states and capitals Crossword Puzzles
EXAM Study Guide - Jordan May 2023-12-18
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- - allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
- - A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
- - The process of using agricultural machinery to mechanize the work of agriculture,
- - A group of employees in a certain trade, industry, or corporation that organize to improve their salary, benefits, and working conditions.
- - The movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970.
- - An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background
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- - A metaphor for a society where many different types of people blend together as one.
- - Someone who starts and runs a business
- - prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of Alcohol in the United States.
- - The population shift from rural to urban areas
- - grants Congress the authority to issue an income tax without having to determine it based on population.
- - Widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894.
- - A form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture and corporal mutilation
- - State and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation
- - A single seller or producer that excludes competition from providing the same product
15 Clues: - Someone who starts and runs a business • - The population shift from rural to urban areas • - allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. • - An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background • - The process of using agricultural machinery to mechanize the work of agriculture, • ...
Government 2020-12-07
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- And if a state adopts a disastrous new policy, at least it would not be a ... for everyone. On the other hand, if a state's new programs work well, other states can adopt their ideas and adjust them to their own needs.
- But even though ... other countries practice it today, federalism has provided the balance that the United States has needed since 1787.
- The British government was — and remains — a ... system, or one in which power is concentrated in a central government.
- The Articles of Confederation represented an opposite form of government, a ... , which has a weak central government and strong state governments.
- system Power is shared by the national and state governments.
- Is a compromise meant to eliminate the disadvantages of both systems.
- national ... and general election is the second step to becoming president
- the legal process in which an accused criminal is returned to the state where the crime was committed, is also required by Article IV.
- In a federal system, power is ... by the national and state governments.
- For the first time in many years federal aid to states declined, and Reagan pushed to consolidate categorical grants into ... Grants, which had few strings and much broader categories, such as "education" or "highways."
- Powers are specifically granted to the federal government in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution
- you have to be a natural born citizen of the U.S. to be the president.
- Often states must contribute money to ... federal funds, but categorical grants almost always come with a great many strings that demonstrate the "supremacy" of the national government.
- Although the federal system seems to strike a perfect balance of power between national and local needs, federations still have internal ... . Conflicts between national and state governments are common.
- ... and caucuses are the first step to becoming president
- each state must give full ... and credit to the public acts, records, and civil judicial proceedings of every other state
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- Some powers of federal and state governments...
- Electing both state and national ... also increases the input of citizens into their government.
- For example, the national government cannot exercise its powers in such a way as to ... with the states' abilities to perform their responsibilities.
- President Reagan (1981-89) coined the movement ... Federalism — an attempt to return power to the states.
- powers, which are set aside for the states. Unlike delegated powers, they are not listed specifically, but are guaranteed by the tenth amendment:
- the ... college is the third step to becoming president
- POWERS are not specifically stated in the Constitution, but may be inferred from the elastic (or "necessary and proper") clause (Article I, Section 8). Since these powers are not explicit, the courts are often left to decide what constitutes an implied power.
- So federalism prevents a person that takes control of a state from easily ... control of the federal governments as well.
- POWERS are not specifically listed in the Constitution, but they grew out of the very existence of the national government. For example, the United States has the power to acquire territory by exploration and/or occupancy, primarily because most governments in general claim that right.
- Most confederations have allowed the local government to ... a federal law within its own borders.
26 Clues: Some powers of federal and state governments... • the ... college is the third step to becoming president • ... and caucuses are the first step to becoming president • system Power is shared by the national and state governments. • Is a compromise meant to eliminate the disadvantages of both systems. • ...
Topic 8 History Project 3rd Hour 2023-05-04
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- the right to be charged or have a hearing before being sent to jail
- African Americans that fled slavery
- Americans that opposed using force to keep the South in the Union
- law that freed slaves from slave states that weren't the four states that allied with the Union or already conquered slave states
- states that stayed slave states in the union like Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware
- requirement of all able-bodied men to serve military time
- the three-day battle that was one of the most significant battles of the Civil War
- remove themselves
- battle that showed how badly both Union and Confederate soldiers needed training
- general rise in prices and decrease in value of money
- not eager
- making it easy for something to happen
- Union warship
- weapons and ammunition warehouse
- fort near Charleston that nearly all of the 54th regiment's people were killed in
- willingness to accept laws whether or not a person agreed with those laws
- tax on people's earnings
- something that comes before or is introductory
- to suggest without saying directly or plainly
- case where a slave argued that he should be free since his owner died but was ruled against because he was not a citizen and the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property
- warfare in which small, informal military groups use surprise attacks and hit and run tactics
- antislavery members of both Democrats and Whigs parties
- to be made up of
- act that separated Kansas and Nebraska and let popular sovereignty decide if they would be free or slave states
- to keep in an existing state
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- battle where the Union was beaten in just three days
- Lincoln's speech that showed his leadership in a time of grief and crisis where he dedicated a cemetery to the fallen soldiers in the Battle of Gettysburg
- the right of the people to create their government
- military regiment that accepted African Americans
- someone willing to give up their life for their beliefs
- battle where neither Union or Confederates were the clear winners but Lee withdrew and the Union won
- one of the Union's worst defeats
- one of the bloodiest encounters in the civil war
- actions against one's country
- compromise for free states and slave states to both get what they want
- very important
- amendment that could not be changed
- the town where Confederate soldiers retreated to then be trapped by the Union army and surrendered
- proslavery bands that battled the antislavery forces in Kansas
- to prove something by being an example of it
- General George Pickett's attack with 15,000 men in the center of Union lines
- abandoned Union warship that was taken by Confederates
- a group of antislavery people from different parties in Michigan in 1854 that opposed slavery and wanted to stop it from spreading west
- where a military force encircles an enemy position and blockades and bombards it in order to force it to surrender
- agreement for Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state
- war between people of the same country
- to publicly say that someone or something is wrong or bad
- basically, fundamentally, in essence
48 Clues: not eager • Union warship • very important • to be made up of • remove themselves • tax on people's earnings • to keep in an existing state • actions against one's country • one of the Union's worst defeats • weapons and ammunition warehouse • African Americans that fled slavery • amendment that could not be changed • basically, fundamentally, in essence • ...
The 27 Amendments 2022-10-12
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- The right to life, liberty, property, and no double jeopardy or self-incrimination.
- The right to not be searched or have something taken away within reason.
- The right to an jury trial in a civil case.
- Protection from excessive bail, and cruel and unusual punishments.
- The freedom of religion, speech, and to peacefully assemble together.
- Women's right to vote.
- The abolishment of slavery.
- Limits the terms Presidents can serve.
- Repeal of prohibition of alcohol.
- The right to own a gun.
- The succession for presidency shall something happen to the President.
- Congress cannot get a pay raise until the next term.
- Any rights not given to the federal government are given to the states.
- The right to a speedy trial, public trial, and with a jury of your peers.
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- No voting discrimination of race.
- Equal protection under the Constitution for all United States citizens.
- Popular vote for United States Senate.
- Prohibition of alcohol.
- Income tax is legal.
- The rights not listed in the Constitution.
- The right to not house a solider.
- The minimum voting age is 18.
- Washington D.C. have the right to vote for President.
- There are separate ballets for the President and Vice President.
- Moving of dates for terms of presidency.
- No poll taxes are allowed.
- Protects the states from law suits.
27 Clues: Income tax is legal. • Women's right to vote. • Prohibition of alcohol. • The right to own a gun. • No poll taxes are allowed. • The abolishment of slavery. • The minimum voting age is 18. • No voting discrimination of race. • The right to not house a solider. • Repeal of prohibition of alcohol. • Protects the states from law suits. • Popular vote for United States Senate. • ...
Federalism 2021-09-28
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- The process of returning a fugitive from the state they fled to back to their own state.
- Governmental powers are divided
- believed that a bill of rights was needed to prevent the central government from taking rights away from states and citizens.
- a system of government in which a written constitution divides power of the government (usually between central government and state).
- directs people to frame a proposed state constitution
- Powers that the National & State governments both possess and exercise.
- supported the Constitution as it was written.
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- Agreement among states to get together, kind of like an alliance or treaty.
- No state can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other states.
- Under this, Congress gave an annual share of the huge federal tax revenue to the states and their cities, counties, and townships.
- wanted to limit the power of states.
- States and local governments can apply for these to get money from the government
12 Clues: Governmental powers are divided • wanted to limit the power of states. • supported the Constitution as it was written. • directs people to frame a proposed state constitution • Powers that the National & State governments both possess and exercise. • Agreement among states to get together, kind of like an alliance or treaty. • ...
Social Studies Crossword 2013-10-20
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- extreme shortage of food
- African American religious folk song
- white farmers who rented or worked someone else's land
- regular expenses which remained about the same every year
- states including Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina
- clipped travel time in half
- machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers
- metal machine which cut through the hard packed sod of the prairies
- unfair treatment of a group
- device which used electric signals to transmit messages
- money/cash
- white southerners who lived in crude cabins in the woods and fended for themselves
- an unfair opinion not based on facts
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- states including Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas
- organization of workers with the same trade or skill
- sped up the harvesting of wheat
- white farmers who owned land but not slaves
- laws in the Southern states to control the slaves
- a series of dots and dashes representing the letters of the alphabet
19 Clues: money/cash • extreme shortage of food • clipped travel time in half • unfair treatment of a group • sped up the harvesting of wheat • African American religious folk song • an unfair opinion not based on facts • white farmers who owned land but not slaves • machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers • laws in the Southern states to control the slaves • ...
Civil War Crossword 2017-09-18
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- the slave state that has the Ohio River
- president of Confederate States
- the loud aggressive voice of the 2 Great Abolitionists
- union fort in South Carolina
- amendment that got rid of slavery
- the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- military arsenal in West Virginia
- the line that has free states up north and slave states down south
- the best south confederate general
- north's plan to blockade the South's trade
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- a euphemism for slavery and its economic ramifications in the American South
- law in when any runaway slave is returned and cannot testify for themselves
- separation of powers between the state and national government
- the quiet voice of the 2 Great Abolitionists
- semi-illiterate slave who led a rebellion that killed 54 white men
- first state to leave the US
- a personal possession/Dred Scott
- where Nat Turner recruited men for his rebellion
- year in when Lincoln was elected
19 Clues: first state to leave the US • union fort in South Carolina • president of Confederate States • the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin • a personal possession/Dred Scott • year in when Lincoln was elected • amendment that got rid of slavery • military arsenal in West Virginia • the best south confederate general • the slave state that has the Ohio River • ...
Ch 6, sec 1 Vocab 2024-01-17
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- The upper chamber of the United States Congress.
- Affirm that the government of the United States exists to serve its citizens.
- Any association of individuals or organizations, usually formally organized, that, on the basis of one or more shared concerns, attempts to influence public policy in its favor.
- An agreement worked out at the Constitutional convention establishing that a state’s population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislature, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house.
- Consisting of two houses.
- Lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.
- The people of a particular geographic area who are represented by a lawmaking body.
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- The power of Congress to check up on the executive branch and to make sure it is following the laws of Congress has passed.
- A congressional act or bill that sets aside funds for a specific purpose.
- The United States Constitution establishes the legislative branch of the federal government, the United States Congress.
- The distribution of seats in the House of Representatives among the states.
- A system in which each branch of government is able to limit the power of the other branches.
- A vote taken to pass a bill again after it has been vetoed by the President.
- The process of charging officials in the executive and judicial branches with wrongdoing and bringing them to trial.
- The authority of the United States Senate to approve or reject a resolution of ratification of any treaty to which the United States is a proposed signatory, as well as to evaluate and confirm Presidential nominees to positions in the federal government.
15 Clues: Consisting of two houses. • The upper chamber of the United States Congress. • A congressional act or bill that sets aside funds for a specific purpose. • The distribution of seats in the House of Representatives among the states. • A vote taken to pass a bill again after it has been vetoed by the President. • ...
Geography 2013-05-22
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- the province/territory of this of this capital city is is Yukon territory
- the Aboriginal Canadian's who live in the arctic
- the province/territory of the capital city is Prince Edward Island
- the movement of people into a country to live
- the capital city of this province/territory is Iqaluit
- family and better job opportunities are examples
- the study of human population
- molten rock located above the earth's crust
- the layer of the earth where movement of molten rock occurs
- the day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere
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- the province/territory of this capital city is Northwest territory
- the capital city of this province/territory is Victoria
- the number of people who die, per year 1000
- the capital city of this province/territory is St. John's
- average weather conditions over a long period of time
- molten rock located beneath the earth's crust
- the capitals city of this province/territory is Winnipeg
17 Clues: the study of human population • the number of people who die, per year 1000 • molten rock located above the earth's crust • the day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere • the movement of people into a country to live • molten rock located beneath the earth's crust • the Aboriginal Canadian's who live in the arctic • family and better job opportunities are examples • ...
Southwest States and Capitals Crossword 2025-05-26
bill of rights 2025-02-03
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- 8th amdt, allows for ___
- 3rd amdt, soldiers can't live in ur house without ur ___
- BOR was written to protect the rights of __, the accused, and the states
- 2nd amdt, right to ___
- BOR ensures all rights of citizens are ___
- 10th amdt, any power not delegated to the fed gov belongs to the ___
- year BOR was published
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- 4th amdt states authorities must have a search ___
- madison promised the BOR would be added to the ___
- 1st amdt, freedom of __
- 6th amdt, guarantees ___ public trial
- wrote BOR
- 7th amdt, states that ___ can decide civil cases
- 5th amdt protects u from having to ___ at ur own trial
- 9th amdt, states the ___ in constitution are not citizen's only ___
15 Clues: wrote BOR • 2nd amdt, right to ___ • year BOR was published • 1st amdt, freedom of __ • 8th amdt, allows for ___ • 6th amdt, guarantees ___ public trial • BOR ensures all rights of citizens are ___ • 7th amdt, states that ___ can decide civil cases • 4th amdt states authorities must have a search ___ • madison promised the BOR would be added to the ___ • ...
The Major Events that led to the Civil War 2024-01-11
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- Paved the way for a period of political realignment and the eventual rise of the Republican Party as a major political force.
- A crucial agreement reached during the drafting of the United States Constitution in 1787. It addressed the issue of how enslaved individuals would be counted for the purpose of determining a state's representation in the House of Representatives.
- A landmark agreement in the United States that aimed to maintain a balance between free and slave states in the Union. It was enacted in 1820 to address the issue of whether new territories admitted to the Union would allow slavery or not.
- A significant piece of legislation often cited as one of the key events that pushed the nation closer to the brink of civil war. It allowed people in the territories to decide on the legality of slavery.
- A package of legislative measures in the United States that aimed to address the sectional tensions between the Northern and Southern states over the issue of slavery.
- The crisis marked a significant moment in American history, highlighting the tension between states' rights and federal authority. The problem revolved around the claim that the policy was benefiting the North while the South was paying for it. While a compromise temporarily resolved the immediate issue, underlying conflicts over states' rights persisted and contributed to the sectional tensions that eventually led to the American Civil War in 1861.
- One of the most influential works of American literature, particularly in the context of the abolitionist movement and the lead-up to the American Civil War.
- The belief that America was destined to expand to the Pacific Ocean. Led to conflicts over the expansion of slavery.
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- This outcome directly led to the secession of seven southern states.
- A machine that revolutionized the process of cotton production. It played a crucial role in the Southern United States, transforming the economy and contributing to the expansion of slavery.
- Overall, while the it aimed to appease Southern slaveholders, it had the unintended consequence of heightening tensions between the North and the South, contributing to the deepening divide that eventually led to the American Civil War.
- A major factor in the outbreak of the Civil War.
- A landmark Supreme Court case that affirmed that enslaved people were property, declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, and established that African Americans were not entitled to U.S. citizenship.
- Significantly altered the territorial landscape of North America, expanding the United States westward and exacerbating sectional tensions over the issue of slavery, as the acquired territories raised questions about whether they would allow slavery or not.
- A fervent abolitionist led a group of 21 men (including some of his sons and other abolitionists) in an attempt to seize a federal arsenal and spark a widespread slave rebellion.
