting the Confederate States.
  2. Crackers eaten by Civil War soldiers made from flour, water, and salt.
  3. a side that supported slavery
  4. large weapons like cannons
  5. Line A boundary or border that split the free states from the slave states. It went between Pennsylvania to the north and Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware to the south.
  6. An army of citizens used during emergencies.
  7. The northern states of the United States, also called the Union.
  8. The rebuilding of war torn southern states so they could be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War.
  9. A long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers shot from the shoulder.
  10. A long blade or knife attached to the end of
  11. A canvas bag that many Civil War soldiers used to carry their food.
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  1. When the southern states chose to leave the United States and to no longer be a part of the country.
  2. a person who wanted to get rid of slavery
  3. A large farm in the southern United States. Before the Civil War many of the workers on plantations were enslaved.
  4. When a person is murdered for political
  5. A nickname for southern whites who supported the Republican Party.
  6. Soldiers that fight and travel by foot.
  7. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port
  8. a side that didn’t support slavery

19 Clues: large weapons like cannons • a side that supported slavery • a side that didn’t support slavery • When a person is murdered for political • Soldiers that fight and travel by foot. • a person who wanted to get rid of slavery • An army of citizens used during emergencies. • A long blade or knife attached to the end of • ...

Civil War Vocab 2023-01-20

Civil War Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Puts the local interests
  2. nickname for people from the North
  3. When the southern states leave the USA
  4. fought for the north in the civil war
  5. Soldiers that fight and travel by foot.
  6. Law was A law passed by Congress in 1850
  7. The northern states of the United States
  8. The side of an army or military unit.
  9. A nickname for the Confederate States of America
  10. When a person is killed for political rsn
  11. A person who wanted to eliminate slavery
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  1. An army of citizens used during emergencies
  2. An attempt to stop people and items
  3. The rebuilding of war southern states
  4. was A nickname for the South.
  5. slave states who didn't leave the union
  6. Fought for the south in the civil war
  7. soldier that is wounded,killed during battle

18 Clues: Puts the local interests • was A nickname for the South. • nickname for people from the North • An attempt to stop people and items • The rebuilding of war southern states • fought for the north in the civil war • Fought for the south in the civil war • The side of an army or military unit. • When the southern states leave the USA • slave states who didn't leave the union • ...

vocab 2 2024-09-03

vocab 2 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The exact temperature that liquid matter changes states to a gas form
  2. The resistance of a fluid to flowing
  3. An increase or decrease in the size of a substance when the temperature is changed.
  4. When matter changes states from a gas to liquid form
  5. The change of a substance from one physical state to another
  6. The exact temperature that liquid matter changes states into a solid matter
  7. When energy is taken in, and gains heat
  8. A change in chemical properties or composition of a substance, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance.
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  1. that has enough energy to overcome not just the attractive forces between its particles, but also the attractive forces within its atoms
  2. When energy is released, and loses heat.
  3. When matter changes states from a liquid to solid form
  4. When matter changes states from a solid to gas form
  5. The force exerted per unit area
  6. When matter changes states from a liquid to gas form.
  7. Object still has the same composition, and is just represented in a different form
  8. matter changes states from a liquid to gas form
  9. When matter changes states from a solid to liquid form
  10. The ability of a fluid, liquid, or gas to exact an upward force on an object immersed in it

18 Clues: The force exerted per unit area • The resistance of a fluid to flowing • When energy is taken in, and gains heat • When energy is released, and loses heat. • matter changes states from a liquid to gas form • When matter changes states from a solid to gas form • When matter changes states from a gas to liquid form • When matter changes states from a liquid to gas form. • ...

Articles of Confederation 2020-09-29

Articles of Confederation crossword puzzle
Across
  1. states must treat their own citizens and other states’ citizens this way
  2. the Articles did not let Congress create this
  3. the branch that makes laws
  4. the Articles of Confederation created a government that had only one of these
  5. the Articles of Confederation was America’s first plan for _____.
  6. in the House of Representatives, the number of votes a state gets depends on this
  7. the Constitution says laws passed by Congress are ___ to state laws.
  8. states send these to Congress
  9. one of two things people were afraid states might lose
  10. under the Articles, America did not have one of these
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  1. under the New Jersey plan, these states would have more power
  2. the branch that interprets laws
  3. one problem was that states charged these on goods from other states
  4. under the Virginia Plan, these states would have more power
  5. the chamber of Congress where each state gets two votes
  6. fraction of states that must agree to change the Constitution
  7. These were the “individuals” in the “confederation” created by the Articles
  8. the document that replaced the Articles of Confederation
  9. a group of individuals united together for a purpose
  10. early Americans had something in common with this fictional character!
  11. one of two things people were afraid states might lose
  12. the branch that carries out laws
  13. under the Articles of Confederation, congress could not do this to its laws, so states could just ignore laws

23 Clues: the branch that makes laws • states send these to Congress • the branch that interprets laws • the branch that carries out laws • the Articles did not let Congress create this • a group of individuals united together for a purpose • under the Articles, America did not have one of these • one of two things people were afraid states might lose • ...

Wanted: A Just Right Government 2022-11-11

Wanted: A Just Right Government crossword puzzle
Across
  1. states must treat their own citizens and other states' citizens this way
  2. the Articles did not let Congress create this
  3. the branch that makes the laws
  4. the Articles of Confederation created a government that had only one of these
  5. the Articles of Confederation was America's first plan for ____
  6. in the House of Representatives, the number of votes a state gets depends on this
  7. the Constitution says laws passed by Congress are ____ to state laws
  8. states send these to Congress
  9. one of two things people were afraid states might lose
  10. under the Articles of Confederation, America did not have one of these
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  1. under the New Jersey plan, these states would have more power
  2. the branch that interprets laws
  3. one problem was that states charged these on goods from other states
  4. under the Virginia Plan, these states would have more power
  5. the chamber of Congress where each state gets two votes
  6. fraction of states that must agree to change the Constitution
  7. these were the "individuals" in the "confederation" created by the Articles
  8. the document that replaced the Articles of Confederation
  9. a group of individuals united together for a purpose
  10. early Americans had something in common with this fictional character
  11. one of two things people were afraid states might lose
  12. the branch that carries out the laws
  13. under the Articles of Confederation, Congress could not do this to its laws, so states could just ignore laws

23 Clues: states send these to Congress • the branch that makes the laws • the branch that interprets laws • the branch that carries out the laws • the Articles did not let Congress create this • a group of individuals united together for a purpose • one of two things people were afraid states might lose • one of two things people were afraid states might lose • ...

Global Politics 2021-10-05

Global Politics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Official orders or laws stopping trade or communication with another state, as a way of forcing its leaders to make political changes.
  2. The capacity to convert potential power into realized power (2 words, no gap)
  3. The ability to achieve one's purposes or goals.
  4. any doctorine or agenda that supports one-sided action
  5. A type of power when states use relationships to influence other states.
  6. Type of realism which is based on the idea that states are led by individuals with an innate need to dominate.
  7. Type of power that means achieving aims through force.
  8. Type of power that is a combination of hard and soft power.
  9. Type of power that is used by states to influence political ideas and structures of other states.
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  1. a relationship or cooperation between states that are commited to using their armed forces in supporting military objectives (2 words,no gap)
  2. the procces that provides to follow international norms and pay more respect to international insitutions
  3. A theoretical perspective in which power is seen as the currency of global politics.
  4. Type of realism that is based on the idea that states pursue power because of the nature of the international system.
  5. Type of power that refers to the internet empowering new groups at both state and individual level.
  6. A model of international relations which includes one state that is more powerful than all the others.
  7. A model of international relations which includes many powerful states that compete with each other.
  8. Level of analysis that refers to geographic area in which social organisation is created.
  9. A model of international relations which includes two states that are equally powerful. The main competition is between these two states.
  10. Level of analysis that is narrower than global but nonetheless refers to events that impact several states.
  11. Type of power that means achieving aims through cultural ties and influence.

