states Crossword Puzzles

States & Capitals 2022-03-22

States & Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Tennessee
  2. Madison
  3. Washington
  4. Salt Lake City
  5. Richmond
Down
  1. Cheyenne
  2. West Virginia
  3. Vermont
  4. Texas

9 Clues: Texas • Madison • Vermont • Cheyenne • Richmond • Tennessee • Washington • West Virginia • Salt Lake City

SE STATES 2023-02-03

SE STATES crossword puzzle
Across
  1. arkansas’s Nickname
  2. florida’s Nickname
  3. mississippi’s Nickname
  4. georgia’s Nickname
  5. South Carolina’s Nickname
  6. louisiana’s Nickname
Down
  1. kentucky's Nickname
  2. north Carolina’s Nickname
  3. alabama’s Nickname

9 Clues: florida’s Nickname • georgia’s Nickname • alabama’s Nickname • kentucky's Nickname • arkansas’s Nickname • louisiana’s Nickname • mississippi’s Nickname • north Carolina’s Nickname • South Carolina’s Nickname

U.S States 2023-04-28

U.S States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The capital is Denver
  2. The capital is Nashville
  3. The capital is Boston
  4. The capital is Sacramento
Down
  1. The capital is Tallahassee
  2. The capital is Juneau
  3. The capital is Oklahoma City
  4. The capital is Albany
  5. The capital is Honolulu

9 Clues: The capital is Juneau • The capital is Denver • The capital is Albany • The capital is Boston • The capital is Honolulu • The capital is Nashville • The capital is Sacramento • The capital is Tallahassee • The capital is Oklahoma City

States/Colonies 2021-02-24

States/Colonies crossword puzzle
Across
  1. held the first continental congress
  2. The smallest of them all
  3. highest populated state
  4. largest of them all
Down
  1. The first US state
  2. The Hoosiers
  3. the state with most golf courses
  4. The state where George Washington died
  5. was a colony

9 Clues: The Hoosiers • was a colony • The first US state • largest of them all • highest populated state • The smallest of them all • the state with most golf courses • held the first continental congress • The state where George Washington died

Northeast States 2021-03-01

Northeast States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. PA
  2. NH
  3. ME
  4. VT
  5. NJ
Down
  1. MA
  2. CT
  3. RI
  4. NY

9 Clues: MA • CT • PA • RI • NY • NH • ME • VT • NJ

Civil War Crossword 2021-10-03

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Name given to the loyal states in the United States. This group was also called the North.
  2. the Northerns used this term to describe their rivals (the South).
  3. The southern states that no longer wanted to be part of the United States chose to do this.
  4. A soldier that gets wounded, is missing, or has been killed.
  5. This Slave Act let slave owners bring back their slaves that tried to escape to their freedom.
  6. Name for the South or Confederate States of America.
  7. A war that occurs between citizens of the same country.
  8. Name of the most popular rifle during the Civil War.
  9. Being owned by another person and doing labor and chores for them.
  10. Worn by Civil War soldiers, a cap.
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  1. The Southerns used this term to describe their rivals (the North).
  2. To bring together for a purpose or action in a situation
  3. A collection of guns and weapons.
  4. Places where battles are being fought.
  5. A small infused explosive that can be released and exploded on enemy troops.
  6. An area controlled by a state.
  7. A person that tries to eliminate slavery.
  8. To move something from one place to another.
  9. An artillery gun that is large and is usually on wheels.
  10. Trying to stop supplies or people from going out or into port.
  11. A safe place that protects you from the enemy.

21 Clues: An area controlled by a state. • A collection of guns and weapons. • Worn by Civil War soldiers, a cap. • Places where battles are being fought. • A person that tries to eliminate slavery. • To move something from one place to another. • A safe place that protects you from the enemy. • Name for the South or Confederate States of America. • ...

New Republic 2023-12-20

New Republic crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Was responsible for the Monroe Doctrine
  2. Was President during the War of 1812
  3. A rebellion led by farmers upset about the whiskey tax
  4. The best NFL football team to exists
  5. Green monster that takes away Christmas presents
  6. Second President of the United States
  7. Doubled the size of the United States
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  1. First President of the United States
  2. Latitude line that divides the free states and slave states
  3. A failed law that made it illegal to trade with European nations
  4. Made a purchase known as the "Louisiana Purchase"
  5. Not picking sides

12 Clues: Not picking sides • First President of the United States • Was President during the War of 1812 • The best NFL football team to exists • Second President of the United States • Doubled the size of the United States • Was responsible for the Monroe Doctrine • Green monster that takes away Christmas presents • Made a purchase known as the "Louisiana Purchase" • ...

antoinettes history crossword 2024-04-17

antoinettes history crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. A white southerner who supported the reconstruction
  2. When a land owner lets a tenant plant on said land for a share of the crops
  3. an act that provided clothes, food, shelter, medical services and land to southerners including freed slaves
  4. He was the senator of Mississippi
  5. the process of charging a government official for wrongdoing
  6. Republicans that wanted immediate and permanent eradication
  7. took place after the civil war
  8. states all persons born or naturalized in the United States is a legal US citizen
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  1. laws passed by the southern states to enforce racial segregation
  2. a disruptive northerner who comes to the southern states
  3. this gave African Americans who resided in the United States the right to vote
  4. it created a framework for reconstruction and the re-admittance of the southern states
  5. the 17th president of the US

13 Clues: the 17th president of the US • took place after the civil war • He was the senator of Mississippi • A white southerner who supported the reconstruction • a disruptive northerner who comes to the southern states • Republicans that wanted immediate and permanent eradication • the process of charging a government official for wrongdoing • ...

Bellwork puzzle 2020-09-30

Bellwork puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. required printed material in the colonies to be produced by stamped paper in London
  2. war between countries of British american and new France
  3. an american social reformer, abolitionist, writer, and statesman
  4. made sure the colonist get their sugar from Britain
  5. peaceful protest held by the sons of liberty in December 16,1776
  6. a form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and democracy
  7. a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly
  8. presidential proclamation issued by the United States
  9. was king of Britain during the American Revolution
  10. a proposal for the structure of the U.S. government
  11. an are that only grows one type of crop
  12. the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
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  1. didn't allow colonists to settle west of the Appalachians
  2. a proposal to establish a bicameral legislature in the newly formed United States
  3. a document written by the 13 colonies declaring freedom from Great Britain
  4. was the first president of the united states
  5. was a founding father who served as the third president of the United States
  6. was a military commander, statesman, and founding father
  7. the surrender at Yorktown
  8. a country gains welt through trade with other countries
  9. Parliament restricted colonial trade
  10. was a small but private battle that took place December 26, 1776

22 Clues: the surrender at Yorktown • Parliament restricted colonial trade • an are that only grows one type of crop • was the first president of the united states • was king of Britain during the American Revolution • made sure the colonist get their sugar from Britain • a proposal for the structure of the U.S. government • presidential proclamation issued by the United States • ...

Constitution Review 6th-7th 2022-02-03

Constitution Review 6th-7th crossword puzzle
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  1. A process of approving a formal document
  2. Kept in control by the checks and balances in the Constitution, so no single branch can have control over everything
  3. Describes how the first US Constitution was at keeping the 13 states working together
  4. Written to support the ratification of the new constitution
  5. Did not support the idea of a strong central government, but rather let states have more power and decisions
  6. A branch of government that makes laws, also called Congress
  7. of Representatives, where each state receives votes based on population
  8. An agreement to create a bicameral legislature, with one based on population and the other with equal representation
  9. One writer of the Federalist Papers
  10. An idea that supported a legislature based on population
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  1. A Meeting in the summer of 1787 to discuss changes to the first US Constitution
  2. The 3/5 Compromise determined how to count slaves as part of the ________________.
  3. The framework of government
  4. An idea that supported a legislature based equal representation for all states
  5. A branch of government lead by the president
  6. Supporters of a strong national government
  7. The first constitution of the United States
  8. Equal representation among states, with each getting two votes
  9. The national government could not get this money under the first US Constitution
  10. A branch of government dealing with the court system

20 Clues: The framework of government • One writer of the Federalist Papers • A process of approving a formal document • Supporters of a strong national government • The first constitution of the United States • A branch of government lead by the president • A branch of government dealing with the court system • An idea that supported a legislature based on population • ...