- Location that marked the start of the Civil War.
16 Clues: A major factor in the outbreak of the Civil War. • Location that marked the start of the Civil War. • This outcome directly led to the secession of seven southern states. • The belief that America was destined to expand to the Pacific Ocean. Led to conflicts over the expansion of slavery. • ...
Eight Grade History Berel Mangel 2020-09-29
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- An area of land including California, Texas, and Arizona
- The are of the united states where slavery was not allowed
- Allowed slave owners to reclaim slaves who escaped
- Something proposed in 1802 by Henry Clay
- this was what Southern States were called
- How slaves were bought and sold
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- Someone who actually works to get rid of skavery
- Someone who believes in getting rid of slavery
- This is what Northern States were called
- It doubled the size of America
- The person who proposed the Compromise of 1850
- This was granted to New Mexico
- An escaped slave
- Divided the Louisiana Purchase
- The area of the untied states where slavery was allowed
15 Clues: An escaped slave • It doubled the size of America • This was granted to New Mexico • Divided the Louisiana Purchase • How slaves were bought and sold • This is what Northern States were called • Something proposed in 1802 by Henry Clay • this was what Southern States were called • Someone who believes in getting rid of slavery • ...
Latin American countries and curiosities 2020-10-25
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- This country doesn't have an ARMY.
- In this country is celebrated 'The Day of the Dead.'
- Famous football players like Messi and Maradona were born in this country
- Where is located the Inca citadel called 'Machu Picchu.'
- In this country is illegal to sell Coca-Cola.
- La Paz is the highest city in the world and is one of the capitals of...
- Which country holds the biggest festival in the world called 'Rio de Janeiro Carnival.'?
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- In this country occurs a phenomenon called 'The rain of fish.'
- Angel Falls is the highest waterfall in the world located in...
- The Atacama Desert is the driest place in the world. Which country is it located in?
- Which Latin American country has the longest national anthem in the world?
- Where was born the famous writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
12 Clues: This country doesn't have an ARMY. • In this country is illegal to sell Coca-Cola. • In this country is celebrated 'The Day of the Dead.' • Where is located the Inca citadel called 'Machu Picchu.' • Where was born the famous writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez? • In this country occurs a phenomenon called 'The rain of fish.' • ...
New Immigrants (Topic 2.4) 2025-10-10
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- — The millions of people who came to the United States between 1870 and 1920, mostly from Southern and Eastern Europe.
- — Conditions such as jobs, freedom, and opportunity that attracted immigrants to America.
- — The location of Angel Island, the main processing center for Asian immigrants.
- — A major “push” factor driving many immigrants to leave their homelands.
- — Organization that pushed for literacy tests and restrictions on immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
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- — 1882 law that barred most Chinese immigration to the United States.
- — One of the main push factors that forced families to seek new opportunities in the United States.
- — Fear or hatred of foreigners and people from other countries.
- — The process of adopting the customs, language, and culture of a new country.
- — Neighborhoods where people from the same country lived together to preserve their culture and support one another.
- — Conditions such as war, famine, or persecution that forced people to leave their homeland.
- — The belief that America should favor people born in the United States over immigrants.
- — Immigration station in San Francisco Bay that processed Asian immigrants, often under harsh conditions.
- — Reading and writing exams used to limit immigration during the early 1900s.
- — Immigration station in New York Harbor where millions of European immigrants entered the United States.
15 Clues: — Fear or hatred of foreigners and people from other countries. • — 1882 law that barred most Chinese immigration to the United States. • — A major “push” factor driving many immigrants to leave their homelands. • — Reading and writing exams used to limit immigration during the early 1900s. • ...
Manifest destiny 2023-03-21
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- The country that America bought the Mexican Cession from
- After Polk was elected, Congress voted to annex _____
- He was sent on a exploration to map the Louisiana territory
- The United States paid Mexico $15 million for the _______ in 1848
- Spilt in half due to a treaty sign with Britain
- Americans argued that they had a ______ right to expand their land
- The goal of Manifest Destiny was to ______ from coast to coast
- The claim to Oregon was based on the Lewis and Clark __________.
- Before it was taken over by America, Florida belonged to _____
- Marched into Florida with around 1,700 men
- The Senate ________ the Florida treaty two days after it was signed.
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- The United States acquired the Louisiana territory through _________
- Lived in Florida before Americans took it over
- The county that America bought the Louisiana territory from
- The land the United States took from the Seminole Indians
- Name for the expansion of the United States from coast to coast
- The war the gave the United States a huge piece of land from Mexico
- Before the Treaty of Oregon, America shared Oregon with this country
- The president that’s best know for overseeing manifest destiny
- America _______ Texas, or added them to the United States
20 Clues: Marched into Florida with around 1,700 men • Lived in Florida before Americans took it over • Spilt in half due to a treaty sign with Britain • After Polk was elected, Congress voted to annex _____ • The country that America bought the Mexican Cession from • The land the United States took from the Seminole Indians • ...
Third Grade Math Test #4 2025-10-30
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- "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of ?." the Declaration of Independence states that all men have these rights
- first African-American double spy
- American patriot who said, "Give me liberty or give me death, a lawyer who spoke out against the unfair rule of England, was governor of Virginia
- the French and Indian War was fought between them and the French
- first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Patrick Henry demanded it be added to the Constitution to guarantee the freedoms Americans had fought for
- plan of government for United States today
- one who measures land and draws maps
- the home designed by Thomas Jefferson
- the name of the home in Virginia that belonged to George Washington
- a person who draws plans to build a building
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- America's first written plan of government
- a person who collects information secretly from an enemy country
- America's first president, commander-in-chief of the American Army, his work as a surveyor prepared him to be a soldier in the French and Indian War
- the meeting to write a new plan of government and choose the first president
- ? of Independence is a written document that told the world why America wanted to be free from England
- a trip taken by a group of people to explore a new place
- author of the Declaration of Independence, third president of the United States, suggested the United States use dollar bills and coins for money
- July, 4 1776 the Declaration of ? was accepted
18 Clues: first African-American double spy • one who measures land and draws maps • the home designed by Thomas Jefferson • America's first written plan of government • plan of government for United States today • a person who draws plans to build a building • July, 4 1776 the Declaration of ? was accepted • a trip taken by a group of people to explore a new place • ...
The Birth of a Nation - 10th Grade 2024-03-13
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- What was the resulting compromise over the representation in Congress?
- Where di the framers of the Constitution meet?
- What issue led to the 3/5th Compromise?
- What ordinance created a system for admitting new states?
- Which stae was the first to ratify the Consitution?
- How many amendments are part of the Bill of Rights?
- Which evented highlighted the need for a stronger central government?
- What confederation was the states first rule book?
- What kind of federalist opposed the ratification of the Constitution?
- How many states needed to ratify the Constitution?
- Who lead the rebellion of farmers to protest high taxes?
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- Which state played a crucial role in ratification of the Constitution?
- What did the Federalist advocate for regarding the central goverment?
- What was the last state to ratify the Constitution?
- What was the primary issue of the Articles of Confederation?
- What was the point of the Articles of Confederation regarding the states?
- How many colonies became states?
- The original reason for meeting for the Constitutional Convention was to do what with the Articles of Confederation?
- the balance of power between the states and federal government is called what?
- What was the purpose of the Bill of Rights for individuals??
20 Clues: How many colonies became states? • What issue led to the 3/5th Compromise? • Where di the framers of the Constitution meet? • What confederation was the states first rule book? • How many states needed to ratify the Constitution? • What was the last state to ratify the Constitution? • Which stae was the first to ratify the Consitution? • ...
Civil War Crossword 2021-11-12
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- Slave states that bordered between the Union and Confederacy and did not secede from the Union
- “All persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free”
- The period before the Civil War characterized by the polarization between abolitionists and supporters of slavery
- People who organized to end the practice of slavery
- The government of the 11 southern slave states that seceded from the Union
- The remaining part of the US government who fought against the confederacy
- A loyalty to one’s own region instead of the country as a whole
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- The border separating free states from slave states before the war
- A term by southerners to describe the people of the Union during the war
- A soldier who fought for the South during the war
- A very dense cracker that was used to feed soldiers during the war
- Withdraw from the country
- The Union naval strategy to prevent the Confederacy from trading
- A large estate that specializes on growing cash crops
- A steam-powered warship protected by iron armor, which replaced the weaker wooden ships before it
15 Clues: Withdraw from the country • A soldier who fought for the South during the war • People who organized to end the practice of slavery • A large estate that specializes on growing cash crops • A loyalty to one’s own region instead of the country as a whole • The Union naval strategy to prevent the Confederacy from trading • ...
States of Matter and Particles 2020-02-16
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- The change of an object that can be seen or examined
- model The visual representation of particles in different states of matter.
- Where an object contracts energy from its surroundings
- The action of water droplets falling from a cloud
- When Gasses change state straight into solid
- When a liquid is cooled enough, it _______.
- When a liquid goes from a place of high concentration to a place of low concentration
- I had a problem, and I found a ______.
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- When water particles change back into a liquid
- Solid changing into a gas
- When liquid particles cool down, but don't become solid
- When liquid changes into a gas
- When a solid changes into a liquid
- When water changes into a gas
- When a object gives off energy or heat
- When heated, a liquid ________.
16 Clues: Solid changing into a gas • When water changes into a gas • When liquid changes into a gas • When heated, a liquid ________. • When a solid changes into a liquid • When a object gives off energy or heat • I had a problem, and I found a ______. • When a liquid is cooled enough, it _______. • When Gasses change state straight into solid • ...
Emotions 2023-09-20
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- States that emotions occur when physical arousal is labeled or interpreted on the basis of experience and situational cues.
- Authentic smiles
- The ability to perceive, use, understand, and manage emotions.
- A part of the limbic system (within the brain) that produces fear responses.
- States that activity in the thalamus causes emotional feelings and bodily arousal to occur simultaneously.
- Study of the meaning of body movements, posture, hand gestures, and facial expressions; commonly called body language.
- States that emotional feelings follow bodily arousal and come from awareness of such arousal.
- Anger adrenaline
- Last name of the psychologist who was among the first to suggest that the face does, indeed, affect emotion.
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- States that sensations from facial expressions help define what emotion a person feels.
- Actions that aid attempts to survive and adapt to changing conditions.
- Gestures that have widely understood meanings within a particular culture.
- A hormone produced by the adrenal glands that tends to arouse the body.
- unconsciously imitating the postures, mannerisms, and facial expressions of other people as we interact with them.
- Fear adrenaline
- A low-intensity, long-lasting emotional state.
- The mental process of assigning causes to events.
- a mixture of two or more basic expressions
- A state characterized by physiological arousal, changes in facial expression, gestures, posture, and subjective feelings.
19 Clues: Fear adrenaline • Authentic smiles • Anger adrenaline • a mixture of two or more basic expressions • A low-intensity, long-lasting emotional state. • The mental process of assigning causes to events. • The ability to perceive, use, understand, and manage emotions. • Actions that aid attempts to survive and adapt to changing conditions. • ...
Unit 3 Crossword 2025-02-17
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- An act that allowed territories to decide whether to allow slavery, leading to violent conflict
- The proclamation issued by Lincoln to free enslaved people in Confederate states
- The southern states that seceded from the United States
- An agreement that maintained the balance between free and slave states by setting a boundary for slavery
- The process of freeing enslaved people
- An agreement that admitted California as a free state and included the Fugitive Slave Act
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- The act of formally withdrawing from a nation
- A law that required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers
- U.S. president during the Civil War
- President of the Confederate States during the Civil War
- The northern states that fought to preserve the United States
- The movement to end slavery
12 Clues: The movement to end slavery • U.S. president during the Civil War • The process of freeing enslaved people • The act of formally withdrawing from a nation • The southern states that seceded from the United States • President of the Confederate States during the Civil War • The northern states that fought to preserve the United States • ...
Social Studies Crossword Review 2013-10-20
Across
- money/cash
- machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers
- states including Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas
- laws in the Southern states to control the slaves
- white southerners who lived in crude cabins in the woods and fended for themselves
- unfair treatment of a group
- metal machine which cut through the hard packed sod of the prairies
- white farmers who rented or worked someone else's land
- an unfair opinion not based on facts
- extreme shortage of food
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- clipped travel time in half
- device which used electric signals to transmit messages
- organization of workers with the same trade or skill
- sped up the harvesting of wheat
- regular expenses which remained about the same every year
- states including Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina
- a series of dots and dashes representing the letters of the alphabet
- white farmers who owned land but not slaves
- African American religious folk song
19 Clues: money/cash • extreme shortage of food • clipped travel time in half • unfair treatment of a group • sped up the harvesting of wheat • African American religious folk song • an unfair opinion not based on facts • white farmers who owned land but not slaves • machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers • laws in the Southern states to control the slaves • ...
Civil War and Reconstruction 2021-01-26
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- The turbulent era following the Civil War(1865-1877), was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States.
- Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War
- The military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott called for a naval blockade of the Confederate coast, and along the Mississippi, to strangulate the South by Union land and naval forces.
- On April 9, 1865, the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the McLean House signaling the end of the nation's Civil War.
- An economy based on agricultural mass production of cash crops (cotton, tobacco, and rice) grown on large farms that used slave labor.
- Steam-powered warships where a wooden ship was protected from enemy fire by bales of cotton lining its sides
- A rebellion in the United States from 1861 to 1865, fought between northern states (aka Yankees) loyal to the Union and southern states (aka Confederates) that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America
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- Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. I.e the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) had a racial prejudice against African Americans.
- An agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people, freed from slavery by emancipation, in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education
- The controversial political doctrine according to which the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states.
- The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
- President Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
- A type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year.
- Crow Laws State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
14 Clues: The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. • Crow Laws State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States • Steam-powered warships where a wooden ship was protected from enemy fire by bales of cotton lining its sides • ...
Unit 5 Crossword 2021-02-19
Across
- lover of, or searcher for, wisdom or knowledge; person who regulates his or her life by the light of reason
- A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility
- A city-state in ancient Greece.
- Greek for "high city". The chief temples of the city were located here.
- Cruel and oppressive government or rule
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- merge of Greek culture with that of the Middle east. Cultures merged when Alexander the great began moving/conquering to the east.
- The oldest and simplest of the three main orders of classical Greek architecture, characterized by heavy fluted columns with plain, saucer-shaped capitals and no base.
- A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
- a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
- A military formation of foot soldiers armed with spears and shields
- Spartan slaves
11 Clues: Spartan slaves • A city-state in ancient Greece. • Cruel and oppressive government or rule • A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds • a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds • A military formation of foot soldiers armed with spears and shields • Greek for "high city". The chief temples of the city were located here. • ...
Vocabulary - Civil War - A 16 Words 2025-02-25
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- Douglass A prominent African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman who escaped from slavery and became a leader in the abolitionist movement.
- Refers to individuals or groups deprived of rights, particularly the right to vote or participate fully in societal or political processes.
- A person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution.
- The act of formally ending a system, practice, or institution, particularly referring to the movement to end slavery.
- To form or develop an idea or plan in the mind.
- In the context of U.S. history, the northern states during the Civil War that opposed the seceding Confederate states.
- A formally concluded and ratified agreement between states or sovereigns.
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- The act of freeing someone from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
- A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration, research, or war.
- Unjust or prejudicial treatment of individuals based on characteristics such as race, gender, or age.
- The group of 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860-1861, forming their own government.
- The period after the American Civil War, from 1865 to 1877, during which the Southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
- Lincoln The 16th President of the United States, best known for leading the country during the Civil War and for his efforts to abolish slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation.
- To formally withdraw from an organization or political entity, such as a state leaving a union.
- The sector of an economy that involves the manufacturing and production of goods or services, often characterized by the use of machinery and skilled labor.
- The process of making changes to something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice, with the aim of improvement or correction.
16 Clues: To form or develop an idea or plan in the mind. • A formally concluded and ratified agreement between states or sovereigns. • The act of freeing someone from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation. • To formally withdraw from an organization or political entity, such as a state leaving a union. • ...