20 Clues: The ability to achieve one's purposes or goals. • any doctorine or agenda that supports one-sided action • Type of power that means achieving aims through force. • Type of power that is a combination of hard and soft power. • A type of power when states use relationships to influence other states. • ...

states 2022-10-06

states crossword puzzle
Across
  1. This cardinal direction is the direction the tip of your compass will point to.
  2. This is the state you live in.
  3. 4. This state lies to the south of Indiana and touches Kentucky.
  4. This cardinal direction starts with an 'S'.
  5. 2. This City is the state capital of Washington state.
  6. This cardinal direction begins with the letter 'E'.
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  1. This state is shaped like a square and its capital is a city called Denver.
  2. 1. The state that touches Illinois on the East has this city as it's capital.
  3. Moines, This is the state capital of Iowa
  4. This cardinal direction starts with the letter 'W'.
  5. 3. This state touches the Gulf of Mexico, The Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean; Its state capital is Tallahassee.

11 Clues: This is the state you live in. • Moines, This is the state capital of Iowa • This cardinal direction starts with an 'S'. • This cardinal direction starts with the letter 'W'. • This cardinal direction begins with the letter 'E'. • 2. This City is the state capital of Washington state. • 4. This state lies to the south of Indiana and touches Kentucky. • ...

States 2024-02-23

States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Had an island that held the most dangerous prisoners
  2. Known for being the most northern state
  3. Known for it's corn statues
  4. Known for its heat
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  1. Known for having cowboys
  2. Has a nickname known as "Tree Planters"
  3. Known for the civil rights movement
  4. Next to the Canadian border
  5. Known for its potatoes
  6. Known for a famous city
  7. One of the states next to the mexican border

11 Clues: Known for its heat • Known for its potatoes • Known for a famous city • Known for having cowboys • Next to the Canadian border • Known for it's corn statues • Known for the civil rights movement • Has a nickname known as "Tree Planters" • Known for being the most northern state • One of the states next to the mexican border • Had an island that held the most dangerous prisoners

Delegated, Reserved, and Concurrent Powers 2021-09-20

Delegated, Reserved, and Concurrent Powers crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Only the national government has the power of ______ war
  2. the national government has the power of ______ money
  3. states have the power to make laws about _______
  4. the national government will make _____ with other nations
  5. a government in which the people have the power and rule
  6. state will create ______ government
  7. states will create and run
  8. the national government will allow new ______
  9. both state and national governments collect ______
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  1. both state and national governments have the power of ______ money
  2. the national government will create and use a ______
  3. the city the Constitution was created in
  4. Powers given by the states to the national government
  5. a government run by one person or small group of people
  6. powers kept by each state
  7. the national government creates the _______ system
  8. powers that both national and state governments have
  9. both state and national governments write and enforce _____
  10. both state and national governments create _____
  11. the national government makes rules about _______

20 Clues: powers kept by each state • states will create and run • state will create ______ government • the city the Constitution was created in • the national government will allow new ______ • states have the power to make laws about _______ • both state and national governments create _____ • the national government makes rules about _______ • ...

Federalism 2014-09-25

Federalism crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Federal categorical grants given for specific purposes and awarded on the basis of mats of application
  2. System of government were both the state and national government remained supreme within on spheres each responsible for some policies
  3. A system of government in which powers and responsibilities are divided into national levels to address national and regional needs
  4. 1819 Supreme Court case that established the supremacy of national government over state government
  5. Federal grants that can be used only for specific purposes or categories of state and local spending
  6. clause in article 4 section 8 of Constitution requires each state to recognize official document and civil judgments rendered by the courts of other states
  7. legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by officials and state in which crime is alleged to have been committed
  8. case in 1824 Supreme Court interpreted broadly the clause in article 1 section 8 giving Congress Power to regulate interstate commerce encompassing virtually every form of commercial activity
  9. pattern of spending taxing and providing grants in federal system
  10. Final paragraph in article 1 section 8 which authorizes Congress to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution
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  1. Federal grants given more or less automatically to states or communities to support broad projects in areas like community development and social service
  2. A clause in article 4 section 2 states citizens of each State most of the privileges of citizens of other states
  3. entire set of interactions among national state and local government
  4. System of government where powers and policy assignments are shared between states and national government
  5. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the states reserve two states or people
  6. article six of Constitution makes concentration national law and treaties supreme overstate laws when the national government is acting within constitutional limits
  7. Way of organizing nation so all powers your size in central government
  8. an alliance of Independent states creates a central government available to power
  9. Powers of the federal government address specifically in Constitution for Congress powers in article 1 section 8
  10. Power of federal government that go beyond enumerated in the Constitution
  11. Organizes nation so two or more levels of government have more authority over same land and people
  12. Federal categorical grants distributed according to a formula specified in legislation or administrative regulation

22 Clues: pattern of spending taxing and providing grants in federal system • entire set of interactions among national state and local government • Way of organizing nation so all powers your size in central government • Power of federal government that go beyond enumerated in the Constitution • ...

Articles of Confederation 2022-12-13

Articles of Confederation crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The Confederation Government could _______ war.
  2. No state may have navies, ______, or fight in war.
  3. How many states must approve a new state being added?
  4. States with higher ________ ______ will pay more money for the government.
  5. States are supposed to protect and ____ each other.
  6. Each state can bring two to seven _________ to congress.
  7. Who will raise money for the United States to pay for things?
  8. If someone commits a crime in one state and tries to run away they will be _________ back to the state where the crime was committed and tried there.
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  1. What will the name of the new nation be? (don't put a space between words)
  2. Each state gets ____ vote in congress.
  3. The Confederation government could set weights and _____________.
  4. Only the Confederation government is allowed to conduct ________ ______. (don't put a space between words)
  5. Congress would serve as a ______ court for disagreements between states.
  6. Each state gets to keep its sovereignty, ___________, and independence.
  7. People can ____ freely from one state to another.
  8. What area is approved to join the United States, if it applies?
  9. The Articles of confederation can only be changed if ____ of the states agree.

17 Clues: Each state gets ____ vote in congress. • The Confederation Government could _______ war. • People can ____ freely from one state to another. • No state may have navies, ______, or fight in war. • States are supposed to protect and ____ each other. • How many states must approve a new state being added? • Each state can bring two to seven _________ to congress. • ...

Word Processing Week 2 2019-01-17

Word Processing Week 2 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Times New Roman, Arial and Calibri are types of ____
  2. Shortcut for making text bold
  3. a button on a keyboard that causes all letters to be capitals.
  4. Allows you to paste texts
  5. a program used for formatting text entered
  6. the edge or border of something.
  7. a movable indicator on a computer screen identifying the point
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  1. an object on a computer that stores data, information, or settings
  2. Allows you to copy texts
  3. output device that displays information
  4. cursor movement keys are buttons on a computer keyboard
  5. central processing unit
  6. is the space between each line in a paragraph
  7. a device which allows a computer to read from computer disks
  8. To change the margins which tab should you go under
  9. refers to the appearance or presentation of your essay

16 Clues: central processing unit • Allows you to copy texts • Allows you to paste texts • Shortcut for making text bold • the edge or border of something. • output device that displays information • a program used for formatting text entered • is the space between each line in a paragraph • To change the margins which tab should you go under • ...

Unit 3 Vocabulary 2023-02-24

Unit 3 Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. case that established that the Constitution grants the federal government implied powers that the states cannot step over
  2. a formal agreement between two or more sovereign states
  3. The government may only do the things the people have allowed it to do.
  4. powers that are granted to the government in the Constitution: expressed, implied, and inherent
  5. those powers that belong to the National Government that are listed in the Constitution
  6. powers that can only be exercised by the National government; they cannot be exercised by the states
  7. government and its officers are always subject to-never above-the law
  8. the name that things are given that overstep a branch’s powers or go against the Constitution
  9. the power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a governmental action
  10. lower federal courts under the Supreme Court
  11. those powers that the Constitution does not grant to the federal government, but does not deny to the states
  12. an advisory body to the President
  13. grants of federal money or other resources to the States and their cities, counties, and other local units
  14. the idea that three basic powers are distributed/separated among three distinct branches of government
  15. a pact made by the President directly with a foreign head of state
  16. changes or additions that become apart of the written language of the Constitution
  17. changes to the Constitution
  18. an act directing the people of the territory to frame a proposed state constitution
  19. secures that states must accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state
  20. an unwritten rule that is closely followed in the Senate
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  1. powers not expressly states in the Constitution, but are suggested
  2. an act creating the a new state
  3. a provision that declares that the Constitution and treaties of the United States rank above all other forms of law in the nation
  4. approval
  5. a legislature made up of two houses
  6. each branch of government is subject to a series of constitutional restraints by other branches of government
  7. Article II of the Constitution that creates the executive branch of government
  8. the body that makes the formal selection of the nation’s President
  9. no state can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those who happen to live in another state
  10. the President’s power to reject an act of Congress
  11. government must be conducted according to constitutional principles
  12. government’s power comes from the people
  13. the Constitution assigns certain powers to the National Government and reserves others to states
  14. the first 10 amendments in the Constitution
  15. the legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state can be returned to that state, preventing a person from escaping justice
  16. powers that both the National Government and the States possess and exercise
  17. agreements among states between themselves and other foreign states
  18. government’s powers are divided among the National and State levels

