states and capitals Crossword Puzzles

ASEAN COUNTRIES & CAPITALS 2021-04-12

ASEAN COUNTRIES & CAPITALS crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the capital of Indonesia
  2. the country with the Vanda Miss Joaquim as its national flower
  3. its currency is the kyat
  4. the capital of Thailand
  5. the only other Christian state in SEAsia besides the Philippines
  6. the world's largest exporter of black pepper
  7. the capital of Myanmar
  8. made up of 7641 islands
  9. the country with the Angkor Wat
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  1. the largest country in SEAsia
  2. the capital of Malaysia
  3. an oil-rich country between the states of Sarawak and Sabah
  4. the capital of Laos
  5. its administrative capital is Putrajaya
  6. the capital of Vietnam
  7. the only country in SEAsia entirely surrounded by land
  8. the only SEAsian country never to have been colonised by a European country
  9. the capital of the Philippines
  10. the capital of Cambodia

19 Clues: the capital of Laos • the capital of Vietnam • the capital of Myanmar • the capital of Malaysia • the capital of Thailand • the capital of Cambodia • made up of 7641 islands • the capital of Indonesia • its currency is the kyat • the largest country in SEAsia • the capital of the Philippines • the country with the Angkor Wat • its administrative capital is Putrajaya • ...

World Capitals & Countries 2025-09-26

World Capitals & Countries crossword puzzle
Across
  1. – Capital of Indonesia (7)
  2. – Capital of Greece (6)
  3. – Capital of Japan (5)
  4. – Capital of Kenya (7)
  5. – Capital of Spain (6)
  6. – Capital of Germany (6)
  7. – Capital of Portugal (6)
  8. – Capital of Australia (8)
  9. – Capital of Italy (4)
Down
  1. – Capital of Canada (7)
  2. – Country known as “Land Down Under” (9)
  3. – Capital of Russia (6)
  4. – Capital of China (7)
  5. – Capital of South Korea (5)
  6. – Capital of France (5)
  7. – Capital of Egypt (5)
  8. – Capital of United Kingdom (6)
  9. – Country with capital “Brasília” (6)
  10. – Capital of Thailand (7)

19 Clues: – Capital of China (7) • – Capital of Egypt (5) • – Capital of Japan (5) • – Capital of Kenya (7) • – Capital of Spain (6) • – Capital of Italy (4) • – Capital of Canada (7) • – Capital of Russia (6) • – Capital of Greece (6) • – Capital of France (5) • – Capital of Germany (6) • – Capital of Portugal (6) • – Capital of Thailand (7) • – Capital of Indonesia (7) • – Capital of Australia (8) • ...

The US Enters WWII 2015-03-18

The US Enters WWII crossword puzzle
Across
  1. what happened on December 7, 1941
  2. what peninsula did many New Mexicans fight to defend
  3. President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill secretly sign the
  4. what was the largest American air base
  5. France and Germany give Germany Czechoslovakia with the
  6. the month Germany signs a non-aggression pact with Soviet Union
  7. what month did The United States declare war on Germany, Italy, and Japan
  8. totalitarian leader of the soviet union
  9. what did President Roosevelt ask Congress to declare on Japan
  10. President Roosevelt asks for funds to build up the
  11. the month Germany invades Poland
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  1. the month when Britain and France declare war on Germany
  2. totalitarian leader of Italy
  3. who came to the United States to talk about peace
  4. The United States broke the ____ and knew an attack was coming
  5. this allows President Roosevelt to lend or lease arms and other supplies to “any country whose defense was vital to the United States”
  6. totalitarian leader of Germany
  7. Japan joins the
  8. In 1935 the US begins passing the
  9. the month Germany takes over Austria unopposed

20 Clues: Japan joins the • totalitarian leader of Italy • totalitarian leader of Germany • the month Germany invades Poland • what happened on December 7, 1941 • In 1935 the US begins passing the • what was the largest American air base • totalitarian leader of the soviet union • the month Germany takes over Austria unopposed • who came to the United States to talk about peace • ...

4th Grade things we should know 2024-01-31

4th Grade things we should know crossword puzzle
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  1. sources such as a textbook
  2. 18th president of the United States
  3. sources such as a letter or photograph
  4. the mascot of Lake Forest Hills
  5. the answer to an addition problem
  6. only president of the Confederate states
  7. the war between the Northern and Southern states
  8. objects that you can partially see through
  9. the answer to a division problem
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  1. led the Underground Railroad
  2. First battle of the Civil War
  3. the amount of space on the inside of a rectangle
  4. 16th president of the United States
  5. objects that you can see through
  6. the answer to a multiplication problem
  7. the distance around the outside of a shape
  8. objects that can not be seen through
  9. the capital of the United States
  10. taker IB word- being brave enough to try new things
  11. the answer to a subtraction problem

20 Clues: sources such as a textbook • led the Underground Railroad • First battle of the Civil War • the mascot of Lake Forest Hills • objects that you can see through • the capital of the United States • the answer to a division problem • the answer to an addition problem • 18th president of the United States • 16th president of the United States • the answer to a subtraction problem • ...

WWII Test Crossword 2025-05-15

WWII Test Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. senior officer
  2. treaty
  3. 34th president of the United States
  4. joint declaration
  5. two to five divisions
  6. diplomatic strategy
  7. fleet admiral
  8. killing of a large number of people
  9. prices of most goods
  10. United States detonated two atomic bombs
  11. international military coalition
  12. fraternal or social organization
  13. murder all the Jews
  14. British politician
  15. offensive warfare
  16. French general
  17. American theoretical physicist
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  1. top-secret World War II government program
  2. American army officer
  3. general in the United States Army
  4. British statesman
  5. general of the Imperial Japanese Army
  6. controlled distribution
  7. major naval battle
  8. 33rd president of the United States
  9. Germany, Japan, and Italy
  10. turning point
  11. Defense of the United States
  12. Jewish quarter
  13. prison or other facility
  14. direct procurement of materials
  15. Allies won
  16. American general
  17. second atomic bomb

34 Clues: treaty • Allies won • fleet admiral • turning point • senior officer • Jewish quarter • French general • American general • joint declaration • British statesman • offensive warfare • major naval battle • British politician • second atomic bomb • diplomatic strategy • murder all the Jews • prices of most goods • American army officer • two to five divisions • controlled distribution • ...

civil war crossword puzzle 2023-02-24

civil war crossword puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. before the war
  2. highest in rank or authority
  3. how the south got there goods
  4. people should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states
  5. to pick one side EX:free states and slave states
  6. people that were freed from slavery
  7. the president in the civil war
  8. disrespectful or rude to one color of skin
  9. slave states were considered what?
  10. a slave that left a slave state is consider property what act is this
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  1. the largest battle in the civil war
  2. things that are illegal in ones country
  3. how the north produced there goods
  4. congress wanted to keep a balance of power
  5. african americans that have been slaved by the south
  6. the free states were considered what?
  7. first battle of the civil war
  8. to leave one organization
  9. information facts to convince a public oppinion
  10. Souths main agricultural goods

20 Clues: before the war • to leave one organization • highest in rank or authority • first battle of the civil war • how the south got there goods • the president in the civil war • Souths main agricultural goods • how the north produced there goods • slave states were considered what? • the largest battle in the civil war • people that were freed from slavery • ...

Gobin Hill Government Crossword 2024-04-10

Gobin Hill Government Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. principal of government that favors a government with separate branches
  2. what James Madison is trying to persuade about in Federalist 51
  3. branch of government that is responsible for creating laws
  4. only one thing required of a United States citizen
  5. branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws
  6. the reason as to why some states have more House representation than others
  7. form of government that describes the United States
  8. two parts to our United States Congress
  9. to deny a law
  10. executive department that administers and regulates travel into and out of the United States
  11. branch of government responsible for the court system
  12. The governing body of a nation
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  1. amendment that gave freedom to slaves
  2. considered to be the most important aspect of a democratic society
  3. amendment that allows for freedom of speech
  4. length of Supreme Court Justice terms
  5. formal change to the Constitution
  6. executive head of a state form of government
  7. commonly known as the Bill of Rights
  8. a formal organized choice by vote

20 Clues: to deny a law • The governing body of a nation • formal change to the Constitution • a formal organized choice by vote • commonly known as the Bill of Rights • amendment that gave freedom to slaves • length of Supreme Court Justice terms • two parts to our United States Congress • amendment that allows for freedom of speech • executive head of a state form of government • ...

Civil War 2022-09-16

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. union general who was fired after he wouldn't attack
  2. compromise in 1820 that added two new states
  3. president during civil war
  4. reason California was added to the union so quickly
  5. last name of the writer of Uncle Tom's cabin
  6. Union general who led the army at the end of the war
  7. state which contained the capital of the Confederacy
  8. the union's first ironclad ship
  9. slave who sued for his freedom
  10. time after the Civil war in which southern states were brought back into the union
  11. Major battle in SE Pennsylvania
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  1. president of the confederate states of america
  2. Battle site meaning "place of peace"
  3. major crop of the southern states
  4. man responsible for raiding the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA
  5. first major battle of the war just outside Washington DC
  6. confederate who led an ill-fated charge at Gettysburg
  7. name for the southern states who seceded
  8. _ kansas; period of violence between pro and anti slavery factions
  9. head of Confederate army
  10. last name of the man who shot and killed the president

21 Clues: head of Confederate army • president during civil war • slave who sued for his freedom • the union's first ironclad ship • Major battle in SE Pennsylvania • major crop of the southern states • Battle site meaning "place of peace" • name for the southern states who seceded • compromise in 1820 that added two new states • last name of the writer of Uncle Tom's cabin • ...

America Moves West 2023-04-03

America Moves West crossword puzzle
Across
  1. large area of grassy, flat land in North America
  2. the line separating two states or countries
  3. Native American guide and translator for Lewis and Clark
  4. land that is covered with many trees
  5. women's rights leader in the east
  6. an agreement in 1820 to balance the number of slave and free states
  7. one of the first people to settle in an undeveloped area
  8. large farm that raises animals
  9. right to vote
  10. the process of becoming greater in size
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  1. States that wanted slavery
  2. territory bought by Jefferson for $15 million in 1803
  3. Staters that did not want slavery
  4. another women's rights leader in the east
  5. The forced movement of Native Americans from their land
  6. longest river in the United States
  7. undeveloped area beyond settled land

17 Clues: right to vote • States that wanted slavery • large farm that raises animals • Staters that did not want slavery • women's rights leader in the east • longest river in the United States • land that is covered with many trees • undeveloped area beyond settled land • the process of becoming greater in size • another women's rights leader in the east • ...

Federalism Test Review 2026-02-23

Federalism Test Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Powers not written but assumed from the Constitution
  2. System in which power is shared between national and state governments
  3. Clause that allows Congress to stretch its powers
  4. Principle that courts can declare laws unconstitutional
  5. Federal funding given to the states with broad flexibility on how to spend the money
  6. Case that expanded federal power over civil rights and private businesses
  7. Powers kept by the states
  8. Clause that makes federal law supreme
  9. Powers shared by federal and state governments
  10. Case that expanded Congress’s power to tax and create a national bank
  11. Federal requirements without the necessary funding
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  1. Clause giving Congress power over interstate trade
  2. Federal money given to the states with strict rules
  3. Federal government sending money to states to influence state policy
  4. Case that established judicial review
  5. Case that allowed federal regulation of home-grown wheat
  6. Powers specifically listed and given to the national congress in the Constitution

17 Clues: Powers kept by the states • Case that established judicial review • Clause that makes federal law supreme • Powers shared by federal and state governments • Clause that allows Congress to stretch its powers • Clause giving Congress power over interstate trade • Federal requirements without the necessary funding • Federal money given to the states with strict rules • ...

USA cities and states 2023-04-28

USA cities and states crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Starting point of the Route 66
  2. the mile high city
  3. there is death penalty
  4. Disney World is located there
  5. Home of Mormon Church
  6. the biggest state
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  1. named after a french king
  2. it is called the land of thousands of lakes
  3. the big apple
  4. the most tolerant city in the US
  5. it was founded by irish settlers
  6. Pentagon and White House are located there
  7. polynesians live there

13 Clues: the big apple • the biggest state • the mile high city • Home of Mormon Church • there is death penalty • polynesians live there • named after a french king • Disney World is located there • Starting point of the Route 66 • the most tolerant city in the US • it was founded by irish settlers • Pentagon and White House are located there • it is called the land of thousands of lakes

Kaja - Our Puzzling Government #2 2022-11-18

Kaja - Our Puzzling Government #2 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Basic principle of federalism; the constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis (in the United States, between the National Government and the States).
  2. powers that congress has that are specifically listed in the constitution spelled out expressly.
  3. Constitution's requirement that each state accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state
  4. Powers that are shared by both the Nationaly and state governments
  5. An act creating a new state
  6. Constitutional agreement by which the national government is created by and relies on subnational governments for its authority
  7. Mandates that impose costs on state and local governments without reimbursement from the federal government
  8. Grants made to States, private agencies for projects
  9. powers saved for the states
  10. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
  11. One type of federal grants-in-aid for some particular but broadly defined area of public policy
  12. No State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other States
  13. Thought that Government should be free of parties
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  1. Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution, for example, the authority to print money.
  2. Powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone
  3. Powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution reasonably suggested.
  4. Network of political, financial, and administrative relationships between units of the federal government and those of state and local governments.
  5. Passing down of responsibilities from the national government to the states.
  6. Grants of federal money or other resources to the states or their cities, counties, and other local units.
  7. A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
  8. The first step in the state admission procedure which enables the people of a territory to prepare a constitution
  9. The powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow out of the very existence of the national government. (Power that belongs to the National Government because it is the government of the sovereign state within the world community)
  10. The surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty)
  11. Grant for which Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose
  12. Direct federal orders to state and local governments requiring them to perform a service or to obey federal laws in the performance of their functions.
  13. Giving money back to the state and local government with no strings attached

26 Clues: An act creating a new state • powers saved for the states • Thought that Government should be free of parties • Grants made to States, private agencies for projects • Powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone • Powers that are shared by both the Nationaly and state governments • Grant for which Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose • ...

Geometry Crossword 2023-01-14

Geometry Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. This postulate states that: If two angles form a linear pair, then the measures of the angles add up to 180°.
  2. The ___________ postulate states that through any two points, there is exactly one line.
  3. An ___________ is created when two different rays that share a common endpoint (also known as a vertex).
  4. This theorem states that if the hypotenuse and a leg of a right triangle are each congruent with the corresponding hypotenuse and leg of another right triangle, then the triangles are congruent.
  5. The ____________ of a triangle is a perpendicular line segment drawn from the vertex to the opposite side of the triangle
  6. Which theorem states that same-side exterior angles are supplementary, meaning that they have a sum of 180 degrees
  7. Abbreviated to SSS *note use "-" for spaces
  8. This theorem states, if two angles and a non-included side in one triangle are congruent to two angles and the corresponding non-included side in another triangle, then the triangles are congruent.
Down
  1. This postulate states If two sides and the included angle of one triangle are equal to two sides and the included angle of another triangle, the triangles are congruent.
  2. The ___________ of triangle is a segment that joins the midpoints of 2 sides of the triangle.
  3. The ___________ of a right triangle is it's longest side and is always across or opposite from right angle.
  4. Intersecting lines that create a right angle.
  5. An angle that is less than 90°
  6. Has 3 sides and 3 angles
  7. A quadrilateral with four equal and straight sides and four right angles
  8. this theorem states that if two parallel lines are split by a transversal then each pair of corresponding angles are congruent.

16 Clues: Has 3 sides and 3 angles • An angle that is less than 90° • Abbreviated to SSS *note use "-" for spaces • Intersecting lines that create a right angle. • A quadrilateral with four equal and straight sides and four right angles • The ___________ postulate states that through any two points, there is exactly one line. • ...