U.S.A Human Geography 2022-08-22
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- Long before Europeans started coming to the Americas, ____ people lived on the land that is now the United States
- Europeans settlers established ____, or territories inhabited and controlled by people from a foreign land
- The colonial representatives adopted the Declaration of Independence, which did not give rights to everyone, but was a great step ____ equality and justice
- Britain recognized the independence of the United States and granted the United States all its land east of the _____ River
- Immigration from Europe created a culturally ____ nation
- Most _____ cities in the Northeast and Midwest
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- The United States,the world´s first ____ democracy, expanded from the Atlantic cost to the Pacific coast over time
- The first settlers who traveled west for land and plentiful resources were called _____
- People from various ethnic and religious groups went to the colonies looking for religious freedom and ____ opportunity
- The United States became the first modern _____
- More than 23 million people in the United States, and the country stretched to the _____ Ocean
- People from various ethnic and religious groups went to the colonies looking for religious ___ and economic opportunity
12 Clues: Most _____ cities in the Northeast and Midwest • The United States became the first modern _____ • Immigration from Europe created a culturally ____ nation • The first settlers who traveled west for land and plentiful resources were called _____ • More than 23 million people in the United States, and the country stretched to the _____ Ocean • ...
How was the issue of slavery addressed between 1820 and 1850 2021-09-08
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- highest court in the US-used for
- southern states left the Union
- political & economic power of south
- symbolic dividing line N & S
- people vote
- individual states retain power
- limitation imposed by another item
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- reps that vote for pres and vp
- someone who argued no slavery
- areas not states
- reject a decision or proposal
- annual value ofproducts&services
- geographical north and south
- system that appoints the Pres&VP
14 Clues: people vote • areas not states • symbolic dividing line N & S • geographical north and south • someone who argued no slavery • reject a decision or proposal • reps that vote for pres and vp • southern states left the Union • individual states retain power • highest court in the US-used for • annual value ofproducts&services • system that appoints the Pres&VP • ...
Period 8 review 2025-04-02
Across
- Hawaii Harbor bombed 12,7,1941
- - a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1947 to 1991
- A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying symbol for women to do their part.
- Location of first successful atomic bomb testing
- - the first artificial satellite into Earth's orbit by Russia
- - a conflict fought between North Korea and South Korea, and their allies, from 1950 to 1953
- - a congressional joint resolution passed in 1964 that gave President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to increase U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
- any spaces are marked by a _ the answer to this line is blank
- May 8, 1945; victory in Europe day when the Germans surrendered
- - was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961, also leader of the Pacific Theater
- - refers to the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals during the Second Red Scare, characterized by fear of communism and the Soviet Union
- the act of assembling and preparing a nation's military forces, including reserves, as well as harnessing its industrial and economic resources, to actively engage in war
- Decisive battle, was the turning point in the Pacific
- - also known as RFK, was an American politician and lawyer, brother of JFK, assassinated while running for president
- one of the first battles of the European Theater during WWII. Soviets lost 81,116 men and Germans lost 458,080. One of bloodiest battles in history.
- code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II
- - a series of attacks by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces on South Vietnam in 1968
- - a US program that provided economic aid to Western and Southern European countries after World War II
- Two Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs to end World War II.
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- established the interstate highway system in the United States
- - American labor leader and civil rights activist, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association
- a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage
- - a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled that racially segregating children in public schools was unconstitutional
- the state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons
- - also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president
- selectively attacking Japanese islands
- - a series of domestic programs enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the United States from 1964 to 1968, with the stated goals of totally eliminating poverty and racial injustice in the country
- - 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy
- 33rd President of the United States. Led the U.S. to victory in WWII making the ultimate decision to use atomic weapons for the first time. Shaped U.S. foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union after the war.
- Invasion led Dwight D. Eisenhower, started in Normandy, on June 6th 1944, was a success, turning point of WWII, first time allied forces successfully set foot in Europe
- War fought between 1939 and 1945 (global)
- - a foreign policy that pledged the United States to support democratic nations threatened by authoritarian forces
- Fighting that took place on the continent of Europe against Hitler and Mussolini.
- War in Pacific, largely involved islands
- - foreign policy strategy used by the United States during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism and the expansion of the Soviet Union
- (1941) The program under which the US supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945.
- - a Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher, was a prominent leader in the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1968
37 Clues: Hawaii Harbor bombed 12,7,1941 • selectively attacking Japanese islands • War in Pacific, largely involved islands • War fought between 1939 and 1945 (global) • Location of first successful atomic bomb testing • Decisive battle, was the turning point in the Pacific • - the first artificial satellite into Earth's orbit by Russia • ...
Southwest Region States and Capitals 2023-09-01
AMGreek 2024-11-07
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- leading commerical civilzation of the Aegean region
- rule by few
- a war of Greek city states against each other
- chief magistrate
- influential leader of Athens
- crushed the revolty of the Greeks
- league of city states with sparta at the head
- son of valuable leader
- rule by people
- league of city states with Athens as the leader
- confronted Alexander
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- goddess of wisdom
- united Macedonia under his rule
- rule by one
- dissatisfaction of lower classes
- Blind Greek poet who wrote about Greek gods
- slaves of sparta
- king of all gods and men
- invaders of the north that attacked the Mycennians
- flourished on an island and became an expanding civilization
- assumed the throne at age 20
- statesmen of athens
22 Clues: rule by few • rule by one • rule by people • chief magistrate • slaves of sparta • goddess of wisdom • statesmen of athens • confronted Alexander • son of valuable leader • king of all gods and men • influential leader of Athens • assumed the throne at age 20 • united Macedonia under his rule • dissatisfaction of lower classes • crushed the revolty of the Greeks • ...
Paddock AH Final Exam Review: 144 Terms and Events 2023-01-04
Across
- wrote about trusts, child labor, impure food, slums, and corruption
- gave aid to help Western European nations rebuild and fight communism after World War II
- Paul Revere and William Dawes warned the minutemen that the redcoats were marching out of Boston; the colonists met the British and fought the opening battles of the American Revolution in these towns
- the process by witch an immigrant becomes a citizen of the United States
- seizure of American sailors any the British in the early 1800s; this became a cause of the war of 1812
- Congressman at the time of the War of 1812 who wanted to capture Canada from the British and florida from the Spanish
- in this 1954 case, the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were illegal
- Franklin Roosevelt's programs to end the Great Depression; the Civilian Conservation Corps, Works Progress Administration, and Tennessee Vally Authority created jobs for the unemployed
- Santa Anna's killed American defenders of this mission in San Antonio
- the colonist yelled insults and threw snowballs at some British soldiers; the redcoats fired into a crowd, killing five patriots
- used by President Andrew Jackson to give government jobs to friends and loyal supporters
- an organization of workers that tries to bargain for higher wages, fringe benefits, and improved working conditions
- slogan of Americans who wanted the United States to expand to the pacific coast
- the United States, Canada, and many Western European nations formed this alliance to oppose the spread of communism
- it began after Germany invaded Poland in 1939, and involved the Allied Powers and Axis Powers.
- house of congress with two members from each state
- the making of goods by machines in factories; it began in the 1790s
- a person cannot be denied the right to vote because of their race or color
- when the patriots staged the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed these harsh laws to punish the people of Massachusetts
- conflict in which the Americans defeated the British, and became an independent nation
- during the early 1800s, it was the main route of trade and travel between New York and the Great Lakes region
- it abolished slavery in all parts of the United States
- A refusal to buy goods in order to force a change in policy; the colonists used this tactic to get Parliament to repeal some of its strict trade and tax policies
- it was the constitution of the United States from 1781 until 1789; because it created a weak central government, it was replaced by there Untied States Constitution
- amendment that gave women the right to vote
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- division of power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches
- route the Indians who were forced to travel from the Southeast to the Oklahoma Territory
- the group of advisers of the President (secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, ect.)
- President Lincoln gave a speech in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War
- the U.S blockade ordered by President John F. Kennedy forced the Soviet Union to withdraw offensive nuclear weapons from the island of Cuba
- U.S base in Hawaii attacked by Japan on December 7th, 1941; congress responded by declaring war on the Japanese; the United Staes entered the war on the Allied Powers side
- the British and the Americans together drove the French from North America after winning the Battle of Quebec
- there first women's right meeting in the United States; the organizers included Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Lady Stanton
- amendment witch guaranteed freedom of religion , speech, press, assembly, and petition
- the first ten amendments to the Constitution
- it gave citizenship to former slaves, and "equal protection off the laws" to citizens of the United States
- the process by which labor and management negotiate a new contract
- it has been the plan of government of the untied states since 1789; consists of articles and amendments
- the preservation of forest lands, soil, water, and other natural resources
- strong loyalty or support for one's nation
- (First Manassas)First battle of the Civil War, fought near washington, D.C.; it was a stunning Confederate victory, and showed that the war would not be over soon
- period after the Civil War when there former Confederate states were readmitted to the Union
- Part of the Compromise of 1850 that made Northern States pay to capture and return runaway slaves
- a refusal by the president to sign a bill into law
- it was caused by the impression of American seaman by the British, and by the British encouragement of Indian raids against frontier families; this two-year conflict between the United States and the British ended with neither side achieving victory
- highest U.S court; consists of the Chief Justice and eight associate justices; can declare laws unconstitutional
- harassed British tex collectors and other officials; dumped tea into Boston harbor
- the United States fought against the Vietcong and North Vietnam; anti-war demonstrations in the U.S became widespread
- system whereby escaped slaves where moved northward to Canada
- enables one branch of Government to limit the power of another branch, such as when the President (executive branch) vetoes a bill passed by Congress (legislative branch)
- belief that a state can ignore a federal law it thinks is unconstitutional
- tax on cheap foreign goods to protects Northern manufacturers
- U.S. policy aimed at keeping European nations out of Latin America
- it gave 160 acres in the West to people who agreed to occupy the land for at least five years
- period of tension between the United States and Soviet Union; began at the end of World War II and lasted until the early 1990s
- where the confederates fired the first shots of the civil war; it was located at Charleston, South Carolina
- the lawmaking body consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives
57 Clues: strong loyalty or support for one's nation • amendment that gave women the right to vote • the first ten amendments to the Constitution • a refusal by the president to sign a bill into law • house of congress with two members from each state • it abolished slavery in all parts of the United States • system whereby escaped slaves where moved northward to Canada • ...
Pre Civil War Vocabulary 2024-04-02
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- Political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery.
- Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the majority opinion in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford.
- Compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession.
- A system in which issues are decided by the citizenry or voters.
- Abolitionist; author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
- Series of laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
- law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
- Confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union.
- 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott sued for his freedom; The court ruled against Scott.
- Illinois Republican who ran against Stephen Douglas in 1858 for the Senate.
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- 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained by the War with Mexico.
- John Brown led the raid on the Federal arsenal in Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave revolt, captured in 1859 during an antislavery revolt.
- law meant to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.
- First President of the Confederate States of America.
- Novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that showed slavery as brutal and immoral.
- To withdraw.
- Idea that the states have certain rights that the federal government cannot override.
- Political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.
- Illinois senator who backed the Compromise of 1850
19 Clues: To withdraw. • Abolitionist; author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. • Illinois senator who backed the Compromise of 1850 • First President of the Confederate States of America. • Political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery. • law meant to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. • Political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery. • ...
Geometry terms crossword puzzle 2023-05-24
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- corollary: this corollary states that a quadrilateral is a rhombus if and only if it has four congruent sides
- this word describes shapes that curve inward
- theorem: the segment joining the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to and half the length of the third side, what theorem is this?
- postulate: this postulate states that through any given point not on a line there pases exactly one line parallel to that line in the same plane
- angles: when angles have the same angle measure
- postulate: this postulate states that if two angles form a linear pair, then they are supplementary
- ratio: the values of all the trigonometric functions based on the value of the ratio of sides in a right-angled triangle
- detachment: this is a way of using logic and geometry to determine if a statement is true based on statement given
- vertices: the two endpoints of any side are called?
- polygon: a polygon in where all the interior angles are less than 180 degrees
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- corollary: this corollary states that a quadrilateral is a square if and only if it is a rhombus and a rectangle
- This word describes shapes that curve outward
- corresponding parts of congruent triangles are congruent
- angles: when the sum of 2 angles is 180 degrees
- these are the main functions used in trigonometry and can be found on a calculator
- syllogism: if, then, if
- corollary: this corollary states that a quadrilateral is a rectangle if and only if it has four right angles
- bisector: what divides a line segment into 2 equal parts?
- trapezoid: a trapezoid in which non-parallel sides and base angles are of the same measure
19 Clues: syllogism: if, then, if • this word describes shapes that curve inward • This word describes shapes that curve outward • angles: when the sum of 2 angles is 180 degrees • angles: when angles have the same angle measure • vertices: the two endpoints of any side are called? • corresponding parts of congruent triangles are congruent • ...
Civil War 2023-02-23
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- A cap worn by Civil War soldiers.
- A warship that is covered in iron cladding
- Sixteen president
- A nickname given to people in the South
- A canvas bag to carry food for soldiers
- People who were held captive
- Eighteen president
- first president
- A mammal that people rode on
- The side of an army or military unit
- A nickname for the Confederate States
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- When states choose to leave the United States
- A nickname for the union soldiers
- An army of citizens used during emergencies
- Soldiers that fight and travel by foot.
- A person who wanted to get rid of slavery
- A weapon that people used to shoot
- A nickname for southern whites
- Putting the local interests above the country
- Red, white, and blue
20 Clues: first president • Sixteen president • Eighteen president • Red, white, and blue • People who were held captive • A mammal that people rode on • A nickname for southern whites • A nickname for the union soldiers • A cap worn by Civil War soldiers. • A weapon that people used to shoot • The side of an army or military unit • A nickname for the Confederate States • ...
Creating the Constitution 8.2 (Andy) 2018-05-08
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- government with three branches—executive, legislative and
- government. Nine states had to approve the Constitution
- Constitution of the United States established America’s national
- the 1787 convention, delegates devised a plan for a stronger
- and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights
- it could go into effect. After a long and often bitter debate,
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- with a system of checks and balances to ensure no
- its citizens.
- states ratified the Constitution, which instituted a new form
- government for the United States.
- of Confederation. However, the Convention soon abandoned
- branch would have too much power.
12 Clues: its citizens. • government for the United States. • branch would have too much power. • with a system of checks and balances to ensure no • government. Nine states had to approve the Constitution • of Confederation. However, the Convention soon abandoned • government with three branches—executive, legislative and • ...
Social Studies Enrichment 2016-02-07
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- an established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed
- a French military and political leader
- the first ten amendments to the US Constitution
- small national government
- chief staff aide to General George Washington, one of the most influential interpreters and promoters of the U.S. Constitution
- the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain
- two people that explored the American Northwest
- young Native American woman who guided Lewis and Clark on their expedition
- the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803
- the third Vice President of the United States
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- served as the second President of the United States, the first Vice President
- a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791
- a body of advisers to the president, composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government
- a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies
- the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the President and Vice President
15 Clues: small national government • a French military and political leader • the third Vice President of the United States • the first ten amendments to the US Constitution • two people that explored the American Northwest • a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 • a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies • ...
Final Exam Review - 7th 2024-05-14
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- The constitutional amendment which gave suffrage to African American men.
- Texas settlers of Spanish descent.
- New, mostly white settlers from the United States
- The final battle of the Texas Revolution which gave Texas its independence.
- People living in New Spain that were born in Spain.
- The constitutional amendment which ensured that African Americans were citizens and had equal rights.
- The process of reuniting the nation and rebuilding the southern states.
- What was the last battle of the Civil War?
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- Elected to the governorship in 1853, he paid off the state’s debt.
- One of two men chosen by the delegates of the Convention of 1832 to present resolutions to state and federal governments. President of the Convention of 1833.
- The constitutional amendment which abolished slavery in the United States.
- Who led the main Mexican force into Texas?
- Man who followed up on his father’s colony and started four of his own; known as the “Father of Texas.”