38 Clues: approval • changes to the Constitution • an act creating the a new state • an advisory body to the President • a legislature made up of two houses • government’s power comes from the people • the first 10 amendments in the Constitution • lower federal courts under the Supreme Court • the President’s power to reject an act of Congress • ...

civil war and reconstruction 2020-02-28

civil war and reconstruction crossword puzzle
Across
  1. everyone born in the untied states is automatically american citizen
  2. American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
  3. Second Inaugural delivered on March 4, 1865, during his second inauguration as President of the United States.
  4. authorized the president of the United States to suspend the privilege of the writ
  5. a group of states or nations united into one political body
  6. battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
  7. American soldier and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States
  8. abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
  9. first American president to be impeached on March 2–3, 1868
  10. period after the Civil War in which the federal government enacted and attempted to enforce equal suffrage
  11. is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people
  12. was an informal, unwritten deal, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election
  13. last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River; therefore, capturing it completed the second part of the Northern strategy, the Anaconda Plan.
  14. American white supremacist hate group, whose primary target is African Americans.
  15. was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
  16. near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War
  17. executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on September 2, 1862
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  1. served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and became one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee.
  2. actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865
  3. speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War
  4. assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865
  5. he 23rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876
  6. southern states who fought the northern states in the American Civil War.
  7. President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom
  8. established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War
  9. American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army.
  10. fought on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia
  11. was a battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac
  12. was the period in American history which lasted from 1863 to 1877
  13. war between north and south of America from 1861 to 1865
  14. 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election.
  15. were laws governing the conduct of African Americans

32 Clues: were laws governing the conduct of African Americans • war between north and south of America from 1861 to 1865 • fought on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia • a group of states or nations united into one political body • first American president to be impeached on March 2–3, 1868 • was the period in American history which lasted from 1863 to 1877 • ...

State of Matter Vocab 2024-08-30

State of Matter Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. An increase or decrease in the size of a substance when the temperature is chnaged
  2. The change of a substance from one physical state to another
  3. When matter changes states from a solid to gas form
  4. When energy is taken in, and gains heat
  5. A change in chemical properties or composition of a substance, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance
  6. When matter changes states from liquid to gas form
  7. When matter changes states from a solid to liquid form
  8. The exact temperature that liquid matter changes states to a gas form
  9. When matter changes states from a liquid to gas form
  10. The resistance of a fluid to flowing
Down
  1. the force exerted per unit area
  2. When matter changes states from liquid to solid form
  3. Object still has the same composition,and is represented in a different form
  4. Matter that has enough energy to overcome not just the attractive forces between its particles, but also the attractive forces within its atoms
  5. When matter changes states from gas to liquid form
  6. The exact temperature that liquid matter changes states into a solid matter
  7. The ability of a fluid, liquid, or gas to exact an upward force on an object immersed in it
  8. When energy is released, and loses heat

18 Clues: the force exerted per unit area • The resistance of a fluid to flowing • When energy is taken in, and gains heat • When energy is released, and loses heat • When matter changes states from gas to liquid form • When matter changes states from liquid to gas form • When matter changes states from a solid to gas form • When matter changes states from liquid to solid form • ...

Asian Countries and Capitals 2013-11-13

Asian Countries and Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The most populous country in the world
  2. This land stretches over Asia and Europe, it is encircled by the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea
  3. The land of Mecca and Medina
  4. The capital of Saudi Arabia
  5. Delhi The capital of India
  6. An ocean is named after this country
Down
  1. The capital of Japan
  2. The capital of Turkey
  3. The capital of Taiwan
  4. The island Southeast of China
  5. The land of rising sun
  6. The capital of China

12 Clues: The capital of Japan • The capital of China • The capital of Turkey • The capital of Taiwan • The land of rising sun • Delhi The capital of India • The capital of Saudi Arabia • The land of Mecca and Medina • The island Southeast of China • An ocean is named after this country • The most populous country in the world • ...

chapter 4 2022-11-22

chapter 4 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. stipulated 7 conditions for withdrawl of united states troops remaining in cuba
  2. american republican politition, served in the united states senate 1893-1924
  3. a policy of extending a country´s power & influence through diplomacy or military force
  4. writer who served as the 26th presidant of the united states
  5. come between (as to prevent or alter a resuly of course of events)
  6. jornalism that´s based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration
  7. principal/advocay of political or commercial and cultural cooperation among all the countries of north/south america
  8. extreme patrioism
  9. became a leading national figure in the democratic party and was elected congressman from new york
  10. a legal prelimainry to the united states building of the panama canal
  11. a state that is controlled/protected by another
  12. only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the hawaiian kingdom
Down
  1. the branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences
  2. commodore of the united states navy who commanded ships in several wars
  3. prepare and issue for public sale, distribution, or readership
  4. stretched tight
  5. addition to the monroe doctine by presidant theodore roosevelt
  6. considered a cuban national hero because of his rolein liberation in his country
  7. the quality(s)/outlook regarded as distinctive of the english or people of the english descent
  8. united states naval officer/ historian
  9. known for developing the nations largest newspaper chain and media company
  10. make full use of and derive benifit from
  11. popular nickname for the group of united states navy ships which completed a journey around the globe december 16 1907- feburary 22 1909
  12. anti foriegn, anti colonial, ant christian upspring in china

24 Clues: stretched tight • extreme patrioism • united states naval officer/ historian • make full use of and derive benifit from • a state that is controlled/protected by another • writer who served as the 26th presidant of the united states • anti foriegn, anti colonial, ant christian upspring in china • prepare and issue for public sale, distribution, or readership • ...

Final Exam Crossword Puzzle 2020-06-02

Final Exam Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. was a meeting in the Pacific Northwest between the United States and sovereign tribal nations
  2. a United States policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas
  3. a mix of European and Indigenous ancestry
  4. a Lemhi Shoshone woman who lead Lewis and clark on their expedetion
  5. a point jutting into Puget Sound, the westernmost landform in West Seattle
  6. otter pelts
  7. a Canadian retail business group
  8. a 19th-century fur trading post that was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department
  9. was built by the Hudson's Bay Company at Kettle Falls on the Columbia River in 1825
  10. an American explorer, solider, and Indian agent
  11. an international incident and political dispute between the Spanish Empire, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the U.S.
  12. an American career Army officer and politician
  13. best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Down
  1. a British officer of the Royal Navy
  2. a mountain pass in the northwest United States, through the Cascade Range in Washington
  3. a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and United Kingdom
  4. a widely held cultural belief in the 19th-century
  5. The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary and the restoration of slaves between the United States and the United Kingdom
  6. a conflict between the United States and the Yakama
  7. the first Governor of the U.S. State of Washington
  8. a Suquamish and Duwamish chief
  9. a British explorer, navigator, and cartographer
  10. he encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
  11. an entrepreneur and a politician, regarded as a founder of the city of Seattle
  12. was a Greek maritime pilot in the service of the King of Spain

25 Clues: otter pelts • a Suquamish and Duwamish chief • a Canadian retail business group • a British officer of the Royal Navy • a mix of European and Indigenous ancestry • an American career Army officer and politician • a British explorer, navigator, and cartographer • he encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition • an American explorer, solider, and Indian agent • ...

articles of confederation 2014-12-18

articles of confederation crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Madison/ fourth president signer of the constitution writer of the federalist papers leader of the democratic- republican party
  2. a group of diverse individuals that formed to oppose the ratification of the new federal constitution in 1787
  3. de Montesquieu/ one of the most influential and renowned representatives of the enlightenment in France
  4. compromise/ a disproportionate representative relative to the voters in the north until the civil war
  5. Hamilton/ a soldier and political leader of the late 18th and early 19th centuries one of the founding fathers of the united states
  6. of rights/ the first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech assembly and worship
  7. branch/ the part the united states government that creates laws
  8. and balances / limits imposed on all branches of a government by vesting in each branch the right to amend or void those acts of another that fall within its purview
  9. branch/ the branch of federal and state government that is broadly responsible for implementing supporting and enforcing the laws that were made
Down
  1. branch / the part of the U.S. government that interprets the law and administers justice
  2. compromise/ an agreement that large and small states reached during the constitutional convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and represent that each state would have under the united states constitution
  3. rights/ the rights and powers held by individual U.S. states rather than by the federal government
  4. of confederation/ the original constitution of the us ratified in 1781 which was replaced by the us constitution in 1789
  5. a member or supporter of the federalist party
  6. a condition compared to that of a slave in respect of exhausting labor or restricted freedom
  7. shays rebellion/ an armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787
  8. constitution/ a document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the united states is governed
  9. of powers/ an act of vesting the legislative executive and judicial powers of government in separate bodies
  10. government/ a political system in which legalized force is restricted through delegated and enumerated powers
  11. federalist papers/ a collection of 85 articles and essays written by alexander Hamilton James Madison and john jay promoting the ratification of the united states constitution

20 Clues: a member or supporter of the federalist party • branch/ the part the united states government that creates laws • branch / the part of the U.S. government that interprets the law and administers justice • shays rebellion/ an armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787 • ...