Unit 3 Government Review, 5th Grade 2023-12-04

Unit 3 Government Review, 5th Grade crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the branch that interprets the laws
  2. the person who works in the Executive branch for 4 years (limited to 2 elections)
  3. the first 10 amendments to the constitution that protect individual rights
  4. the person who works in the Legislative branch for 2 years (unlimited elections)
  5. the level of government that deals with problems inside the state, run by the governor
  6. the first group of laws made to run the United States that were too weak and needed to be changed
  7. these states are represented fairly by the Senate
  8. the branch that makes the laws
  9. the amendment that states people have the right to own a gun
  10. the level of government that deals with problems for the whole country, run by the president
  11. a document that lays out the laws on how to run a country
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  1. the person who works in the Judicial branch (picked by the president, for life)
  2. the person who works in the Legislative branch for 6 years (unlimited elections)
  3. the name of the compromise that split the Legislative branch into two parts to give equal representation to big and small states
  4. these states are represented fairly by the House of Representatives
  5. the branch that enforces the laws
  6. the amendment that states people have freedom of speech, press, petition, assembly, and religion
  7. another name for the Legislative branch, made up of the Senate and House of Representatives
  8. the name of the compromise that made enslaved people less than white people
  9. the level of government that deals with problems in cities, run by the mayor

20 Clues: the branch that makes the laws • the branch that enforces the laws • the branch that interprets the laws • these states are represented fairly by the Senate • a document that lays out the laws on how to run a country • the amendment that states people have the right to own a gun • these states are represented fairly by the House of Representatives • ...

States and Cities 2021-10-01

States and Cities crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Located on banks of Hooghly
  2. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre happened here
  3. Known for Kempty Falls
  4. Birthplace of Lord Krishna
Down
  1. Joint Capital city for 2 states
  2. Lies in the heart of Thar desert
  3. City of Oranges
  4. Rumtek monastery is situated here
  5. Winter capital of a union territory

9 Clues: City of Oranges • Known for Kempty Falls • Birthplace of Lord Krishna • Located on banks of Hooghly • Joint Capital city for 2 states • Lies in the heart of Thar desert • Rumtek monastery is situated here • Winter capital of a union territory • Jallianwala Bagh Massacre happened here

Madison Goshey- Chapter 4 2020-12-03

Madison Goshey- Chapter 4 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a system of spending, taxing,and providing aid in the federal system
  2. federal aid is distributed to the states (specific purpose)
  3. the idea that southern states could nullify national laws that they believed clashed with state interests
  4. include money and other resources that the national government provides to pay for state and local activities
  5. powers that are not specifically listed in the Constitution
  6. a power held by the national government and the state government at the same time
  7. a series of initiatives aimed at eliminating poverty and social inequality
  8. federalism under the New Deal
  9. ensures that extradition can take place
  10. demands on states to carry out certain policies as a condition of receiving grant money
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  1. state and national governments were equal authorities operating within their own spheres of influence
  2. federal grants that are given for more general purposes or for broad policy areas
  3. powers that historically have been recognized as naturally belonging to all governments that conduct the business of a sovereign nation
  4. political leaders worked to reverse the trend of the national government expanding
  5. powers granted to the national government by the Constitution
  6. powers that the Constitution neither mention nor prohibit
  7. the idea that states had the right to separate themselves from the Union
  8. the idea of returning power to states

18 Clues: federalism under the New Deal • the idea of returning power to states • ensures that extradition can take place • powers that the Constitution neither mention nor prohibit • federal aid is distributed to the states (specific purpose) • powers that are not specifically listed in the Constitution • powers granted to the national government by the Constitution • ...

Civil War Word Puzzle 2021-02-09

Civil War Word Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Confederacy's first general officer
  2. First battle of the Civil War
  3. The Northern States during the Civil War
  4. General of the Union
  5. Took over men's work, disguised as men in order to fight, etc.
  6. A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
  7. President of the Confederate States of America
  8. Former slave, traveled the country speaking out against slavery, newspaper called North Star
  9. Confederate submarine
  10. President of the United States during the Civil War
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  1. Capital of the Confederacy
  2. The Southern states during the Civil War
  3. Union naval ships and soldiers captured Port Royal
  4. General of the Confederate
  5. A war between citizens of the same country
  6. Freed slaves
  7. Capital of the Union
  8. Former slave, freed himself and others during blockade
  9. The Union Navy cut off South's major port from trade
  10. African American unit in the Union ArmyU

20 Clues: Freed slaves • General of the Union • Capital of the Union • Confederate submarine • Capital of the Confederacy • General of the Confederate • First battle of the Civil War • Confederacy's first general officer • The Southern states during the Civil War • The Northern States during the Civil War • African American unit in the Union ArmyU • ...

Mr. Corbin's Wordsearch for Substitute 2021-08-24

Mr. Corbin's Wordsearch for Substitute crossword puzzle
Across
  1. 3rd president of the United States
  2. I am in the front and back of this class
  3. there are 12 in this room
  4. this was a declaration to the king of England
  5. 1 of the basic principles of the constitution
  6. amount of stars on the flag
  7. branch of government that makes laws
  8. 4th president of the United States
  9. author of the pamphlet "common sense"
  10. known for the Golden Gate Bridge
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  1. document on which America is founded
  2. amendment gives you the right to remain silent
  3. said give me liberty or give me death
  4. starts with "we the people"
  5. building where the president lives
  6. one of the freedoms guaranteed in the 1st amendment
  7. this classroom has 6 of these
  8. division of power between Federal and States
  9. state directly above Florida
  10. articles in the constitution
  11. there are 50 of these in America

21 Clues: there are 12 in this room • starts with "we the people" • amount of stars on the flag • state directly above Florida • articles in the constitution • this classroom has 6 of these • there are 50 of these in America • known for the Golden Gate Bridge • 3rd president of the United States • building where the president lives • 4th president of the United States • ...

Civil War 2017-04-12

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. process to readmit the Confederate states to the Union
  2. Codes Laws created by the South to limit the rights of former slaves
  3. Extensions of black codes
  4. Slave states that bordered states where slavery was illegal
  5. Place where the South surrendered
  6. Gave African Americans equal rights and protection under the laws
  7. Place where the first shots were fired
  8. Bullet that increased death rates
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  1. Southern plan for the Civil War
  2. winner of First Battle of Bull Run
  3. Agency created to assist former slaves
  4. Created by Lincoln to free Southern slaves
  5. Northern Plan that called for a naval blockade
  6. Largest cause of death
  7. Ended Slavery
  8. Gave African Americans the right to vote
  9. Lincoln's killer
  10. Battle that was the turning point of the war, turned war to North
  11. Virginia citizen who resigned from the US Army and became leader of the Confederate Army
  12. 16th President of the United States

20 Clues: Ended Slavery • Lincoln's killer • Largest cause of death • Extensions of black codes • Southern plan for the Civil War • Place where the South surrendered • Bullet that increased death rates • winner of First Battle of Bull Run • 16th President of the United States • Agency created to assist former slaves • Place where the first shots were fired • ...

World War II Warfare 2017-03-02

World War II Warfare crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Codename for the Atomic Bomb dropped in Japan
  2. The second president during World War 2
  3. Allies with Germany
  4. The United states also dropped a bomb here, causing over 80,000 casualties
  5. The first president during the beginning of World war 2(Died during the war)
  6. What Air Warfare fighters were called (dropped bombs)
  7. Leader of the Nazis
  8. _____Warfare included Submarines, Battleships and aircraft carriers
  9. Artillery was considered more ________
  10. The United States dropped a bomb here, causing over 140,000 casualties
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  1. Ally Powers(United States, Canada, ____,Brazil)
  2. American Troops and other nations used __________ weapons
  3. 1st attack of the War(Place)
  4. Considered the most Impressive tank of the War. (T-______) (Soviet Union)
  5. Axis Powers (Germany, Italy,Hungary,_______)
  6. Pilot that dropped the bomb
  7. Year Japan surrendered
  8. Japan attacked the U.S Station(December 7,1941)
  9. Allies are with United States
  10. Code name for the second bomb dropped in Japan

20 Clues: Allies with Germany • Leader of the Nazis • Year Japan surrendered • Pilot that dropped the bomb • 1st attack of the War(Place) • Allies are with United States • Artillery was considered more ________ • The second president during World War 2 • Axis Powers (Germany, Italy,Hungary,_______) • Codename for the Atomic Bomb dropped in Japan • ...

US HISTORY 2024-05-22

US HISTORY crossword puzzle
Across
  1. - Landmark Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review.
  2. - Movement advocating for equal rights and treatment of African Americans.
  3. - The United States _____________ is the supreme law of the land.
  4. - Declaration of _____________ was adopted on July 4, 1776.
  5. - African American civil rights activist who refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
  6. - Symbolic figure representing women who worked in factories during World War II.
  7. - Series of conflicts between Native American tribes and the United States government.
  8. - New York City borough where the Statue of Liberty is located.
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  1. - Secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
  2. - President Abraham Lincoln's _____________ Proclamation declared freedom for slaves in Confederate states.
  3. - Era in US history when the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages were banned.
  4. - Major battle of the Civil War fought in Pennsylvania in 1863.
  5. - Period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt and readmitted to the Union.
  6. - Belief that it was America's destiny to expand westward across the North American continent.
  7. - Political scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
  8. - Severe economic downturn that lasted from 1929 to the late 1930s.
  9. - Conflict between the Northern and Southern states from 1861 to 1865.
  10. - Period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.

18 Clues: - Declaration of _____________ was adopted on July 4, 1776. • - Major battle of the Civil War fought in Pennsylvania in 1863. • - New York City borough where the Statue of Liberty is located. • - The United States _____________ is the supreme law of the land. • - Severe economic downturn that lasted from 1929 to the late 1930s. • ...

Fact Tracker Abe Lincoln Ch 6 Pages 79-87 2022-11-08

Fact Tracker Abe Lincoln Ch 6 Pages 79-87 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The North had more cities and _________ than the South. P. 85
  2. Most people in the South were farmers who grew rice, tobacco, _________, and cotton. P. 85-86
  3. Tad and Willie often burst into cabinet meetings to tell their Dad “___________” things. P. 83 (Cabinet meetings are private, closed-door sessions with the president, vice president and every other executive officer in the line of presidential succession are found in the same room).
  4. Along the railroad tracks, people lined the tracks to wave and _______ the new president well. P. 80
  5. A ________ is a huge farm whose owners depended on slave labor. P. 86
  6. Southern states were called the ____________. P. 87
  7. Southern states began to vote to ________ from, or leave, the United States and become a separate nation. P. 87
  8. The Southerners felt that the government was too powerful and taxed them _________. P. 87
  9. Tad and Willie kept the White House in an _________, racing through the halls and up and down the stairs. P. 83
Down
  1. These seven southern states named their new nation the Confederate States of America and named ________ Davis as their president. P. 87
  2. The halls of the White House were filled with people there to ask the president for ________ jobs. P. 80-81
  3. Northern states were called the __________. P. 87
  4. The Washington ____________ was only half finished when President Lincoln lived in the White House. Built to honor George Washington, the United States' first president, the 555-foot marble obelisk towers over Washington, D.C. P. 82
  5. This river of the eastern U.S. rises in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia and flows about 285 miles through Washington, D.C. into Chesapeake Bay. P. 82
  6. This word means “full of constant or frantic activity.” P. 80
  7. Lincoln’s oldest son, __________, was with him, as he headed to Washington, D.C. P. 79
  8. After South Carolina seceded, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, ____________ and Texas seceded as well. P. 87
  9. This word means “ill-feelings, or friction; a feeling of fear or anger between two groups of people who do not trust each other.” P. 85

18 Clues: Northern states were called the __________. P. 87 • Southern states were called the ____________. P. 87 • The North had more cities and _________ than the South. P. 85 • This word means “full of constant or frantic activity.” P. 80 • A ________ is a huge farm whose owners depended on slave labor. P. 86 • ...

Fact Tracker Abe Lincoln Ch 6 Pages 79-87 2022-11-08

Fact Tracker Abe Lincoln Ch 6 Pages 79-87 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Southern states began to vote to ________ from, or leave, the United States and become a separate nation. P. 87
  2. Tad and Willie often burst into cabinet meetings to tell their Dad “___________” things. P. 83 (Cabinet meetings are private, closed-door sessions with the president, vice president and every other executive officer in the line of presidential succession are found in the same room).
  3. Northern states were called the __________. P. 87
  4. This word means “ill-feelings, or friction; a feeling of fear or anger between two groups of people who do not trust each other.” P. 85
  5. The Washington ____________ was only half finished when President Lincoln lived in the White House. Built to honor George Washington, the United States' first president, the 555-foot marble obelisk towers over Washington, D.C. P. 82
  6. This word means “full of constant or frantic activity.” P. 80
  7. Tad and Willie kept the White House in an _________, racing through the halls and up and down the stairs. P. 83
  8. A ________ is a huge farm whose owners depended on slave labor. P. 86
  9. These seven southern states named their new nation the Confederate States of America and named ________ Davis as their president. P. 87
Down
  1. The halls of the White House were filled with people there to ask the president for ________ jobs. P. 80-81
  2. The North had more cities and _________ than the South. P. 85
  3. After South Carolina seceded, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, ____________ and Texas seceded as well. P. 87
  4. Southern states were called the ____________. P. 87
  5. This river of the eastern U.S. rises in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia and flows about 285 miles through Washington, D.C. into Chesapeake Bay. P. 82
  6. The Southerners felt that the government was too powerful and taxed them _________. P. 87
  7. Most people in the South were farmers who grew rice, tobacco, _________, and cotton. P. 85-86
  8. President Lincoln’s oldest son, __________, was with him, as he headed to Washington, D.C. P. 79
  9. Along the railroad tracks, people lined the tracks to wave and _______ the new president well. P. 80

18 Clues: Northern states were called the __________. P. 87 • Southern states were called the ____________. P. 87 • The North had more cities and _________ than the South. P. 85 • This word means “full of constant or frantic activity.” P. 80 • A ________ is a huge farm whose owners depended on slave labor. P. 86 • ...

Countries & Capitals 2020-11-03

Countries & Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Pizza is famous in this country
  2. This country in Southeast Asia and have 13 states
  3. Their national holiday is Throne Day on July 30th
  4. Capital of Cuba
  5. Code country +966
  6. Prince Mateen
Down
  1. The famous school SOPA is there
  2. A country with 4,480 buildings
  3. Capital of Mongolia
  4. Canberra is the capital of which country?
  5. Where the Wembley Stadium are located.
  6. It is known as Land of The Rising Sun

12 Clues: Prince Mateen • Capital of Cuba • Code country +966 • Capital of Mongolia • A country with 4,480 buildings • The famous school SOPA is there • Pizza is famous in this country • It is known as Land of The Rising Sun • Where the Wembley Stadium are located. • Canberra is the capital of which country? • This country in Southeast Asia and have 13 states • ...

countries & capitals 2021-04-18

countries & capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Canberra
  2. Moscow
  3. Athens
  4. Ottawa
  5. Berlin
  6. Rome
Down
  1. Tokyo
  2. Madrid
  3. vienna
  4. Paris
  5. London
  6. Washington D.C.

12 Clues: Rome • Tokyo • Paris • Madrid • vienna • Moscow • Athens • London • Ottawa • Berlin • Canberra • Washington D.C.

World Capitals 2021-08-23

World Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Capital of India
  2. Capital of the UK
  3. Capital of Cuba
  4. Capital of Canada
  5. Capital of of Egypt
  6. Capital of Greece
Down
  1. Capital of China
  2. Capital of Japan
  3. Capital of the Bahamas
  4. Capital of Australia
  5. Capital of Turkey
  6. Capital of France

12 Clues: Capital of Cuba • Capital of China • Capital of Japan • Capital of India • Capital of the UK • Capital of Turkey • Capital of France • Capital of Canada • Capital of Greece • Capital of of Egypt • Capital of Australia • Capital of the Bahamas

Worlds Capitals 2022-03-30

Worlds Capitals crossword puzzle
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  1. η προτευουσα ειναι το Ντοχα
  2. η προτευουσα ειναι η Ακκρα
  3. η προτευουσα ειναι η Πολη του Μεξικου
  4. η προτευουσα ειναι η Κιτο
  5. Βικεντιος η πρωτευουσα ειναι το Κινγκσταουν
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  1. Κορεα η προτευουσα ειναι η Σεουλ
  2. η προτευουσα ειναι το Κανακρι
  3. η προτευουσα ειναι η Αβανα
  4. η προτευουσα ειναι το Νιαμευ
  5. η προτευουσα τ ειναι η Μπαμακο
  6. η προτεευουσα ειναι η Γιαουντε
  7. Ρικα η προτευοθσα ειναι η Σαν Χοσε

12 Clues: η προτευουσα ειναι η Κιτο • η προτευουσα ειναι η Αβανα • η προτευουσα ειναι η Ακκρα • η προτευουσα ειναι το Ντοχα • η προτευουσα ειναι το Νιαμευ • η προτευουσα ειναι το Κανακρι • η προτευουσα τ ειναι η Μπαμακο • η προτεευουσα ειναι η Γιαουντε • Κορεα η προτευουσα ειναι η Σεουλ • Ρικα η προτευοθσα ειναι η Σαν Χοσε • η προτευουσα ειναι η Πολη του Μεξικου • ...