Pre-Constitution Review 2023-10-31

Pre-Constitution Review crossword puzzle
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  1. tru or fal: those at the Constitutional Convention were mainly rich & older and all were white & men
  2. the name of the legislative branch
  3. the way the states were under the Articles of
  4. the amount of power the national government had under the Articles of Confederation
  5. these states primarily depended on slavery
  6. the first constitution of the United States
  7. changes to a document; a weakness of the Articles of Confederation because it took all 13 states to approve these
  8. the # of members for each state in the Senate
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  1. the compromise that set up the national government
  2. what happened to an enslaved person who had escaped & was caught in a free state
  3. the national government had no power to collect ___ under the Articles of Confederation
  4. was chosen as the leader of the Constitutional
  5. a plan or playbook for the government
  6. in the House of Representatives, the # of members for each state was based on ___
  7. the only branch of government that existed under the Articles of Confederation
  8. ya or no: they decided to improve the Articles of Confederation at the Constitutional Convention
  9. the # of branches created for the national government
  10. ya or no: at the Constitutional Convention, they agreed to let the slave trade continue
  11. lrg or sml: the House of Representatives favored these states
  12. ___ out of 5 enslaved people would be counted toward a state's population
  13. what happened at the Constitutional Convention was kept ___

21 Clues: the name of the legislative branch • a plan or playbook for the government • these states primarily depended on slavery • the first constitution of the United States • the way the states were under the Articles of • the # of members for each state in the Senate • was chosen as the leader of the Constitutional • the compromise that set up the national government • ...

Ch. 16/17 2024-01-25

Ch. 16/17 crossword puzzle
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  1. a careful plan for solving a problem or achieving a goal
  2. to formally withdraw from membership in an organization or group
  3. the act of formally separating from or leaving an organization or government
  4. a person injured, killed, or missing during a accident, or disaster
  5. war strategy of destroying the enemy’s mean of survival
  6. a place where weapons are kept
  7. a war in which groups of people from the same country fight against each other
  8. a payment made (often by authorities) as a reward
  9. to enroll in a group such as the military
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  1. promissory notes issued during the civil war, with green ink giving them their nicknames
  2. to strengthen or support
  3. slave-owned states that stayed in the U.S.
  4. an order issued by president Lincoln in 1863 that freed all the slaves in the confederate states
  5. to firmly fix or establish
  6. a river or stream that flows into a larger river
  7. to give a good reason for something; to show something is right or reasonable
  8. concept that laws should be made by each states and not by the federal government
  9. a person who is running from something, usually legal authorities
  10. a forecast the opposes or slows motion
  11. a person who suffers or dies because of his or hers beliefs or actions

20 Clues: to strengthen or support • to firmly fix or establish • a place where weapons are kept • a forecast the opposes or slows motion • to enroll in a group such as the military • slave-owned states that stayed in the U.S. • a river or stream that flows into a larger river • a payment made (often by authorities) as a reward • ...

Foundations of goevernment 2024-02-12

Foundations of goevernment crossword puzzle
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  1. Document in american history that presented the idea of human liberty and consent of the governed
  2. When french and Indian war began
  3. Relations between states and the relation between states and the federal government
  4. established the ideas of representaative democracy limited government and constitutional government
  5. Basic system of laws added as more settlers came
  6. Constitution is the law of the land; judges take an oath; no official required to take any religion
  7. Part of the constitution that has information about the judicial branch
  8. social contract; freedom of speech; seperation of powers;checks and balances; ETC
  9. When the Tea Act took place
  10. Americas first formal constAmericanMayflowercompact The plan the government established by the pilgrims upon settling Plymount was
  11. power that is not specifically stated but can be inferred
  12. how many people lived in the 13 states on the atlantic coast
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  1. A loose union of an independent state
  2. Part of the constitution that has information about the executive branch
  3. plan that provides rules for the government
  4. Sentence that states the goal of the constitution
  5. part of the constitution that has information about the legislative branch
  6. How to amend the constitution
  7. A power of government that is spestatedly statede in the constitution such as the power to tax
  8. States required to ratify the constitution
  9. Change of the constitution

21 Clues: Change of the constitution • When the Tea Act took place • How to amend the constitution • When french and Indian war began • A loose union of an independent state • States required to ratify the constitution • plan that provides rules for the government • Basic system of laws added as more settlers came • Sentence that states the goal of the constitution • ...

Layla S. =3rd Hour 2023-03-06

Layla S. =3rd Hour crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Battle which took place near Baldwin City and was the start of the civil war..
  2. A settler who believed Kansas should not allow slavery.
  3. Required all Us citizens to help recover runaway enslaved people.
  4. Operation run by abolotionists which brought escaped slaves north through safehouses.
  5. An event in which John Brown was enraged by the attack on Lawrence and the caning of Senator Sumner.
  6. Compromise in which all states north of a specified line would be free states, all territories south of the line would enter the nation as slave states.
  7. an action that goes against one's country.
  8. First territorial govener of the Kansas territory.
  9. Well known abolitionist who was deeply religious and believed in the equality of all man.
  10. To revoke or annul.
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  1. Concerned with the principles of right or wrong behavior.
  2. runaway slave who is able to read and write.
  3. The fight over slavery in Kansas which eventually led to deaths and loss of property.
  4. Person who believed in equality of everybody and fought for it.
  5. 16th president of the United States.
  6. wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.
  7. A place where weapons are held.
  8. The capital city of Kansas.
  9. A popular place other than Canada which the underground railroad led slaves to.
  10. The 34th state of the United States of America.

20 Clues: To revoke or annul. • The capital city of Kansas. • A place where weapons are held. • 16th president of the United States. • an action that goes against one's country. • runaway slave who is able to read and write. • The 34th state of the United States of America. • First territorial govener of the Kansas territory. • ...

Contemporary Period Crossword 2023-05-30

Contemporary Period Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. successor of Barack Obama
  2. Soviet politician who led from 1924 to 1953
  3. study of genes
  4. the system of segregation that was once active in South Africa
  5. the process of states becoming independent from a colony
  6. the political ideology derived by Karl Marx
  7. the first President of South Africa
  8. founder of People's Republic of China
  9. produces a very narrow beam of light
  10. what split North and South Korea
  11. United States President assassinated in 1963
  12. dictator of Germany
  13. active military alliance from 1949
  14. the target of a Russian invasion in 2022
  15. period of tension between the Eastern and Western Blocs
  16. social movement regarding sexuality in the western world
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  1. led China through a series of economic reforms
  2. alliance formed by the Eastern Bloc that ended 1991
  3. attack on the world trade center
  4. United States and Soviet Union fight over the moon
  5. global network of billions of devices
  6. recent pandemic of international concern
  7. a source of energy that is naturally replenished in a human lifetime
  8. the first African-American President of the United States
  9. the incumbent President of Russia
  10. war in Vietnam, Laos
  11. the location olympics where terrorists killed 12 victims
  12. state formed in 1948
  13. a war of the ongoing conflict of Arab and Israeli peoples
  14. the incumbent President of the United States

30 Clues: study of genes • dictator of Germany • war in Vietnam, Laos • state formed in 1948 • successor of Barack Obama • attack on the world trade center • what split North and South Korea • the incumbent President of Russia • active military alliance from 1949 • the first President of South Africa • produces a very narrow beam of light • global network of billions of devices • ...