Articles of Confederation vs Constitution 2021-02-23

Articles of Confederation vs Constitution crossword puzzle
Across
  1. These were the "individuals" in the "confederation" created by the Articles.
  2. The Constitution says laws passed by Congress are ___ to state laws.
  3. The chamber of Congress where each state gets two votes.
  4. The branch that carries out laws.
  5. The Articles of Confederation created a government that only had one of these.
  6. A group of individuals united together for a purpose.
  7. Under the New Jersey plan, these states would have more power.
  8. The document that replaced the Articles of Confederation.
  9. The Articles let Congress create this but not pay for it.
  10. Under the Articles, America did not have one of these.
  11. The Articles of Confederation was America's first plan for _____.
Down
  1. States send these to Congress.
  2. One of two things people were afraid states might lose.
  3. One problem was that states charged these on goods from other states.
  4. The branch that interprets laws.
  5. Fraction of states that must agree to change the Constitution.
  6. Under the Articles of Confederation, congress could not do this to its laws, so states could just ignore laws.
  7. States must treat their own citizens and other states' citizens this way.
  8. The branch that makes laws.
  9. One of two things people were afraid states might lose.
  10. In the House of Representatives, the number of votes a state gets depends on this.

21 Clues: The branch that makes laws. • States send these to Congress. • The branch that interprets laws. • The branch that carries out laws. • A group of individuals united together for a purpose. • Under the Articles, America did not have one of these. • One of two things people were afraid states might lose. • One of two things people were afraid states might lose. • ...

European Countries and Capitals 2013-11-18

European Countries and Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The land of flamenco
  2. The biggest country in the world, it stretches over Europe and Asia
  3. The land of champagne
  4. This country consists of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales
  5. The capital of Russia
  6. The capital of United Kingdom and England
Down
  1. The capital of France
  2. The capital of Spain
  3. The capital of Germany
  4. The capital of Italy
  5. This country borders the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria,Switzerland, Czech Republic and Poland
  6. The land of pizza

12 Clues: The land of pizza • The land of flamenco • The capital of Spain • The capital of Italy • The capital of France • The land of champagne • The capital of Russia • The capital of Germany • The capital of United Kingdom and England • The biggest country in the world, it stretches over Europe and Asia • This country consists of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales • ...

European Countries and Capitals 2013-11-13

European Countries and Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The capital of France
  2. The capital of Germany
  3. The capital of Russia
  4. It consists of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales
  5. The land of pizza
  6. The capital of Italy
Down
  1. The land of flamenco
  2. The land of champagne
  3. It borders the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Poland
  4. The biggest country in the world, it stretches over Europe and Asia
  5. The capital of Spain
  6. The capital of United Kingdom and England

12 Clues: The land of pizza • The land of flamenco • The capital of Spain • The capital of Italy • The capital of France • The land of champagne • The capital of Russia • The capital of Germany • The capital of United Kingdom and England • It consists of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales • The biggest country in the world, it stretches over Europe and Asia • ...

Water and its states 2021-01-27

Water and its states crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When the _______ of the surroundings is higher, the rate of evaporation is faster.
  2. Steam is water _____ at 100 degree Celcius.
  3. When the _____ surface area is bigger, the rate of evaporation is faster.
  4. This process happens when a gas becomes a liquid.
  5. Freezing, condensation involve heat _____.
  6. When ____ is present, the rate of evaporation is faster.
  7. Melting, evaporation, boiling involve heat ____.
Down
  1. This process happens when water becomes water vapour.
  2. This happens when a water becomes ice.
  3. Water vapour loses heat to condense into water _____.
  4. Melting point of ice is _____ degree Celcius.
  5. This process happens when ice becomes water.
  6. This process happens when water becomes steam at 100degree Celcius.
  7. Steam and water vapour are in the _____ state.
  8. Gases cannot be ______.

15 Clues: Gases cannot be ______. • This happens when a water becomes ice. • Freezing, condensation involve heat _____. • Steam is water _____ at 100 degree Celcius. • This process happens when ice becomes water. • Melting point of ice is _____ degree Celcius. • Steam and water vapour are in the _____ state. • Melting, evaporation, boiling involve heat ____. • ...

Canada and United States 2014-09-23

Canada and United States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. people moving from rural place to a city.
  2. Arctic Native peoples of North America
  3. the percentage of people who can read/write
  4. When Americans fought against the British for independence
  5. political unit similar to a state
  6. colonists who wanted to remain loyal to the British government
Down
  1. breaking away one part of a country to create a separate country
  2. large metropolitan areas closely linked
  3. having two or more languages
  4. Canada's national legislature
  5. movement of people into one country from another
  6. One of Canada's official langugages
  7. Quebec's French-speaking inhabitants
  8. partially self-governing country
  9. form of music blending African rhythms with European harmonies

15 Clues: having two or more languages • Canada's national legislature • partially self-governing country • political unit similar to a state • One of Canada's official langugages • Quebec's French-speaking inhabitants • Arctic Native peoples of North America • large metropolitan areas closely linked • people moving from rural place to a city. • ...

City States and Politics 2024-04-15

City States and Politics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. People with the right to take part in ruling the city
  2. During this time, most Greeks were too busy surviving instead of thriving. Not much is written from this time.
  3. During this time, the Greeks begin writing again and city-states emerge
  4. Government controlled by a small group of people with different roles
  5. Athenian government body that voted on policies proposed by the council of Four Hundred
  6. Period of Greek history where most of the mythological stories about heroes take place, including the Trojan War
Down
  1. Form of government where the citizens make political decisions
  2. Athenian general who proposed the construction of a powerful navy
  3. Means, "Highest city," and was used as a last stand point in case of invasion. It also housed the most important buildings of the city.
  4. Government ruled by a king or queen from aristocratic families
  5. Someone who acted like a king without royal birth
  6. Open space where people came for business and public gatherings
  7. During this time period, bronze was discovered and revolutionized the way people made weapons and tools
  8. Greek word for city-state
  9. Upper-class or nobility who typically carried on through blood-lines

15 Clues: Greek word for city-state • Someone who acted like a king without royal birth • People with the right to take part in ruling the city • Form of government where the citizens make political decisions • Government ruled by a king or queen from aristocratic families • Open space where people came for business and public gatherings • ...

POSI Test 1 Crossword 2024-02-06

POSI Test 1 Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Branches have the ability to veto or amend acts in order to protect from tyranny
  2. Favored large states; proposed a bicameral legislature
  3. Most popular form of government in the world; America's first system of government
  4. AKA the Great Compromise; proposed a bicameral legislature, one house by population and one that was equal
  5. The Constitution specifies powers granted and restricted in order to insure against unnecessary government interference in peoples lives
  6. Constitutional division of power between the national government and the states in which they each enforce their laws directly on the people, but neither party can alter the arrangements
  7. Powers not directly stated in the constitution
  8. Powers not given specifically to the national government; They are therefore given to the states
  9. The number of amendments in the Constitution
Down
  1. The court case that broadened congressional power and national supremacy; states cannot double tax federal banks
  2. Type of government in which power flows between the national government and the states; America's current form of government
  3. Powers are split between the three branches so they all have individual duties and purpose
  4. The court case that established Judicial Review; gave the Judiciary branch a lot more power
  5. Event that led to the Constitutional Convention; showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
  6. Powers shared by the national and state governments
  7. Political authority held in the hands of the people.
  8. Favored the Constitution; Hamilton, Madison, Jay
  9. Type of government in which power flows from the states to the federal government; America's second form of government
  10. Powers that are given only to the national government
  11. Did not want the Constitution; only allowed it to pass after adding the Bill of Rights
  12. Favored small states; proposed a unicameral legislature

21 Clues: The number of amendments in the Constitution • Powers not directly stated in the constitution • Favored the Constitution; Hamilton, Madison, Jay • Powers shared by the national and state governments • Political authority held in the hands of the people. • Powers that are given only to the national government • Favored large states; proposed a bicameral legislature • ...