State Capitals 2015-03-31

State Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Maryland
  2. Rhode Island
  3. Massachusetts
  4. Pennsylvania
  5. Delaware
Down
  1. New York
  2. New Jersey
  3. Connecticut
  4. Vermont
  5. New Hampshire
  6. Maine
  7. Virginia

12 Clues: Maine • Vermont • New York • Maryland • Virginia • Delaware • New Jersey • Connecticut • Rhode Island • Pennsylvania • New Hampshire • Massachusetts

State - Capitals 2023-06-23

State - Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. City
  2. City
  3. Man's best friend
  4. Fe
  5. Lake City
  6. Paul
Down
  1. City
  2. Large marsupial
  3. Has a trunk
  4. Rouge
  5. Likes to chase mice
  6. Moines
  7. Rock
  8. Flying mammal

14 Clues: Fe • City • City • City • Rock • Paul • Rouge • Moines • Lake City • Has a trunk • Flying mammal • Large marsupial • Man's best friend • Likes to chase mice

European Capitals 2022-11-15

European Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Capital of Greece
  2. Capital of Netherlands
  3. CApital of Norway
  4. Capital of Germany
  5. Capital of UK
  6. Capital of France
Down
  1. Capital of Denmark
  2. Capital of Portugal
  3. Capital of Ireland
  4. Capital of Finland
  5. Capital of Italy
  6. Capital of Spain

12 Clues: Capital of UK • Capital of Italy • Capital of Spain • Capital of Greece • CApital of Norway • Capital of France • Capital of Denmark • Capital of Ireland • Capital of Germany • Capital of Finland • Capital of Portugal • Capital of Netherlands

Asia Capitals 2026-04-02

Asia Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Capital of Taiwan
  2. Capital of Nepal
  3. Capital of Mongolia
  4. Capital of South Korea
  5. Capital of Thailand
Down
  1. Capital of China
  2. Capital of Indonesia
  3. Capital of Japan
  4. Capital of Philippines
  5. Capital of Bangladesh
  6. Capital of Vietnam
  7. Capital of India

12 Clues: Capital of China • Capital of Nepal • Capital of Japan • Capital of India • Capital of Taiwan • Capital of Vietnam • Capital of Mongolia • Capital of Thailand • Capital of Indonesia • Capital of Bangladesh • Capital of Philippines • Capital of South Korea

Unit 4: Political Patterns and Processes 2025-05-21

Unit 4: Political Patterns and Processes crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a culturally defined group of people with shared past and common future who relate to territory and government
  2. where individual states come together to work together toward common goals
  3. a defined political entity with a government, territory, population and sovereignty recognized by other states.
  4. the delegation of power to a lower level government or state
  5. the distribution of power and resources
  6. a theoretical perspective that emphasizes the role of material resources and determining power dynamics
  7. Government a government system where the power is shared better the central authority and states
Down
  1. a theoretical perspective that illuminates how gender shapes power structures and inequalities demonstrating how seemingly neutral systems can reinforce patriarchal dominance
  2. a state whose territory corresponds to that particular ethnicity
  3. the ability to have something or someone do something they normally wouldn't do on its own
  4. a theoretical perspective that highlights the importance of shared ideals, beliefs, and norms in shaping power relations
  5. acquiring territory or gaining control over the political or economic life of other countries
  6. State a country that contains more than one ehtincy with tradition of self-determination
  7. a country’s sense of property and attachment towards its own territory
  8. government a government system where the central authority is weak and the states maintain their power
  9. land politically attached to a larger piece of land but not physically attached
  10. a tax on imported and exported goods
  11. a permanent settlement that maintains ties to the home country
  12. Government a government system where all the power is with the central authority and now power shared to the states
  13. a piece of land totally surrounded by a foreign territory

20 Clues: a tax on imported and exported goods • the distribution of power and resources • a piece of land totally surrounded by a foreign territory • the delegation of power to a lower level government or state • a permanent settlement that maintains ties to the home country • a state whose territory corresponds to that particular ethnicity • ...

The Cold War 2021-02-24

The Cold War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Soviet Union leader during this time
  2. a political boundary that divided Europe into two separate areas
  3. United States provided West Berlin with food, fuel, medical supplies, and clothing through airlifts.
  4. Provided military alliance to counter Soviet expansions.
  5. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during this time.
Down
  1. Grants and loans given to Western Europe from the United States
  2. Keeps communism within its existing borders.
  3. United States President during this time
  4. Eastern European states controlled by the Soviet Union
  5. A promise to aid nations struggling against communist movements
  6. Worldwide rivalry between United States and the Soviet Union
  7. Soviet Union and its satellite states formed a rival military alliance.

12 Clues: Soviet Union leader during this time • United States President during this time • Keeps communism within its existing borders. • Eastern European states controlled by the Soviet Union • Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during this time. • Provided military alliance to counter Soviet expansions. • Worldwide rivalry between United States and the Soviet Union • ...

Federalism 2014-09-24

Federalism crossword puzzle
Across
  1. 1819 Supreme Court case that established supremacy of national government over state government
  2. powers of federal government addressed specifically in constitution, for congress powers in article 1 section 8
  3. A clause in Article IV, section 2 states citizens of each state most of the privileges of citizens of other states
  4. powers of federal government that go beyond enumerated in constitution
  5. System of government where powers and policy assignments are shared between states and national government
  6. federal grants that can be used only for specific purposes or categories of state and local spending
  7. federal grant given more or less automatically to states or communities to support broad programs I areas like community development or social service
  8. Pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in federal system
  9. organizes nation so two or more levels of government have more authority over same land and people
  10. entire set of interactions among national, state, and local governments
  11. final paragraph in Article I, Section 8 which authorizes Congress to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution
  12. federal categorical grant distributed according to a formula specified in legislation or administrative regulations
Down
  1. system of government where both The state & national government remain supreme within own spheres, each responsible for some policies
  2. Clause in Article IV , section. 8 of constitution requires each state to recognize official documents and civil judgements rendered by the courts of other states
  3. way of organizing nation so all powers resides in central government
  4. Article VI Of Constitution makes Constitution national law, and treaties supreme over state laws when the national government is acting within constitutional limits
  5. the powers not delegated to the U.S. By the constitution nor prohibited by it to the states reserved to states or people
  6. Case in 1824, Supreme Court interpreted Broadly the clause in Article I Section 8; giving Comgress power to regulate interstate com ever, encompassing virtually every form of commercial activity
  7. legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrenders by officials instate in which crime is alleged to have been committed

19 Clues: Pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in federal system • way of organizing nation so all powers resides in central government • powers of federal government that go beyond enumerated in constitution • entire set of interactions among national, state, and local governments • ...

Samantha Skulskie 6th hour 2023-03-06

Samantha Skulskie 6th hour crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a settler in kansas that wants kansas to be free.
  2. a person who was killed for their beliefs.
  3. to be free
  4. splitting the us in 2 haves free states and slave states.
  5. cancel, over turning something.
  6. resiton to a higher source of power.
  7. a person trying to end slavery.
Down
  1. person who invests in something hoping they can sell it for a greater price.
  2. going against your country's constitution.
  3. a principle consuming what is right or wrong.
  4. capture a town
  5. first territorial governor
  6. attempting to overthrow the government.
  7. a criminal
  8. a person who wants to expand.
  9. a crop that is grown for profit
  10. to seal off something
  11. a religious man who thought that he was chosen from god to end slavery no matter what.
  12. bloodshed in kansas from slave states and free states.
  13. allowing people to vote

20 Clues: a criminal • to be free • capture a town • to seal off something • allowing people to vote • first territorial governor • a person who wants to expand. • a crop that is grown for profit • cancel, over turning something. • a person trying to end slavery. • resiton to a higher source of power. • attempting to overthrow the government. • going against your country's constitution. • ...

Samantha Skulskie 6th hour 2023-03-06

Samantha Skulskie 6th hour crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a settler in kansas that wants kansas to be free.
  2. a person who was killed for their beliefs.
  3. to be free
  4. splitting the us in 2 haves free states and slave states.
  5. cancel, over turning something.
  6. resiton to a higher source of power.
  7. a person trying to end slavery.
Down
  1. person who invests in something hoping they can sell it for a greater price.
  2. going against your country's constitution.
  3. a principle consuming what is right or wrong.
  4. capture a town
  5. first territorial governor
  6. attempting to overthrow the government.
  7. a criminal
  8. a person who wants to expand.
  9. a crop that is grown for profit
  10. to seal off something
  11. a religious man who thought that he was chosen from god to end slavery no matter what.
  12. bloodshed in kansas from slave states and free states.
  13. allowing people to vote

20 Clues: a criminal • to be free • capture a town • to seal off something • allowing people to vote • first territorial governor • a person who wants to expand. • a crop that is grown for profit • cancel, over turning something. • a person trying to end slavery. • resiton to a higher source of power. • attempting to overthrow the government. • going against your country's constitution. • ...

Antebellum South 2023-01-12

Antebellum South crossword puzzle
Across
  1. people for slavery
  2. banned the further importation of slaves beginning in 1808.
  3. known for use of slavery.
  4. formally put an end to a system practice or institution.
  5. had 9 new slave states enter between 1789 and 1860
  6. planters projected the maount of cotton based on salve amount
  7. Turner led the second rebellion.
  8. a person who is owned and has no rights
  9. an owner of slaves.
  10. free blacks were lighter skinned women.
  11. people against slavery
  12. a boat powered by steam
Down
  1. wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
  2. the state of being a slave
  3. known as Petit gulf cotton a mix of mexican georgia strains
  4. what most slaves were used for.
  5. exstention of states territory by encroaching on that of other nations
  6. any Southern states in US which slavery was legal before the civil war.
  7. a person killed for religious beleifs
  8. what slave states were known as

20 Clues: people for slavery • an owner of slaves. • wrote Uncle Toms Cabin • people against slavery • a boat powered by steam • known for use of slavery. • the state of being a slave • what most slaves were used for. • what slave states were known as • Turner led the second rebellion. • a person killed for religious beleifs • a person who is owned and has no rights • ...

The Civil War 2022-10-07

The Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the north that was led by Abraham Lincoln
  2. freed over 70 slaves through the underground railroad
  3. first major clash of the confederate and union armies.
  4. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  5. 1863, Union gains control of Mississippi
  6. wrote the book Uncle Toms Cabin
  7. 18th president
  8. confederate general
  9. presdient of the confederate states of america
  10. the ammendment that was passed after the War
  11. Fort attacked by South Carolina starting the Civil War
Down
  1. the act that set Kansas and Nebraska as states
  2. assinated Abraham Lincoln
  3. law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and those who helped
  4. President during the War
  5. june 25-july 1, 1862
  6. battle that made it clear that the North would win

17 Clues: 18th president • confederate general • june 25-july 1, 1862 • President during the War • assinated Abraham Lincoln • wrote the book Uncle Toms Cabin • 1863, Union gains control of Mississippi • the north that was led by Abraham Lincoln • the ammendment that was passed after the War • the act that set Kansas and Nebraska as states • presdient of the confederate states of america • ...

Chapter 7 Vocabulary Test: The Federalist Era (1789-1800) 2025-01-17

Chapter 7 Vocabulary Test: The Federalist Era (1789-1800) crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Drafted by James Madison, the resolution argued that the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional because they infringed upon individual rights and states' rights. Madison also asserted that states could nullify federal laws they deemed unconstitutional.
  2. Signed in 1795, an agreement between the US and numerous Native American tribes, which settled territorial disputes in the Northwest Territory following the Northwest Indian War.
  3. July 1794! Farmers in western Pennsylvania protested against a federal tax on whiskey highlighting tensions between rural communities and the federal government.
  4. This became a significant issue with the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799. In their resolutions, Jefferson and Madison argued that if the federal government passed a law that was unconstitutional, the states had the right to nullify (or refuse to enforce) that law within their own borders. They believed that the states, as parties to the Constitution, had the power to determine whether a federal law was in line with the Constitution.
  5. Laws passed in 1798. Allowed the federal government to deport foreign nationals and criminalize speech that was critical of the government. Federalists and John Adams loved these acts.
  6. Responsible for the administration of military affairs and the management of the Army during times of war from its establishment in 1789 until it was recognized into the Department of Defense in 1947.
  7. Signed in 1795 between the United States and Spain granted America navigation rights on the Mississippi River and defined the boundary between the U.S and Spanish territories.
  8. Colloquially "the press" or the "press gang", is a type of conscription of people into a military force. The Royal Navy impressed many US merchant sailors. People liable to _________ were "eligible men of seafaring habits between the ages of 18 and 55 years".
  9. A governmental agency responsible for managing a country’s finances including the collection of taxes (revenue), issuance of currency, and the management (ideally payback) of public debt with a historical role dating back to its formation in the United States in 1789.
  10. Senior government officials responsible for managing specific departments and advising the president.
  11. A diplomatic incident between the United States and France that occurred during the Federalist Era. Short story: American envoys (diplomats) negotiated a peace agreement to stop French attacks on American ships. But first, France was asking for money (a bribe) just to talk, which led to a breakdown in relations between. This affair contributed to rising tensions, eventually leading to the Quasi-War, an undeclared naval conflict between us and France.
  12. A time period in American history from the late 1780s to the early 1800s defined by: Washington’s presidency, an economic plan for the US (Hamilton’s), political parties, and foreign affairs challenges.
  13. A geographical region of the United States established after the American Revolution encompassing land that would later become the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
  14. Debt securities issued by a government to finance public projects and expenditures to raise cash while providing investors with a secure and steady return on investment. Hamilton loved them.
Down
  1. An agreement signed in 1794 between the US and Great Britain that aimed to resolve issues that remained after the American Revolutionary War. Ex: GB agreed to vacate the NW Territory (today’s Midwest).
  2. Jefferson argued that the federal government had no authority to enact the Alien and Sedition Acts because they violated the First Amendment's protections for free speech and press. Simultaneously, Jefferson articulated the concept of nullification.
  3. U.S. government agency that is responsible for handling the country’s foreign affairs and international relations.
  4. A law in U.S history that established the process for granting citizenship to immigrants, initially allowing only free white immigrants to become citizens after a period of residency.
  5. A meeting of members of each US political party who choose candidates for upcoming national elections.
  6. Head of the Judicial Branch of the United States (Article 3 USC), responsible for presiding over Supreme Court proceedings, and leading the Supreme Court in interpreting the Constitution and constitutionality of federal laws. States have their own such court.

20 Clues: Senior government officials responsible for managing specific departments and advising the president. • A meeting of members of each US political party who choose candidates for upcoming national elections. • U.S. government agency that is responsible for handling the country’s foreign affairs and international relations. • ...

Civil War Crossword 2022-03-06

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The first official battle of the Civil War.
  2. Event (Book about horrors of slavery) that caused/led to the Civil War.
  3. General of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
  4. The economy in the ________ states grew quickly after the Civil War.
  5. William Sherman’s goal to take over the city of Atlanta.
  6. President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
  7. Commander of the Union Army during the Civil War.
  8. President of the United States during the Civil War.
  9. The battle that ended the Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
  10. A battle during the Civil War known as the turning point and the deadliest battle.
Down
  1. Cause of the Civil War: Northern and Southern states disagreed about.
  2. William Sherman and his troops marched from Atlanta to Savannah destroying everything in their path.
  3. General in the Confederate Army: Known for standing his ground in the First Battle of Bull Run.
  4. Event (An attempt to take over a federal armory and arm slaves) that caused/led to the Civil War.
  5. General in the Union Army: Known for the Atlanta Campaign & March to the Sea.
  6. Cause of the Civil War: Southern States were worried about the government becoming too powerful.
  7. The ________ states had to rebuild after the Civil War because of destruction.

17 Clues: The first official battle of the Civil War. • Commander of the Union Army during the Civil War. • President of the United States during the Civil War. • General of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. • William Sherman’s goal to take over the city of Atlanta. • The economy in the ________ states grew quickly after the Civil War. • ...