- Businesspeople who promoted settlement in Mexican states.
- The belief that the United States was meant to expand all the way across North American to the Pacific.
15 Clues: Texas settlers of Spanish descent. • Who led the main Mexican force into Texas? • What was the last battle of the Civil War? • New, mostly white settlers from the United States • People living in New Spain that were born in Spain. • Businesspeople who promoted settlement in Mexican states. • Elected to the governorship in 1853, he paid off the state’s debt. • ...
HGOV Unit 3 Review 2024-10-09
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- Concept that holds that the government and its officers are always subject to the law.
- Article I deals with provision and details regarding the ______ Branch.
- Amendment _____ abolished slavery.
- Powers that both the national government and states possess are called ______.
- _____ is a generic term referring to federal money or other resources given to State, cities, counties and other local units.
- Custom that the Senate will not approve a Presidential appointment opposed by a Senator from the state in which the appointee would serve.
- Amendment _____ gives Congress the power to levy an income tax.
- Group of persons chosen in each State every four years who make a formal selection of the President and Vice President.
- Amendment _____ is big–Congress can’t deny your right to due process, property, not incriminate yourself, tried for the same crime twice.
- Powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone.
- Amendment _____ protects the right to bear arms.
- Amendment _____ says that states can’t deny the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- A formal agreement between two or more sovereign states–according to Article II, it's a President’s role to negotiate these with Senate approval.
- Articles IV deals with the relations between the various ______.
- Those powers granted to the National Government by the Constitution.
- Type of Federal grant made for some specifically defined purpose.
- Basic principle that the government and those who govern must obey the constitution.
- Amendment _____ acknowledges that the people have rights in addition to those specifically listed in the Bill of Rights.
- Amendment _____ protects the freedom of religion, assembly, petition, press, and speech.
- He is known as the “Father of the Constitution”
- Change or addition that becomes part of the written language of the Constitution itself through one of the four methods set forth in the Constitution.
- Amendment _____ protects citizens from cruel and unusual punishment + excessive bail.
- Presidential advisory body, traditionally made up of the executive departments–good example of informal Constitutional amendment.
- Amendment _____ states that troops can’t be quartered in your home without the homeowner’s consent.
- Amendment _____ made any person born in the US a citizen plus told the states they can’t deny due process and equal protection of the law.
- _____ refers to powers that belong strictly to the states.
- Article V deals with how to make ______ to the USC.
- Constitution’s requirement that each state accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.
- In Article VI, Section 2 you can find the “_______” indicating that the USC is the supreme law of the land.
- Powers that are specifically granted to the National Government in the Constitution; also known as an enumerated power.
- The introduction to the Constitution is known as the ______.
- Type of Federal grant for some particular, but broadly defined area of public policy.
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- Type of Federal grant made for specific projects to States, localities, and private agencies who apply for them.
- A congressional act admitting a new State to the Union.
- _____ refers to something contrary to the constitution and so illegal, null, and void.
- USC stipulation that no State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those from other states.
- Amendment _____ protects citizens from government searches without a warrant based on probable cause.
- One of the seven main divisions of the body of the Constitution.
- Article II deals with provision and details regarding the ______ Branch.
- Amendment _____ says that states can’t deny the vote for those 18 years old and older.
- Amendment _____ states that the Vice President becomes the President if the President dies, resigns, or is removed from office.
- A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
- Chief Executive’s power to reject a bill proposed by a legislature.
- The first step in the state admission procedure which enables the people of a territory to prepare a constitution.
- Those powers of the National government that are suggested by the expressed powers set out in the Constitution.
- The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution are known as the ____________.
- Also called the Necessary and Proper Clause, it grants Congress the authority to enact all laws that are necessary and proper to carrying out its job.
- The division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
- System where each branch of government exercises some control over the others
- Powers the Constitution is presumed to have delegated to the National Government because it is the government of a sovereign state.
- Amendment _____ says that states can’t deny the vote based on someone’s gender, thus allowing women to vote.
- Formal agreement entered into with the consent of Congress, between or among States.
- A pact made by the President directly with a head of a foreign state–good example of informal amendment to the USC.
- To return a criminal or fugitive who flees across state lines back to the original state.
- The power of the court to determine the constitutionality of a government action is called ______.
- _____ is a generic term that means to “formally approve”
- Article III deals with provision and details regarding the _______ Branch.
- Amendment _____ protects your rights in a criminal case–a speedy and public trial, impartial jury, hear the accusations, confront witnesses.
58 Clues: Amendment _____ abolished slavery. • He is known as the “Father of the Constitution” • Amendment _____ protects the right to bear arms. • Article V deals with how to make ______ to the USC. • A congressional act admitting a new State to the Union. • _____ is a generic term that means to “formally approve” • _____ refers to powers that belong strictly to the states. • ...
Reconstruction 2012-12-01
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- An agency providing relief for freed people
- Escaped slaves
- Made slavery illegal
- Sharing the crop
- Secret society opposed civil rights
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- Admendment giving full fights of citizenship
- Slave states that did not join the confedracy
- Freeing slaves
- Process used by legislative body of wrongdoing against a public offical
- Segregation was allowed
- Laws passed in the South during reconstruction limted freedom and rights of African Americans
- Offered southerness amnesty
- Congress not the president should the southern states
- Reunting the nation and rebuliding Southerns states
- Made a harsher stance
- Forced separation of people of different races in public places
- Laws that enforced segregation
- The first Afriacn American in the US senate
- Special tax in order to vote
19 Clues: Freeing slaves • Escaped slaves • Sharing the crop • Made slavery illegal • Made a harsher stance • Segregation was allowed • Offered southerness amnesty • Special tax in order to vote • Laws that enforced segregation • Secret society opposed civil rights • An agency providing relief for freed people • The first Afriacn American in the US senate • ...
SS Unit 5, Ch. 1 2026-03-06
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- The seizure of this important place in New Orleans was significant because it gave Louisiana control over thousands worth of coins and silver
- The Republican Party stood behind one candidate and remained what?
- The issue of this is what caused great tension in the US at this time
- Lincoln believed that slavery was states what?
- According to Lincoln, he says that many Southerners are feeling this at this time
- A place where money is coined under governmental authority
- By 1861, eleven states had seceded from the Union and formed the _______ States of America
- Won the Presidential election of 1860
- One of the first states to secede from the Union
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- A person who worked to end slavery during the 1700s and 1800s
- This was one of the states that John Bell won in the election of 1860
- The Party that was founded with the mission of opposing slavery
- Southern Democrats wanted to spread this out West
- Lincoln's presidential platform was described as this vocabulary word
- This was not popular in Louisiana at first but changed after Lincoln was elected
- This word means to formally withdraw
16 Clues: This word means to formally withdraw • Won the Presidential election of 1860 • Lincoln believed that slavery was states what? • One of the first states to secede from the Union • Southern Democrats wanted to spread this out West • A place where money is coined under governmental authority • A person who worked to end slavery during the 1700s and 1800s • ...
Lesson 3 2025-11-25
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- What are the ONE rights of everyone living in the United States?
- Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
- How many seats are on the Supreme Court?
- What is ONE way Americans can serve their country?
- What does the judicial branch do?
- How many Supreme Court justices are usually needed to decide a case?
- Who is the governor of your state now?
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- Who can vote in federal elections, run for federal office, and serve on a jury in the United States?
- What is the highest court in the United States?
- Who is the Chief Justice of the United States now?
- What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?
- The colonists came to America for many reasons. Name ONE.
- Name ONE power that is only for the states
- What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?
- What is the capital of your state?
15 Clues: What does the judicial branch do? • What is the capital of your state? • Who is the governor of your state now? • How many seats are on the Supreme Court? • Name ONE power that is only for the states • What is the highest court in the United States? • Who is the Chief Justice of the United States now? • What group of people was taken and sold as slaves? • ...
Vocab crossword APUSH periods 2-5 2021-06-16
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- The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands.
- uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government.
- objectives and activities in relation to its interactions with other states/countrys
- the exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World
- the indigenous peoples of the United States
- second vice president of the United States
- a meeting held in New York, New York, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America.
- prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.
- extension of a state's territory
- a tax imposed by a government of a country
- Those who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in favor of small localized government
- a measurement of how much the government owes its creditors
- an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes
- political revolution in Europe led millions to immagrate
- a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
- In the spring, slaves would plant the rice seeds.
- came in multitudes during the Potato Famine
- requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages.
- the American War of Independence
- a nativist political party and movement in the United States in the mid-1850s.
- the religious tradition and theology of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity started by Joseph Smith
- the battle of _____ gave a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War
- an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s
- Those who supported the Constitution and a stronger national republic
- announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain.
- , "a struggle for global primacy between Britain and France
- established a government for the Northwest Territory, outlined the process for admitting a new state to the Union, and guaranteed that newly created states would be equal to the original thirteen states.
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- an economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.
- The British Parliament enacted a series of taxes on the colonies for the purpose of raising revenue
- American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War
- the first President of the United States
- first permanent English settlement in North America
- It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
- officially ended the American Revolutionary War
- the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West
- It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west
- 8 colony's administered by the Government of the United Kingdom within the British Empire.
- a central bank proposed by Alexander Hamilton
- designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War
- an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers
- movement of people from one place to another with intentions of settling
- European immigrants who “came mainly from Northern and Central Europe
- organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a country's elections
- the transportation of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas
- _______ _________ being for the sake of their economy, religion and glory.
- the British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, especially trade laws, as long as British colonies remained loyal to the government of, and contributed to the economic growth of their parent country
- A court system made up of federal and state. Jurisdiction. The authority to hear and decide a case. Executive Jurisdiction.
- three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial, whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution
- someone forbidden to quit their service for another person
- a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the presidency of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to the Quasi-War
- An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led by an Ottowa chief named Pontiac
- stretches from the Chesapeake Bay to the Appalachian Mountains, It's one of the 13 original colonies
- a member of the British reforming and constitutional party that sought the supremacy of Parliament
- They rejected British rule during the American Revolution, and declared the United States of America an independent nation
- a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade
- a war the United States fought between northern and Pacific states and southern states that voted to secede and form the Confederate States of America
- people elect representatives to deliberate and decide on legislation, such as in parliamentary or presidential democracy.
- America's fourth President
- an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents
59 Clues: America's fourth President • extension of a state's territory • the American War of Independence • the first President of the United States • second vice president of the United States • a tax imposed by a government of a country • the indigenous peoples of the United States • came in multitudes during the Potato Famine • an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers • ...
Southwest Region States and Capitals 2023-05-11
ss 2022-11-30
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- begins with We The People
- a proposal for the structure of the United States Government
- the part of government that enforces law, and has responsibility for the governance of a state
- a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention
- supreme law of the United States of America
- another meaning for bathroom
- compromises of the first ten amendments
- the legislature of the federal government of the United States
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- includes Congress and special agencies and offices that provide support services to Congress the part of government that enforces law, and has responsibility for the governance of a state
- the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law in legal cases
- a ten-sided shape
- agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787
- to be sad and depressed; dispirited
- the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action
- to cause or catch fire
15 Clues: a ten-sided shape • to cause or catch fire • begins with We The People • another meaning for bathroom • to be sad and depressed; dispirited • compromises of the first ten amendments • supreme law of the United States of America • a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention • a proposal for the structure of the United States Government • ...
Themes of geographic inquiry: United States´ Climate, Vegetation, Human Environment Interaction, History, and Economy 2020-05-08
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- which most Americans identify themselves.
- of ecosystem found to the west of United States. SanBernardinoMountainsOne of the popular mountains to the north of Los Angeles. 1624 Yearin which he Virginia Company was dissolved, and the Crown took over the colony.
- States’ type of economy.
- area dominated by trees found to the east of United States. CoastlinesBeachesA magnificent natural feature of Los Angeles county. 1620 Yearin which the Separatists were founded.
- climate. LosAngelesIt is the second most populous city and metropolitan area in the United States.
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- who began growing tobacco.
- States’ central bank.
- and southern coasts of California’s climate. AngelenosLos Angeles residents.
- central and northeastern’ s climate. NewYorkCityIt is the most populous city and metropolitan area in the United States. LucasVazquezdeAyllonSpaniard who attempted to find a colony in Carolina.
- popular sport in United States.
- founded a settlement at St Augustine, Florida, the first permanent Europeansettlement in what is now the USA.
11 Clues: States’ central bank. • States’ type of economy. • who began growing tobacco. • popular sport in United States. • which most Americans identify themselves. • and southern coasts of California’s climate. AngelenosLos Angeles residents. • climate. LosAngelesIt is the second most populous city and metropolitan area in the United States. • ...
Themes of geographic inquiry: United States´ Climate, Vegetation, Human Environment Interaction, History, and Economy 2020-05-08
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- which most Americans identify themselves.
- of ecosystem found to the west of United States. SanBernardinoMountainsOne of the popular mountains to the north of Los Angeles. 1624 Yearin which he Virginia Company was dissolved, and the Crown took over the colony.
- States’ type of economy.
- area dominated by trees found to the east of United States. CoastlinesBeachesA magnificent natural feature of Los Angeles county. 1620 Yearin which the Separatists were founded.
- climate. LosAngelesIt is the second most populous city and metropolitan area in the United States.
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- who began growing tobacco.
- States’ central bank.
- and southern coasts of California’s climate. AngelenosLos Angeles residents.
- central and northeastern’ s climate. NewYorkCityIt is the most populous city and metropolitan area in the United States. LucasVazquezdeAyllonSpaniard who attempted to find a colony in Carolina.
- popular sport in United States.
- founded a settlement at St Augustine, Florida, the first permanent Europeansettlement in what is now the USA.
11 Clues: States’ central bank. • States’ type of economy. • who began growing tobacco. • popular sport in United States. • which most Americans identify themselves. • and southern coasts of California’s climate. AngelenosLos Angeles residents. • climate. LosAngelesIt is the second most populous city and metropolitan area in the United States. • ...
Themes of geographic inquiry: United States´ Climate, Vegetation, Human Environment Interaction, History, and Economy 2020-05-08
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- which most Americans identify themselves.
- of ecosystem found to the west of United States. SanBernardinoMountainsOne of the popular mountains to the north of Los Angeles. 1624 Yearin which he Virginia Company was dissolved, and the Crown took over the colony.
- States’ type of economy.
- area dominated by trees found to the east of United States. CoastlinesBeachesA magnificent natural feature of Los Angeles county. 1620 Yearin which the Separatists were founded.
- climate. LosAngelesIt is the second most populous city and metropolitan area in the United States.
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- who began growing tobacco.
- States’ central bank.
- and southern coasts of California’s climate. AngelenosLos Angeles residents.
- central and northeastern’ s climate. NewYorkCityIt is the most populous city and metropolitan area in the United States. LucasVazquezdeAyllonSpaniard who attempted to find a colony in Carolina.
- popular sport in United States.
- founded a settlement at St Augustine, Florida, the first permanent Europeansettlement in what is now the USA.
11 Clues: States’ central bank. • States’ type of economy. • who began growing tobacco. • popular sport in United States. • which most Americans identify themselves. • and southern coasts of California’s climate. AngelenosLos Angeles residents. • climate. LosAngelesIt is the second most populous city and metropolitan area in the United States. • ...
Early Cold War 2020-04-16
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- plan to help rebuild Europe with U.S. money (M)
- government of the United States where the people rule (D)
- military alliance between the United States and its allies (N)
- to accuse people without evidence (M)
- shortened name for the Soviet Union (U)
- competed with United States during Cold War (S)
- conflict between democracy and communism between from 1947-1991 (C)
- U.S. President in 1947 (T)
- one of the first two countries alongside Greece to receive U.S. money (T)
- part of Korea helped by U.S. during Korean War (S)
- blockaded city that resulted in airplanes dropping supplies into the city (B)
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- stop the spread of communism (C)
- space organization created by the United States in 1958 (N)
- government of the Soviet Union where the government rules (C)
- to ban people from working because they were communist (B)
- war between communist north and democratic south between 1950-1953; divides the country (K)
- large country in Asia that became communist in 1949 (C)
- the most powerful bombs in the world (N)
- American couple who were executed in the 1950's for being Soviet spies (R)
- first satellite in space launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 (S)
20 Clues: U.S. President in 1947 (T) • stop the spread of communism (C) • to accuse people without evidence (M) • shortened name for the Soviet Union (U) • the most powerful bombs in the world (N) • plan to help rebuild Europe with U.S. money (M) • competed with United States during Cold War (S) • part of Korea helped by U.S. during Korean War (S) • ...