Chapter 2 Cross Word 2022-09-29

Chapter 2 Cross Word crossword puzzle
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  1. to withdraw from
  2. To rebell.
  3. document which stated that the united states will no longer tolerate foreign affiliations
  4. preference for native-born people
  5. a system which would give people jobs based on loyalty and support.
  6. of Tears- trails which natives that were forced to leave homes were forced to walk
  7. the largest land acquisition worth $11.25 million consisted of all land west of Mississippi to pay war debts
  8. 1st president of the united states
  9. A most famous escaped slave who wrote
  10. closed meeting in congress.
  11. the political party made by John Adams and Henry Clay.
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  1. freeing of enslaved peoples
  2. a compromise which took place when both Missouri and Maine wanted to become states Missouri would be a slave state Maine would not
  3. Unions- group of workers who press for better working conditions and wages
  4. powers specifically mentioned in the constitution
  5. moderation of consumption of alcohol
  6. powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution
  7. Sovereignty- Idea that states should chose if they want to be a slave state
  8. to end immediately
  9. the power to decide if laws are constitutional or not
  10. Railroad- Well organized group of abolishest who would help free slaves
  11. a group who advise
  12. Flag Republic- California territory name
  13. Revolution- a revolution which occurred in business and industry
  14. Destiny- The idea that the United States should spread to pacific

25 Clues: To rebell. • to withdraw from • to end immediately • a group who advise • freeing of enslaved peoples • closed meeting in congress. • preference for native-born people • 1st president of the united states • moderation of consumption of alcohol • A most famous escaped slave who wrote • Flag Republic- California territory name • powers specifically mentioned in the constitution • ...

Chapter 3: The Nation Divides 2023-10-16

Chapter 3: The Nation Divides crossword puzzle
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  1. set of laws
  2. land that belongs to a nation but is not a state and is not represented in the national government.
  3. a system of secret routes leading to free lands.
  4. war between people in the same country.
  5. states located between the North and the South.
  6. rights idea that the states should have the final say in their own affairs.
  7. and agreement in which each side gives up something that it wants.
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  1. national government that was made up of six states.
  2. people that worked to end slavery
  3. regional loyalty
  4. practice of holding people against their will and making them work without pay.
  5. state does not allow slavery
  6. leave
  7. state allows slavery
  8. ended
  9. tax

16 Clues: tax • leave • ended • set of laws • regional loyalty • state allows slavery • state does not allow slavery • people that worked to end slavery • war between people in the same country. • states located between the North and the South. • a system of secret routes leading to free lands. • national government that was made up of six states. • ...

Matter: Properties and States 2014-02-26

Matter: Properties and States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. _______ states of matter have their own shape (ie. madera, el hiero y la arena).
  2. dureza
  3. is the force which pulls objects down towards the Earth.
  4. Forma
  5. _____ states of matter have no specific shape, the just expand (no tienen forma especifica y se expanden)oxygen(oxigeno),carbon dioxide(dioxido de carbono).
  6. Fuerzas por contacto.
  7. color
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  1. is the amount of matter that an object contains.
  2. _______ states of matter have the shape of the container that holds it (tienen la forma del recipiente que los contiene).
  3. ______ of matter include solid, liquid and gas.
  4. imanes
  5. elasticidad
  6. Everything we can see, smell or touch.
  7. transparencia
  8. can be made of different types of matter for example wood, metal or glass.
  9. is an action which can make an object change its movement or shape
  10. is the space that an object occupies.

17 Clues: Forma • color • imanes • dureza • elasticidad • transparencia • Fuerzas por contacto. • is the space that an object occupies. • Everything we can see, smell or touch. • ______ of matter include solid, liquid and gas. • is the amount of matter that an object contains. • is the force which pulls objects down towards the Earth. • ...

Unit 3 Vocabulary 2017-09-27

Unit 3 Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. at the request of President Thomas Jefferson, led an expedition to survey the land West of the Mississippi, known as Louisiana Territory, that had been purchased from France in 1803.
  2. A series of agreements passed by congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states.
  3. A 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats.
  4. A 1903 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that it had the power to abolish legislative acts by declaring them unconstitutional; this power came to be known as Judicial review.
  5. is a party system where two major political parties dominate the government.
  6. was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 during the presidency of George Washington.
  7. was an American politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
  8. was an American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was an influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution.
  9. Was a Native American Shawnee warrior and chief, who became the primary leader of a large, multi-tribal confederacy in the early years of the nineteenth century.
  10. was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who is known for her help to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
  11. The 1814 treaty that ended the War of 1812.
  12. The American System was an economic plan that played a prominent role in American policy during the first half of the 19th century.
  13. Great Britain was locked in a long and bitter conflict with Napoleon Bonaparte's France. In an attempt to cut off supplies from reaching the enemy, both sides attempted to block the United States from trading with the other.
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  1. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote.
  2. The 1803 purchase by the United States of France’s Louisiana territory-extending from the Mississippi river to the rocky mountains-- for 15 Million.
  3. A policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in 1823.
  4. is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional.
  5. One of the members of Congress who favored war with Britain in the early 19th century.
  6. One of the judges appointed by John Adams in the last hours of his administration.
  7. the right to vote in political elections.
  8. An American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States.

21 Clues: the right to vote in political elections. • The 1814 treaty that ended the War of 1812. • is a party system where two major political parties dominate the government. • A 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats. • One of the judges appointed by John Adams in the last hours of his administration. • ...

Top 25 Gov Vocab 2024-05-10

Top 25 Gov Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When the Supreme Court applies rights and freedoms to states as outlined in the Bill of Rights
  2. A governing document that created a union of 13 sovereign states in which the states, not the union, were supreme
  3. A theory that widespread participation is essential for Democratic government
  4. Authority specifically granted to a branch of the government in the Constitution
  5. Supreme Court case that made the national government stronger by supporting the Supremacy Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause
  6. Federalist paper that advocated for a strong executive with its own branch of government
  7. The departments and agencies within the executive branch that carry out the laws of the nation
  8. Supreme Court case that ruled that Congress may not use the Commerce Clause to make posession of a gun in a school zone a federal crime
  9. The sharing of powers between the national government and the states
  10. Amendment that states that powers that are not specifically given to the federal government, nor withheld from the states, are reserved to those respective states
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  1. A popular uprising against the government of Massachusetts
  2. Clause of the Constitution that states that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
  3. The experiences and factors that shape an individual's political values, attitudes, and behaviors
  4. A powerful committee that determines when a bill will be subject to debate and vote on the House floor, how long the debate will last, and whether amendments will be allowed on the floor
  5. A theory of governance in which the government only has those powers delegated to it by law, often through a written constitution
  6. The executive branch office that assists the president in setting national spending priorities
  7. The essential function through which legislators determine whether current laws and appropriations are achieving intended results
  8. Clause of the Constitution granting Congress the powers necessary to carry out its enumerated powers
  9. A constitutionally required process for selecting the president through states of electors chosen in each state, who are pledged to vote for a nominee in the presidential election
  10. The authority of the Supreme Court to strike down a law or executive action if it conflicts with the Constitution
  11. Federalist paper that advocated for separation of powers and checks and balances
  12. The intentional use of redistricting to benefit a specific interest or group of voters
  13. Clause of the Constitution that establishes the Constitution and the laws of the federal government passed under its authority as the highest laws of the land
  14. Supreme Court case that set the precedent that students still have constitutional rights while they're at school
  15. Comprises the 1st ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution

25 Clues: Comprises the 1st ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution • A popular uprising against the government of Massachusetts • The sharing of powers between the national government and the states • A theory that widespread participation is essential for Democratic government • Authority specifically granted to a branch of the government in the Constitution • ...