Shiloh's Chapter 8 Crossword puzzle 2025-04-03

Shiloh's Chapter 8 Crossword puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. railroad a secret network of safe places for slaves to hide
  2. sovereignty for the people that decided whether they wanted slavery
  3. people against slavery
  4. a small number of an army to form a small part of a division
  5. taxes
  6. right regional differences on whether a federal or state authority should prevail
  7. states that would break away from the union
Down
  1. when someone legally has the authority to make decisions for
  2. states states that did not permit slavery
  3. of 1850 a solution to save the union and solve issues
  4. a member of a small military group that harasses the enemy
  5. a small military camp at a distance from the main force, used as a guard against a surprise attack
  6. to not take sides
  7. states of america 7 states formed a government
  8. states states that permitted slavery

15 Clues: taxes • to not take sides • people against slavery • states states that permitted slavery • states states that did not permit slavery • states that would break away from the union • states of america 7 states formed a government • a member of a small military group that harasses the enemy • when someone legally has the authority to make decisions for • ...

The European Union 2021-05-05

The European Union crossword puzzle
Across
  1. consists of 27 judges and 11 independant advocates-general
  2. EU primary legislation
  3. 55% of member states must agree, representing at least 65% of EU population
  4. 14 out of 27 member states must agree
  5. one or more departments of the European Commission added to a portfolio
  6. 31 January 2020
  7. executive body consisting of the heads of state of heads of government of Member States
  8. - an individual can directly enforce EU law against the state, not an individual
  9. - an individual can directly enforce EU law against any other individual in the UK
  10. all member states must agree
  11. executive body who act as "the guardian of EU Treaties"
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  1. has legislative function and passes EU secondary legislation proposed by the European Commission. Presidency changes every 6 months
  2. monarch (or president) with full powers
  3. if monarch has only ceremonial role, this person runs the country
  4. elected law making body with legislative function. Can amend EU Treaties.
  5. secondary legislation setting out EU law in general terms only and is addressed to one or more member states who will then have to amend their national law accordingly
  6. secondary legislation directly applicable to all member states

17 Clues: 31 January 2020 • EU primary legislation • all member states must agree • 14 out of 27 member states must agree • monarch (or president) with full powers • executive body who act as "the guardian of EU Treaties" • consists of 27 judges and 11 independant advocates-general • secondary legislation directly applicable to all member states • ...

The Reconstruction Era Crossword Puzzle 2021-11-01

The Reconstruction Era Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. members of Congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union
  2. a white southerner who collaborated with the northern republicans during Reconstruction
  3. offered southerners amnesty for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion
  4. a period beginning in 1867 when the Republicans, who had control in both houses of Congress, took charge of Reconstruction
  5. an agency providing relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South
  6. a person from the northern states who went South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
  7. a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements
  8. this secret society opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans
  9. 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American War
  10. the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
Down
  1. the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union
  2. a special tax that you need to pay in order to vote
  3. the law that put the southern states under U.S. military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the Fourteenth Amendment
  4. 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated
  5. the forced separation of whites and African Americans in public spaces
  6. an assessment to determine a person's ability to read and write that is required in order to vote
  7. one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans
  8. laws that limited the freedom of African Americans
  9. someone sharing land with a landowner in exchange for labor
  10. an official pardon

20 Clues: an official pardon • one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans • laws that limited the freedom of African Americans • a special tax that you need to pay in order to vote • someone sharing land with a landowner in exchange for labor • the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union • ...

The Makings of American Government 2019-08-30

The Makings of American Government crossword puzzle
Across
  1. powers not expressly granted to Congress but added through the necessary and proper clause
  2. doctrine holding that state and federal governments have almost completely seperate functions
  3. splits powers between nation and state
  4. the branch of government that makes the laws
  5. creator of the Virginia Plan
  6. electors selected to represent the votes of their respective states
  7. The intial governing authority of the United States (1781-88)
  8. keep any branch of government from becoming too powerful
  9. right of states to invalidate acts of congress they believe to be illegal
  10. system of government where ultimate authority rests with the state government
  11. imposed tax on almost all paper products
  12. system of government where ultimate authority rests with the national government
  13. powers expressly granted to congress by the constitution
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  1. rule by the people
  2. required states to return runaway slaves
  3. who proposed the Connecticut Compromise
  4. groups of people sharing similar views and interests in order to win elections
  5. powers retained by the states under the constitution
  6. amendment that prohibits states from denying the right to vote on account of race
  7. required colonists to export certain items only to Britain
  8. to formally withdraw from a nation-state
  9. colonists dump taxed tea into Boston Harbor
  10. powers held by the national and state governments in a federal system
  11. Documents that establish the rules for how society will be governed
  12. those who supported the constitution
  13. list of rights granted to the people that can not be taken away
  14. form of government in which political power is exercised directly by the citizens
  15. makes federal law supreme over state law
  16. form of government where citizens vote for officials to represent them
  17. power that the president has to block legislation

30 Clues: rule by the people • creator of the Virginia Plan • those who supported the constitution • splits powers between nation and state • who proposed the Connecticut Compromise • required states to return runaway slaves • to formally withdraw from a nation-state • makes federal law supreme over state law • imposed tax on almost all paper products • ...

The Makings of American Government 2019-08-30

The Makings of American Government crossword puzzle
Across
  1. form of government in which political power is exercised directly by the citizens
  2. powers not expressly granted to Congress but added through the necessary and proper clause
  3. form of government where citizens vote for officials to represent them
  4. required colonists to export certain items only to Britain
  5. electors selected to represent the votes of their respective states
  6. to formally withdraw from a nation-state
  7. the branch of government that makes the laws
  8. doctrine holding that state and federal governments have almost completely separate functions
  9. imposed tax on almost all paper products
  10. those who supported the constitution
  11. The initial governing authority of the United States (1781-88)
  12. splits powers between nation and state
  13. powers held by the national and state governments in a federal system
  14. Documents that establish the rules for how society will be governed
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  1. powers expressly granted to congress by the constitution
  2. makes federal law supreme over state law
  3. system of government where ultimate authority rests with the state government
  4. system of government where ultimate authority rests with the national government
  5. amendment that prohibits states from denying the right to vote on account of race
  6. groups of people sharing similar views and interests in order to win elections
  7. keep any branch of government from becoming too powerful
  8. creator of the Virginia Plan
  9. who proposed the Connecticut Compromise
  10. right of states to invalidate acts of congress they believe to be illegal
  11. required states to return runaway slaves
  12. list of rights granted to the people that can not be taken away
  13. colonists dump taxed tea into Boston Harbor
  14. powers retained by the states under the constitution
  15. power that the president has to block legislation
  16. rule by the people

30 Clues: rule by the people • creator of the Virginia Plan • those who supported the constitution • splits powers between nation and state • who proposed the Connecticut Compromise • makes federal law supreme over state law • to formally withdraw from a nation-state • required states to return runaway slaves • imposed tax on almost all paper products • ...

AbolitionofSlavery: To get rid of Slavery. Equalprotection / Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits all states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Accountofrace / A phrase that meant people of a 2022-05-06

AbolitionofSlavery: To get rid of Slavery. Equalprotection / Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits all states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Accountofrace / A phrase that meant people of a crossword puzzle
Across
  1. / Programs that offer job training to those who've dealt with discrimination in the past.
  2. / Laws that kept African Americans from going about their daily lives in a normal manner.
  3. / An organization set up by republicans to protect African Americans.
  4. / The first United States federal law to define equal U.S. citizenship
  5. / A legislation that ended racial discrimination in voting.
  6. / A clan that had goals of achieving racial segregation and white supremacy.
  7. / The man who was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln as President after he got assassinated.
  8. / Northern people who traveled to the South during Reconstruction to make money
  9. / The first ten amendments made to the constitution until it was ratified for others to be added.
  10. / The enacting of laws.
  11. / A phrase that meant people of all races could vote.
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  1. / A law issued by Abraham Lincoln that guaranteed the freedom of enslaved people from all States.
  2. / The process by which the supreme court applied the bill of rights to the states, through the 14th amendment.
  3. / The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution.
  4. To get rid of Slavery.
  5. / Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits all states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
  6. / An act that allowed anyone willing to commit to a full-time job, to get employed.
  7. / The person who introduced a bill that supported the abolishment of slavery.
  8. / A test of reading comprehension and writing skills that people were required to take to vote in southern states.
  9. / A war fought over Slavery between the North and the South.

20 Clues: To get rid of Slavery. • / The enacting of laws. • / A phrase that meant people of all races could vote. • / A legislation that ended racial discrimination in voting. • / A war fought over Slavery between the North and the South. • / An organization set up by republicans to protect African Americans. • ...

13th, 14th, 15th Amendment Crossword Puzzle 2022-05-06

13th, 14th, 15th Amendment Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. / Programs that offer job training to those who've dealt with discrimination in the past.
  2. / Laws that kept African Americans from going about their daily lives in a normal manner.
  3. / An organization set up by republicans to protect African Americans.
  4. / The first United States federal law to define equal U.S. citizenship
  5. / A legislation that ended racial discrimination in voting.
  6. / A clan that had goals of achieving racial segregation and white supremacy.
  7. / The man who was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln as President after he got assassinated.
  8. / Northern people who traveled to the South during Reconstruction to make money
  9. / The first ten amendments made to the constitution until it was ratified for others to be added.
  10. / The enacting of laws.
  11. / A phrase that meant people of all races could vote.
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  1. / A law issued by Abraham Lincoln that guaranteed the freedom of enslaved people from all States.
  2. / The process by which the supreme court applied the bill of rights to the states, through the 14th amendment.
  3. / The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution.
  4. To get rid of Slavery.
  5. / Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits all states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
  6. / An act that allowed anyone willing to commit to a full-time job, to get employed.
  7. / The person who introduced a bill that supported the abolishment of slavery.
  8. / A test of reading comprehension and writing skills that people were required to take to vote in southern states.
  9. / A war fought over Slavery between the North and the South.

20 Clues: To get rid of Slavery. • / The enacting of laws. • / A phrase that meant people of all races could vote. • / A legislation that ended racial discrimination in voting. • / A war fought over Slavery between the North and the South. • / An organization set up by republicans to protect African Americans. • ...

13th, 14th, 15th Amendment Crossword Puzzle 2022-05-06

13th, 14th, 15th Amendment Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. / The man who was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln as President after he got assassinated.
  2. / An organization set up by republicans to protect African Americans.
  3. / A clan that had goals of achieving racial segregation and white supremacy.
  4. / A war fought over Slavery between the North and the South.
  5. / The process by which the supreme court applied the bill of rights to the states, through the 14th amendment.
  6. / The first United States federal law to define equal U.S. citizenship
  7. / The enacting of laws.
  8. / To get rid of Slavery.
  9. / Northern people who traveled to the South during Reconstruction to make money
  10. / The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution.
Down
  1. / The person who introduced a bill that supported the abolishment of slavery.
  2. / A law issued by Abraham Lincoln that guaranteed the freedom of enslaved people from all States.
  3. / Programs that offer job training to those who've dealt with discrimination in the past.
  4. / Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits all states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
  5. / An act that allowed anyone willing to commit to a full-time job, to get employed.
  6. / Laws that kept African Americans from going about their daily lives in a normal manner.
  7. / A phrase that meant people of all races could vote.
  8. / The first ten amendments made to the constitution until it was ratified for others to be added.
  9. / A legislation that ended racial discrimination in voting.
  10. / A test of reading comprehension and writing skills that people were required to take to vote in southern states.

20 Clues: / The enacting of laws. • / To get rid of Slavery. • / A phrase that meant people of all races could vote. • / A legislation that ended racial discrimination in voting. • / A war fought over Slavery between the North and the South. • / An organization set up by republicans to protect African Americans. • ...

Westward Expansion 2025-04-08

Westward Expansion crossword puzzle
Across
  1. fear or hatred of immigrants
  2. mass migration of people seeking fortune, starting in 1848
  3. land the US acquired in 1848 through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, including present-day California, Nevada, and parts of other western states
  4. land bought from Mexico in 1853 to complete the continental United States
  5. European country that controlled Florida before the U.S.
  6. nation that lost about half its territory to the United States in 1848
  7. 1787 law that organized the settlement of western territories and their path to statehood
  8. territory acquired from Spain in 1819
  9. group that faced discrimination while seeking gold in California
  10. a busy trade route and stagecoach line for travel to the west; used by military to haul materials
  11. conflict between 1846-1848 that began over boundary disputes
  12. country that jointly controlled Oregon Territory with the U.S. until 1846
  13. agreement that ended the U.S.-Mexican War
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  1. the belief that the United States had a divine right to expand across North America
  2. 1845 addition to the United States
  3. 1803 land purchase from France that doubled the size of the United States
  4. inexpensive farmland, discovery of gold, adventure
  5. location where gold was first discovered in California
  6. Mexico claimed this as Texas’ southern border
  7. system that connected the east and west coasts
  8. a historic route used by pioneers traveling westward to settle new territories, stretching approximately 2,000 miles from Missouri to Oregon
  9. route taken by religious settlers to Utah
  10. the official border between Texas and Mexico after the U.S.-Mexican War
  11. overcrowding of cities, economic depressions, religious persecution
  12. won the presidential election of 1844 by promising the American people he would achieve Manifest Destiny

25 Clues: fear or hatred of immigrants • 1845 addition to the United States • territory acquired from Spain in 1819 • route taken by religious settlers to Utah • agreement that ended the U.S.-Mexican War • Mexico claimed this as Texas’ southern border • system that connected the east and west coasts • inexpensive farmland, discovery of gold, adventure • ...

Civil War Crossword 2023-02-22

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The idea that the South had the authority to nullify tariffs placed on goods.
  2. The south had to fight a _________ war to win.
  3. Who won the election of 1860?
  4. Mainly the northern states, fighting to keep the Union together and to make slavery illegal.
  5. Strategy used by the Union to try and take over the South; take control of mississippi river and split the South in two.
  6. Abraham Lincoln said that he would stop the ______ of slavery.
  7. The speach preformed by Abraham Lincoln stating that in order to end the war, slavery must be abolished.
  8. Used to blockade and stop union ships from entering or leaving.
  9. A person who flees or tries to escape.
  10. The __________ __________ states that all slaves would be free as of January 1, 1863.
  11. The man who created a march that burned and demolished many southern towns and cities.
Down
  1. The compromise that banned slavery north of the 36° 30' line.
  2. When starting the war the Union already had an ____ and a ____.
  3. The act that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to choose if they wanted to be a free or slave state.
  4. The decision to consider slaves as "property" and they would not be free, even in states that didn't allow slavery.
  5. Most people died because of ________ during the Civil War.
  6. The bloodiest battle in American history.
  7. To formally break away in a political state.
  8. Mainly the southern states, fighting for the right to keep slavery legal.
  9. The states that allowed slavery but refused to leave the Union.

20 Clues: Who won the election of 1860? • A person who flees or tries to escape. • The bloodiest battle in American history. • To formally break away in a political state. • The south had to fight a _________ war to win. • Most people died because of ________ during the Civil War. • The compromise that banned slavery north of the 36° 30' line. • ...

Civil War Crossword 2023-02-22

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The idea that the South had the authority to nullify tariffs placed on goods.
  2. The south had to fight a _________ war to win.
  3. Who won the election of 1860?
  4. Mainly the northern states, fighting to keep the Union together and to make slavery illegal.
  5. Strategy used by the Union to try and take over the South; take control of mississippi river and split the South in two.
  6. Abraham Lincoln said that he would stop the ______ of slavery.
  7. The speach preformed by Abraham Lincoln stating that in order to end the war, slavery must be abolished.
  8. Used to blockade and stop union ships from entering or leaving.
  9. A person who flees or tries to escape.
  10. The __________ __________ states that all slaves would be free as of January 1, 1863.
  11. The man who created a march that burned and demolished many southern towns and cities.
Down
  1. The compromise that banned slavery north of the 36° 30' line.
  2. When starting the war the Union already had an ____ and a ____.
  3. The act that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to choose if they wanted to be a free or slave state.
  4. The decision to consider slaves as "property" and they would not be free, even in states that didn't allow slavery.
  5. Most people died because of ________ during the Civil War.
  6. The bloodiest battle in American history.
  7. To formally break away in a political state.
  8. Mainly the southern states, fighting for the right to keep slavery legal.
  9. The states that allowed slavery but refused to leave the Union.