Civil War 2021-10-07
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- a custom that has been an important feature of some group
- of a government with central and regional authorities
- a successful ending of a struggle or contest
- A statement that is emphatic and explicit
- Troops trained to fight on horse back
- civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865
- The state of being allied
- civilians trained as soldiers, not part of the regular army
- a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something
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- formal separation from an alliance or federation
- the orientation of those who favor government by the people
- the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
- A region where a battle is being fought
- any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War
- a nation's ruler usually by hereditary right
- A war measure isolating an area of importance
- Of or occurring between or among citizens of the state
- being or joined into a single entity
- An authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- a fortified military post where troops are stationed
- freedom of choice
21 Clues: freedom of choice • The state of being allied • being or joined into a single entity • Troops trained to fight on horse back • A region where a battle is being fought • A statement that is emphatic and explicit • a successful ending of a struggle or contest • a nation's ruler usually by hereditary right • A war measure isolating an area of importance • ...
federal system 2022-11-18
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- united states supreme
- disputes from individuals
- dude in charge of country
- not specifically in the constitution
- state powers
- supreme court
- necessary and proper clause
- house and senate
- action government takes
- national and state government
- national and state powers
- tax on incomes
- periodic checks on government
- states negotiating
- stops public from closed meetings
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- criminals return to state
- president, white house
- favors national action
- organization to carry legislation
- powers constitution grants
- powers directly in constitution
- government powers
- state wanter make constitution
- plan for government
24 Clues: state powers • supreme court • tax on incomes • house and senate • government powers • states negotiating • plan for government • united states supreme • president, white house • favors national action • action government takes • criminals return to state • disputes from individuals • dude in charge of country • national and state powers • powers constitution grants • necessary and proper clause • ...
SS Vocab 2021-09-29
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- the supreme court ruled that congress had implied power to create the second bank of the united states
- a landmark court case that established the principle of judicial review
- basic principles/laws of a nation
- three fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives
- the elected head of a republic
- friend of the people
- highest judicial court in a country/state
- makes laws,declare war,controls taxing, regulates interstate commerce
- officially made
- a person who opposed the ratification of the Constitution
- a treaty between Spain and the united states
- a process by which executive or legislative actions are subject to review
- relating to the government
- agreement that stopped antagonisms between the US and Britain
- a confrontation between the United States and France that led to the Quasi-war
- principle that people receive what they deserve
- the lower house of the US Congress
- political statements in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures said the Alein and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional
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- in charge of deciding the meaning of laws and how to apply them in real situations
- first ten amendments in the constitution
- a formal meeting or series of meetings for discussion between delegates
- proportional representation in the lower house and equal representation in the upper house
- Americas first constitution
- introduction to the constitution
- a land deal between the United States and France
- a person who advocates/supports a system of government in which several states unite under a central authority
- four acts passed by the federalists dominated the 5th US Congress
- part of the government that enforces laws
- the smaller upper assembly in the US Congress and most US states
- papers to support the constitution
- a protest for foreclosures of farms for debt
- nickname was given to a group of judges that were appointed by John Adams the night before he left office
- establish the number of
- a violent tax protest
- a group with a certain equality between its members
- a act/statement/gift that is intended to show respect
36 Clues: officially made • friend of the people • a violent tax protest • establish the number of • relating to the government • Americas first constitution • the elected head of a republic • introduction to the constitution • basic principles/laws of a nation • papers to support the constitution • the lower house of the US Congress • first ten amendments in the constitution • ...
Early Republic Review 2023-01-19
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- This is the state that was once the Indian Territory Cherokee were forced to move to on the Trail of Tears.
- This president’s foreign policy was not to become involved in political affairs of other countries
- The Democratic-Republican party included many farmers, and artisans because it favored states' rights and the rights of the ________ man.
- The purpose of the Monroe __________ was to prevent European intervention in countries near the United States.
- The Whiskey Rebellion, Creation of the National Bank and Creation of the Court System are all _________ issues.
- A decline in foreign trade damaged the commercial shipping industry in New England following the __________ Act.
- Thomas Jefferson and Alexander __________ contributed to the development of political parties in the United States.
- In Washington’s ________ Address, he warned that the country should be cautious in dividing into political parties.
- This President's doctrine instructed Europe to stay away from the Western Hemisphere.
- One reason Jefferson wanted to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase was to take control of the _______________ River.
- President Jackson _________ the Supreme Court ruling of Worcester v. Georgia and forced the Cherokee to leave their homeland on the Trail of Tears.
- This part of the country supported tariffs because they benefit industry and trade.
- The Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans became separate political parties because of disagreements over how the nation should develop _____________.
- After Jackson's election in 1828 voter participation ___________.
- He was the 2nd President of the United States and avoided war with France.
- Do states have the power to declare a federal unconstitutional? Was the issue that led to the ____________ Crisis.
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- This President implemented an embargo on foreign trade.
- Jackson opposed the National _________ because he believed it was inefficient and poorly managed.
- The regulation of interstate __________ by federal or state laws was the issue debated in the court case Gibbons v. Ogden.
- Under the principle of __________ Review the courts have the power to strike down any law they deem unconstitutional.
- One reason for building up the U.S. Military was because of British ______ of U.S. sailors.
- This President led the country during the War of 1812.
- This expanded in the United States following the Embargo Act and War of 1812.
- Hamilton’s plan to improve the economy included the establishment of a National Bank and that the federal government would assume state _________.
- One of the defining characteristics of the Era of Good Feelings was a renewed sense of ____________.
- The _________ Rebellion was one of the first domestic issues Washington faced that tested the federal authority of the United States.
- The election of Andrew Jackson is associated with the formation of the __________ Party.
- The court case of _____________ v. Madison established the principle of Judicial Review.
28 Clues: This President implemented an embargo on foreign trade. • This President led the country during the War of 1812. • After Jackson's election in 1828 voter participation ___________. • He was the 2nd President of the United States and avoided war with France. • This expanded in the United States following the Embargo Act and War of 1812. • ...
Forming a Government 2021-01-16
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- ten of the proposed amendments intended to protect citizen's rights
- a meeting held in Independence Hall in Philadelphia where delegates from the states wrote the constitution (1787)
- the idea that political authority is in the hands of the people
- the uprising of farmers to protest high taxes and heavy debt
- a period of low economic activity combined with a rise of unemployment
- offical changes
- a system of government where power is distributed between a central government and individual states
- an agreement made at the constitutional convention establishing that the lower house would be represented by population while in the upper house each state has equal representation
- a proposed constitution that would give sovereignty to the central government
- trade between two or more states
- lands including present day Indiana, Michigan, Illinois,Ohio, and Wisconsion
- offical approval
- known as the "father of the Constitution" for his ideas about government and his ability to lead the delegates to agreement
- an anti-federalist who believed the constitution needed a section guarenteeing individual rights
- branch of government responsible for interpreting laws, punishing criminals, and settling disputes between states.
- a document that declared no person could be forced to attend a particular church or pay for a church with tax money
- a set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of the government
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- taxes on imports or exports
- a document that created the first central government for the United States that was later replaced with the constitution
- the right to vote
- branch of government responsible for making sure laws are carried out
- supporters of the constitution
- to plead in favor of
- a document signed by King John which made the king subject to law
- branch of government responsible of propossing and passing laws
- an agreement where only three-fifths of a state's slave population counted when determining representation
- increased prices of goods and services combined with the reduced value of money
- people who opposed the constitution
- a system established by the constitution that prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful
- a poor farmer and Revoluntionary War veteran who led hundreds of men in a forced shutdown of the Sumpreme Court
30 Clues: offical changes • offical approval • the right to vote • to plead in favor of • taxes on imports or exports • supporters of the constitution • trade between two or more states • people who opposed the constitution • the uprising of farmers to protest high taxes and heavy debt • the idea that political authority is in the hands of the people • ...
US Constitution 2023-01-17
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- One of the first states to ratify the constitution.
- The main body of the Judicial branch.
- The leader and soul of the army.
- A Virginia Patriot who tried to get people to work together.
- The system to keep any single branch from gaining too much power.
- The group that writes the law.
- Deciding weather slaves were included in the state population.
- What the Judicial branch does.
- The unit for how many Representatives a state gets.
- The group that interprets the law.
- What the legislative branch does.
- Belief in having a strong central government.
- The part of Congress that represents the states.
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- The competition to Washington.
- A document that lists rules for states.
- The group that enforces the law.
- Attacks on government buildings in Massachusetts.
- The main body of the Executive Branch.
- Believing the states should hold more power.
- What started having seats in congress for the states.
- The main body of the legislative branch.
- The list of rights for the American people.
- The home of James Madison
- What the executive branch does.
24 Clues: The home of James Madison • The competition to Washington. • The group that writes the law. • What the Judicial branch does. • What the executive branch does. • The group that enforces the law. • The leader and soul of the army. • What the legislative branch does. • The group that interprets the law. • The main body of the Judicial branch. • ...
Articles of Confederation-Alexander 2026-03-06
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- Created the Articles of Confederation
- Talented inventor, scientist, diplomat and writer
- Enrolled at King's College in New York
- Primary author of the Declaration of Independence
- Some states treated the American Indians ______
- States sent _______________ to sit and talk.
- You can find Washington on the ______ bill
- Each state would set their own _____
- Congress had to request _____ from the states to pay dept
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- Attended Harvard University
- Washington appointed _____ ____, his secretary of war
- Spoke about every topic of importance
- Someone that is treated as property
- A new ______ for Congress was elected by members every year
- Mighty
- Madison wrote 29 out of the 85 ______
- "Father of the Constitution"
- Friendship
18 Clues: Mighty • Friendship • Attended Harvard University • "Father of the Constitution" • Someone that is treated as property • Each state would set their own _____ • Spoke about every topic of importance • Created the Articles of Confederation • Madison wrote 29 out of the 85 ______ • Enrolled at King's College in New York • You can find Washington on the ______ bill • ...
Cities and States in Australia 2020-07-12
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- Melbourne
- Victoria (name); Victoria, capital of the Seychelles
- Sydney, capital of New South Wales, Australia
- South Australia
- Darwin
- New South Wales, southeast Australian state
- Australia
- Queensland, northeast Australian state
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- capital of Queensland
- Northern Territory, sparsely populated federal territory extending from center to north of Australia
- Tasmania (Tw)
- capital city of Australia
- Perth, capital of Western Australia
- Western Australia, Australian state
- Adelaide, capital of South Australia
- Hobart, capital of Tasmania, Australia
16 Clues: Darwin • Melbourne • Australia • Tasmania (Tw) • South Australia • capital of Queensland • capital city of Australia • Perth, capital of Western Australia • Western Australia, Australian state • Adelaide, capital of South Australia • Queensland, northeast Australian state • Hobart, capital of Tasmania, Australia • New South Wales, southeast Australian state • ...
Civil War Crossword 2023-05-10
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- The first official battle of the Civil War
- President that was elected during the Civil War
- The state of being in slavery
- Those who were against slavery and attempted to abolish it
- The Amendment that abolished slavery
- The governments plan to rebuild the southern states after the Civil War
- Laws made in the South to enforce segregation
- War that involved the North and South of the US
- The title of the seceded south portion of the US
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- The title for North of the US
- A group of American supremacists/terrorists who targeted African Americans
- Laws made by pro-slavery to keep past slaves in a state of slavery
- Amendment states that all people born in the US are citizens and have the right to vote and are protected by law
- Description of Norths factory focused economy
- A compromise made to balance pro and anti-slavery states in terms of power
- The South's type of economy
- Amendment states the right to vote shouldn't be stripped based upon race, color, or condition of servitude
17 Clues: The South's type of economy • The title for North of the US • The state of being in slavery • The Amendment that abolished slavery • The first official battle of the Civil War • Description of Norths factory focused economy • Laws made in the South to enforce segregation • President that was elected during the Civil War • War that involved the North and South of the US • ...
Counties and capitals - Grade 10 2021-07-09
Unit 8: The Civil War 2024-01-20
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- A strategy by the Union navy to prevent the South from trading its goods with Europe.
- The ownership and forced labor of one person by another. In the early history of the United States, many Black men and women were enslaved in the South. Tensions between anti-slavery forces and pro-slavery forces led to the American Civil War.
- A period of rebuilding the country after the Civil War, during which the former Confederate States were governed under strict regulations before being readmitted into the Union. Sharecropping: An institution of labor in which laborers agree to exchange labor and a portion of their crops to a landowner in return for land to work. Sharecroppers brought only their labor into the agreement.
- An amendment to the U.S. Constitution that guaranteed each individual's right to vote, regardless of race.
- The largest battle fought in the state of Georgia. The battle lasted three days and was the second-bloodiest battle of the Civil War. This was the largest Union defeat in the west. Civil War: The name of a war fought in the United States between the Northern industrial states and the Southern agricultural states (which had seceded over the issue of slavery and states' rights). It lasted from 1861 to 1865.
- The idea that each state can pass laws without federal involvement. In the decades. leading up to the Civil War, most Southerners saw slavery as a states' rights issue.
- A slave who, on the basis of having lived in free states, sued for his freedom in federal court. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately decided that, as "property," he had no right to sue. Election of 1860: A presidential election that focused on the issue of slavery. Abraham Lincoln, the Republican nominee, opposed slavery, though he promised not to abolish the institution. When he won, however, a number of Southern states voted to secede from the Union.
- A secretive, violent organization of white supremacists that arose after the Civil War to restrict the rights of African Americans/Blacks.
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- to follow or enforce a federal law. A constitutional crisis was created when the state of South Carolina passed an ordinance declaring that two federal tariffs would not be observed.
- The movement of General William T. Sherman's Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia, to the port of Savannah, resulting in the capture of the port. The march destroyed much of the Confederate army's infrastructure, support, and trade routes.
- An executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, declaring an end to slavery in those states that had seceded from the Union.
- A federal compromise between anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces. It allowed each new state to determine its own status as a free or slave state when entering the Union. It also resulted in California joining the Union as a free state and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act. Debate over secession: Even within the Southern states, there was much debate over whether leaving the Union was constitutional. Ultimately, Georgia voted to secede.
- A system, prevalent in the South after the Civil War, in which landowners allowed farmers to cultivate their land for a percentage of the profits and/or rent and food. Though sharecropping and tenant farming were similar, there was a major difference. Tenant farmers usually owned their own tools, animals, and other equipment, while sharecroppers brought only their labor into the agreement.
- A series of battles fought in Georgia after Union General William T. Sherman invaded the state in an attempt to weaken the South.
- An amendment to the U.S. Constitution that granted citizenship rights to all persons born in the United States. The amendment also declared that no state could make laws that took away rights of citizens. The amendment was ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of freed slaves after the Civil War.
- An amendment to the U.S. Constitution that ended slavery in the states.
- A government agency established to help former slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War. It helped former slaves adjust to their new freedoms and responsibilities. Georgia Platform: A statement issued by the Georgia Convention in response to the Compromise of 1850, affirming state acceptance of the Compromise.
- A small town in southwest Georgia known for its Confederate prisoner-of-war camp.
18 Clues: An amendment to the U.S. Constitution that ended slavery in the states. • A small town in southwest Georgia known for its Confederate prisoner-of-war camp. • A strategy by the Union navy to prevent the South from trading its goods with Europe. • An amendment to the U.S. Constitution that guaranteed each individual's right to vote, regardless of race. • ...