Civil War 2023-04-13

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. - When a person is murdered for political reasons.
  2. - Southern states that seceded from the union
  3. - A law passed by Congress in 1850 that said escaped enslaved people in free states had to be returned to their owners.
  4. - A large farm in the southern United States. Before the Civil War many of the workers on plantations were enslaved.
  5. - These states were slave states that did not leave the Union but largely supported the cause of the Confederates. They included Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware.
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  1. - An executive order from President Abraham Lincoln stating that the enslaved in the Confederate states were to be set free.
  2. - A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
  3. - A decision made by the Supreme Court that said Congress could not outlaw slavery and that people of African descent were not necessarily U.S. citizens.
  4. - A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle.
  5. - When the southern states chose to leave the United States and to no longer be a part of the country.
  6. - The northern states of the United States.

11 Clues: - The northern states of the United States. • - Southern states that seceded from the union • - When a person is murdered for political reasons. • - A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle. • - A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery. • - When the southern states chose to leave the United States and to no longer be a part of the country. • ...

Constitution Crossword 2021-09-13

Constitution Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When power is shared between the central government and the states
  2. Article II lays out the _____ branch
  3. A person in favor of a strong central government
  4. Article I lays out the ______ branch
  5. The structure of Congress. It means “Two House”
  6. A person suspicious of a strong central government and wants a list of guaranteed freedoms
  7. Congress is made up of the House of Representatives and the ______
  8. The plan that created our current system of government. It was designed to please large and small states
Down
  1. The plan at the Constitutional Convention that favored large states is named for this state
  2. The first government of the United States
  3. Article III lays out the ______ branch
  4. A change to the Constitution
  5. The head of the executive branch
  6. The first 10 amendments to the Constitution
  7. The plan at the Constitutional Convention that favored small states is named for this state

15 Clues: A change to the Constitution • The head of the executive branch • Article II lays out the _____ branch • Article I lays out the ______ branch • Article III lays out the ______ branch • The first government of the United States • The first 10 amendments to the Constitution • The structure of Congress. It means “Two House” • A person in favor of a strong central government • ...

Between Wars 2021-10-31

Between Wars crossword puzzle
Across
  1. An American composer referred to as the "Dean of American Composers"
  2. An American author of realistic and imaginative writing
  3. An American composer, pianist, and orchestra leader
  4. A series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States in response to the Great Depression
  5. An American artist of flowers, skyscrapers, and Mexican landscapes
  6. An American writer of the Jazz age
  7. was the 32nd president of the United States and led the U.S. out of the Great Depression
  8. A tax on imports or exports between sovereign states
  9. A severe worldwide economic depression took place during the 1930's in the United States
  10. An American composer and pianist
  11. An African American blues singer
  12. The state of being unemployed
  13. The capital raised by a business or corporation through the issue and subscription of shares
Down
  1. An African American painter of African American life
  2. An equity market of buyers and sellers of stocks which represent ownerships claims on businesses
  3. An African American trumpet player considered the greatest ever
  4. The movement of 6 million African-Americans from the South to the North
  5. An intellectual, social and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York
  6. An African American poet of jazz
  7. The central banking system of the United States
  8. Engagement in business transactions involving considerable risk but offering the chance of huge gains

21 Clues: The state of being unemployed • An African American poet of jazz • An American composer and pianist • An African American blues singer • An American writer of the Jazz age • The central banking system of the United States • An American composer, pianist, and orchestra leader • An African American painter of African American life • ...

President Richard Nixon 2023-01-23

President Richard Nixon crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A list of prominent people seen as unsympathetic towards the administration.
  2. Fellow crew member to Neil Armstrong.
  3. States were asked to assume greater responsibility for the well-being of their citizens.
  4. Former United States Secretary of State.
  5. Nixon's belligerent Vice-President who took on opponents much like he did.
  6. Nixon turned to this to combat stagflation.
  7. A period of high inflation combined with economic stagnation.
  8. Froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels.
  9. United States attacked this country to eliminate North Vietnamese strongholds.
  10. Major poltiical scandal in the U.S. that involved Richard Nixon.
  11. The first man to walk on the moon.
  12. In what year did Nixon visit become the first president to visit China?
Down
  1. Replaces Nixon's previous Vice-President.
  2. Relaxation of tensions between the U.S. and the Communist nations.
  3. After its Communist takeover China's government was called this.
  4. Imposed an embargo on shipping oil to the United States.
  5. Nixon talked with this country to limit nuclear arms.
  6. A strategy that aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam conflict.
  7. United States viewed this country as China's true rulers.
  8. Secret government information was leaked to this media source.
  9. Leaked by Daniel Ellsburg to the NY Times.
  10. Listening devices that were installed to stop information leaks.
  11. Name of the spaceship Neil Armstrong operated.

23 Clues: The first man to walk on the moon. • Fellow crew member to Neil Armstrong. • Former United States Secretary of State. • Replaces Nixon's previous Vice-President. • Leaked by Daniel Ellsburg to the NY Times. • Nixon turned to this to combat stagflation. • Name of the spaceship Neil Armstrong operated. • Nixon talked with this country to limit nuclear arms. • ...

Bellwork puzzle 2020-09-30

Bellwork puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. an are that only grows one type of crop
  2. a country gains welt through trade with other countries
  3. was the first president of the united states
  4. a proposal to establish a bicameral legislature in the newly formed United States
  5. a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly
  6. the surrender at Yorktown
  7. a proposal for the structure of the U.S. government
  8. was a founding father who served as the third president of the United States
  9. made sure the colonist get their sugar from Britain
  10. didn't allow colonists to settle west of the Appalachians
  11. war between countries of British american and new France
  12. was a military commander, statesman, and founding father
Down
  1. a document written by the 13 colonies declaring freedom from Great Britain
  2. peaceful protest held by the sons of liberty in December 16,1776
  3. the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
  4. presidential proclamation issued by the United States
  5. was king of Britain during the American Revolution
  6. a form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and democracy
  7. was a small but private battle that took place December 26, 1776
  8. required printed material in the colonies to be produced by stamped paper in London
  9. Parliament restricted colonial trade
  10. an american social reformer, abolitionist, writer, and statesman

22 Clues: the surrender at Yorktown • Parliament restricted colonial trade • an are that only grows one type of crop • was the first president of the united states • was king of Britain during the American Revolution • a proposal for the structure of the U.S. government • made sure the colonist get their sugar from Britain • presidential proclamation issued by the United States • ...

Unit 4 Quiz Study Guide 2021-03-04

Unit 4 Quiz Study Guide crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A(n) ______________________ is a tax on goods leaving to entering some place. Down
  2. ____________________ means occurring between states, such as trade.
  3. The President was part of the __________________.
  4. The New Jersey Plan much like the Articles of Confederation called for a _________ central government.
  5. A group of farmers rebelled in Massachusetts against taxes. This was known as __________________.
  6. A(n) _____________________ is a good brought in from another country.
  7. The ________________ includes the Supreme Court and other lower courts.
  8. The Articles of confederation did not give ______________ the power to collect taxes.
Down
  1. What are the first 10 amendments to the constitution called?
  2. ______________________ was the first state to ratify the Constitution.
  3. __________________________ such as Thomas Jefferson wanted states to have more power.
  4. ___________________ supported the constitution.
  5. In the _____________ plan, every state had the same number of representatives.
  6. The states had to ___________________the constitution to make it the law of the land.
  7. Three out of five slaves would be included in population and taxation counts for the southern states. This was know as the __________ compromise.
  8. The _____________________was a plan that called for two different houses in congress; one based on population and one equal.
  9. The Northwest Territory could be divided into states when _______ was large enough.
  10. Today the Legislative Branch is made up of the _______ and the House of Representatives.
  11. Many ________________________ settled in the Northwest Territory.
  12. The ___________________ was also known as the large state plan.