Africa 2021-02-09

Africa crossword puzzle
Across
  1. funded by usa,drc and south africa
  2. South africa has 3 capitals, one for Each branch of
  3. 1950, classified all south africans by race.
  4. braai
  5. supplied money and arms to nations looking for independence
  6. largest city in south africa
  7. declared independence in 1960
  8. nelson mandela died on
  9. was Imprisioned for ___ years
  10. katanga province secedes under leadership of him
  11. lawyer and anti-apartheid activist
  12. weakened after ww2
  13. created in 1959 to separate black majority from white majority so they could not claim democratic rule of south africa.
  14. him and nelson mandela created a new constitution for africa
Down
  1. War that lasted between 1977 and 1978
  2. what happened in 1978, and caused a civil war still continues to this day?
  3. involved many countries, including cuba
  4. Traditional south african sausage
  5. helped mobutu overthrow patrice lamuba
  6. prime minister
  7. 10 bantu homelands
  8. lamuba becomes a
  9. amount of languages spoken in south africa
  10. fertile grazing region disputed by ethopia and somalia
  11. the perfect proxy war
  12. people of mixed race were
  13. large amount of it concerned the us and ussr
  14. decolonization, independence and apartheid
  15. most world heritage sites in africa
  16. made a clumsy exit in 1975

30 Clues: braai • prime minister • lamuba becomes a • 10 bantu homelands • weakened after ww2 • the perfect proxy war • nelson mandela died on • people of mixed race were • made a clumsy exit in 1975 • largest city in south africa • declared independence in 1960 • was Imprisioned for ___ years • Traditional south african sausage • funded by usa,drc and south africa • ...

Unit 6 Review 2024-03-06

Unit 6 Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. cultural region located in the city of San Francisco
  2. Physical region in central United States known for its agriculture
  3. Most spoken language in Canada besides English
  4. Ocean where hurricanes usually form
  5. Province in Canada known for its French speaking citizens
  6. Large body of water in northern Canada
  7. Financial center of the world
  8. Famous bridge located in San Francisco
  9. River that runs through the central United States and empties into the Gulf of Mexico
  10. River located in the Southwest that provides freshwater to many states
  11. Canadian city located on the West coast that is a famous filming location
Down
  1. Physical region located between the Appalachian Mountains and Atlantic Ocean
  2. Man made waterway that connects the Great Lakes to the Hudson River
  3. Economic region in the United States that used to have a lot of industry
  4. Oldest mountain range in North America
  5. The ability to speak two languages
  6. Economic region of the United States known for its wheat production
  7. City in Nebraska that grew because of the Transcontinental Railroad
  8. Body of water located to the South of the United States
  9. River that is located in the Northwestern United States
  10. Large tower located in Toronto Canada

21 Clues: Financial center of the world • The ability to speak two languages • Ocean where hurricanes usually form • Large tower located in Toronto Canada • Oldest mountain range in North America • Large body of water in northern Canada • Famous bridge located in San Francisco • Most spoken language in Canada besides English • cultural region located in the city of San Francisco • ...

Classroom Behavior and Owl Moon 2018-01-28

Classroom Behavior and Owl Moon crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When you are too silly, you can ____________ the class.
  2. When we begin talking before someone else is finished.
  3. This is when you are able to control yourself.
  4. You do this with open ears, closed mouth and by showing attention.
  5. Polite and impolite are _______________________.
  6. In Owl Moon, the child and father have to be very ___________ to see an owl.
  7. Interrupting someone when they are talking is very _____________.
Down
  1. When we say "please" and "thank you", we are being _______________.
  2. Periods, commas, and exclamation marks are examples of this.
  3. "Please pay ___________________!" the teacher exclaimed.
  4. These are two words that have about the same meaning.
  5. This is another frequent error of ours, when we do not write in big letters.
  6. Free time is the best time to _________________.
  7. In Owl Moon, the child and father live on a _____________.
  8. This is one of our most frequent types of writing errors.
  9. You _______________ when you pay attention to one thing only.

16 Clues: This is when you are able to control yourself. • Free time is the best time to _________________. • Polite and impolite are _______________________. • These are two words that have about the same meaning. • When we begin talking before someone else is finished. • When you are too silly, you can ____________ the class. • ...

West African Nations and Capitals 2013-01-21

West African Nations and Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Porto Novo
  2. Banjul
  3. Conarky
  4. Bissau
  5. Yamoussoukro
  6. Monrovia
  7. N'djamena
Down
  1. Abuja
  2. Ouagadougou
  3. Bamako
  4. Niamey
  5. Accra
  6. Freetown
  7. Lome
  8. Dakar
  9. Noukchott
  10. Praia

17 Clues: Lome • Abuja • Accra • Dakar • Praia • Banjul • Bamako • Niamey • Bissau • Conarky • Freetown • Monrovia • Noukchott • N'djamena • Porto Novo • Ouagadougou • Yamoussoukro

States 2022-11-01

States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. new york retirement home
  2. Dorothy
  3. home of cleveland, heaven on earth
  4. beaver state
  5. golden coast
Down
  1. cheeeeeeeeeeese
  2. bigger is not better
  3. the big apple
  4. trail of tears
  5. clutched up to give Biden the win
  6. binghamton neighbor

11 Clues: Dorothy • beaver state • golden coast • the big apple • trail of tears • cheeeeeeeeeeese • binghamton neighbor • bigger is not better • new york retirement home • clutched up to give Biden the win • home of cleveland, heaven on earth

States 2023-03-03

States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Is known for its fried chicken.
  2. Is known for its coldest weather.
  3. Is known for oranges and alligators.
  4. Is known for its odd behavior and "Only in ----".
  5. Is known for peaches.
  6. Is known for cheese.
Down
  1. Part of Tornado Valley.
  2. Is known for potatoes.
  3. Is known for the Great Canyon, also a tea brand.
  4. Is known for the Golden Gate Bridge.
  5. Is known for the Oregon trail and grapes.

11 Clues: Is known for cheese. • Is known for peaches. • Is known for potatoes. • Part of Tornado Valley. • Is known for its fried chicken. • Is known for its coldest weather. • Is known for the Golden Gate Bridge. • Is known for oranges and alligators. • Is known for the Oregon trail and grapes. • Is known for the Great Canyon, also a tea brand. • ...

States 2024-02-23

States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Had an island that held the most dangerous prisoners
  2. Known for being the most northern state
  3. Known for it's corn statues
  4. Known for its heat
Down
  1. Known for having cowboys
  2. Has a nickname known as "Tree Planters"
  3. Known for the civil rights movement
  4. Next to the Canadian border
  5. Known for its potatoes
  6. Known for a famous city
  7. One of the states next to the mexican border

11 Clues: Known for its heat • Known for its potatoes • Known for a famous city • Known for having cowboys • Next to the Canadian border • Known for it's corn statues • Known for the civil rights movement • Has a nickname known as "Tree Planters" • Known for being the most northern state • One of the states next to the mexican border • Had an island that held the most dangerous prisoners

20 States 2022-11-14

20 States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The state flower is the Oklahoma rose
  2. the biggest city in Los Angelos
  3. Is the 50th state
  4. has the Only active diamond mind in the U.S
  5. The state we are in right now
  6. has 100.000 glaciers
  7. Their biggest city is Memphis
  8. is the largest state east of the Mississippi River
Down
  1. state flower is the violet
  2. Least populated state
  3. most known for its mountains
  4. Nicknames the Grand Canyon State
  5. their capital is Columbus
  6. named after out first president
  7. Has the largest population of the 13 colonies
  8. Peninsula in the South
  9. Has the smallest population of the 13 colonies
  10. Smallest state in size of the 13 colonies
  11. Has the most languages spoken there

19 Clues: Is the 50th state • has 100.000 glaciers • Least populated state • Peninsula in the South • their capital is Columbus • state flower is the violet • most known for its mountains • The state we are in right now • Their biggest city is Memphis • named after out first president • the biggest city in Los Angelos • Nicknames the Grand Canyon State • Has the most languages spoken there • ...