History 2014-09-21
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- name one cities that have a major airports and seaport
- which european country has the highest percentage of urban population
- buying and selling of goods
- name one of the cities in the region have population of 500,000 to 1,000,000
- what percentage of u.s. exports does japan
- name one chinese cities have population of more than 5 million people
- moving people and goods from another place to place
- which country has the highest percentage of people between the ages of 0 to 9
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- which general direction is the population of the united states moving from
- eraser that came from malaysia
- leave their country to find a safety in another continent
- person who moves to a new city taking a job
- permanent movement of people from place to place
- what percentage of u.s. imports from japan
- relying on others
- region does the united states import the largest amount of goods
- people migrated to all other inhabited continents
- which country has the smallest percentage of people between the ages of 0 to 9
- region that the smallest percentage of united states of united export
- region buys the most of united states goods
20 Clues: relying on others • buying and selling of goods • eraser that came from malaysia • what percentage of u.s. imports from japan • what percentage of u.s. exports does japan • person who moves to a new city taking a job • region buys the most of united states goods • permanent movement of people from place to place • people migrated to all other inhabited continents • ...
The Civil War 2023-10-13
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- - The formal withdrawal of 11 southern states from the United States in 1860-1861, leading to the formation of the Confederate States of America.
- Crisis - A conflict between South Carolina and the federal government in the 1830s over tariffs, which revealed the growing divide between northern and southern states.
- of 1860 - The presidential election in which Abraham Lincoln, a Republican and opponent of slavery, was elected, causing southern states to secede.
- Slave Act - A federal law passed in 1850 that mandated the return of escaped slaves to their owners, leading to increased tensions between the North and South.
- Scott Decision - A Supreme Court ruling in 1857 that said slaves were property and had no right to sue in federal court, ultimately inflaming tensions between the North and South.
- Railroad - A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states and Canada.
- Ferry Raid - An unsuccessful attempt by abolitionist John Brown to raid the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859, with the goal of starting a slave rebellion.
- Act - A law passed in 1854 that allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to determine whether they would allow slavery, sparking violence and political turmoil.
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- Debates - A series of debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during the Illinois Senate election, which famously highlighted their differing views on slavery.
- Brown's Raid - Another term for the Harpers Ferry raid, named after the abolitionist leader John Brown.
- Tom's Cabin - A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that depicted the harsh realities of slavery, helping to increase anti-slavery sentiments.
- Kansas - A violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters in Kansas during the 1850s, resulting from the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
- of 1850 - A series of acts passed to address the issue of slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico, including the admission of California as a free state and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
- Compromise - A law passed in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave and free states, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
- - The movement to end slavery, primarily in the United States, which gained momentum in the years leading up to the Civil War.
15 Clues: Brown's Raid - Another term for the Harpers Ferry raid, named after the abolitionist leader John Brown. • Railroad - A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states and Canada. • ...
Ch. 8 Vocab Project 2023-03-31
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- To withdraw from an organization or country
- Someone who wants to end slavery
- A geographic area with boundaries, residents, and a government with a constitution and laws. The United States has 50 states, and they share some governing power with the federal government
- The United States of America often in reference to the northern states during the civil war
- Proclamation An order issued by the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It announced that the enslaved people in the rebelling confederate states were free
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- A system of government in which power is divided between a federal, or national, government and its various state governments
- A person who comes into a country to live there
- The head of the executive branch in a state or territory
- Somebody who encourages others to join a group or take action
- A written document outlining how the government of a state or country is organized
- The eleven southern states that seceded from the union during the civil war. Also called the Confederate States of America
- Congress The group of people that makes laws for our country. It has representatives from all territories and states. It is divided into two groups, the Senate and the House of Representatives
- A change to a government process or document steamboat: a boat powered by a steam engine. Steamboats were the main mode of travel for immigrants moving to Minnesota during the territorial period
13 Clues: Someone who wants to end slavery • To withdraw from an organization or country • A person who comes into a country to live there • The head of the executive branch in a state or territory • Somebody who encourages others to join a group or take action • A written document outlining how the government of a state or country is organized • ...
Dylan = 2nd hour 2023-03-06
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- betray
- started after Lincoln became president.
- allowing residents to vote.
- someone who believes in expansion.
- an investor.
- repealed the Missouri compromise and aloud the people to vote.
- created an imaginary line to split the country.
- first territorial governor of Kansas.
- states that are anti slavery
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- president during the civil war.
- died for his cause
- an investor.
- areas that are not yet states.
- something that can be worse than a crime.
- a crop produced for commercial value.
- some who is anti slavery.
- states that are pro slavery
- to attack.
- became governor of Kansas.
- a person that dies for their beliefs.
- barrier.
21 Clues: betray • barrier. • to attack. • an investor. • an investor. • died for his cause • some who is anti slavery. • became governor of Kansas. • states that are pro slavery • allowing residents to vote. • states that are anti slavery • areas that are not yet states. • president during the civil war. • someone who believes in expansion. • a crop produced for commercial value. • ...
Calvins World War 2 Crossword 2021-04-27
Across
- soviet union, France, united states, and great britain
- Germany, Japan, Italy
- Entered WWII on September 27th 1940
- major battle in the pacific theater
- "lightning war"
- religion that was centered around the
- led the united states 3rd army
- country responsible for world war 2
- flew suicide attacks for japan
- 33rd president of the united states
- Italian dictator
- Hitlers wife
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- Japanese city that was bombed
- length of the Battle of Guadalcanal
- "enemy aliens"
- organized the New Deal
- secret police stealing jews
- Normandy invasion
- first battle in history to be fought in the air
- German general
20 Clues: Hitlers wife • "enemy aliens" • German general • "lightning war" • Italian dictator • Normandy invasion • Germany, Japan, Italy • organized the New Deal • secret police stealing jews • Japanese city that was bombed • led the united states 3rd army • flew suicide attacks for japan • length of the Battle of Guadalcanal • Entered WWII on September 27th 1940 • ...
Unit One Escape Room (8th) 2022-09-21
Across
- Wanted larger states to have more representation in government
- Made slaves 3/5th of a person towards taxation, votes, and population
- To approve or agree formally
- This was the original document of the United States government that eventually failed.
- The greatest teacher of all time. #GOAT
- Wanted every state to have equal representation to ensure one state doesn't become to powerful
- Wanted a strong central government and weak state governments
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- James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote these papers to convince states to ratify the Constitution.
- Wanted a weak central government and strong state governments
- Someone who helped write the Constitution
- This separate body of people decides who becomes President
- Combined the New Jersey and Virginia Plans to create Congress
- This person wrote the Virginia Plan, Bill of Rights, and Federalist Papers. He also took detailed notes and proposed many ideas.
- This had to be added to the Constitution in order for some states to approve it
- The city that the Constitutional Convention took place
- The best class everrrrrrr. Duhhhhhh!
16 Clues: To approve or agree formally • The best class everrrrrrr. Duhhhhhh! • The greatest teacher of all time. #GOAT • Someone who helped write the Constitution • The city that the Constitutional Convention took place • This separate body of people decides who becomes President • Wanted a weak central government and strong state governments • ...
Chapter 4 Terms 2014-02-23
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- Powers the constitution is presumed to have delegated to the National Government because it is the government of a sovereign state within the world community
- One type of federal grants-in-aid made for specific projects to States, localities, and private agencies who apply for them
- Constitution's requirement that each state accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state
- Delegated powers of the National Government that are spelled out. Also called "Enumerated Powers"
- Those powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone
- Powers granted to the National Government by the constitution
- Grants of federal money or other resources to States, cities, countries, and other local units
- Basic principle of federalism; governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis
- Congressional act directing the people of a United Sates territory to frame a proposed State constitution
- One type of federal grants-in-aid made for some specific purpose
- Congressional act admitting a new State to the Union
- Those powers that the Constitution does not grant to the National Government and does not deny to the state
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- Formal agreement entered into with the consent of Congress, between or among States and foreign state
- All citizens are entitled to certain "privileges and immunities," regardless of their state of residence
- A system of goverment in which a written constitution divides the powers of government on a territorial basis
- Form of federal monetary aid under which congress gave share of federal tax revenue, with no restrictions to the States, cities, counties, and townships
- One type of federal grants-in-aid for some particular but broadly defined public policy
- The legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state is returned to that state
- Those powers that both the National Government and the States posses and exercise
- Those delegated powers of theNational Government that are suggested by the expressed powers set out in the Constitution
20 Clues: Congressional act admitting a new State to the Union • Powers granted to the National Government by the constitution • One type of federal grants-in-aid made for some specific purpose • Those powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone • Those powers that both the National Government and the States posses and exercise • ...
8. Conflict and Compromise at the Convention 2026-02-06
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- An agreement that counted three out of every five enslaved people when figuring population for taxes and representation.
- The first ten amendments to the Constitution that protect freedoms like speech and religion.
- An agreement that created two parts of Congress to give fair power to both large and small states.
- People who wanted states and citizens to have more power than the federal government.
- A plan that said every state should have the same number of representatives, no matter its size.
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- People who wanted a strong central government to run the country.
- The part of Congress where each state has two senators, giving all states equal power.
- The part of Congress where the number of representatives depends on how many people live in each state.
- A plan that gave Congress more power and created three branches of government, with more representatives for states with larger populations.
- The plan of government written in 1787 that created a strong national government for the United States.
- A system where people were forced to work and were owned by others, mostly used on farms in Southern states.
- The buying and selling of goods between states, countries, or groups.
12 Clues: People who wanted a strong central government to run the country. • The buying and selling of goods between states, countries, or groups. • People who wanted states and citizens to have more power than the federal government. • The part of Congress where each state has two senators, giving all states equal power. • ...
The Civil War 2023-10-13
Across
- - The formal withdrawal of 11 southern states from the United States in 1860-1861, leading to the formation of the Confederate States of America.
- Crisis - A conflict between South Carolina and the federal government in the 1830s over tariffs, which revealed the growing divide between northern and southern states.
- of 1860 - The presidential election in which Abraham Lincoln, a Republican and opponent of slavery, was elected, causing southern states to secede.
- Slave Act - A federal law passed in 1850 that mandated the return of escaped slaves to their owners, leading to increased tensions between the North and South.
- Scott Decision - A Supreme Court ruling in 1857 that said slaves were property and had no right to sue in federal court, ultimately inflaming tensions between the North and South.
- Railroad - A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states and Canada.
- Ferry Raid - An unsuccessful attempt by abolitionist John Brown to raid the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859, with the goal of starting a slave rebellion.
- Act - A law passed in 1854 that allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to determine whether they would allow slavery, sparking violence and political turmoil.
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- Debates - A series of debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during the Illinois Senate election, which famously highlighted their differing views on slavery.
- Brown's Raid - Another term for the Harpers Ferry raid, named after the abolitionist leader John Brown.
- Tom's Cabin - A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that depicted the harsh realities of slavery, helping to increase anti-slavery sentiments.
- Kansas - A violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters in Kansas during the 1850s, resulting from the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
- of 1850 - A series of acts passed to address the issue of slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico, including the admission of California as a free state and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
- Compromise - A law passed in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave and free states, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
- - The movement to end slavery, primarily in the United States, which gained momentum in the years leading up to the Civil War.
15 Clues: Brown's Raid - Another term for the Harpers Ferry raid, named after the abolitionist leader John Brown. • Railroad - A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states and Canada. • ...
Review for Civil War 2024-04-24
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- What was the main issue that caused tension between the North and South before the Civil War?
- What word describes the state of being liberated or not being enslaved?
- Which region of the United States generally supported the Confederacy during the Civil War?
- What term describes individuals who fought in the military during the Civil War?
- What was the name of the group of states that fought to preserve the United States during the Civil War?
- Lincoln Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
- Proclamation What was the name of the document issued by President Lincoln that declared slaves in Confederate-held territories to be free?
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- Davis Who was the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War?
- What term describes the period after the Civil War when the United States government worked to rebuild the South and bring it back into the Union?
- Address What famous speech did President Lincoln give at the dedication of a cemetery for soldiers who died in the Battle of Gettysburg?
- Sumter Where did the first shots of the Civil War take place?
- What term is used to describe a violent conflict between opposing forces during a war?
- What was the name of the group of states that seceded from the Union to form their own government during the Civil War?
- What are the leaders of armies called during a war?
- Which region of the United States generally supported the Union during the Civil War?
- What is the term for the act of states leaving the Union to form their own independent government?
16 Clues: What are the leaders of armies called during a war? • Sumter Where did the first shots of the Civil War take place? • What word describes the state of being liberated or not being enslaved? • Lincoln Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War? • What term describes individuals who fought in the military during the Civil War? • ...
Major Wars of the United States 2024-08-06
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- This chilly war pitted the United States and Russia against each other to see who would be top dog of the world
- Many consider this war to be the first major lost that the United States faced
- This war started because the United States wanted to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction
- This war was a direct response to the September 11th attacks on the United States
- This war allowed Americans to win their independence from England
- Allied Powers Vs. Central Powers
- This war ended with the United States gaining 1/3 of the entire country from Mexico
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- Allied Powers Vs. Axis Powers
- The war ended with a DMZ placed between two countries that still exist today
- This war led to the inclusion of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as U.S. territories
- The United States got involved in this war to protect its rights to Middle Eastern Oil
- This war ended with no gains from England or the United States
- This war had brothers fighting against each other for the sake of whether Americans should owning slaves
13 Clues: Allied Powers Vs. Axis Powers • Allied Powers Vs. Central Powers • This war ended with no gains from England or the United States • This war allowed Americans to win their independence from England • The war ended with a DMZ placed between two countries that still exist today • Many consider this war to be the first major lost that the United States faced • ...
Sets 2021-08-04
Across
- ___law states that (A ∪ B)’ = A’ ∩ B’
- ___intervals are denoted by []
- a set contains ______
- ____set has indefinite number of elements
- ____set has no elements
- _____on sets include union, intersection etc..
- ___diagram are used to represent relations between sets
- Two finite sets A and B are said to be _____ if the number of elements are equal
- set-___ form and roster form are used to represent sets
- A set can have closed and open _____
- ____ form is also known as tabular form
- A set A is said to be a ___set of a set B if every element of B is also an element of A
- ___law states that A intersection (B union C) is equal to (B union A) intersection (C union A)
- __law states that A union (B union C) is equal to (A union B) union C
- ____law states that Set A union to null set or set A intersection to Universal set is equal to set A
- The __ of A and B is the set that consists of all the elements of A and all the elements of B
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- ___set has definite number of elements
- _of a set A is denoted by A'
- ____difference is denoted by the delta sign
- the ___ of the sets A and B in this order is the set of elements which belong to A but not to B
- ___law states that A union B is equal to B union A
- _____law states that the union and intersect of the same set A is equal to set A
- __set contains all elements
- ____set is denoted by = sign
- ___set is also called empty set
- ___intervals are denoted by ()
- ___set is the collection of all subsets of a set
- The __ of sets A and B is the set of all elements which are common to both A and B
- ___set has only 1 element
- A set A is said to be a ___set of a set B if every element of A is also an element of B
- ____is a well-defined collection of objects
- Two sets A and B are said to be ___ sets if they have no elements in common
32 Clues: a set contains ______ • ____set has no elements • ___set has only 1 element • __set contains all elements • _of a set A is denoted by A' • ____set is denoted by = sign • ___intervals are denoted by [] • ___intervals are denoted by () • ___set is also called empty set • A set can have closed and open _____ • ___law states that (A ∪ B)’ = A’ ∩ B’ • ...
Louisiana purchase and war of 1812 2022-03-31
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- The number of states the Louisiana purchase added to the United States
- The amount of money the land was being sold for
- In 1932 we claimed this song to be our National anthem
- The Treaty the American and British signed at the end of the war
- Many states threatened to leave the United States because of this
- The month the War of 1812 started in
- Spain and France controlled the major body of water
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- This battle caused the Native Americans to leave their land
- The building the British troops burned down
- The transportation method people used to get through the Appalachian Mountains
- year the British attacked the White house
- After the war of 1812, the United States gained this
- General William Hull led the American Army from Detroit to here
- Wife of James Madison
- Native Americans were also known as this
15 Clues: Wife of James Madison • The month the War of 1812 started in • Native Americans were also known as this • year the British attacked the White house • The building the British troops burned down • The amount of money the land was being sold for • Spain and France controlled the major body of water • After the war of 1812, the United States gained this • ...