20 Clues: ___________________ supported the constitution. • The President was part of the __________________. • What are the first 10 amendments to the constitution called? • The ___________________ was also known as the large state plan. • Many ________________________ settled in the Northwest Territory. • ...

The Civil War Kaitlin Tenorio 2017-02-13

The Civil War Kaitlin Tenorio crossword puzzle
Across
  1. to care for those who were wounded, sick, or homeless in wartime
  2. the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War
  3. an unrecognized country of 11 slave states from 1861 to 1865
  4. Enlistment for state service
  5. American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States
  6. The 18th president of the United states
  7. A presidential proclamation by Abraham Lincoln
  8. The action of leading a group
  9. A battle during July 1–3, 1863 around the town of Gettysburg,by Union and Confederate forces
  10. A writ requiring a person under arrest
  11. battle in the south
  12. withdraw from membership
Down
  1. a group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled by machine
  2. General of the confederate army of Northern Virginia
  3. A state in the south of the United states
  4. a strategy to supress the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War
  5. an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
  6. President of the Confederate States
  7. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime
  8. a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj
  9. one of the last battles of the American Civil War
  10. seafort in Carolina notable for two battles in the American Civil war

22 Clues: battle in the south • withdraw from membership • Enlistment for state service • The action of leading a group • President of the Confederate States • A writ requiring a person under arrest • The 18th president of the United states • A state in the south of the United states • A presidential proclamation by Abraham Lincoln • one of the last battles of the American Civil War • ...

Between Wars 2018-02-11

Between Wars crossword puzzle
Across
  1. An American composer referred to as the "Dean of American Composers"
  2. An American author of realistic and imaginative writing
  3. An American composer, pianist, and orchestra leader
  4. A series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States in response to the Great Depression
  5. An American artist of flowers, skyscrapers, and Mexican landscapes
  6. An American writer of the Jazz age
  7. was the 32nd president of the United States and led the U.S. out of the Great Depression
  8. A tax on imports or exports between sovereign states
  9. A severe worldwide economic depression took place during the 1930's in the United States
  10. An American composer and pianist
  11. An African American blues singer
  12. The state of being unemployed
  13. The capital raised by a business or corporation through the issue and subscription of shares
Down
  1. An African American painter of African American life
  2. An equity market of buyers and sellers of stocks which represent ownerships claims on businesses
  3. An African American trumpet player considered the greatest ever
  4. The movement of 6 million African-Americans from the South to the North
  5. An intellectual, social and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York
  6. An African American poet of jazz
  7. The central banking system of the United States
  8. Engagement in business transactions involving considerable risk but offering the chance of huge gains

21 Clues: The state of being unemployed • An African American poet of jazz • An American composer and pianist • An African American blues singer • An American writer of the Jazz age • The central banking system of the United States • An American composer, pianist, and orchestra leader • An African American painter of African American life • ...

Civil War and Reconstruction 2024-05-22

Civil War and Reconstruction crossword puzzle
Across
  1. System where freedmen worked land owned by others for a share of the crops
  2. Agency assisting freed slaves during Reconstruction
  3. Acts Laws dividing the South into military districts
  4. President after Lincoln, faced impeachment
  5. President during the Civil War
  6. Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War
  7. Lincoln's declaration freeing slaves in Confederate states
  8. Key issue leading to the Civil War
  9. Act of Southern states leaving the Union
  10. Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) ensuring rights for African Americans
  11. Laws restricting the rights of freedmen after the Civil War
  12. General of the Union Army
  13. Conductor of the Underground Railroad
  14. Courthouse where Lee surrendered to Grant
  15. Southern whites who supported Reconstruction
Down
  1. General of the Confederate Army
  2. Congress members who supported harsh Reconstruction policies
  3. First battle of the Civil War
  4. Group using violence to oppose Reconstruction
  5. Bloodiest single-day battle in American history
  6. Assassin of Abraham Lincoln
  7. Agreement ending Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South
  8. State laws enforcing racial segregation in the South
  9. Principle used by Southern states to justify secession
  10. Abolished slavery in the United States
  11. Major turning point battle of the Civil War
  12. Union campaign through the South causing widespread destruction
  13. Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction
  14. Nurse who founded the American Red Cross
  15. President of the Confederate States of America

30 Clues: General of the Union Army • Assassin of Abraham Lincoln • First battle of the Civil War • President during the Civil War • General of the Confederate Army • Key issue leading to the Civil War • Conductor of the Underground Railroad • Abolished slavery in the United States • Nurse who founded the American Red Cross • Act of Southern states leaving the Union • ...

4th of July 2024-06-20

4th of July crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the color of the stars on the USA flag
  2. the national animal of the USA
  3. the first president of the United States of America
  4. the symbol on the flag that represents the 13 original colonies
  5. The Declaration of ___________
  6. the building where the USA congress meets
  7. the color of the sky
  8. the official leader of the USA
  9. the capital of the United States of America
Down
  1. people use these at night on the 4th of July to celebrate America's independence
  2. the first color of the rainbow
  3. the day in July when the USA celebrates independence
  4. the symbol that represents the USA and was made by Betsy Ross
  5. where the president lives
  6. the symbol on the flag that represents the 50 states
  7. the month in which we celebrate the independence of the USA
  8. The United States of ___________

17 Clues: the color of the sky • where the president lives • the first color of the rainbow • the national animal of the USA • The Declaration of ___________ • the official leader of the USA • The United States of ___________ • the color of the stars on the USA flag • the building where the USA congress meets • the capital of the United States of America • ...

Road to the Civil War Part 2 2021-04-20

Road to the Civil War Part 2 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning and trying escaped slaves.
  2. An American military leader who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who created the Justice Department and worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans.
  3. Commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy, was an unrecognized breakaway state in existence from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865, that fought against the United States of America during the American Civil War.
  4. An island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina most famous for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War (1861-65). ... Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, kicking off the battle.
  5. A presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, during the Civil War.
  6. Were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  7. Was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
  8. An unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War.
  9. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was an important agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.
  10. Refers to the diplomatic methods employed by the Confederacy during the American Civil War to coerce the United Kingdom and France to support the Confederate war effort by implementing a cotton trade embargo against the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe.
  11. Was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War.
  12. An American Confederate general best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He led the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 until its surrender in 1865 and earned a reputation as a skilled tactician.
  13. A raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. It has been called the dress rehearsal for, or Tragic Prelude to, the Civil War.
  14. Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
  15. Also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women.
  16. Was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
  17. In the American Civil War, site in Virginia of the surrender of the Confederate forces to those of the North on April 9, 1865. ... Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, thus effectively ending the Civil War.
Down
  1. Repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
  2. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War".
  3. A speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of November 19, 1863.
  4. Military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory, as distinguished from limited war. Throughout history, limitations on the scope of warfare have been more economic and social than political.
  5. An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
  6. Occurred from May 23 and continued until May 26, 1856, with the killings occurring on the night of May 24 and the morning of May.
  7. Either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda.
  8. Also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 1862.
  9. In U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war.
  10. An American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, the country's greatest moral, cultural, constitutional, and political crisis.
  11. Referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... The party opposed the expansion of slavery before 1861 and led the fight to destroy the Confederate States of America (1861–1865).
  12. An enslaved African-American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision"

29 Clues: Were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. • Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization. • Either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. • ...