20 Clues: Who won the election of 1860? • A person who flees or tries to escape. • The bloodiest battle in American history. • To formally break away in a political state. • The south had to fight a _________ war to win. • Most people died because of ________ during the Civil War. • The compromise that banned slavery north of the 36° 30' line. • ...

social studies 20 terms/questions 2022-01-05

social studies 20 terms/questions crossword puzzle
Across
  1. document asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain
  2. political powers granted to the united states government that are not explicitly stated in the constitution
  3. strip of land connecting alaska to russia
  4. exporting more goods then importing
  5. created so not one branch had too much power
  6. branch that consists of the supreme court
  7. authority of the people
  8. the action of signing consent to a treaty
  9. branch headed by president
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  1. opposed the ratification of the constitution
  2. he wrote the declaration of indpendence
  3. branch that makes laws
  4. second president of the united states
  5. french soldier who joined washingtons staff and became a general in the continental army
  6. first president of the united states
  7. agreement signed by british and American leaders stating america's independence
  8. when states banded together under constitution
  9. the first ten amendments to the constitution
  10. tax on imported goods
  11. pamphlet written by thomas paine

20 Clues: tax on imported goods • branch that makes laws • authority of the people • branch headed by president • pamphlet written by thomas paine • exporting more goods then importing • first president of the united states • second president of the united states • he wrote the declaration of indpendence • strip of land connecting alaska to russia • ...

Samantha Skulskie 6th hour 2023-03-06

Samantha Skulskie 6th hour crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a settler in kansas that wants kansas to be free.
  2. a person who was killed for their beliefs.
  3. to be free
  4. splitting the us in 2 haves free states and slave states.
  5. cancel, over turning something.
  6. resiton to a higher source of power.
  7. a person trying to end slavery.
Down
  1. person who invests in something hoping they can sell it for a greater price.
  2. going against your country's constitution.
  3. a principle consuming what is right or wrong.
  4. capture a town
  5. first territorial governor
  6. attempting to overthrow the government.
  7. a criminal
  8. a person who wants to expand.
  9. a crop that is grown for profit
  10. to seal off something
  11. a religious man who thought that he was chosen from god to end slavery no matter what.
  12. bloodshed in kansas from slave states and free states.
  13. allowing people to vote

20 Clues: a criminal • to be free • capture a town • to seal off something • allowing people to vote • first territorial governor • a person who wants to expand. • a crop that is grown for profit • cancel, over turning something. • a person trying to end slavery. • resiton to a higher source of power. • attempting to overthrow the government. • going against your country's constitution. • ...

Samantha Skulskie 6th hour 2023-03-06

Samantha Skulskie 6th hour crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a settler in kansas that wants kansas to be free.
  2. a person who was killed for their beliefs.
  3. to be free
  4. splitting the us in 2 haves free states and slave states.
  5. cancel, over turning something.
  6. resiton to a higher source of power.
  7. a person trying to end slavery.
Down
  1. person who invests in something hoping they can sell it for a greater price.
  2. going against your country's constitution.
  3. a principle consuming what is right or wrong.
  4. capture a town
  5. first territorial governor
  6. attempting to overthrow the government.
  7. a criminal
  8. a person who wants to expand.
  9. a crop that is grown for profit
  10. to seal off something
  11. a religious man who thought that he was chosen from god to end slavery no matter what.
  12. bloodshed in kansas from slave states and free states.
  13. allowing people to vote

20 Clues: a criminal • to be free • capture a town • to seal off something • allowing people to vote • first territorial governor • a person who wants to expand. • a crop that is grown for profit • cancel, over turning something. • a person trying to end slavery. • resiton to a higher source of power. • attempting to overthrow the government. • going against your country's constitution. • ...

Early Cold War 2026-02-11

Early Cold War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Soviet attempt to cut off West Berlin from supplies
  2. Failed United States backed invasion of Cuba in 1961
  3. Mutually Assured Destruction
  4. Soviet led military alliance in Eastern Europe
  5. Accusing people of communism without proof for political gain
  6. Military alliance between the United States and Western Europe
  7. Period of fear of communism in the United States
  8. US policy to stop the spread of communism globally
  9. Term describing the division between Eastern and Western Europe
  10. Law helping veterans pay for college and buy homes
Down
  1. Proxy war between North and South Korea from 1950 to 1953
  2. Massive increase in United States birth rates after World War II
  3. information that is of a bias or misleading nature used to promote a specific political cause
  4. Lyndon Johnson's domestic policy to help the American People
  5. US financial aid program to rebuild Europe after World War II
  6. Belief that communism would spread to nearby countries
  7. US and British planes supplied West Berlin by air
  8. Mobile Army Surgical Unit

18 Clues: Mobile Army Surgical Unit • Mutually Assured Destruction • Soviet led military alliance in Eastern Europe • Period of fear of communism in the United States • US and British planes supplied West Berlin by air • US policy to stop the spread of communism globally • Law helping veterans pay for college and buy homes • Soviet attempt to cut off West Berlin from supplies • ...

Reconstruction Era 2023-04-03

Reconstruction Era crossword puzzle
Across
  1. strong sense of loyalty to a state/region rather than a whole country
  2. laws enacted by southern states to restrict social and economic freedoms of formerly enslaved people
  3. states that remained loyal to the U.S.
  4. a war between people of the same country
  5. withdrawl from a union
  6. a disease producing diarrhea with blood and mucus
  7. period of time before a war
  8. reorganization/rebuilding of the former confederate states after the Civil War
Down
  1. a runaway from justice, an escaped enslaved person
  2. laws enacted by southern states to manipulate/control the African American population, legalized segregation
  3. allowing each territory/state to decide to allow slavery
  4. slave-holding states that did not secede from the Union
  5. states that seceded from the union, formed a loose alliance
  6. agency that helped formerly enslaved people adjust to freedom
  7. to free, to liberate

15 Clues: to free, to liberate • withdrawl from a union • period of time before a war • states that remained loyal to the U.S. • a war between people of the same country • a disease producing diarrhea with blood and mucus • a runaway from justice, an escaped enslaved person • slave-holding states that did not secede from the Union • ...

Federalism 2024-04-08

Federalism crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Powers shared by both the Federal Government and the State Governments.
  2. System of government in which significant power is retained by local or regional governments and not given to the central authority or government.
  3. Chief Executive of State Government.
  4. Nation with a federal system.
  5. Clause in the US Constitution that provides that any conflict between a legitimate action of the national government and a state will be resolved in favor of the national government.
  6. Powers that both the national and state governments are not allowed to exercise.
  7. Amendment to the US Constitution that reserves powers to the states.
  8. Chief executive of city or town government.
  9. Type of Federalism in which the federal government and state governments each have clearly defined spheres of power.
  10. Highest Court in the State of Georgia.
  11. Powers of the national government recognized by all sovereign nations.
  12. Type of Federalism in which federal and state governments share power and collaborate on certain issues
  13. Synonym for "federal" government or "national" government.
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  1. State version of the United States Congress.
  2. System in which power is centralized in one central government.
  3. System that divides power between the national and lower level governments such as state and local governments.
  4. Powers specifically granted to the national government by the Constitution (aka "Express Powers").
  5. Powers belong to the states under the Constitution's 10th Amendment.
  6. Clause in the Constitution that grants Congress the power to pass all laws “necessary and proper” to carry out any of the specific “enumerated powers".
  7. Powers of the states to regulate behavior and enforce order within the state for the betterment of the health, safety, morals, and general welfare.
  8. Chief Executive of National Government.
  9. Powers granted to the United States government that aren't explicitly stated in the Constitution.

22 Clues: Nation with a federal system. • Chief Executive of State Government. • Highest Court in the State of Georgia. • Chief Executive of National Government. • Chief executive of city or town government. • State version of the United States Congress. • Synonym for "federal" government or "national" government. • System in which power is centralized in one central government. • ...

Westward Expansion 2016-10-28

Westward Expansion crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Commonly known as the Mexican-American War.
  2. When Mexico gave up what is now the southwestern states to avoid possible annexation of the country.
  3. Was a movement that brought settlers West to California in search for gold.
  4. A war from 1835-1846 fought by Texas and Mexico for Texas's independence.
  5. Purchase between the United States and Mexico back in 1853 for Southern Arizona and New Mexico for $10 million.
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  1. Man Slogan that represents the Manifest Destiny
  2. The United States 11th President.
  3. Peace treaty that ended the Mexican War. Which in turn gave the United States the Southwestern states.
  4. A term often used to describe the spread of the United States going from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.
  5. Events or conditions that lead people to move else where.
  6. Agreement between the United States and France for the west lands. This occurred in 1803, and the United States got 800,000 square miles of land for $15 million.
  7. 1836 battle between Mexico and Texas. With a real catchy slogan

12 Clues: The United States 11th President. • Commonly known as the Mexican-American War. • Man Slogan that represents the Manifest Destiny • Events or conditions that lead people to move else where. • 1836 battle between Mexico and Texas. With a real catchy slogan • A war from 1835-1846 fought by Texas and Mexico for Texas's independence. • ...

Influential African Americans 2023-02-17

Influential African Americans crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Writer and activist, leader of the Harlem Renaissance
  2. Former slave who became an abolitionist and women's rights activist
  3. Memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist
  4. Inventor and scientist, professor at Tuskegee Institute, promoted peanuts and sweet potatoes as crops
  5. Muslim minister and human rights activist
  6. Current vice president of the United States
  7. Talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist
  8. Considered one of the greatest baseball players in history, nicknamed The Hammer
  9. Jazz pianist and composer
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  1. American civil rights lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  2. Activist best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott
  3. Politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who served as the 65th US Secretary of State
  4. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement
  5. First black president of the United States
  6. 14-year-old boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955
  7. Writer and essayist, helped to raise public awareness of racial and sexual oppression
  8. Professional boxer and activist, nicknamed "The Greatest"
  9. whaler and sailor, the first person killed in the Boston Massacre

18 Clues: Jazz pianist and composer • Muslim minister and human rights activist • First black president of the United States • Current vice president of the United States • Memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist • Writer and activist, leader of the Harlem Renaissance • Professional boxer and activist, nicknamed "The Greatest" • ...

Civil War Word Puzzle 2021-02-09

Civil War Word Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Confederacy's first general officer
  2. First battle of the Civil War
  3. The Northern States during the Civil War
  4. General of the Union
  5. Took over men's work, disguised as men in order to fight, etc.
  6. A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
  7. President of the Confederate States of America
  8. Former slave, traveled the country speaking out against slavery, newspaper called North Star
  9. Confederate submarine
  10. President of the United States during the Civil War
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  1. Capital of the Confederacy
  2. The Southern states during the Civil War
  3. Union naval ships and soldiers captured Port Royal
  4. General of the Confederate
  5. A war between citizens of the same country
  6. Freed slaves
  7. Capital of the Union
  8. Former slave, freed himself and others during blockade
  9. The Union Navy cut off South's major port from trade
  10. African American unit in the Union ArmyU

20 Clues: Freed slaves • General of the Union • Capital of the Union • Confederate submarine • Capital of the Confederacy • General of the Confederate • First battle of the Civil War • Confederacy's first general officer • The Southern states during the Civil War • The Northern States during the Civil War • African American unit in the Union ArmyU • ...

Toward Civil War (use pages 448, 452, 456, 462) 2013-05-10

Toward Civil War (use pages 448, 452, 456, 462) crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a person who dies for a great cause
  2. Illinois senator
  3. brief
  4. runaway enslaved people
  5. allowing the people to decide
  6. challended the pro-slavery Whigs and Democrats
  7. unavoidable
  8. leaving
  9. the southern states
  10. storage site for weapons
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  1. control
  2. tried to sue for his freedom but the Supreme Court ruled him as "property"
  3. this preserved the balance between slave states and free states
  4. withdrawal from the Union
  5. greates cologne probably ever
  6. an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country
  7. people that crossed borders to vote in elections that were not their own
  8. a fervent abolitionist who believed God chose him to end slavery. Famous painting of him kissing a baby before being hung.
  9. Republican presidential candidate who was greatly against slavery
  10. to not vote
  11. a conflict between citizens of the same country
  12. the northern states

22 Clues: brief • control • leaving • to not vote • unavoidable • Illinois senator • the northern states • the southern states • runaway enslaved people • storage site for weapons • withdrawal from the Union • greates cologne probably ever • allowing the people to decide • a person who dies for a great cause • challended the pro-slavery Whigs and Democrats • ...

U.S History Crossword Ethan Braden 2015-10-22

U.S History Crossword Ethan Braden crossword puzzle
Across
  1. our government splits __ so no one is in complete control
  2. we were in __ after the revolutionary war
  3. Document that ended the revolutionary war giving us freedom
  4. 2 types of states in conflict
  5. people who supported the colonies
  6. colonies became __
  7. Helped our army and our first president
  8. A document saying 2 war is over and there is now peace
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  1. War that gave us freedom
  2. British government
  3. instead of states we used to have __
  4. final unalienable right that is in the declaration
  5. document people wanted after taxes were raise by our government
  6. our government wanted to give right to the __
  7. our government refuses to have a __
  8. name of our country after the war
  9. first 2 unalienable rights
  10. people who lived in the last question were called
  11. direction the new land for the states was
  12. people demanded a bill of __

20 Clues: British government • colonies became __ • War that gave us freedom • first 2 unalienable rights • people demanded a bill of __ • 2 types of states in conflict • name of our country after the war • people who supported the colonies • our government refuses to have a __ • instead of states we used to have __ • Helped our army and our first president • ...

Jacksonian Democracy 2018-01-31

Jacksonian Democracy crossword puzzle
Across
  1. senator from South Carolina jackson chose to be his vice presidential running mate
  2. a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States.
  3. He vowed "liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable"
  4. Public meetings to select the party's presidential and vice presidential candidates
  5. was secretary of state and one of Jacksons strongest allies in his official cabinet
  6. practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.
  7. Financial crisis that Jacksons plan had made but Van Burren got the blame for
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  1. Cashier of the bank's branch in Maryland that was against the second bank of the united states.
  2. Jackson's informal group of trusted advisers that would meet up in the white house kitchen.
  3. dispute between the state and federal government
  4. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
  5. American military officer, a principal contributor in the War of 1812, and the ninth President of the United States.
  6. Group that gathered together to make sure Andrew jackson would win the presidential election
  7. Group formed by Jackson's opponents
  8. an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837

15 Clues: Group formed by Jackson's opponents • dispute between the state and federal government • He vowed "liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable" • Financial crisis that Jacksons plan had made but Van Burren got the blame for • practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters. • ...

MHS VWE 2025-05-05

MHS VWE crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Leader of North Vietnam
  2. Diverse group that included liberal politicans,pacifists,student radicals
  3. For all mens ages 18 or older
  4. Coordinated attack on 36 provincial capitals
  5. Victim of the war(9 year old girl)
  6. Creation of a Harvard scientist working on weapons research
  7. Attack strategy(Tiger fighting an Elephant)
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  1. Selected by Johnson to lead efforts in Vietnam
  2. Powerful defoliant
  3. The drive to gain voting rights for young adults
  4. Leader of South Vietnam
  5. The idea if Vietnam fell to communism
  6. The South was threatened by this communist group
  7. Believed in the containment of communism,domino theory
  8. President of Ford Motor Company

15 Clues: Powerful defoliant • Leader of North Vietnam • Leader of South Vietnam • For all mens ages 18 or older • President of Ford Motor Company • Victim of the war(9 year old girl) • The idea if Vietnam fell to communism • Attack strategy(Tiger fighting an Elephant) • Coordinated attack on 36 provincial capitals • Selected by Johnson to lead efforts in Vietnam • ...

The Roaring Twenties 2024-02-19

The Roaring Twenties crossword puzzle
Across
  1. American aviation pioneers credited with making the first succesful airplane
  2. international conference called by the United States to limit the naval arms race in the 20ś
  3. an American attorney and politician who served as the 50th United States attorney general from 1919 to 1921
  4. American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition
  5. the 29th president
  6. a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups
  7. an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929
  8. the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970
  9. deregulation, civic engagement, and isolationism
  10. moral panic provoked by fear of the rise of leftist ideologies
  11. an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, he also wrote the Great Gatsby
  12. murder trial in Massachusetts
  13. a subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior
  14. a trial on weather or not evolution should be taught in schools
  15. an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935
  16. a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
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  1. limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States
  2. founder of the Ford Motor Company,and business magnate
  3. an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist
  4. legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933
  5. outlawed war as an instrument of national policy and the second called upon signatories to settle their disputes by peaceful means
  6. manufacturing process in which parts are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation
  7. an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri
  8. a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity
  9. the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century
  10. he made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris
  11. a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923

27 Clues: the 29th president • murder trial in Massachusetts • deregulation, civic engagement, and isolationism • founder of the Ford Motor Company,and business magnate • an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist • he made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris • moral panic provoked by fear of the rise of leftist ideologies • ...