United States 2020-05-08

United States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The act or process of working the ground, planting seeds, and growing edible plants.
  2. Document that forms the basic structure of the US government.
  3. Principal author of the declaration of independence and president of the US
  4. Area where the vegetation is dominated by grasses.
  5. Incorrectly disposing waste.
  6. Large rotating storm with high speed winds that forms over warm waters in tropical areas.
  7. United States central bank.
  8. The removal of a forest or stand of trees
  9. The introduction into the environment of a substance that has harmful effects.
Down
  1. American holiday that celebrates the harvest of the past year.
  2. War Conflict caused by historic controversy over the enslavement of black people.
  3. Violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground.
  4. The most popular sport in the United States.
  5. Politician, military general, and first president of the US.
  6. Region that receives very little precipitation.
  7. The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth.
  8. Treeless Arctic biome in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.
  9. President of the US during most of the World War II.
  10. Currency of the United States.

19 Clues: United States central bank. • Incorrectly disposing waste. • Currency of the United States. • The removal of a forest or stand of trees • The most popular sport in the United States. • Region that receives very little precipitation. • Area where the vegetation is dominated by grasses. • President of the US during most of the World War II. • ...

States & Countries 2023-11-21

States & Countries crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Great Wall of.....
  2. Good Snowmobile
  3. Home to the Space Needle
  4. Eiffel Tower
  5. Desserts
  6. Christ the Redeemer
  7. States
  8. Dakota Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park
  9. Neuschwanstein Castle
  10. Baggutes
Down
  1. Home to Fenway Park
  2. Palm Trees
  3. Mount Elbrus
  4. Maple Syrup
  5. Universal
  6. lighthouses
  7. Carolina Wright Brothers National Memorial
  8. Home to Golden Gate Bridge
  9. Amber Palace
  10. Futuristic

20 Clues: States • Desserts • Baggutes • Universal • Palm Trees • Futuristic • Maple Syrup • lighthouses • Mount Elbrus • Eiffel Tower • Amber Palace • Good Snowmobile • Great Wall of..... • Home to Fenway Park • Christ the Redeemer • Neuschwanstein Castle • Home to the Space Needle • Home to Golden Gate Bridge • Dakota Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park • Carolina Wright Brothers National Memorial

Psychology: States 2023-09-07

Psychology: States crossword puzzle
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  1. Difficulty in getting to sleep or staying asleep
  2. Type of drugs that result in increased activity of the central nervous system
  3. Procedure where a professional suggests that a person will experience changes in sensation, thoughts, or feelings
  4. An internal state that activates behavior and directs it towards a goal
  5. Sudden, irresistible sleep attack
  6. Hypnotic ___________ is the reduction in pain caused by hypnosis
  7. Excessive daytime sleepiness
  8. A dream in which the dreamer feels awake and capable of normal thought
  9. Mental filters that hide the true meanings of dreams
  10. Last name of the first person to suggest dreams are based on wish fulfillment
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  1. Innate tendency that determines behavior
  2. A behavioral pattern marked by an overwhelming compulsive desire to obtain and use the drug
  3. Repeated interrupting breathing during sleep
  4. When prolonged use of a drug makes the original dose too small to be effective
  5. A state of panic during NREM sleep
  6. Types of drugs that affect the nervous system
  7. Last name of the scientist who used monkeys to explore drive-reduction theory
  8. Last name of the person credited with beginning the idea of hypnosis
  9. Someone who sleep walks

19 Clues: Someone who sleep walks • Excessive daytime sleepiness • Sudden, irresistible sleep attack • A state of panic during NREM sleep • Innate tendency that determines behavior • Repeated interrupting breathing during sleep • Types of drugs that affect the nervous system • Difficulty in getting to sleep or staying asleep • Mental filters that hide the true meanings of dreams • ...

vocab #5 crossword 2022-02-11

vocab #5 crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs
  2. an African-American infantry unit in WWI
  3. an international organization
  4. the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion
  5. the extension of military influence into civilian social, political, and economic spheres
  6. American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States
  7. a British passenger ship that was owned by the Cunard Line
  8. the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921
  9. World War I coalition that consisted primarily of the German Empire and Austria-Hungary
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  1. guide the activities and relationships of one state in its interactions with other states
  2. to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war
  3. an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state
  4. the legal status arising from the abstention of a state from all participation in a war between other states
  5. a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors
  6. a formal agreement between two or more states for mutual support in case of war
  7. a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898
  8. outlining his vision for ending World War I
  9. refers to President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy
  10. powerful enough to affect the entire world by its influence or actions
  11. a person, group, or nation that is associated with another or others
  12. a constructed waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama
  13. a style of newspaper

22 Clues: a style of newspaper • an international organization • an African-American infantry unit in WWI • outlining his vision for ending World War I • refers to President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy • the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 • a British passenger ship that was owned by the Cunard Line • ...

Vocabulary Review 2023-05-17

Vocabulary Review crossword puzzle
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  1. The political idea that all property should be publicly owned by a central government.
  2. Collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and satellite states of Eastern Europe
  3. Motivated by fears that a conventional war between the United States and the Soviet Union would result in nuclear disaster
  4. At the Yalta Conference, the Soviet Union, US and the Great Britain agreed to start an international organization to keep peace
  5. A conflict between communist North Korea hoping to unify the country under a Communist government and democratic South Korea. North Korea was allied with the Chinese, and South Korea was allied with UN forces led by the United States.
  6. Failed invasion led by the CIA to overthrow Castro's communist government
  7. US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis
  8. Term coined by Winston Churchill to symbolize the political division between communist countries and democratic countries during the Cold War.
  9. The collapse of the _____ ____ came in 1989 after years of economic weakness, military overspending, and growing resistance from satellite states
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  1. Conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces that began in 1955. The United States was heavily involved in the war. Afterward, the nation became united under a Communist government.
  2. the closest the world has ever been to nuclear warfare
  3. Mao's policy of purging the Communist Party of his opponents & instill revolutionary values in younger generations.
  4. Students & workers protested here to address corruption in the Chinese Communist Party
  5. Leader of the Communists in China’s Civil War
  6. American policy to help European states rebuild after WWII
  7. Mao's plan to grow more food & allow more people to work in industry.
  8. Collective defense treaty of the US & other western-allied states
  9. The period of tension between the US and the USSR
  10. Soviet leader who took over after Stalin & narrowly avoided nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions

19 Clues: US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis • Leader of the Communists in China’s Civil War • The period of tension between the US and the USSR • the closest the world has ever been to nuclear warfare • American policy to help European states rebuild after WWII • Collective defense treaty of the US & other western-allied states • ...

midterm cross word 2020-09-29

midterm cross word crossword puzzle
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  1. a conflict fought between the United States and its allies
  2. a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War
  3. omprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
  4. The last battle of the Revolutionary War
  5. A democratic republic
  6. the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States
  7. a 2,170-mile east-west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States
  8. an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico
  9. belief in the benefits of profitable trading
  10. The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade
  11. a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention
  12. the first president of the United States
  13. is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress
  14. colonial history, British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies
  15. was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans
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  1. King George III declared all lands west of the Appalachian Divide off limits to colonial settlers
  2. was a widely held American imperialist cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America
  3. the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on March 6, 1857, that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an slaved person
  4. a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
  5. a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature
  6. King of Great Britain
  7. transport is a means of transferring passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails
  8. was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
  9. was an American statesman, politician, legal scholar, military commander, lawyer, banker, and economist
  10. was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States
  11. pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly
  12. an estate on which crops such as coffee sugar and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor
  13. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution
  14. an act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents)
  15. The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France
  16. the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group

31 Clues: A democratic republic • King of Great Britain • The last battle of the Revolutionary War • the first president of the United States • belief in the benefits of profitable trading • an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico • a conflict fought between the United States and its allies • a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution • ...