Unit 10 2024-05-03

Unit 10 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. declares that all persons born in the U.S are citizens
  2. to leave or withdraw
  3. a northern who went to the south immediately after the civil war
  4. laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves
  5. the period after the civil war in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the union
  6. abolished slavery
  7. a system used on southern farms after the civil war
Down
  1. after the civil war a group the believed the south should be harshly punished
  2. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  3. organization run by the army to care for and protect southern blacks after the civil war
  4. U.S Connor prevent a person from voting because of race, color, or creed
  5. the surrounding of a place in order to force it to surrender
  6. another word for the northern states that stayed in the United States
  7. southern whites who supported republican policy through reconstruction

14 Clues: abolished slavery • to leave or withdraw • a system used on southern farms after the civil war • laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves • declares that all persons born in the U.S are citizens • the surrounding of a place in order to force it to surrender • the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 • ...

Early US Crossword 2017-12-18

Early US Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. One of the states that came out of the Northwest Ordinance
  2. Source of propaganda for the Patriots
  3. Breakup letter the Patriots sent KGIII
  4. Number of states necessary to pass a law under the Aoc
  5. Shot(s) hear round the world
  6. Who the national government had to ask for money from under the AoC
  7. What Great Britain was left with after winning the French and Indian War
  8. Number of states necessary to alter the AoC
  9. American battle tactic
Down
  1. Final major battle of the war
  2. Turning point in the war
  3. America's first form of government
  4. European country that provided the most aid to the Americans during the war
  5. Author of the DoI
  6. Enlightenment thinker who advocated for Natural Rights and the Social Contract
  7. Commander of the Continental Army
  8. Power the national government lacked under the AoC
  9. Every conflict in North America results in this group somehow losing
  10. Forced Great Britain to accept American independence in 1783

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 • ...

Early US Crossword 2017-12-18

Early US Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Who the national government had to ask for money from under the AoC
  2. America's first form of government
  3. Final major battle of the war
  4. Power the national government lacked under the AoC
  5. Every conflict in North America results in this group somehow losing
  6. American battle tactic
  7. Author of the DoI
  8. European country that provided the most aid to the Americans during the war
  9. Breakup letter the Patriots sent KGIII
Down
  1. What Great Britain was left with after winning the French and Indian War
  2. Forced Great Britain to accept American independence in 1783
  3. Shot(s) hear round the world
  4. Source of propaganda for the Patriots
  5. One of the states that came out of the Northwest Ordinance
  6. Commander of the Continental Army
  7. Enlightenment thinker who advocated for Natural Rights and the Social Contract
  8. Number of states necessary to pass a law under the Aoc
  9. Number of states necessary to alter the AoC
  10. Turning point in 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 • ...

Early US Crossword 2017-12-18

Early US Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What Great Britain was left with after winning the French and Indian War
  2. Power the national government lacked under the AoC
  3. Shot(s) hear round the world
  4. Every conflict in North America results in this group somehow losing
  5. America's first form of government
  6. Source of propaganda for the Patriots
  7. Who the national government had to ask for money from under the AoC
  8. European country that provided the most aid to the Americans during the war
  9. Final major battle of the war
Down
  1. One of the states that came out of the Northwest Ordinance
  2. American battle tactic
  3. Forced Great Britain to accept American independence in 1783
  4. Number of states necessary to alter the AoC
  5. Breakup letter the Patriots sent KGIII
  6. Number of states necessary to pass a law under the AoC
  7. Turning point in the war
  8. Commander of the Continental Army
  9. Author of the DoI
  10. Enlightenment thinker who advocated for Natural Rights and the Social Contract

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 • ...

Road to the Civil War Part 2 2021-04-15

Road to the Civil War Part 2 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. An American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, the country's greatest moral, cultural, constitutional, and political crisis.
  2. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War".
  3. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was an important agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.
  4. Either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda.
  5. A raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. It has been called the dress rehearsal for, or Tragic Prelude to, the Civil War.
  6. Commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy, was an unrecognized breakaway state in existence from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865, that fought against the United States of America during the American Civil War.
  7. Military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory, as distinguished from limited war. Throughout history, limitations on the scope of warfare have been more economic and social than political.
  8. In U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war.
  9. Occurred from May 23 and continued until May 26, 1856, with the killings occurring on the night of May 24 and the morning of May.
  10. An American Confederate general best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He led the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 until its surrender in 1865 and earned a reputation as a skilled tactician.
  11. In the American Civil War, site in Virginia of the surrender of the Confederate forces to those of the North on April 9, 1865. ... Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, thus effectively ending the Civil War.
  12. Also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 1862.
  13. A presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, during the Civil War.
Down
  1. Was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War.
  2. An unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War.
  3. Referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... The party opposed the expansion of slavery before 1861 and led the fight to destroy the Confederate States of America (1861–1865).
  4. Was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning and trying escaped slaves.
  5. An enslaved African-American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision"
  6. An American military leader who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who created the Justice Department and worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans.
  7. An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
  8. Was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
  9. Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
  10. A speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of November 19, 1863.
  11. Was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
  12. Were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  13. Repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
  14. Also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women.
  15. An island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina most famous for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War (1861-65). ... Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, kicking off the battle.
  16. Refers to the diplomatic methods employed by the Confederacy during the American Civil War to coerce the United Kingdom and France to support the Confederate war effort by implementing a cotton trade embargo against the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe.

29 Clues: Were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. • Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization. • Either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. • ...

Early US Crossword 2017-12-18

Early US Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Who the national government had to ask for money from under the AoC
  2. Shot(s) hear round the world
  3. Number of states necessary to alter the AoC
  4. Breakup letter the Patriots sent KGIII
  5. Turning point in the war
  6. Forced Great Britain to accept American independence in 1783
  7. Source of propaganda for the Patriots
  8. Every conflict in North America results in this group somehow losing
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  1. Commander of the Continental Army
  2. Author of the DoI
  3. Number of states necessary to pass a law under the Aoc
  4. Power the national government lacked under the AoC
  5. America's first form of government
  6. Enlightenment thinker who advocated for Natural Rights and the Social Contract
  7. Final major battle of the war
  8. American battle tactic
  9. What Great Britain was left with after winning the French and Indian War
  10. One of the states that came out of the Northwest Ordinance
  11. 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 • ...

Early US Crossword 2017-12-18

Early US Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Forced Great Britain to accept American independence in 1783
  2. Enlightenment thinker who advocated for Natural Rights and the Social Contract
  3. Source of propaganda for the Patriots
  4. Shot(s) hear round the world
  5. Number of states necessary to pass a law under the Aoc
  6. American battle tactic
  7. Breakup letter the Patriots sent KGIII
  8. One of the states that came out of the Northwest Ordinance
  9. Who the national government had to ask for money from under the AoC
Down
  1. Commander of the Continental Army
  2. What Great Britain was left with after winning the French and Indian War
  3. America's first form of government
  4. Final major battle of the war
  5. Power the national government lacked under the AoC
  6. Turning point in the war
  7. Author of the DoI
  8. Number of states necessary to alter the AoC
  9. European country that provided the most aid to the Americans during the war
  10. Every conflict in North America results in this group somehow losing

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 • ...