Chapter 16-17, Brandon Bays 2024-02-06
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- To give a reason for something to show why it is reasonable
- to enroll in a group
- To formally separate from a government or organization
- to formally withdraw from an organization or group
- Someone killed, missing or injured during a war, disaster, or accident
- A place that keeps weapons
- to support or strengthen
- A careful plan for achieving a goal
- notes given during the civil war with green ink
- A war strategy of destroying all the enemies resources
- a force that opposes motion
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- Someone running from something, usually authorities
- to firmly establish or fix
- An order by president Lincoln in 1863 freeing all slaves in the rebelling states
- A stream or river that flows into a larger river
- concept that laws should be made by states and not the federal government
- A war where groups of people from the same country fight against each other.
- A payment made as a reward
- slave owning states that stayed with the Union
- Someone who dies or suffers for their actions or beliefs
20 Clues: to enroll in a group • to support or strengthen • to firmly establish or fix • A place that keeps weapons • A payment made as a reward • a force that opposes motion • A careful plan for achieving a goal • slave owning states that stayed with the Union • notes given during the civil war with green ink • A stream or river that flows into a larger river • ...
FJ-II VIVA (BATCH-2) 2026-04-07
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- Abstract machine model underlying classical computability theory
- Measurement outcome probabilities are obtained by taking modulus square of
- Inner product ⟨ψ|φ⟩ defines this fundamental geometric property
- If two states are orthogonal, their inner product evaluates to
- Two-qubit gate flipping target conditioned on control qubit
- Metric counting sequential layers of gates in a circuit
- Condition where two states have zero inner product
- Sum of probabilities of all measurement outcomes equals this value
- Single-qubit gate creating equal superposition from basis states
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- Exponential state-space exploration via superposition
- Circuit simplification by eliminating redundant gates
- Number of basis states in a 3-qubit system
- Process of reducing gate count and circuit depth
- Property ensuring no information loss in quantum gates
- Mathematical structure used to represent quantum states
- Process of expressing a state as a linear combination of basis vectors
- Algorithm distinguishing constant vs balanced functions in one query
- Error arising due to interaction with environment
- Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm provides this type of speedup
- Non-classical correlation exploited in quantum information tasks
20 Clues: Number of basis states in a 3-qubit system • Process of reducing gate count and circuit depth • Error arising due to interaction with environment • Condition where two states have zero inner product • Exponential state-space exploration via superposition • Circuit simplification by eliminating redundant gates • Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm provides this type of speedup • ...
Treaty-Based Actors 2018-02-07
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- Main meeting place for all committees
- A committee monitoring the execution of a treaty throughout the world
- Controversial Anti-Terrorism bill brought before the Human Rights Committee
- Committee on the Rights of a Child
- Voting standard for a committee to take action
- Committee on the Protection of Rights of All Migrant Workers and Their Families
- A form of feedback given to a State after submitting a report for evaluation
- Number of Treaty-Based Bodies in United Nations
- Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Statements submitted by States to committees for evaluations
- Monitors the implementation International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
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- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
- Committee of Enforced...
- Complaints against a State by their citizens
- A committees interpretation of a human rights provision
- Members of committees are considered to be...in the field of human rights
- A provision released by CERD to deescalate a situation
- Review compliance reports by States and adjudicates individual reports by States
- Committee Against...first session held in 1988
- Number of treaties not ratified by United States
- A committee established by the Economic and Social Council
21 Clues: Committee of Enforced... • Committee on the Rights of a Child • Main meeting place for all committees • Complaints against a State by their citizens • Voting standard for a committee to take action • Committee Against...first session held in 1988 • Number of Treaty-Based Bodies in United Nations • Number of treaties not ratified by United States • ...
Civil War - KW 2025-05-09
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- When a state leaves the Union
- A metal warship
- To be forcefully taken into the army
- The unofficial term for the Northern states during the civil war
- To dig trenches
- To join the Army
- An all-out-war that has civilian and non-militant infrastructure targetted and used
- Rights that every individual state has
- A reward given out in exchange for bringing someone in dead or alive
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- A judicial order that bans law enforcement from keeping a prisoner in confinement without justification
- A proclamation declaring that all slaves are free persons
- Injuries, MIA, or Death
- The states that left the United States
- the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument
- States that allowed slavery but stayed with the Union
- To move around the enemy and attack them from all sides
16 Clues: A metal warship • To dig trenches • To join the Army • Injuries, MIA, or Death • When a state leaves the Union • To be forcefully taken into the army • The states that left the United States • Rights that every individual state has • States that allowed slavery but stayed with the Union • To move around the enemy and attack them from all sides • ...
Civil War Crossword 2018-05-02
Across
- president during the civil war
- this invention increased the amount of deaths
- the bloodiest battle of the Civil War
- this ammendment protected the rights of citizens
- lincoln's brief speech in honor of the people who died in the war
- this amendment banned slavery
- this amendment gives every citizen the right to vote
- Black ____ were passed by the Southern States, which limit the African American's freedom
Down
- secret society of white Southerners in the United States to keep former slaves powerless
- laws that enforced racial segregation
- person who shot Lincoln
- where Lee surrendered to Grant
- Union's plan to victory
- period after the Civil War in the United States when the Southern States were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
- Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware
- General of the South
16 Clues: General of the South • person who shot Lincoln • Union's plan to victory • this amendment banned slavery • president during the civil war • where Lee surrendered to Grant • laws that enforced racial segregation • the bloodiest battle of the Civil War • Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware • this invention increased the amount of deaths • ...
ss 2022-11-30
Across
- begins with We The People
- a proposal for the structure of the United States Government
- the part of government that enforces law, and has responsibility for the governance of a state
- a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention
- supreme law of the United States of America
- another meaning for bathroom
- compromises of the first ten amendments
- the legislature of the federal government of the United States
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- includes Congress and special agencies and offices that provide support services to Congress the part of government that enforces law, and has responsibility for the governance of a state
- the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law in legal cases
- a ten-sided shape
- agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787
- to be sad and depressed; dispirited
- the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action
- to cause or catch fire
15 Clues: a ten-sided shape • to cause or catch fire • begins with We The People • another meaning for bathroom • to be sad and depressed; dispirited • compromises of the first ten amendments • supreme law of the United States of America • a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention • a proposal for the structure of the United States Government • ...
CHAPTER 7-1 THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION 2021-09-22
Across
- "Limits on ______" 182
- males had to own what to be able to vote 183
- "The _____ of Confederation" 182
- States wanted for form west of what mountains 185
- what Ordinance created a single territory 186
- 13 states needed a plan of what 182
- two separate lawmaking chambers 183
- Americans negotiated a ____ ____ 185
- power divided between governor and what 183
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- each state adopted a state what 182
- power in the hands of who 183
- congress could not force citizens to join what 184
- citizens elect representatives and rule 183
- congress could not regulate what 184
- what state first refused to approve Articles 184
- Congress could borrow what 184
- all the _____ had to approve the Articles 184
- or law set to process and sell land 186
- law made easier to buy land 187
- new government had no chief ______ 184
20 Clues: "Limits on ______" 182 • power in the hands of who 183 • Congress could borrow what 184 • law made easier to buy land 187 • "The _____ of Confederation" 182 • each state adopted a state what 182 • 13 states needed a plan of what 182 • two separate lawmaking chambers 183 • congress could not regulate what 184 • Americans negotiated a ____ ____ 185 • ...
Federalist Crossword 2026-04-06
Across
- Bank Central bank managing money and credit
- Rebellion Farmer protest against a whiskey tax
- Supported states’ rights
- First U.S. president who established key traditions
- Powers Powers not directly listed in Constitution
- Affair French demand for bribes from U.S. diplomats
- Interpretation Following Constitution exactly as written
- Seizing American sailors by Britain
- Treaty Agreement with Spain over trade and borders
- Treasury leader who built the economic plan
- Federal government takes on state debts
Down
- Leader of the party supporting states’ rights
- Act Law that created the federal court system
- Timbers Battle where U.S. defeated Native forces
- Treaty opening western lands to U.S. settlement
- & Sedition Acts Laws limiting speech and immigrants
- Taxes on imported goods
- States can reject federal laws
- Supported strong national government
- of Rights First ten amendments protecting freedoms
- Treaty Agreement with Britain to prevent war
- Policy of avoiding foreign wars
22 Clues: Taxes on imported goods • Supported states’ rights • States can reject federal laws • Policy of avoiding foreign wars • Seizing American sailors by Britain • Supported strong national government • Federal government takes on state debts • Bank Central bank managing money and credit • Treasury leader who built the economic plan • Treaty Agreement with Britain to prevent war • ...
Bill of Rights Crossword Puzzle 2017-01-12
Across
- What the Bill of Rights was written on
- Makes a change
- Individuals who fought for the Constitution
- Chief Executive
- Opposite of slavery
- First to rule
- Congress, Senate, and Supreme Court
- Used to write with
- What our Founding Fathers wore
- An agreement between countries or states
- Another word for a law
Down
- Opposite to the Senate
- Where the President stays
- Louisiana Purchase
- Used with cannon balls
- Fights for what is right
- United States
- Writer of the Bill of Rights
- Supreme law of the United States
- Flintlock
- Someone sent to a convention to represent a state
21 Clues: Flintlock • United States • First to rule • Makes a change • Chief Executive • Louisiana Purchase • Used to write with • Opposite of slavery • Opposite to the Senate • Used with cannon balls • Another word for a law • Fights for what is right • Where the President stays • Writer of the Bill of Rights • What our Founding Fathers wore • Supreme law of the United States • ...
20th Century 2013-01-22
Across
- modern leader who brought democracy and free market capitalism to the Soviet Union
- A 20th/century competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for supremecy in space exploration
- Alliance of nations including Germany and Japan during WWII
- Alliance of nations including the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union during WWII
- The theatre where Allies battled Germany
- non-fighting war between the United States and the Soviet Union over influence in the world
- U.S. ideology stating that if one country fell to communism then neighboring countries would follow suit
- nuclear weapon used to defeat Japan and save American lives
- When money loses value while the costs of goods increases
- Racial discrimination directed towards Jewish people
- U.S. naval base that was bombed by the Japanese forcing the U.S. to enter WWII
- created by the United Nations in 1947 as a Jewish homeland
- Site where Soviet arms were smuggled in order to put military pressure on America
- Communist leader and successor to Vladimir Lenin who developed the Five Year Plan
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- The theatre where the United States fought Japan
- U.S. foreign policy focusing on suppressing the spread of Communism
- country that saw two wars with the United States over territory, resources, and alleged weapons of mass destruction
- Post-World War II alliance headed by the Soviet Union
- military strategy designed to defeat Japan one island at a time
- Bolshevik leader who began the communist Russian Revolution
- the geographic region containing Japan's empire
- work camp; place where prisoners were forced to perform menial tasks
- nation in the middle east punished after World War II for its alliance with Germany
- successor to the League of Nations; designed to prevent future wars
- An unsuccessful military invasion into Cuba to halt Fidel Castro's nationalistic policies
- Avoiding war by making concessions to Hitler's actions
- Treaty that ended WWI and punished Germany
- A 20th/century competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for supremecy in military weaponry
- the systematic mass extermination of the Jewish people
- place where prisoners were sent for extermination
- Post-World War II alliance headed by the United States
31 Clues: The theatre where Allies battled Germany • Treaty that ended WWI and punished Germany • the geographic region containing Japan's empire • The theatre where the United States fought Japan • place where prisoners were sent for extermination • Racial discrimination directed towards Jewish people • Post-World War II alliance headed by the Soviet Union • ...
Causes of the Civil War 2023-04-24
Across
- A case where the U.S. Supreme Court denied a man that moved from a slave state to a free state his rightful freedom
- The act put in place that allowed territories that were joining to decide if they wanted to join as a free or slave state
- The 16th President of the United States that was disliked by people of the South
- Different Political Parties (Ex: Democrats and Republicans)
- Compromise that allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine enter as a free state, as well as a line that the free states from the slave states of the U.S.
- States that bordered the line between the North (Union) and South (Confederacy)
Down
- A proclamation that declared all people from the Confederates states that were enslaved now free people
- When a state withdraws from the Union
- The Compromise that allowed California to join the Union as a free state
- The ownership of a person as property
- Feud between the North (Union) and South (Confederacy)
- Attacks as the result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
- Raid in West Virginia lead by John Brown
- An act put in place that forced people to turn in runaway slaves
- People that protested against slavery in the United States, especially the South
15 Clues: When a state withdraws from the Union • The ownership of a person as property • Raid in West Virginia lead by John Brown • Feud between the North (Union) and South (Confederacy) • Attacks as the result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 • Different Political Parties (Ex: Democrats and Republicans) • An act put in place that forced people to turn in runaway slaves • ...
Chapter 7 crossword 2022-12-22
Across
- political party that supports strong state government
- Cherokee people being moved from Georgia west with thousands dying
- 363-mile-long artificial waterway connecting Hudson River to Lake Erie
- federally funded road begun in 1811
- standardized parts that can be used in place of one another
- national bank funded by the federal government and private investors
- series of agreements to keep power balance of slave states and free states
- John C. Callhoun’s name for a 1828 tariff
- devotion to one’s country
Down
- political party formed to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson
- practice of winning candidates’ rewarding supporters with government jobs
- 1819 case ruling Maryland had no right to tax the Bank of the United States
- designed to unify the nation and strengthen the economy
- a law in 1830 that forced Native Americans east of the Mississippi to move west
- series of financial failures triggering a five-year depresssion in the United States
- development of large-scale industrial production
- 1819 agreement where Spain gave America Florida
- production of goods in large quantities
- U.S opposition to European interference in the Western Hemisphere
- machine for cleaning seeds of cotton fibers
- protective tariff to help American industries
21 Clues: devotion to one’s country • federally funded road begun in 1811 • production of goods in large quantities • John C. Callhoun’s name for a 1828 tariff • machine for cleaning seeds of cotton fibers • protective tariff to help American industries • 1819 agreement where Spain gave America Florida • development of large-scale industrial production • ...
Kinlee = 2nd Hour 2023-03-06
Across
- A political concept that gives authority over a state or territory
- A military operation that cuts off essential supplies
- Wanted slaves to be accepted in their states and fought for slaves
- A person who has escaped from a place or is hiding to avoid being captured
- A crop that is grown for profit rather than for the grower
- A person who invests in stocks
- To come to an agreement upon two things
- Violence accrued by disagreement
- Wrote a book about Anti Slavery
- Not in accordance with political constitution
- The act of betraying your country
- An act of sealing off a place from people entering or leaving
Down
- A boundary above the southern border where all states above the line are free states and below the line are slave states
- Opened up new territories for Kansas and Nebraska settlement
- Went from town to town promoting Pro Slavery
- First Governor of Kansas
- A person killed for their religious beliefs
- A time period when U.S citizens had to return runaway slaves to their owners
- Wrote letters to the Newspaper about Anti Slavery
- To set free from restrictions
20 Clues: First Governor of Kansas • To set free from restrictions • A person who invests in stocks • Wrote a book about Anti Slavery • Violence accrued by disagreement • The act of betraying your country • To come to an agreement upon two things • A person killed for their religious beliefs • Went from town to town promoting Pro Slavery • Not in accordance with political constitution • ...
Bondar Lika (Unit 4 VA and U.S History) 2023-10-20
Across
- Find a water route to the Pacific Ocean.
- Doctrine,which said about no future colonisation, Not monarchies.
- Believed in a strong national government.
- Cause of First and Second Industrial Revolutions.
- Which Removal Act exchange lands in east of the Mississippi River for lands in the West.
- The first President of the United States.
- Supported states' rights, a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
- Type of trade which happens inside of the country.C
Down
- Doubled Territory from France.
- Which revolution were change a subsistence economy to a market economy (based on money,trade and production)
- Became the second President of the United States.
- Farmers in western Pennsylvania protested against the federal excise tax.