The Roaring Twenties 2024-02-19

The Roaring Twenties crossword puzzle
Across
  1. American aviation pioneers credited with making the first succesful airplane
  2. international conference called by the United States to limit the naval arms race in the 20ś
  3. an American attorney and politician who served as the 50th United States attorney general from 1919 to 1921
  4. American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition
  5. the 29th president
  6. a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups
  7. an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929
  8. the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970
  9. deregulation, civic engagement, and isolationism
  10. moral panic provoked by fear of the rise of leftist ideologies
  11. an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, he also wrote the Great Gatsby
  12. murder trial in Massachusetts
  13. a subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior
  14. a trial on weather or not evolution should be taught in schools
  15. an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935
  16. a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
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  1. limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States
  2. founder of the Ford Motor Company,and business magnate
  3. an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist
  4. legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933
  5. outlawed war as an instrument of national policy and the second called upon signatories to settle their disputes by peaceful means
  6. manufacturing process in which parts are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation
  7. an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri
  8. a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity
  9. the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century
  10. he made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris
  11. a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923

27 Clues: the 29th president • murder trial in Massachusetts • deregulation, civic engagement, and isolationism • founder of the Ford Motor Company,and business magnate • an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist • he made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris • moral panic provoked by fear of the rise of leftist ideologies • ...

Federalism 2014-09-24

Federalism crossword puzzle
Across
  1. 1819 Supreme Court case that established supremacy of national government over state government
  2. powers of federal government addressed specifically in constitution, for congress powers in article 1 section 8
  3. A clause in Article IV, section 2 states citizens of each state most of the privileges of citizens of other states
  4. powers of federal government that go beyond enumerated in constitution
  5. System of government where powers and policy assignments are shared between states and national government
  6. federal grants that can be used only for specific purposes or categories of state and local spending
  7. federal grant given more or less automatically to states or communities to support broad programs I areas like community development or social service
  8. Pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in federal system
  9. organizes nation so two or more levels of government have more authority over same land and people
  10. entire set of interactions among national, state, and local governments
  11. final paragraph in Article I, Section 8 which authorizes Congress to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution
  12. federal categorical grant distributed according to a formula specified in legislation or administrative regulations
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  1. system of government where both The state & national government remain supreme within own spheres, each responsible for some policies
  2. Clause in Article IV , section. 8 of constitution requires each state to recognize official documents and civil judgements rendered by the courts of other states
  3. way of organizing nation so all powers resides in central government
  4. Article VI Of Constitution makes Constitution national law, and treaties supreme over state laws when the national government is acting within constitutional limits
  5. the powers not delegated to the U.S. By the constitution nor prohibited by it to the states reserved to states or people
  6. Case in 1824, Supreme Court interpreted Broadly the clause in Article I Section 8; giving Comgress power to regulate interstate com ever, encompassing virtually every form of commercial activity
  7. legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrenders by officials instate in which crime is alleged to have been committed

19 Clues: Pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in federal system • way of organizing nation so all powers resides in central government • powers of federal government that go beyond enumerated in constitution • entire set of interactions among national, state, and local governments • ...

Jeremy Sheppard Chapter 3 Crossword 2017-09-24

Jeremy Sheppard Chapter 3 Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. of rights / the name of the first ten amendments
  2. amendment / amendment that states you have the right to a speedy trial
  3. sovereignty / the people are the only source for any and all governmental power
  4. / division of power among a central government and several regional governments
  5. amendment / amendment that sates the bail, fines, and jail time has to be fair
  6. / government must be conducted according to constitutional principles
  7. amendment / amendment that says yu have the right to remain silent
  8. amendment / amendment that states you have the right to bear arms
  9. / the president can react a law
  10. and balances / each branch is subject to a number of constitutional checks from the other branches
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  1. of law / government and its officers, in all they do, are always subject to - never above- the law.
  2. amendment / amendment that says that the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
  3. amendment / amendment that says you have freedom of speech
  4. of powers / when the power of the government is operated with three branches
  5. review / power of a court to determine the constitutionality of governmental action
  6. amendment / amendment that states that a trial has to be over twenty dollars
  7. government / no government is all powerful
  8. amendment / amendment that says you don't have to let a solider stay in your house
  9. amendment / amendment that says that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
  10. amendment / amendment that says a police officer needs a warrant to search you or your house

20 Clues: / the president can react a law • government / no government is all powerful • of rights / the name of the first ten amendments • amendment / amendment that says you have freedom of speech • amendment / amendment that states you have the right to bear arms • amendment / amendment that says yu have the right to remain silent • ...

13th, 14th, 15th Amendment Crossword Puzzle 2022-05-06

13th, 14th, 15th Amendment Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. / The man who was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln as President after he got assassinated.
  2. / An organization set up by republicans to protect African Americans.
  3. / A clan that had goals of achieving racial segregation and white supremacy.
  4. / A war fought over Slavery between the North and the South.
  5. / The process by which the supreme court applied the bill of rights to the states, through the 14th amendment.
  6. / The first United States federal law to define equal U.S. citizenship
  7. / The enacting of laws.
  8. / To get rid of Slavery.
  9. / Northern people who traveled to the South during Reconstruction to make money
  10. / The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution.
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  1. / The person who introduced a bill that supported the abolishment of slavery.
  2. / A law issued by Abraham Lincoln that guaranteed the freedom of enslaved people from all States.
  3. / Programs that offer job training to those who've dealt with discrimination in the past.
  4. / Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits all states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
  5. / An act that allowed anyone willing to commit to a full-time job, to get employed.
  6. / Laws that kept African Americans from going about their daily lives in a normal manner.
  7. / A phrase that meant people of all races could vote.
  8. / The first ten amendments made to the constitution until it was ratified for others to be added.
  9. / A legislation that ended racial discrimination in voting.
  10. / A test of reading comprehension and writing skills that people were required to take to vote in southern states.

20 Clues: / The enacting of laws. • / To get rid of Slavery. • / A phrase that meant people of all races could vote. • / A legislation that ended racial discrimination in voting. • / A war fought over Slavery between the North and the South. • / An organization set up by republicans to protect African Americans. • ...

An Age of Democracy and Progress 2025-05-19

An Age of Democracy and Progress crossword puzzle
Across
  1. movement A popular movement arose among the workers and other groups who still could not vote to press for more rights
  2. The idea that the United States had the right and duty to rule North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
  3. as Europeans later called the native peoples.
  4. declaring that all slaves in the Confederate states were free.
  5. became a battleground for these opposing forces
  6. a line of workers who each put a single piece on unfinished cars as they passed on a moving belt.
  7. A machine that sent messages instantly over wires.
  8. an unofficial military force seeking independence for Ireland, staged a series of attacks against British officials in Ireland.
  9. a conflict between the United States (the "Union") and the Confederate States of America, formed by Southern states that seceded over issues like slavery and states' rights.
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  1. or prejudice against Jews, also played a role in this scandal.
  2. Darwin’s idea of change through natural selection
  3. a Polynesian people who had settled in New Zealand around AD 800.
  4. The figure who presided over all this historic change
  5. President who had promised to stop the spread of slavery.
  6. Canada was self-governing in domestic affairs but remained part of the British Empire.
  7. the right to vote
  8. A greater number of Irish
  9. was a place where convicts were sent to serve their sentences
  10. The long history of exile and persecution convinced them to work to reestablish their ancient homeland
  11. France remained divided
  12. withdraw, from the Union
  13. scientific idea of modern times aroused more controversy than the work of English naturalist

22 Clues: the right to vote • France remained divided • withdraw, from the Union • A greater number of Irish • as Europeans later called the native peoples. • became a battleground for these opposing forces • Darwin’s idea of change through natural selection • A machine that sent messages instantly over wires. • The figure who presided over all this historic change • ...

Westward Expansion 2026-04-01

Westward Expansion crossword puzzle
Across
  1. fear or hatred of immigrants
  2. agreement that ended the U.S.-Mexican War
  3. nation that lost about half its territory to the United States in 1848
  4. location where gold was first discovered in California
  5. land the US acquired in 1848 through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, including present-day California, Nevada, and parts of other western states
  6. land bought from Mexico in 1853 to complete the continental United States
  7. route taken by religious settlers to Utah
  8. a historic route used by pioneers traveling westward to settle new territories, stretching approximately 2,000 miles from Missouri to Oregon
  9. 1787 law that organized the settlement of western territories and their path to statehood
  10. Mexico claimed this as Texas’ southern border
  11. conflict between 1846-1848 that began over boundary disputes
  12. 1803 land purchase from France that doubled the size of the United States
  13. overcrowding of cities, economic depressions, religious persecution
  14. system that connected the east and west coasts
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  1. country that jointly controlled Oregon Territory with the U.S. until 1846
  2. won the presidential election of 1844 by promising the American people he would achieve Manifest Destiny
  3. territory acquired from Spain in 1819
  4. mass migration of people seeking fortune, starting in 1848
  5. inexpensive farmland, discovery of gold, adventure
  6. the belief that the United States had a divine right to expand across North America
  7. a busy trade route and stagecoach line for travel to the west; used by military to haul materials
  8. the official border between Texas and Mexico after the U.S.-Mexican War
  9. European country that controlled Florida before the U.S.
  10. group that faced discrimination while seeking gold in California
  11. 1845 addition to the United States

25 Clues: fear or hatred of immigrants • 1845 addition to the United States • territory acquired from Spain in 1819 • agreement that ended the U.S.-Mexican War • route taken by religious settlers to Utah • Mexico claimed this as Texas’ southern border • system that connected the east and west coasts • inexpensive farmland, discovery of gold, adventure • ...

Module 3 - Logic and Proof 2024-09-12

Module 3 - Logic and Proof crossword puzzle
Across
  1. compound statement with or
  2. a line that intersects two or more lines at different points
  3. any sentence that is either true or false
  4. statement with hypothesis and conclusion
  5. compound statement with and
  6. used to disprove a conjecture
  7. law that states if a implies b and b implies c, then a implies c
  8. the opposite meaning of a statement
  9. the truth or falsity of a statement
  10. formed by exchanging the hypothesis and conclusion
  11. formed by exchanging and negating the hypothesis and conclusion
  12. law that says is the hypothesis is true then the conclusion must be true
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  1. in a conditional it follows if
  2. if and only if statement
  3. property that states if A = B and B = C, then A = C
  4. property that states that A = A
  5. when you replace a statement with something it is equal to
  6. in a conditional it follows then
  7. educated guess
  8. reasoning based on rules or definitions
  9. reasoning based on observed pattern
  10. two or more statements joined by "and" or "or"
  11. property that states if A = B, the B = A
  12. formed by negating hypothesis and conclusion
  13. a logical argument in which each statement is supported by a true statement

25 Clues: educated guess • if and only if statement • compound statement with or • compound statement with and • used to disprove a conjecture • in a conditional it follows if • property that states that A = A • in a conditional it follows then • reasoning based on observed pattern • the opposite meaning of a statement • the truth or falsity of a statement • ...

American Revolution 2014-10-09

American Revolution crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A man who was born in 1742 at Anson County, North Carolina, was an officer of the Georgia Militia and hero in the American Revolutionary War. He fought in the southern theater and in the Battle of Kettle Creek.
  2. arrived in America as an indentured servant and rose to become a wealthy merchant and landowner. He was a leader in Georgia of the American Revolution (1775-83) and helped write Georgia's first constitution. In 1777 he became Georgia's first elected governor. Treutlen County, in central Georgia, is named in his honor.
  3. Battle on February 14, 1779 during the Revolutionary War. A patriot militia defeated a loyalist militia fought in Wilkes County.
  4. was a British-born American political leader who, as a representative of Georgia to the Continental Congress, was the second of the signatories on the United States Declaration of Independence.
  5. A law that taxed every piece of paper the colonists used, and required them to get a stamp on it.
  6. a document signed amongst the 13 original colonies that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
  7. Lived 1735 – 1830 and was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War noted for her whose exploits against Loyalists in the Georgia backcountry.
  8. Another Name for The French and Indian War
  9. was a slave who fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War. He was born a mulatto slave in Wake County, North Carolina, sometime in the 1760s.
  10. Those who were loyal to the Americans
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  1. An agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
  2. Those who were loyal England
  3. Lived June 8, 1748 – July 16, 1828 was an American politician and a farmer, and a businessman and a Founding Fatherof the United States. He represented the U.S. state of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention.
  4. The Document that was signed in 1776 to made the British Colonies into a separate country.
  5. A series of acts passed by British Parliament to punish the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party.
  6. He was a physician, clergyman, and statesman, and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia. Hall County is named after him.
  7. Born in Virginia and lived 1749 – February 2, 1804 signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia and also served as the second Chief Executive of Georgia.
  8. Taking place on October 19, 1781 was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.
  9. Lived November 22, 1754 – March 4, 1807 was an American politician, Patriot, and Founding Father from the U.S. state of Georgia. was a Georgia representative in the Continental Congress and served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate after the adoption of the Constitution.
  10. A encounter of the Revolutionary war, in which the Americans and French allies tried to take back this coastal city in Georgia from the British.

20 Clues: Those who were loyal England • Those who were loyal to the Americans • Another Name for The French and Indian War • The Document that was signed in 1776 to made the British Colonies into a separate country. • A law that taxed every piece of paper the colonists used, and required them to get a stamp on it. • ...

Unit 7 Crossword 2022-01-22

Unit 7 Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. was put in place to end The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War.
  2. Political system where both the national and state governments share power.
  3. What did Texas do in 1861?
  4. was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?
  5. Laws that were imposed on freedmen that limited the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments didn't allow them to vote, have weapons or testify against white men.
  6. allows governments to Grant pardons, override vetoes and declare laws as unconstitutional.
  7. The day the end of slavery was officially announced in Texas.
  8. Southern states were mainly _____, this was an economic influence on the causes of the Civil War.
  9. government in which representatives are chosen.
  10. African-Americans were viewed as ____ in the confederate states' Constitution.
  11. protected the voting rights of African American men.
  12. this led to shortages of food, medicine, weapons and ammunition.
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  1. German immigrants’ supported freeing slaves.
  2. ended the institution of slavery.
  3. Northern states were mainly _____, this was an economic influence on the causes of the Civil War.
  4. At the beginning of ____ southern states currency had little to no value, homes and land were destroyed, and food prices were high.
  5. This freedom allows people to publish their opinions and information without the government stopping them. This may be through any type of media including the newspaper, radio, and TV.
  6. One reason Texas joined the Confederacy was
  7. A Major Source of Revenue for state and Local Governments along with Sales tax, bonds and fees.
  8. The level of government that collect taxes oversee and administer law enforcement, oversee elections and provide services to rural populations.
  9. the Battle of Galveston led to the loss of a key ____ for supplies to come in and out.

21 Clues: What did Texas do in 1861? • ended the institution of slavery. • One reason Texas joined the Confederacy was • German immigrants’ supported freeing slaves. • government in which representatives are chosen. • protected the voting rights of African American men. • was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system? • ...

The Jackson Era Crossword Puzzle 2026-02-09

The Jackson Era Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
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  1. Andrew Jackson's nickname because people thought he was strong and tough like a hickory tree.
  2. The right to vote in elections
  3. A law passed in 1830 that forced Native Americans to move west.
  4. Andrew Jackson's wife, who was often criticized during his campaigns.
  5. Giving government jobs to friends and supporters after winning an election
  6. State banks chosen by Andrew Jackson to hold government money after he closed the national bank
  7. When a state decides to leave the United States.
  8. People chosen to represent other
  9. The president of the Second Bank of the United States who fought against Andrew Jackson.
  10. A Cherokee leader who created a written alphabet for the Cherokee language.
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  1. The 1824 election deal where John Quincy Adams became president after making a political agreement.
  2. The idea that a state can cancel a federal law
  3. The deadly journey Native Americans were forced to take to Indian Territory.
  4. The long serving chief of justice who strengthened the power of the federal government
  5. Andrew Jackson's vice president who supported states' rights and nullification.
  6. A political party formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and his policies.
  7. A major economic depression that caused many banks and businesses to fail.
  8. The belief that individual states have more power than the federal government.
  9. A Native American tribe that lived in the southeastern United States and was forced to move west

19 Clues: The right to vote in elections • People chosen to represent other • The idea that a state can cancel a federal law • When a state decides to leave the United States. • A law passed in 1830 that forced Native Americans to move west. • A political party formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and his policies. • ...