History of the Civil Right Movement 2021-02-26

History of the Civil Right Movement crossword puzzle
Across
  1. vs reed A landmark decision of the US Supreme Court ruling that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes
  2. vs virginia The Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  3. amendment Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized In the United States
  4. An African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement
  5. vs boe A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional
  6. vs browder A case heard before a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on Montgomery and Alabama state bus segregation laws
  7. vs charlotte The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States
  8. amendment Abolished slavery
  9. vs sidoti A mother challenging a state court order divesting her of custody of her child contended that, contrary to the trial court's findings, it was not in her pre-school child's best interests to be removed from her custody, while the father alleged that the child would be damaged by being raised in a racially mixed household
  10. vs bakke The Court's decision to upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy
  11. integration The practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to be inclusive to members of minority groups
  12. disobedience The refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest
  13. marshall An African American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
  14. Protection Clause Requires states to practice equal protection
  15. robinson The first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era
  16. parks An American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott
  17. vs ferguson Legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on May 18, 1896, by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws
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  1. vs baltimore A per curiam order by the Supreme Court of the United States affirming an order by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that enjoined racial segregation in public beaches and bathhouses
  2. clause Gives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian
  3. ins A form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met
  4. vs orr United States Supreme Court case that held that a statutory scheme in Alabama that imposed alimony obligations on husbands but not on wives was an unconstitutional equal protection violation
  5. vs holmes A United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ordered immediate desegregation of public schools in the American South
  6. A civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans
  7. from birmingham jail A letter that Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed to his fellow clergymen while he was in jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, after a nonviolent protest against racial segregation
  8. amendment Everyone including African Americans can vote
  9. The principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s
  10. crow laws State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
  11. bus boycott A political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
  12. x An African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement
  13. An African American civil rights organization that is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr.

30 Clues: amendment Abolished slavery • amendment Everyone including African Americans can vote • Protection Clause Requires states to practice equal protection • amendment Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized In the United States • robinson The first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era • ...

70s-to now 2023-06-09

70s-to now crossword puzzle
Across
  1. This scandal led to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.
  2. The 37th President of the United States, who was involved in the Watergate scandal.
  3. He served as the 46th President of the United States, taking office in 2021.
  4. He succeeded President Ford in 1977 and served until 1981 as the 39th President of the United States.
  5. An American painter and art instructor known for his soothing demeanor and landscape paintings.
  6. A pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that emerged in late 2019 and spread globally in 2020.
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  1. He served as the 40th President of the United States, from 1981 to 1989.
  2. A space telescope launched by NASA in 1990, named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble.
  3. The terrible events that occurred September 11th led to the war on..
  4. The 45th President of the United States, who served from 2017 to 2021.
  5. A controversial conflict that took place in the 1960s and 1970s, pitting communist forces against American-backed South Vietnamese forces.
  6. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram that allow users to create and share content.
  7. A catastrophic hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast of the United States in 2005, causing widespread devastation.
  8. A disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
  9. A sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.
  10. A genre of music that originated in the Bronx in the late 1970s and has since become a global phenomenon.
  11. A period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States, which lasted from 1947 to 1991.

17 Clues: A disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). • This scandal led to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974. • The terrible events that occurred September 11th led to the war on.. • The 45th President of the United States, who served from 2017 to 2021. • He served as the 40th President of the United States, from 1981 to 1989. • ...

Early US Crossword 2017-12-18

Early US Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Number of states necessary to alter the AoC
  2. Turning point in the war
  3. Who the national government had to ask for money from under the AoC
  4. Shot(s) hear round the world
  5. Breakup letter the Patriots sent KGIII
  6. Author of the DoI
  7. Source of propaganda for the Patriots
  8. Every conflict in North America results in this group somehow losing
Down
  1. American battle tactic
  2. Number of states necessary to pass a law under the Aoc
  3. Enlightenment thinker who advocated for Natural Rights and the Social Contract
  4. Forced Great Britain to accept American independence in 1783
  5. America's first form of government
  6. Commander of the Continental Army
  7. Power the national government lacked under the AoC
  8. One of the states that came out of the Northwest Ordinance
  9. European country that provided the most aid to the Americans during the war
  10. Final major battle of the war
  11. What Great Britain was left with after winning the French and Indian 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 • ...

Civil War 2023-05-15

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Location of the first shots of the Civil War
  2. The Confederate states were states in the ___________
  3. The first part of the North's war plan was to _______ the Southern ports
  4. ____________ plan made by the North
  5. The deadliest battle of the war
  6. Capitol city of the Confederacy
  7. The first shots were fired in April of 186___
  8. Number of promises Lincoln made to the South when running for president
  9. Number of states in the confederacy
  10. Last name of the Confederate President
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  1. First state to secede from the Union
  2. Both sides wanted to control this river for trade
  3. The main way people in the south earned money
  4. The five _______________ states agreed with slavery, but not with seceding from the Union
  5. The line that separated the North from the South
  6. Last name of the President of the Union
  7. The interests of a particular region
  8. The south __________ from the Union after Lincoln's election
  9. The side fighting against the Confederacy

19 Clues: The deadliest battle of the war • Capitol city of the Confederacy • ____________ plan made by the North • Number of states in the confederacy • First state to secede from the Union • The interests of a particular region • Last name of the Confederate President • Last name of the President of the Union • The side fighting against the Confederacy • ...

History Chapter 8 test 5 2023-12-14

History Chapter 8 test 5 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. – person who farmed for a landowner to receive part of the crop profit
  2. southerners who supported the Union and joined with dishonest carpetbaggers to make a profit
  3. of 1866 – law declaring that all people born in the United States except for Native Americans still living as tribes were citizens of the United States with full and equal benefits of all laws
  4. – U.S. Army General who died at the Battle of Little Bighorn
  5. – former slaves who were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment
  6. a railroad that crosses the United States from Coast to Coast
  7. – law that broke up tribal lands into separates plots and offered them to any U.S. citizen or Native American family that would take up farming or ranching
  8. – men hired by a rancher to care for cattle
  9. – 17th president of the United States became president after Abraham Lincoln’s death
  10. – first former enslaved Black American to serve in Congress
  11. 19th president of the United States appointed because of the Compromise of 1877
  12. institute founded in Tuskegee Alabama to educate Black men and women
  13. – agreement in Congress that brought an end to the Reconstruction
  14. government department created to ensure fair treatment to newly freed slaves
  15. – rebuilding of Southern states after the Civil War
  16. – trail for cattle drives from Texas to Abilene, Kansas
  17. – the practice of separating people by skin color
  18. – mail delivery using a relay system of horses and riders that delivered mail between Missouri and California in only 10 days
  19. – first black American to serve in Congress
  20. – 1890 incident in which over 200 Native American men, women and children from the Lakota tribe led nu Chief Big Foot were killed by the Us Army
  21. Bill allowing a settler to claim up to 160 acres of land for a low price if they would improve the land and live on it for at least 5 years
  22. – place where a Union Pacific train traveling west and a Central Pacific train traveling east met; marking the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
  23. – areas of Oklahoma Territory that were not assigned to Native American Tribes
  24. – central prairie area of the United States called the “Breadbasket of America” because of all the grain produced there
  25. – organization formed by Congress after the end of the Civil War designed to help provide freed slaves and any poor southern family for one year
  26. – laws in the Southern States that only Blacks had to obey
  27. Act – law that made large areas of land available to Native Americans
  28. – declared that freedman were citizens of the United States
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  1. – town with a railroad to transport cattle
  2. group within the Republican Party that wanted the government to control the recovery of the Southern states from the Civil War
  3. – unjust treatment of another person because of a category such as race or skin color
  4. – inventor of the Telegraph
  5. – western territory that was ready to be settled but had not yet become a state
  6. group within the Republican Party that wanted the southern states to make decisions on their own about recovery
  7. Northern businessmen named for the suitcases they carried who traveled to the South to help rebuild the Southern economy
  8. large sections of land set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes
  9. – fights between western farmers and ranchers over grazing and water rights
  10. – battle led by Chief Crazy Horse in which an entire unit of U.S. Soldiers died also called Custer’s Last Stand
  11. 18th president of the United States
  12. – rush to claim pieces of the Unassigned lands in the Oklahoma Territory
  13. America’s first National Park
  14. – to bring criminal charges against a public official
  15. – congressional bill that divided the Southern states into 5 military districts to aid in recovery
  16. – declared that no man could be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous servitude
  17. – leader of Sioux nation during the Battle of Little Bighorn
  18. – company that operated banks carried mail and offered travel in the west by stagecoach
  19. – process of herding cattle to the nearest Cowtown
  20. – educator and founder of Tuskegee Institute