- Was a landmark Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review
- This wars were fought against North African.
- support interests of your country and excludes the interests of others.
- Country against which the United States has fought most.
- Tomas Jefferson implemented the "----"Act to protect Americans interests during the Napoleonic Wars.
- established peaceful relations with Native American.
- Was the Secretary of Treasury under President Washington.
- Compromise which was banned slavery in the Lousiana Purchase above the latitude of 36 30'
20 Clues: Doubled Territory from France. • Find a water route to the Pacific Ocean. • Believed in a strong national government. • The first President of the United States. • This wars were fought against North African. • Became the second President of the United States. • Cause of First and Second Industrial Revolutions. • Type of trade which happens inside of the country.C • ...
Review for Civil War 2024-04-24
Across
- What was the main issue that caused tension between the North and South before the Civil War?
- What word describes the state of being liberated or not being enslaved?
- Which region of the United States generally supported the Confederacy during the Civil War?
- What term describes individuals who fought in the military during the Civil War?
- What was the name of the group of states that fought to preserve the United States during the Civil War?
- Lincoln Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
- Proclamation What was the name of the document issued by President Lincoln that declared slaves in Confederate-held territories to be free?
Down
- Davis Who was the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War?
- What term describes the period after the Civil War when the United States government worked to rebuild the South and bring it back into the Union?
- Address What famous speech did President Lincoln give at the dedication of a cemetery for soldiers who died in the Battle of Gettysburg?
- Sumter Where did the first shots of the Civil War take place?
- What term is used to describe a violent conflict between opposing forces during a war?
- What was the name of the group of states that seceded from the Union to form their own government during the Civil War?
- What are the leaders of armies called during a war?
- Which region of the United States generally supported the Union during the Civil War?
- What is the term for the act of states leaving the Union to form their own independent government?
16 Clues: What are the leaders of armies called during a war? • Sumter Where did the first shots of the Civil War take place? • What word describes the state of being liberated or not being enslaved? • Lincoln Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War? • What term describes individuals who fought in the military during the Civil War? • ...
GA Importance 2022-04-20
Interim Review Crossword 2023-11-28
Across
- Validation of a proposed law
- Series of wars fought between France and European powers
- People that favor small localized government
- Court case that established principle of judicial review
- Writing in support of ratifying the U.S. constitution
- Woman who helped Lewis and Clark
- Battle that inspired the Star Spangled Banner
- Four laws that applied restrictions to immigration and speech
- Land deal made by Thoman Jeffreson
- The forceful capture of men into service on a ship
Down
- A power of the Supreme Court
- Last battle of the War of 1812
- United States first constitution
- Meeting about the effectiveness of the constitution
- War started due to Britain’s interference on trade to U.S.
- National anthem of the United States
- Revolt in response to taxes
- First ten amendments of constitution
- Agreement reached during constitutional convention
- Law that gave method for admitting new states
20 Clues: Revolt in response to taxes • A power of the Supreme Court • Validation of a proposed law • Last battle of the War of 1812 • United States first constitution • Woman who helped Lewis and Clark • Land deal made by Thoman Jeffreson • National anthem of the United States • First ten amendments of constitution • People that favor small localized government • ...
Puzzle 18: Quantum Physics 2025-09-08
Across
- – Linked quantum states across distance.
- – Energy level of electron.
- – Subatomic particle inside protons and neutrons.
- – Smallest discrete unit of energy or matter.
- – Particle passes through a barrier.
- – Wavefunction reduces to a single state.
- – Disturbance carrying energy.
- – Particle that carries force.
- – Basic unit of matter.
- – Region of electron probability.
- – Particle like electron or neutrino.
- – Particle of light.
- – Likelihood of a quantum event.
- – Quantum force field.
- – Boson giving mass to particles.
- – Discrete unit of matter.
Down
- – Act of observing a quantum system.
- – Measurement affects quantum state.
- – Empty space in quantum physics.
- – Positively charged particle.
- – Particle carrying the strong force.
- – Cannot know position and momentum exactly.
- – Negatively charged particle.
- – Matter particle.
- – Particle exists in multiple states at once.
- – Neutral particle in nucleus.
- – Quantum angular momentum.
- – Light behaves as both wave and particle.
- – Mathematical representation of quantum states.
- – Hypothetical fundamental particle.
30 Clues: – Matter particle. • – Particle of light. • – Quantum force field. • – Basic unit of matter. • – Discrete unit of matter. • – Energy level of electron. • – Quantum angular momentum. • – Positively charged particle. • – Negatively charged particle. • – Disturbance carrying energy. • – Particle that carries force. • – Neutral particle in nucleus. • – Likelihood of a quantum event. • ...
Tanner Government 2025-09-10
Across
- Had most of the power under the Articles
- The type of government with shared power
- Rules the government makes and enforces
- Legal process to decide guilt or innocence
- A group of states joined together
- One of the rights protected by the Bill of Rights
- The plan that replaced the Articles
- A group left out of the founding vision
- Discussion to decide on ideas or plans
- The national force to defend the country
- Changes or additions to the Constitution
Down
- Freedoms and protections for people
- Being able to make choices without unfair control
- The first ten amendments that protect freedoms
- Indigenous people whose voices were not included
- The first plan for America’s government
- People forced to work without freedom
- Fair distribution of power between states and federal government
- Agreement where everyone gives a little to reach a solution
- Money the government can collect
20 Clues: Money the government can collect • A group of states joined together • Freedoms and protections for people • The plan that replaced the Articles • People forced to work without freedom • Discussion to decide on ideas or plans • Rules the government makes and enforces • The first plan for America’s government • A group left out of the founding vision • ...
Early US Crossword 2017-12-18
Across
- Enlightenment thinker who advocated for Natural Rights and the Social Contract
- Number of states necessary to pass a law under the Aoc
- One of the states that came out of the Northwest Ordinance
- America's first form of government
- Turning point in the war
- Forced Great Britain to accept American independence in 1783
- Who the national government had to ask for money from under the AoC
- Commander of the Continental Army
- Final major battle of the war
- American battle tactic
Down
- Breakup letter the Patriots sent KGIII
- Number of states necessary to alter the AoC
- Source of propaganda for the Patriots
- Shot(s) hear round the world
- Every conflict in North America results in this group somehow losing
- What Great Britain was left with after winning the French and Indian War
- Power the national government lacked under the AoC
- Author of the DoI
- European country that provided the most aid to the Americans during the war
19 Clues: Author of the DoI • American battle tactic • Turning point in the war • Shot(s) hear round the world • Final major battle of the war • Commander of the Continental Army • America's first form of government • Source of propaganda for the Patriots • Breakup letter the Patriots sent KGIII • Number of states necessary to alter the AoC • ...
Module 3 Arc 1 Vocab 2024-03-28
Across
- Northern states that stayed under a single government
- Material that is created by someone who lived during the event in history
- To directly affect
- against
- A long mark
- to get rid of
- The owning of a person by another person
- to seperate
- hard work
Down
- How light or dark a color looks
- system of making money and producing items
- Having to do with farming
- Southern states that separated from the United States
- What a figure in art is doing
- Having to do with producing items
- Fruits and veggies grown to sell to others
- Having to do with people who are members of a country
- away from
18 Clues: against • hard work • away from • A long mark • to seperate • to get rid of • To directly affect • Having to do with farming • What a figure in art is doing • How light or dark a color looks • Having to do with producing items • The owning of a person by another person • system of making money and producing items • Fruits and veggies grown to sell to others • ...
Civil War Crossword 2023-02-22
Across
- famous confederate general who surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
- the Georgian city that was destroyed by William Sherman's army
- the battle plan of the Confederacy (the war of ______)
- someone who was opposed to the practice of slavery and wanted to end it
- the party that was formed against the expansion of slavery
- the beginning of the civil war, took place in Charleston
- the nickname for the US, the states that did not secede
- the plan created by Union General Winfield Scott to "strangle" the confederacy
- the winner of the 1860 election
- leaving a government or political party
- location of the bloodiest battle of the civil war
- the president of the Confederate states
Down
- setting free (e.g. the _________ proclamation)
- before the war
- the name of the organization of states that seceded from the US (CSA)
- states that allowed slavery but remained in the Union
- the first state to secede from the US
- the number of states that seceded
- the last state to join the Union before the war
- A confederate battle submarine that sank in 1864
20 Clues: before the war • the winner of the 1860 election • the number of states that seceded • the first state to secede from the US • leaving a government or political party • the president of the Confederate states • setting free (e.g. the _________ proclamation) • the last state to join the Union before the war • A confederate battle submarine that sank in 1864 • ...
CH 14 CIVIL WAR 2025-04-29
Across
- To withdraw from the Union
- Loyalty to one's own region rather than the whole country
- A large farm in the South
- Relating to the Union (North)
- A blade attached to the end of a rifle
- Northerners who opposed the Civil War
- The period before the Civil War
- The Southern states that seceded from the United States
- A nickname for the South
- Slave states that did not leave the Union
- A hard cracker eaten by soldiers
- Someone who wanted to end slavery
- President Lincoln's order freeing slaves in Confederate states
- The murder of a political figure
- The boundary between free and slave states
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- Paper money used in the North
- A nickname for a Confederate soldier
- A law requiring escaped slaves to be returned to their owners
- Large guns like cannons
- Stopping supplies from entering or leaving an area
- The rebuilding of the South after the war
- A type of gun
- A soldier killed or wounded
- A warship covered in iron
- Soldiers who fight on foot
25 Clues: A type of gun • Large guns like cannons • A nickname for the South • A large farm in the South • A warship covered in iron • To withdraw from the Union • Soldiers who fight on foot • A soldier killed or wounded • Paper money used in the North • Relating to the Union (North) • The period before the Civil War • A hard cracker eaten by soldiers • The murder of a political figure • ...
civil war 2023-05-23
Across
- The action of formally withdrawing from a federation
- set all slaves free in the confederacy
- Numerous laws enacted in the former confederate states after the civil war which limited the liberties of africann americans
- first battle of civil war
- civil war was a war between americans over states rights
- a person trying to eliminate slavery
- it was used to keep newly freed slaves in a cycle of poverty
- Secret society that used violence against freedman
- states that stayed with the union
- Abolistionist who led attacks in Kansas during “bleeding Kansas” planned to arm slaves in a revolt
- states are given rights not granted to the federal gov
- people make there own decisions through voting
Down
- Anti slavery
- first battle on union soil
- 16th president of the United states president during the civil war
- last battle of civil war
- A slaved african american who unsuccesfuly sued for his freedom the case went to the supreme court
- pro slavery
- a change or addition to the terms of a contract or document
- became nurses and spies
20 Clues: pro slavery • Anti slavery • became nurses and spies • last battle of civil war • first battle of civil war • first battle on union soil • states that stayed with the union • a person trying to eliminate slavery • set all slaves free in the confederacy • people make there own decisions through voting • Secret society that used violence against freedman • ...
Ch 8 Civil War 2025-12-16
Across
- President of the United States during the Civil War
- Leader of the Confederate Army
- Document that freed enslaved people in Confederate states
- To withdraw from an organization or country
- State that sent the first volunteers to fight for the Union
- Major battle where the First Minnesota suffered heavy losses
- The leader of the United States government
- Important speech given by President Lincoln during the war
Down
- A moment that changes the direction of the war
- Military training post where many Minnesota soldiers prepared for war
- The side made up of Southern states that left the Union
- The war fought between the North and the South from 1861–1865
- Soldier who lied about his age to fight in the Civil War
- Minnesota regiment famous for its bravery at Gettysburg
- A person who joins the army by choice
- A large group of soldiers fighting together
- The practice of forcing people to work without pay
- Soldiers who volunteered to fight in the Civil War
- A large fight between armies during a war
- The Northern states during the Civil War
20 Clues: Leader of the Confederate Army • A person who joins the army by choice • The Northern states during the Civil War • A large fight between armies during a war • The leader of the United States government • A large group of soldiers fighting together • To withdraw from an organization or country • A moment that changes the direction of the war • ...
Title 2022-03-24
Across
- The ship which Captain Cook commanded:
- This place was named after this crew spotted land (no spaces):
- A famous River in the city of London:
- In 1642, this Dutch Explorer spotted New Zealand before Captain Cook (no spaces & capitals):
- The ‘line’ in the middle of the planet:
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- This planet was due to pass in front of the Sun.
- Captain Cook observed Venus’ transit in this country:
- County where Captain Cook was born:
- Another word for Australia:
- The month where Captain Cook was born:
- Captain Cook’s first name?
11 Clues: Captain Cook’s first name? • Another word for Australia: • County where Captain Cook was born: • A famous River in the city of London: • The ship which Captain Cook commanded: • The month where Captain Cook was born: • The ‘line’ in the middle of the planet: • This planet was due to pass in front of the Sun. • Captain Cook observed Venus’ transit in this country: • ...
ERA OF NEW REPUBLIC CROSSWORD 2023-02-11
Across
- WHAT SUPREME COURT CASE RULED THAT ONLY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS POWER OF INTERSTATE TRADE
- IN WHAT WAR DID THE WHITE HOUSE GET BURNED DOWN
- WHAT PRECEDENT DID GEORGE WASHGINTON SET ABOUT GOING TO WAR WITH OTHER COUNTRIES
- WHAT LAND DID THE US GAIN WITH THE ADAMS - ONIS TREATY
- WRITTEN BY JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND TOLD EUROPE TO NOT COLONIZE THE WEST HEMISPHERE
- WHAT POEM WAS WRITTEN AT THE BATTLE OF FORT MCHENRY AND IS NOW THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
- WHO EXPLORED THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY AND WAS HELPED BY SACAGAWEA
- WHAT SUPREME COURT CASE ESTABLISHED JUDICIAL REVIEW
- FATHER OF THE CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS
- WHAT PRESIDENT ESTABLISHED THE NEUTRALITY PROCLAMATION
- WHAT DID HAMILTON SUPPORT TO HELP WITH DEBT AND TO STORE TAX MONEY
- WHAT MADE NORTHERN STATES SLAVE FREE STATES EXCEPT FOR MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN STATES SLAVE STATES
- WHAT TAX MADE IMPORTS MORE EXPENISVE
- WHAT GROUP SUPPORTED A NATIONAL BANK
- WHAT LAW MADE IT HARDER TO BECOME A CITIZEN
- WHAT PRESIDENT WAS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE
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- GAVE MORE POWER TO THE JUDICIAL BRANCH
- WHAT ACT MADE IT ILLEGAL TO CRITICIZE THE GOVERNMENT
- ADDRESS WHAT WARNED THE U.S. TO REMAIN NEUTRAL IN FOREIGN PROBLEMS
- THE USA IS SPLIT INTO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH
- BLOCKS ANOTHER COUNTRY FROM GOODS GETTING IN OR OUT
- DOUBLED THE SIZE OF THE USA
- WHICH PRESIDENT CREATED THE ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS
- PRESIDENT DURING THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
- DEALS WITH COUNTRIES OUTSIDE OF THE USA
- WHAT GROUP OF PEOPLE OPPOSED A NATIONAL BANK
- WHAT SUPREME COURT CASE SAID THAT FEDERAL BUILDINGS COULD NOT BE TAXED BY STATES
- WHO DEFEATED THE BRITISH AT NEW ORLEANS AND LATER BECAME PRESIDENT
- HAPPENS INSIDE THE BORDER OF A COUNTRY
- WHAT ACT DID THOMAS JEFFERSON PASS THAT STOPPED TRADE WITH OTHER COUNTRIES
30 Clues: DOUBLED THE SIZE OF THE USA • WHAT TAX MADE IMPORTS MORE EXPENISVE • WHAT GROUP SUPPORTED A NATIONAL BANK • GAVE MORE POWER TO THE JUDICIAL BRANCH • HAPPENS INSIDE THE BORDER OF A COUNTRY • DEALS WITH COUNTRIES OUTSIDE OF THE USA • PRESIDENT DURING THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS • THE USA IS SPLIT INTO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH • WHAT LAW MADE IT HARDER TO BECOME A CITIZEN • ...