Wrigley 1st Hour 2023-03-06

Wrigley 1st Hour crossword puzzle
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  1. person killed because of their beliefs
  2. Person who wants to stop slavery
  3. 1st State Governor of Kansas
  4. crop produced for commercial value
  5. made missouri a slave state
  6. first skirmish between slave and free states
  7. states with slavery
  8. repealed missouri compromise
  9. sixteenth president
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  1. going against the laws of your country
  2. Hung for treason
  3. Gave the name Bleeding Kansas
  4. war between the north and the south
  5. territorial and economic expansion
  6. First territorial governor
  7. remove a congregational act or law
  8. Taking towns or buildings from your enemy
  9. to commit a crime against your country
  10. person who has escaped or is hiding
  11. name gave to all of the wars happening in kansas
  12. states without slavery

21 Clues: Hung for treason • states with slavery • sixteenth president • states without slavery • First territorial governor • made missouri a slave state • 1st State Governor of Kansas • repealed missouri compromise • Gave the name Bleeding Kansas • Person who wants to stop slavery • territorial and economic expansion • crop produced for commercial value • remove a congregational act or law • ...

Review Crossword Puzzle 2023-11-28

Review Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
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  1. voting to agree
  2. first constitution
  3. Cadastral Survey and a plan to add states to the union
  4. declared war against great britain over impressment
  5. Battle of january 8, 1815
  6. violent uprising in Massachusetts
  7. right to job but the job was void.
  8. Bicameral, Upper house, lower house
  9. How to decide if it was constitutional
  10. disagreed with the constitution
  11. national anthem of the United States
  12. meeting about the articles of confederation
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  1. Land deal with United states and France
  2. Napoleon is trying to conquer everything
  3. an action to begin a riot
  4. to urge new yorks to approve the us constitution
  5. failed bombardment
  6. force american sailors to fight
  7. helped lewis and clark
  8. 1st 10 amendments

20 Clues: voting to agree • 1st 10 amendments • first constitution • failed bombardment • helped lewis and clark • an action to begin a riot • Battle of january 8, 1815 • force american sailors to fight • disagreed with the constitution • violent uprising in Massachusetts • right to job but the job was void. • Bicameral, Upper house, lower house • national anthem of the United States • ...

Crossword Review 2023-11-30

Crossword Review crossword puzzle
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  1. to urge new yorks to approve the us constitution
  2. Napoleon is trying to conquer everything
  3. Battle of january 8, 1815
  4. Bicameral, Upper house, lower house
  5. How to decide if it was constitutional
  6. voting to agree
  7. disagreed with the constitution
  8. Cadastral Survey and a plan to add states to the union
  9. violent uprising in massachusetts
  10. about the articles of confederation
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  1. an action to begin a riot
  2. first constitution
  3. helped lewis and clark
  4. national anthem of the United States
  5. failed bombardment
  6. 1st 10 amendments
  7. force american sailors to fight
  8. Land deal with United states and France
  9. right to job but the job was void.
  10. declared war against great britain over impressment

20 Clues: voting to agree • 1st 10 amendments • first constitution • failed bombardment • helped lewis and clark • an action to begin a riot • Battle of january 8, 1815 • disagreed with the constitution • force american sailors to fight • violent uprising in massachusetts • right to job but the job was void. • Bicameral, Upper house, lower house • about the articles of confederation • ...

learning contract #2 2021-10-18

learning contract #2 crossword puzzle
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  1. - The act of making unjustified distinctions between people.
  2. - An effort to reunify the divided nation.
  3. - Prohibited the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote.
  4. - An American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
  5. - 23rd quadrennial presidential election.
  6. - Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War.
  7. - An American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
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  1. - State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  2. - Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
  3. - An American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States.
  4. - Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
  5. - First United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
  6. - Setting someone or something apart from other people or things.
  7. - An unwritten agreement after the American Civil War.

14 Clues: - 23rd quadrennial presidential election. • - An effort to reunify the divided nation. • - An unwritten agreement after the American Civil War. • - The act of making unjustified distinctions between people. • - Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. • - Setting someone or something apart from other people or things. • ...

American Government Crossword. Ian Johnson 2019-08-30

American Government Crossword. Ian Johnson crossword puzzle
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  1. ruled by the people
  2. An article added to the US Constitution
  3. to formally withdraw from a nation-state
  4. System of government where power is divided between national and state government
  5. a system of government in which sovereign states delegate power to a central government for specific purposes.
  6. a system in which power is divided between the federal and state governments in clearly defined terms, with state governments exercising those powers accorded to them without interference from the federal government
  7. this clause required states to return runaway slaves
  8. Review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act.
  9. authority of the president to block legislation
  10. broad coalitions of interests organized to win elections
  11. this clause gives congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper
  12. a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
  13. these are specific rights reserved to the states
  14. a power that may be exercised by the head of state without the approval of another branch of the government.
  15. structure of government where each branch of govt. share power and holds some power over the other
  16. A document that establishes the rules of governing a society
  17. the process of invalidating something
  18. powers expressly granted to congress by the constitution
  19. compromise over slavery that said the slaves were worth the vote 3/5 of a Caucasian man
  20. a method for the selection of judges created in Missouri, 1940
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  1. this clause states that the constitution trumps all state laws
  2. The clause states that the United States Congress shall have power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
  3. powers not expressly granted by Congress but understood
  4. a compromise providing the states with proportional representation in the House of Representatives.
  5. government structure where power is dived among 3 branches
  6. gives congress the power to tax to provide for the general welfare
  7. meeting in 1787 where an entirely new constitution was proposed
  8. 1819 Supreme Court decision upholding the right of congress to create a bank. (hint: use "vs" for versus)
  9. is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly.
  10. a system where a sovereign state is governed as a single entity.

30 Clues: ruled by the people • the process of invalidating something • An article added to the US Constitution • to formally withdraw from a nation-state • authority of the president to block legislation • these are specific rights reserved to the states • this clause required states to return runaway slaves • powers not expressly granted by Congress but understood • ...

Roaring 20s Vocabulary 2017-05-02

Roaring 20s Vocabulary crossword puzzle
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  1. A totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production
  2. A particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
  3. Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster
  4. A bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922,
  5. Borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock.
  6. Gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion
  7. A generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
  8. 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921, until his death in 1923
  9. A person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power.
  10. The 30th President of the United States
  11. The movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
  12. Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution;
  13. High school teacher John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man.
  14. An illicit liquor store or nightclub.
  15. An American aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
  16. A condition in which securities prices fall and widespread pessimism causes the stock market's downward spiral to be self-sustaining.
  17. To make, sell, or transport (alcoholic liquor) for sale illegally.
  18. Believe that the statements in the Bible are literally true.
  19. A Jamaican black-rights activist and loyal leader of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements.
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  1. The natural rise and fall of economic growth that occurs over time.
  2. a law restricting the number of new immigrants to the United States.
  3. A system for paying for goods by installments. installment plan, time plan · regular payment - a payment made at regular times.
  4. A twentieth-century American author known for his short stories and for his novels, including The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise.
  5. The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920.
  6. The United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol
  7. A cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
  8. The way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920.
  9. An American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.
  10. A financial market of a group of securities in which prices are rising or are expected to rise.
  11. An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

30 Clues: An illicit liquor store or nightclub. • The 30th President of the United States • Borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock. • Believe that the statements in the Bible are literally true. • To make, sell, or transport (alcoholic liquor) for sale illegally. • The natural rise and fall of economic growth that occurs over time. • ...

Jose Sandoval 1 2017-11-30

Jose Sandoval 1 crossword puzzle
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  1. calendar systems
  2. gods controlled everything that happened on earth
  3. and priests: assisted kings in governing the city-states
  4. below them were
  5. maya rules
  6. fields of corn and other crops and built cities under government direction
  7. the maya set up more than 50 independent
  8. an area where the soil has collapsed into a hollow or depression
  9. and streams: sinkholes gave the maya access to a network of underground
  10. major calendars
  11. at least two women served as ruling
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  1. projects: people of this paid taxes and worked on large
  2. system: the maya city-states had a strict
  3. when the maya
  4. ceremonies to please the gods
  5. sometimes included human sacrifice
  6. who built the city
  7. for advice: maya rulers turned to
  8. each maya city-state was ruled by
  9. forested areas clear together

20 Clues: maya rules • when the maya • below them were • major calendars • calendar systems • who built the city • ceremonies to please the gods • forested areas clear together • for advice: maya rulers turned to • each maya city-state was ruled by • sometimes included human sacrifice • at least two women served as ruling • the maya set up more than 50 independent • ...

civil war 2023-03-16

civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. 13,200 soliders
  2. freed
  3. the belief that race determines human traits and capacties
  4. robert e lee surrender
  5. people who go to union ships and move trade in and out of harbors
  6. united states
  7. protecting homeland and their way of life
  8. to do away with
  9. had a larger population
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  1. kentucky, delaware, missouri,mississippi allowed slavery but didn't left the union
  2. all slaves in confederate states would be _____
  3. General Winfield Scott developed a plan
  4. most soldiers considered a _____ rank
  5. first battle of the american civil war
  6. rank lowered
  7. won the election of 1860
  8. an act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving
  9. union gained support of ____ states
  10. leaving
  11. people who opposed slavery

20 Clues: freed • leaving • rank lowered • united states • 13,200 soliders • to do away with • robert e lee surrender • had a larger population • won the election of 1860 • people who opposed slavery • union gained support of ____ states • most soldiers considered a _____ rank • first battle of the american civil war • General Winfield Scott developed a plan • ...

4th of July 2024-07-02

4th of July crossword puzzle
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  1. Public procession that might occur on the July Fourth.
  2. Month in 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
  3. National Bird of the United States
  4. City in which the Declaration of Independence was signed.
  5. Cooking outdoors on a grill
  6. American President who was born July 4th, Calvin____
  7. Nickname for the American flag, stars and ____
  8. Fight for American independence : The ____ War.
  9. Famous signer of the Declaration of Independence: John _____.
  10. Symbol of Freedom located in the New York Harbor: Statue of ____.
  11. Commonly consumed food on July 4th
  12. Founding document of the United States: The Declaration of ____.
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  1. Red, White and ____.
  2. Light show often seen on the 4th of July
  3. Patriotic song: Yankee ___.
  4. Founding father and third President of the United States.
  5. The day of the Month on which American declared its independence
  6. Open air meal popular on July Fourth
  7. First President of the United States.
  8. Number of original colonies that declared independence
  9. National Anthem: The Star-Spangled ____.

21 Clues: Red, White and ____. • Patriotic song: Yankee ___. • Cooking outdoors on a grill • National Bird of the United States • Commonly consumed food on July 4th • Open air meal popular on July Fourth • First President of the United States. • Light show often seen on the 4th of July • National Anthem: The Star-Spangled ____. • Nickname for the American flag, stars and ____ • ...

4th of July 2024-07-02

4th of July crossword puzzle
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  1. Public procession that might occur on the July Fourth.
  2. Month in 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
  3. National Bird of the United States
  4. City in which the Declaration of Independence was signed.
  5. Cooking outdoors on a grill
  6. American President who was born July 4th, Calvin____
  7. Nickname for the American flag, stars and ____
  8. Fight for American independence : The ____ War.
  9. Famous signer of the Declaration of Independence: John _____.
  10. Symbol of Freedom located in the New York Harbor: Statue of ____.
  11. Commonly consumed food on July 4th
  12. Founding document of the United States: The Declaration of ____.
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  1. Red, White and ____.
  2. Light show often seen on the 4th of July
  3. Patriotic song: Yankee ___.
  4. Founding father and third President of the United States.
  5. The day of the Month on which American declared its independence
  6. Open air meal popular on July Fourth
  7. First President of the United States.
  8. Number of original colonies that declared independence
  9. National Anthem: The Star-Spangled ____.

21 Clues: Red, White and ____. • Patriotic song: Yankee ___. • Cooking outdoors on a grill • National Bird of the United States • Commonly consumed food on July 4th • Open air meal popular on July Fourth • First President of the United States. • Light show often seen on the 4th of July • National Anthem: The Star-Spangled ____. • Nickname for the American flag, stars and ____ • ...

Unit 5 new nations 2023-12-04

Unit 5 new nations crossword puzzle
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  1. to loose friendships of states
  2. large states wanted votes to be proportional to how many people you had in each state
  3. equal representation where state gets 1 vote
  4. voting for people who represent us in government
  5. 5/3 counted towards the population
  6. enforces laws
  7. where states with large populations have more votes
  8. together both groups pass laws
  9. the branches make sure that they’re not too strong
  10. the first constitution signed by the u.s.
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  1. they wanted a weak central government
  2. representatives from each state call delegates met together in Philadelphia to come up with a new constitution
  3. a ruler with total control
  4. a rule book for what the government can and can’t do
  5. power to govern yourself
  6. small states wanted to be equal and to only get 1 vote when passing laws
  7. judges the laws to make sure they’re fair
  8. they wanted a very strong central government
  9. signed and agreed on
  10. changes

20 Clues: changes • enforces laws • signed and agreed on • power to govern yourself • a ruler with total control • to loose friendships of states • together both groups pass laws • 5/3 counted towards the population • they wanted a weak central government • judges the laws to make sure they’re fair • the first constitution signed by the u.s. • equal representation where state gets 1 vote • ...

Chapter 4 | Our Puzzling Government 2022-11-18

Chapter 4 | Our Puzzling Government crossword puzzle
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  1. The principal way in which states may do this is to negotiate
  2. course of action a government takes in response to some issue or problem
  3. reserved powers strictly to the states
  4. laws relating to disputes between individuals, groups, or with the state
  5. every portion of every meeting of an agency shall be open to public observation
  6. powers directly expressed or stated in the Constitution by the Founders
  7. A government tax on peoples incomes
  8. return to a state
  9. the Constitution makes the acts and treaties of the United States supreme
  10. periodic checks of government agencies to see if they are still needed
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  1. organization of government administrators
  2. a requirement set by Congress that prohibits a local or state government from exercising a certain power
  3. the power to assume responsibility for a state government function, in order to gain authority over a state
  4. powers the Constitution grants or delegates to the national government
  5. mandates that take away the ability of state and local governments to make their own policies
  6. powers that the national government may exercise simply because it is a government
  7. favors state and local action in dealing with problems
  8. powers that both the national government and the states have
  9. favors national action
  10. forbidding racial discrimination in public accommodations such as hotels and restaurants
  11. a federal order requiring states to provide a service
  12. powers that are expressly defined in the Constitution
  13. sums of money given to state or local governments to be spent for a variety of specific purposes
  14. enables the people of the territory interested in becoming a state to prepare a constitution
  15. allows the powers of Congress to stretch

25 Clues: return to a state • favors national action • A government tax on peoples incomes • reserved powers strictly to the states • allows the powers of Congress to stretch • organization of government administrators • a federal order requiring states to provide a service • powers that are expressly defined in the Constitution • ...

Unit IV Vocabulary Leandro Montarroyos 2020-11-29

Unit IV Vocabulary Leandro Montarroyos crossword puzzle
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  1. Black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion
  2. 7th U.S. President
  3. landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional
  4. series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans
  5. Transcontinental Treaty
  6. the 11th president of the United States
  7. from 1846 to 1848.
  8. also known as the Dallas Tariff
  9. Americans went to the polls in the fall of 1824.
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  1. region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854
  2. used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid 1800s to emigrate west.
  3. American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States
  4. "Father of Texas"
  5. Peace treaty Between USA and Mexico
  6. federal legislation that admitted Maine to the United States as a free state
  7. admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845
  8. machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation
  9. known for inventing the cotton gin
  10. the 15th presidential election
  11. unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War

20 Clues: "Father of Texas" • 7th U.S. President • from 1846 to 1848. • Transcontinental Treaty • the 15th presidential election • also known as the Dallas Tariff • known for inventing the cotton gin • Peace treaty Between USA and Mexico • the 11th president of the United States • Americans went to the polls in the fall of 1824. • ...