The revolutionary period 33 2024-04-28

The revolutionary period 33 crossword puzzle
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  1. In what article does it mention that the United States in Congress have the exclusive right of determining on peace and war? pg.247
  2. What year was the Articles of Confederations ratified by the states? pg.243
  3. In determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled each state will have how many votes? pg.245
  4. The final version of the Confederation was agreed on by the Continental Congress in what year? pg.243
  5. Fill in the blank: "The United States of Congress shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the ________ and value of coin struck.." pg.248
  6. At most, how many years can a person be a delegate for? pg.245
  7. Fill in the Blank: "The United States in Congress assembled shal also be the last resort on _________ in all disputes and differences.." pg.247
  8. Fill in the blank: "The Congress of the United States shall have power to ________ to any time within the year.." pg 250
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  1. What year was the Articles of confederation replaced by the Constitution of the United States? pg.243
  2. In Article XIII, What is to be inviolably observed by every state? pg.251
  3. What Article mentions that all bills of credit emitted and money borrowed before the assembling of the United States are considered a charge against the United States? pg.251
  4. What article mentions Canada acceding to this Confederation and joining in the measures of the United States? pg.250
  5. Fill in the Blank: "No __________ of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any state," pg.245
  6. In Which article does it mention that Each state retains it's sovereignty, freedom and independence? pg.244
  7. How many delegates could each states send up to the Continental Congress? pg.243

15 Clues: At most, how many years can a person be a delegate for? pg.245 • In Article XIII, What is to be inviolably observed by every state? pg.251 • What year was the Articles of Confederations ratified by the states? pg.243 • How many delegates could each states send up to the Continental Congress? pg.243 • ...

Happy Birthday Ben 2022-07-06

Happy Birthday Ben crossword puzzle
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  1. social media platform you helped me maneuver
  2. second word of our fist bump
  3. our trickiest band song
  4. weird show we watched then recreated at Ancha and Grimmy's house
  5. the amount of singles games I won today when we played tennis
  6. teacher we recently now share
  7. the school we now share
  8. the game we beat Mamu and Mom at
  9. funny name I could have if you had children
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  1. the post-show dessert we had in NYC
  2. type of drink you let me try that is a little bit gross
  3. the years apart we are (rn)
  4. president who I remember as the second cat
  5. type of transportation we took a second picture with in Universal Studios
  6. mad ____
  7. the game you introduced to me that I used to do everyday
  8. we both agree that this is the worst ship of stranger things
  9. the game we play where my skill level is unpredictable
  10. the one topic Bapu taught us that I actually remember

19 Clues: mad ____ • our trickiest band song • the school we now share • the years apart we are (rn) • second word of our fist bump • teacher we recently now share • the game we beat Mamu and Mom at • the post-show dessert we had in NYC • president who I remember as the second cat • funny name I could have if you had children • social media platform you helped me maneuver • ...

citizenship test 2022-12-06

citizenship test crossword puzzle
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  1. What part of the federal government writes laws?
  2. What is the economic system of the United States?
  3. the Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
  4. one of the first original states
  5. Who was president during the Great Depression and World War II?
  6. Name one example of an American innovation.
  7. The colonists came to America for many reasons. Name one.
  8. What is one example of civic participation in the United States?
  9. Who can vote in federal elections, run for federal office, and serve on a jury in the United States?
  10. national U.S. holidays.
  11. How many senators does each state have?
  12. how many seats are in the supreme court
  13. The President of the United States is in charge of which branch of government?
  14. Name one power of the president.
  15. During the Cold War, what was one main concern of the United States?
  16. How long is a term for a U.S. senator?
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  1. Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.
  2. how can people become United States citizens?
  3. Benjamin Franklin is famous for many things. Name one.
  4. The President of the United States is elected for how many years?
  5. How many Supreme Court justices are usually needed to decide a case?
  6. What founding document was written in 1787?
  7. How many amendments does the U.S. Constitution have?
  8. The executive branch has many parts. Name one.
  9. How many U.S. senators are there?
  10. What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?
  11. What is the economic system of the United States?
  12. How are changes made to the U.S. Constitution?

28 Clues: national U.S. holidays. • one of the first original states • Name one power of the president. • How many U.S. senators are there? • How long is a term for a U.S. senator? • How many senators does each state have? • how many seats are in the supreme court • What founding document was written in 1787? • Name one example of an American innovation. • ...

Civil War Crossword 2022-11-19

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. A nickname given to people in the South supporting the Confederate States
  2. A northerner who moved to the South during the reconstruction in order to become rich.
  3. A person who wanted to eliminate slavery
  4. The northern states of the United States, also called the Union.
  5. An army of citizens used during emergencies
  6. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port.
  7. It was often used to describe the United States before the Civil War
  8. The rebuilding of war torn southern states so they could be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War.
  9. A nickname for the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy
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  1. A law passed by Congress in 1850 that said escaped enslaved people in free states had to be returned to their owners.
  2. Putting the local interests and customs ahead of the entire country.
  3. An executive order from President Abraham Lincoln stating that the enslaved in the Confederate states were to be set free.
  4. A nickname for southern whites who supported the Republican Party.
  5. When the southern states chose to leave the United States and to no longer be a part of the country.
  6. The name given to the states that stayed loyal to the United States government. Also called the North.

15 Clues: A person who wanted to eliminate slavery • An army of citizens used during emergencies • The northern states of the United States, also called the Union. • A nickname for southern whites who supported the Republican Party. • A nickname for the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy • Putting the local interests and customs ahead of the entire country. • ...

APUSH presidents crossword puzzle* 2022-04-11

APUSH presidents crossword puzzle* crossword puzzle
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  1. 26th of the united states served 1901-1909 party republican
  2. 38th president of the united states served 1974-1977 party republican
  3. 1st president of the united states served 1789-1797 party unaffiliated
  4. 3rd president of the united states served 1797-1801 party democratic-republic
  5. 9th president of the united states served 1841-1841 party whig
  6. 36th president of the united states served 1963-1969 party democratic
  7. 34th president of the united states served 1953-1961 party republican
  8. 46th president of the united states served 2021 party democratic
  9. 13h president of the united states served 1850-1853 party whig
  10. 39th president of the united states served 1977-1981 party republican
  11. 20th president of the united states served 1881-1881 party republican
  12. 2nd president of the united states served 1797-1801 party federalist
  13. 15th president of the united states served 1857-1861 party democratic
  14. 42nd president of the united states served 1993-2001 party democratic
  15. 21st president of the united states served 1881-1885 party republican
  16. 18th president of the united states served 1869-1877 party republican
  17. 14th president of the united states served 1853-1859 party democratic
  18. 11th president of the united states served 1845-1849 party democratic
  19. 35th president of the united states served 1961-1963 party democratic
  20. 44th president of the united states served 2009-2017 party democratic
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  1. 28th president of the united states served 1913-1921 party democratic
  2. 7th president of the united states served ‘1829-1827 party democratic
  3. 29th president of the united states served 1921-1923 party republican
  4. 19th of the united states served 1877-1881 party republican
  5. 27th president of the united states served 1909-1913 party republican
  6. 24th president of the united states served 1893-1897 party democratic
  7. 25th president of the united states served 1897-1901 party republican
  8. 40th president of the united states served 1981-1989 party republican
  9. 22nd president of the united states served 1885-1889 party democratic
  10. 16th president of the united states served 1861-1865 party republican- national union
  11. 45th president of the united states served 2017-2021 party republican
  12. 43rd president of the united states served 2001-2009 party republican
  13. 32nd president of the united states served 1933-1945 party democratic
  14. 41st president of the united states served 1989-1993 party republican
  15. 10th president of the united states served 1841-1845 party whig-unaffiliated
  16. taylor 12th president of the united states served 1849-1850 party whig
  17. 17th president of the united states served 1865-1869 party national union- democratic
  18. 8th president of the united states served 1837-1841 party democratic
  19. 23rd president of the united states served 1889-1893 party republican
  20. 30th president of the united states served 1923-1929 party republican
  21. 4th president of the united states served 1809-1817 party democratic republican
  22. 31st president of the united states served 1929-1933 party republican
  23. 37th president of the united states served 1969-1974 party republican
  24. 5th president of the united states served 1817-1825 democratic-republican
  25. 6th president of the united states served 1825-1829 party democratic
  26. 33rd president of the united states served 1945-1953 party democratic

46 Clues: 26th of the united states served 1901-1909 party republican • 19th of the united states served 1877-1881 party republican • 9th president of the united states served 1841-1841 party whig • 13h president of the united states served 1850-1853 party whig • 46th president of the united states served 2021 party democratic • ...