Westward Expansion 2025-04-08

Westward Expansion crossword puzzle
Across
  1. fear or hatred of immigrants
  2. mass migration of people seeking fortune, starting in 1848
  3. land the US acquired in 1848 through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, including present-day California, Nevada, and parts of other western states
  4. land bought from Mexico in 1853 to complete the continental United States
  5. European country that controlled Florida before the U.S.
  6. nation that lost about half its territory to the United States in 1848
  7. 1787 law that organized the settlement of western territories and their path to statehood
  8. territory acquired from Spain in 1819
  9. group that faced discrimination while seeking gold in California
  10. a busy trade route and stagecoach line for travel to the west; used by military to haul materials
  11. conflict between 1846-1848 that began over boundary disputes
  12. country that jointly controlled Oregon Territory with the U.S. until 1846
  13. agreement that ended the U.S.-Mexican War
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  1. the belief that the United States had a divine right to expand across North America
  2. 1845 addition to the United States
  3. 1803 land purchase from France that doubled the size of the United States
  4. inexpensive farmland, discovery of gold, adventure
  5. location where gold was first discovered in California
  6. Mexico claimed this as Texas’ southern border
  7. system that connected the east and west coasts
  8. a historic route used by pioneers traveling westward to settle new territories, stretching approximately 2,000 miles from Missouri to Oregon
  9. route taken by religious settlers to Utah
  10. the official border between Texas and Mexico after the U.S.-Mexican War
  11. overcrowding of cities, economic depressions, religious persecution
  12. won the presidential election of 1844 by promising the American people he would achieve Manifest Destiny

25 Clues: fear or hatred of immigrants • 1845 addition to the United States • territory acquired from Spain in 1819 • route taken by religious settlers to Utah • agreement that ended the U.S.-Mexican War • Mexico claimed this as Texas’ southern border • system that connected the east and west coasts • inexpensive farmland, discovery of gold, adventure • ...

Unit 5- Triple Box Vocabulary 2018-01-10

Unit 5- Triple Box Vocabulary crossword puzzle
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  1. Hawks-The Twelfth Congress that met from 1811 to 1813 included a number of young and outspoken members who were foes of Great Britain and supporters of expansion by the United States.
  2. pride in one nation.
  3. and Sedition Acts-The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed by the Federalist-dominated 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798.
  4. Proclamation-The Proclamation of Neutrality was a formal announcement issued by U.S. President George Washington on April 22, 1793 that declared the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain.
  5. vs Madison-An 1803 court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that it had the power to decide whether law passed the Congress.
  6. review-Power of the Supreme Court to decide if laws are carried out fairly.
  7. and Clark-The Lewis and Clark Expedition from May 1804 to September 1806, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition.
  8. for others to follow.
  9. Treaty -The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation , between his britannic majesty and the United States Of America Neutrality Proclamation
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  1. Treaty-The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, the Florida Purchase Treaty, or the Florida Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819.
  2. Act of 1789 -A 1789 law created the structure of the Supreme Court and set up a system of district.
  3. by forcing people into military service
  4. Doctrine-President Monroe foreign policy statement warning European nation not to interfere in Latin American.
  5. to a state or section rather than to the whole country sedition stirring up rebellion against a government.
  6. Rebellion -The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791.
  7. rights-The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
  8. and Virginia resolutions-The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (or Resolves) were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1800.state’s rights
  9. of New Orleans-The Battle of New Orleans was a series of engagements fought between December 14, 1814 and January 18, 1815, constituting the last major battle of the War of 1812.
  10. Affair-The XYZ Affair was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France.
  11. Purchase-Vast territory between the Mississippi River and Rocky Mountain purchased from France in 1803.
  12. Act-Ban on trade.
  13. policy-Actions that a nation takes in relation to other nations.
  14. of Greenville-The Treaty of Greenville was signed on August 3, 1795, at Fort Greenville, now Greenville, Ohio; it followed negotiations after the Native American loss at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
  15. Marshall-John Marshall was an American politician. He was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States.

24 Clues: Act-Ban on trade. • pride in one nation. • for others to follow. • by forcing people into military service • policy-Actions that a nation takes in relation to other nations. • review-Power of the Supreme Court to decide if laws are carried out fairly. • Rebellion -The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791. • ...

Westward Expansion 2016-10-28

Westward Expansion crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The United States 11th President.
  2. Man Slogan that represents the Manifest Destiny
  3. 1836 battle between Mexico and Texas. With a real catchy slogan
  4. A war from 1835-1846 fought by Texas and Mexico for Texas's independence.
  5. Agreement between the United States and France for the west lands. This occurred in 1803, and the United States got 800,000 square miles of land for $15 million.
  6. A term often used to describe the spread of the United States going from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.
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  1. Peace treaty that ended the Mexican War. Which in turn gave the United States the Southwestern states.
  2. Events or conditions that lead people to move else where.
  3. When Mexico gave up what is now the southwestern states to avoid possible annexation of the country.
  4. Was a movement that brought settlers West to California in search for gold.
  5. Commonly known as the Mexican-American War.
  6. Purchase between the United States and Mexico back in 1853 for Southern Arizona and New Mexico for $10 million.

12 Clues: The United States 11th President. • Commonly known as the Mexican-American War. • Man Slogan that represents the Manifest Destiny • Events or conditions that lead people to move else where. • 1836 battle between Mexico and Texas. With a real catchy slogan • A war from 1835-1846 fought by Texas and Mexico for Texas's independence. • ...

Westward Expansion 2016-10-28

Westward Expansion crossword puzzle
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  1. Commonly known as the Mexican-American War.
  2. A term often used to describe the spread of the United States going from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.
  3. Peace treaty that ended the Mexican War. Which in turn gave the United States the Southwestern states.
  4. Man Slogan that represents the Manifest Destiny
  5. Purchase between the United States and Mexico back in 1853 for Southern Arizona and New Mexico for $10 million.
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  1. Agreement between the United States and France for the west lands. This occurred in 1803, and the United States got 800,000 square miles of land for $15 million.
  2. Events or conditions that lead people to move else where.
  3. A war from 1835-1846 fought by Texas and Mexico for Texas's independence.
  4. 1836 battle between Mexico and Texas. With a real catchy slogan
  5. The United States 11th President.
  6. Was a movement that brought settlers West to California in search for gold.
  7. When Mexico gave up what is now the southwestern states to avoid possible annexation of the country.

12 Clues: The United States 11th President. • Commonly known as the Mexican-American War. • Man Slogan that represents the Manifest Destiny • Events or conditions that lead people to move else where. • 1836 battle between Mexico and Texas. With a real catchy slogan • A war from 1835-1846 fought by Texas and Mexico for Texas's independence. • ...

MCAP FREE TIME CROSSWORD 2025-04-30

MCAP FREE TIME CROSSWORD crossword puzzle
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  1. WKMS raffle tickets
  2. Mr. _________ can fix your incorrect password
  3. "marrón" in Spanish... and she teaches it!
  4. get a PAWSitive one - not a real one
  5. science or engineering?
  6. WKMS school colors black and _________
  7. LeBron or front office
  8. Morales Spiderman
  9. never have them for class but they're always on the floor
  10. required state testing acronym
  11. DC NHL team
  12. student to teacher: "Can you pull me?"
  13. keep your stuff secure here
  14. trendy overpriced water bottle
  15. WKMS principal
  16. school device
  17. might be her "street" name
  18. Baltimore MLB team
  19. on the beat... or a hotdog
  20. Mr. ________ loves his Philadelphia Eagles
  21. don't wear these in P.E.
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  1. cell phones are off and ____________
  2. WKMS's biggest Caps fan
  3. school transportation
  4. go to this room if you have a boo-boo
  5. Australian Blue Heeler on Disney+
  6. WKMS mascot
  7. there are two of them in the building
  8. lunchtime location
  9. Mrs. _________ can help coach you on a career
  10. DC NFL team
  11. minecraft:_________ jockey
  12. Mr. __________ should own a tattoo shop
  13. queen of birdhouse construction
  14. check your grades
  15. Baltimore NFL team
  16. Mrs. McCadney's favorite animal
  17. MathCounts Co-Coach

38 Clues: WKMS mascot • DC NFL team • DC NHL team • school device • WKMS principal • Morales Spiderman • check your grades • lunchtime location • Baltimore NFL team • Baltimore MLB team • WKMS raffle tickets • MathCounts Co-Coach • school transportation • LeBron or front office • WKMS's biggest Caps fan • science or engineering? • don't wear these in P.E. • minecraft:_________ jockey • ...

Legislative Branch 2014-11-12

Legislative Branch crossword puzzle
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  1. The General Assembly meets annually for a ___ number of days.
  2. Protecting public safety and collected taxes is a ___ power because they are shared power between the levels.
  3. The legislative branch approves federal ___.
  4. A ____ leads the state.
  5. The ___ branch has the power of impeachment.
  6. The legislative branch ___ appointments.
  7. Congress approves a ___ every year.
  8. The ____ Amendment reserves powers for the states.
  9. States are able to make ____ under the Constitution
  10. The chief executive of a city.
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  1. Congress is made up of the House of ___ and the Senate
  2. Establishing __ departments is an example of powers from the local government.
  3. These powers are written in the Constitution.
  4. Local governments have to create a budget every ___.
  5. Expressed powers include the ability to ___ money, regulate trade and declare war.
  6. Expressed powers are written in the ___.
  7. Congress and the General Assembly are both ___.
  8. The division of power between the national and state government.
  9. Counties have both an __ Board of Supervisors and School Board.
  10. The Board of Supervisors makes laws for the ___.
  11. States have __ powers under the 10th Amendment.
  12. Powers ___ given to the national government are reserved for the states.
  13. Congress makes ___ laws.

23 Clues: A ____ leads the state. • Congress makes ___ laws. • The chief executive of a city. • Congress approves a ___ every year. • Expressed powers are written in the ___. • The legislative branch ___ appointments. • The legislative branch approves federal ___. • The ___ branch has the power of impeachment. • These powers are written in the Constitution. • ...

Forming a Governemnt 2021-01-14

Forming a Governemnt crossword puzzle
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  1. A document signed that made the king subject to law
  2. Divides the powers of government between a central government and the states that make it up
  3. People who opposed the constitution
  4. Ten proposed amendments intended to protect citizens' rights
  5. led hundreds of men in a forced shutdown of the supreme court
  6. Set of basics and laws that states powers and duties of government
  7. Political authority is in the nads of the people
  8. Gave each state equal number of votes in the federal government
  9. Official approval
  10. The right to vote
  11. Essays supporting the constitution
  12. Give sovereignty to the central government
  13. Proposing and passing laws
  14. Trade between two or more states
  15. System for bringing new states into the union
Down
  1. No branch gets too powerful
  2. Uprising of farmers to protest high taxes and heavy debt
  3. Taxes on imports or exports
  4. Seven articles that made the first central government
  5. Two-house legislature
  6. Increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money
  7. A period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment
  8. Interpreting laws
  9. Laws are carried out
  10. Official changes to the constitution

25 Clues: Official approval • The right to vote • Interpreting laws • Laws are carried out • Two-house legislature • Proposing and passing laws • No branch gets too powerful • Taxes on imports or exports • Trade between two or more states • Essays supporting the constitution • People who opposed the constitution • Official changes to the constitution • ...

Murphy Choice Board 2023-12-08

Murphy Choice Board crossword puzzle
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  1. When did the United States and North Vietnam decide to cease fire?
  2. When did the Berlin Wall fall?
  3. How many people fled from East Berlin before the wall was built to go to West Berlin?
  4. Who was the Soviet leader that was responsible for placing nuclear wepons in Cuba and aiming them at the United states?
  5. The United States and Soviet Union competed with one another for political influence and military power.
  6. What is an area of extreme tension called?
  7. A wall built to stop East Berliners from coming to the West
  8. A country split in two by a 103 mile long wall.
  9. An imaginary line across Europe
  10. Who won the Space Race?
  11. A competition for science superiority between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  12. Who took over Cuba in 1959 during the Rusian Revolution?
  13. Who won the Korean War?
Down
  1. When did the Cold War end?
  2. What year were East and West Berlin established?
  3. A nuclear war where no shots were fired
  4. A project to deliver goods to Berlin
  5. A country with large amounts of power
  6. What is the abreviation for the National Atlantic Treaty Organiazation
  7. Who built the Berlin wall?

20 Clues: Who won the Space Race? • Who won the Korean War? • When did the Cold War end? • Who built the Berlin wall? • When did the Berlin Wall fall? • An imaginary line across Europe • A project to deliver goods to Berlin • A country with large amounts of power • A nuclear war where no shots were fired • What is an area of extreme tension called? • ...

Cold War 2024-04-22

Cold War crossword puzzle
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  1. The communist-led country that fought against the United States and its allies in the Korean War
  2. The ideological and geopolitical struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from the late 1940s to the early 1990s
  3. The communist-led country that the Soviet Union was allied with
  4. The 1947 policy that provided economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism
  5. The 1948-1949 operation where the United States and its allies airlifted supplies to West Berlin after the Soviet Union blockaded the city
  6. The international organization founded in 1945 to promote peace and security
  7. The 1947 plan that provided economic aid to help rebuild Europe after World War II
  8. The belief that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would also fall
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  1. The policy of preventing the spread of communism to other countries
  2. The political and economic system where the government owns the means of production and distribution of goods
  3. The policy of expanding communist influence around the world
  4. The 1946 telegram written by George Kennan that outlined the policy of containment
  5. The communist-led country that fought against the United States and its allies in the Vietnam War
  6. The 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba
  7. The physical and ideological division between communist and democratic countries during the Cold War
  8. The communist-led country that the United States attempted to overthrow in the Bay of Pigs invasion

16 Clues: The policy of expanding communist influence around the world • The communist-led country that the Soviet Union was allied with • The policy of preventing the spread of communism to other countries • The international organization founded in 1945 to promote peace and security • The 1946 telegram written by George Kennan that outlined the policy of containment • ...

Unit 6 2013-03-27

Unit 6 crossword puzzle
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  1. corps volunteer program run by the United States government
  2. the authority act that an elected official receives from the voters who elected him or her
  3. a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008.
  4. was committed to the promotion of a libertarian and egalitarian society
  5. speech and program by Lyndon B. Johnson
  6. authorized the formation of local Community Action Agencies as part of the War on Poverty
  7. national social insurance program, administered by the U.S. federal government since 1965, that guarantees access to health insurance for Americans ages 65 and older and younger people with disabilities as well as people with end stage renal disease
  8. was realistic in that nuclear weapons couldn't be used
  9. initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961 aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America
  10. point-to-point communications link in which a call is automatically directed to the preselected destination without any additional action by the user when the end instrument goes off-hook
  11. 36th President of the United States
  12. was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin
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  1. To select from a group for some usually compulsory service like the army
  2. used by liberal Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention
  3. separation of humans into racial groups in daily life
  4. United States health program for certain people and families with low incomes and resources
  5. a group that investigated the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that had taken place on November 22, 1963
  6. 35th President of the United States
  7. abolished the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act
  8. form of direct action that involves one or more people nonviolently occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change
  9. prohibits nuclear weapons tests "or any other nuclear explosion" in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water

21 Clues: 35th President of the United States • 36th President of the United States • speech and program by Lyndon B. Johnson • separation of humans into racial groups in daily life • was realistic in that nuclear weapons couldn't be used • corps volunteer program run by the United States government • was committed to the promotion of a libertarian and egalitarian society • ...

India and it's states 2024-08-13

India and it's states crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Union Territory in Bay of Bengal
  2. Capital of West Bengal
  3. Chennai
  4. Punjab and Haryana share the capital
  5. If you want to learn Bhangra
  6. Mumbai
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  1. Lakshadweep
  2. Capital of India
  3. Thiruvananthapuram
  4. Thar
  5. Northeastern State that starts with "N"
  6. Capital of Madhya Pradesh
  7. Summer capital of J&K

13 Clues: Thar • Mumbai • Chennai • Lakshadweep • Capital of India • Thiruvananthapuram • Summer capital of J&K • Capital of West Bengal • Capital of Madhya Pradesh • If you want to learn Bhangra • Union Territory in Bay of Bengal • Punjab and Haryana share the capital • Northeastern State that starts with "N"

European countries capitals 2022-02-08

European countries capitals crossword puzzle
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  1. next door in Spain
  2. down in Greece
  3. is in Portugal
  4. is in Kosovo although I am afraid
  5. marino is the own one cos its just a little fella
  6. romania
  7. bosnia in Herzegovina
  8. is in Irland or Eire
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  1. this is in Belgrade
  2. has Amsterdam
  3. in the Ukraine
  4. in Bulgaria, and while youre in the area
  5. has valletta
  6. is the same except they stick on a L a Vella
  7. is in Belgium
  8. Moldova
  9. in albania
  10. in Norway I suggest you take a sweater
  11. is the capital of Bratislava

19 Clues: Moldova • romania • in albania • has valletta • has Amsterdam • is in Belgium • in the Ukraine • down in Greece • is in Portugal • next door in Spain • this is in Belgrade • is in Irland or Eire • bosnia in Herzegovina • is the capital of Bratislava • is in Kosovo although I am afraid • in Norway I suggest you take a sweater • in Bulgaria, and while youre in the area • ...