articles of confedration 2014-12-18

articles of confedration crossword puzzle
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  1. constitution/ a document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the united states is governed
  2. branch/ the branch of federal and state government that is broadly responsible for implementing supporting and enforcing the laws that were made
  3. branch/ the part the united states government that creates laws
  4. of rights/ the first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech assembly and worship
  5. a member or supporter of the federalist party
  6. and balances / limits imposed on all branches of a government by vesting in each branch the right to amend or void those acts of another that fall within its purview
  7. Hamilton/ a soldier and political leader of the late 18th and early 19th centuries one of the founding fathers of the united states
  8. of powers/ an act of vesting the legislative executive and judicial powers of government in separate bodies
  9. rights/ the rights and powers held by individual U.S. states rather than by the federal government
  10. de Montesquieu/ one of the most influential and renowned representatives of the enlightenment in France
  11. government/ a political system in which legalized force is restricted through delegated and enumerated powers
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  1. shays rebellion/ an armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787
  2. compromise/ a disproportionate representative relative to the voters in the north until the civil war
  3. Madison/ fourth president signer of the constitution writer of the federalist papers leader of the democratic- republican party
  4. a condition compared to that of a slave in respect of exhausting labor or restricted freedom
  5. branch / the part of the U.S. government that interprets the law and administers justice
  6. a group of diverse individuals that formed to oppose the ratification of the new federal constitution in 1787
  7. compromise/ an agreement that large and small states reached during the constitutional convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and represent that each state would have under the united states constitution
  8. of confederation/ the original constitution of the us ratified in 1781 which was replaced by the us constitution in 1789
  9. federalist papers/ a collection of 85 articles and essays written by alexander Hamilton James Madison and john jay promoting the ratification of the united states constitution

20 Clues: a member or supporter of the federalist party • branch/ the part the united states government that creates laws • shays rebellion/ an armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787 • branch / the part of the U.S. government that interprets the law and administers justice • ...

Just Right Government 2020-12-01

Just Right Government crossword puzzle
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  1. Early Americans had something in common with this fictional character!
  2. These were the “individuals” in the “confederation” created by the Articles
  3. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
  4. A group of individuals united together for a purpose
  5. States must treat their own citizens and other states’ citizens this way
  6. The chamber of Congress where each state gets two votes
  7. Fraction of states that must agree to change the Constitution
  8. The Articles of Confederation was America’s first plan for _____.
  9. The branch that interprets laws
  10. Under the Virginia Plan, these states would have more power
  11. States send these to Congress
  12. In the House of Representatives, the number of votes a state gets depends on this
  13. One problem was that states charged these on goods from other states
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  1. The branch that makes laws
  2. The Constitution says laws passed by Congress are ___ to state laws.
  3. One of two things people were afraid states might lose
  4. The document that replaced the Articles of Confederation
  5. Under the Articles, America did not have one of these
  6. The Articles of Confederation created a government that had only one of these
  7. Under the New Jersey plan, these states would have more power
  8. The Articles did not let Congress create this
  9. The branch that carries out laws
  10. Under the Articles of Confederation, congress could not do this to its laws, so states could just ignore laws

23 Clues: The branch that makes laws • States send these to Congress • The branch that interprets laws • The branch that carries out laws • The Articles did not let Congress create this • A group of individuals united together for a purpose • Under the Articles, America did not have one of these • One of two things people were afraid states might lose • ...

Nebraska Crossword 2019-10-24

Nebraska Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. Home to the College Baseball World Series
  2. Nebraska is 'The ______ ______ State'
  3. Capital of Nebraska and home to the University of Nebraska
  4. The Capitals original name before it was changed to honor a President.
  5. Nickname for area with violent thunderstorms and tornados
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  1. Name of Fort that closed down to help travelers during the California Gold Rush
  2. City where it is illegal for a woman to wear a hat and eat an onion in public
  3. Video game that Mr. Davis played in Middle School that has Nebraska's Chimney Rock
  4. Headquarters to Cabella's Sportsmans Warehouse
  5. Even though Nebraska is landlocked, it has a _________

10 Clues: Nebraska is 'The ______ ______ State' • Home to the College Baseball World Series • Headquarters to Cabella's Sportsmans Warehouse • Even though Nebraska is landlocked, it has a _________ • Nickname for area with violent thunderstorms and tornados • Capital of Nebraska and home to the University of Nebraska • ...

US History Exam #2 Review 2024-01-17

US History Exam #2 Review crossword puzzle
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  1. Abraham Lincoln became President and the country broke up into Union and Confederacy.
  2. Conflict between North and South. More than 620,000 people died.
  3. Created a pathway for new states to join the USA. Took land from Louisiana. Slavery was banned here.
  4. the idea that God told Americans to move west and take over North America for themselves
  5. Part of the country that seceded from the United States over slavery. Mostly agricultural economy. Wore gray uniforms.
  6. Law signed by Jackson that forced Native Americans to move West of the Mississippi River
  7. Very important Civil War Battle where many soldiers died. Lincoln gave a big speech here.
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  1. First government document of the United States. Took the ideas of "life, liberty, and" equality from John Locke and the Enlightenment.
  2. Major body of water that the United States got from France. Helped the United States ship goods to Europe and the East Coast more easily.
  3. The Civil War begins
  4. What the North did to make money (economy) and what helped them win the war
  5. The Civil War ends
  6. Last battle of the Civil War. General Grant Offers General Lee the opportunity to surrender and not be bothered by the US government.
  7. Enslaved man that sued for his freedom and lost. The Supreme Court ruled that Black people were not citizens and could not become citizens.
  8. the Confederacy withdrew from the United States
  9. Thomas Jefferson got this from France in 1803. Doubled the size of the United States.
  10. Part of the country that had more resources and was better able to supply its soldiers with food, weapons, and materials. Wore dark blue uniforms.
  11. President that abused his power by acting like a king and sent Native Americans to the West

18 Clues: The Civil War ends • The Civil War begins • the Confederacy withdrew from the United States • Conflict between North and South. More than 620,000 people died. • What the North did to make money (economy) and what helped them win the war • Abraham Lincoln became President and the country broke up into Union and Confederacy. • ...

HOLIDAY 2024-03-05

HOLIDAY crossword puzzle
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  1. Gras - What holiday, also known as Fat Tuesday, is celebrated with parades, parties, and indulgence before the fasting period of Lent?
  2. - What Jewish holiday is celebrated for eight days and nights, commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem?
  3. - What holiday in the United States, observed on the last Monday of May, honors and remembers military personnel who have died in service?
  4. - What holiday is celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November, traditionally involving a feast with turkey and gratitude?
  5. Year's - What holiday marks the beginning of the new year on January 1st, often celebrated with parties and fireworks?
  6. - What holiday is celebrated on February 14th, focusing on love and affection, often with the exchange of cards and gifts?
  7. de Mayo - What holiday, celebrated mainly in Mexico and the United States on May 5th, commemorates the Mexican Army's victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla?
  8. - What holiday commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, often celebrated with Easter egg hunts and religious services?
  9. Day - What holiday in the United States, celebrated on the first Monday of September, honors the contributions of workers and the labor movement?
  10. - What French holiday, celebrated on July 14th, commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison during the French Revolution?
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  1. - What holiday in the United States is celebrated on July 4th, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776?
  2. - What Jewish holiday commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt?
  3. - What holiday, celebrated on June 19th, commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States?
  4. - What holiday is celebrated on December 25th, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ?
  5. - What Islamic holiday involves fasting from sunrise to sunset for a month, commemorating the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad?
  6. - What Hindu holiday, also known as the Festival of Lights, celebrates the victory of light over darkness and good over evil?
  7. - What holiday is celebrated on October 31st with costumes, trick-or-treating, and spooky decorations?
  8. - What holiday, celebrated mainly in the United States, honors African heritage and culture, lasting from December 26th to January 1st?
  9. - What holiday in the United States, observed on November 11th, honors military veterans who have served in the United States Armed Forces?
  10. Patrick's - What holiday, celebrated on March 17th, honors Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, often associated with shamrocks and wearing green?

20 Clues: - What holiday is celebrated on December 25th, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ? • - What Jewish holiday commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt? • - What holiday is celebrated on October 31st with costumes, trick-or-treating, and spooky decorations? • ...