48 Clues: – inventor of the Telegraph • America’s first National Park • 18th president of the United States • – town with a railroad to transport cattle • – men hired by a rancher to care for cattle • – first black American to serve in Congress • – educator and founder of Tuskegee Institute • – the practice of separating people by skin color • ...

states of matter vocabulary. 2024-08-30

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

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

Human Geography of the United States: Shaping an Abundant Land 2023-09-18

Human Geography of the United States: Shaping an Abundant Land crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A region that covers about one-fourth of the land area of the United States and contains more than one-third of its population.
  2. The movement of peoples within a country or region.
  3. A functional area including a city and its surrounding suburbs and exurbs, linked economically.
  4. A corporation that engages in business worldwide.
  5. A political unit or community touching the borders of the central city or touching other suburbs that touch the city.
  6. North American region, consisting of 13 states, that stretches from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean and includes Alaska to the north and Hawaii in the Pacific.
  7. An economic system in which private individuals own most of the resources, technology, and businesses, and can operate them for profit with little control from the government.
  8. An economic phase in which manufacturing no longer plays a dominant role.
  9. The six northern states in the Northeast United States - Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
Down
  1. The movement of plants, animals, and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres during the age of exploration.
  2. The region that contains the 12 states of the north-central United States.
  3. The free, open land in the American West that was available for settlement.
  4. Any kind of economic activity that produces a service rather than a product.
  5. A government in which the people rule through elected representatives.
  6. The territory, including the region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, that the United States purchased from France in 1803.
  7. A region in which several large cities and surrounding areas grow together.
  8. A product or good that is sold from one economy to another.

17 Clues: A corporation that engages in business worldwide. • The movement of peoples within a country or region. • A product or good that is sold from one economy to another. • A government in which the people rule through elected representatives. • An economic phase in which manufacturing no longer plays a dominant role. • ...

Unit 7 Crossword 2020-04-03

Unit 7 Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg and memory of the Union Soldiers who had died trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded.
  2. a person who flees or tries to escape ( for example, from slavery).
  3. laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
  4. a war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country.
  5. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color, or because the person was once a slave.
  6. an agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.
  7. an order issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring slaves in the Confederate states are to be free.
  8. the right of an accused person to appear in court so a judge can determine whether he or she is being imprisoned lawfully.
  9. the United States as one nation United under a single government. During the Civil War “The Union” came to mean the government and armies of the North
  10. the period after the Civil War in which southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union.
  11. A proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War.
  12. a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas who are candidates in the Illinois race for the U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue.
  13. another name for the Confederate States of America made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union.
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  1. a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law.
  2. a Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African-Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
  3. laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the south after the Civil War.
  4. the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens especially. equal treatment under the law
  5. a village in Virginia that was the site of the Confederate surrender to the Union forces under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant.
  6. The agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. these agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington,D.C., and creating a stronger fugitive slave law.
  7. an Act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories.
  8. Bureau an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans.

21 Clues: a war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country. • a person who flees or tries to escape ( for example, from slavery). • laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the south after the Civil War. • the period after the Civil War in which southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union. • ...

Founding documents vocabulary 2021-09-30

Founding documents vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. It was written to support the idea of forming a federal republic under a new constitution.
  2. It was an agreement and created two legislative bodies in congress.
  3. Members of this branch makes all of the laws.
  4. a diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats.
  5. An uprising that tested the federal authority in the US.
  6. Payment that is paid periodically.
  7. Wanted the central government to be strong and the states government to be weak.
  8. The highest judicial court that decides where laws break the constitution or not.
  9. The leader of a country or nation.
  10. This branch decides the meaning of laws and whether laws break the constitution or not.
  11. Congress had implied powers under the Constitution to create the Second Bank of the United States and that the state of Maryland lacked the power to tax the Bank.
  12. Treaty between the United States and Great Britain/England.
  13. Political statements stating that the Alien and Sedition acts were unconstitutional.
  14. the legislative branch of the federal government that represents the American people and makes the laws.
  15. A written document ratified by the 13 states on 1781. The goal of this document was to give the central government very little power over the states or their citizens.
  16. The introductory part of a constitution or statute that states the reasons for the law or constitution.
  17. an assembly or council.
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  1. A written document limiting the power of the government, identifying the rights of the citizens, and defines a state.
  2. 3 laws that allowed the chief executive to deport any immigrant who they found dangerous, and 1 law that banned false or bad writings about the government.
  3. wanted states to have the power and the central government to be weak.
  4. Every 3 out of 5 slaves would be counted.
  5. a form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body.
  6. The pen name of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.
  7. The lower legislative branch.
  8. To approve.
  9. Relating to a form of government where the states recognize the power of a central government but have certain state-level government powers.
  10. This branch carries out and enforces laws.
  11. List items individually.
  12. The purchase made by Thomas Jefferson that doubled the size of the US.
  13. Treaty between Spain and the United States, it also guaranteed the US navigation rights on the Mississippi River.
  14. It established the power of judicial review and the power to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional.
  15. The first 10 amendments in the US constitution.
  16. A uprising of farmers, that lead to protests, that lead to George Washington coming out of retirement to help suppress them.
  17. the power of the courts to examine the actions of the legislative, executive, and administrative arms of the government to determine whether such actions are consistent with the constitution or if they aren't.
  18. The term used to describe the judges appointed to the Federal Circuit courts by President Adams on his last day in office.
  19. A supreme court judge.

36 Clues: To approve. • A supreme court judge. • an assembly or council. • List items individually. • The lower legislative branch. • Payment that is paid periodically. • The leader of a country or nation. • Every 3 out of 5 slaves would be counted. • This branch carries out and enforces laws. • Members of this branch makes all of the laws. • ...

The Battle of First Bull Run 2023-11-29

The Battle of First Bull Run crossword puzzle
Across
  1. States where capitol of the Confederacy was
  2. Name of the southern states
  3. Stream near first battle
  4. Fight between armed forces
  5. When a states tries to leave its prior nation
Down
  1. Having ownership of human beings
  2. States where capitol of the Union was
  3. Name of the northern states
  4. Violent conflict between nations or states
  5. Amount of people dead or injured

10 Clues: Stream near first battle • Fight between armed forces • Name of the northern states • Name of the southern states • Having ownership of human beings • Amount of people dead or injured • States where capitol of the Union was • Violent conflict between nations or states • States where capitol of the Confederacy was • When a states tries to leave its prior nation

paightons crossword 2021-12-20

paightons crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. lake named after Michigan
  2. the exact place of something
  3. found below the united states
  4. line above the equator
  5. 3rd planet from the sun
  6. found above the united states
  7. the way to move an object
  8. the earth is not flat but
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  1. biggest ocean in the world
  2. interactions between humans and a community
  3. line below the equator
  4. made up by 50 states
  5. study of the earth
  6. sunflower state
  7. an area or division of the earth
  8. found by using things around it

16 Clues: sunflower state • study of the earth • made up by 50 states • line below the equator • line above the equator • 3rd planet from the sun • lake named after Michigan • the way to move an object • the earth is not flat but • biggest ocean in the world • the exact place of something • found below the united states • found above the united states • found by using things around it • ...

civil war crossword 2021-10-27

civil war crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Northern states
  2. 16th president of the U.S
  3. leader of confederate states
  4. deadliest war in U.S history
  5. to get rid of
  6. Fort was attacked on April 1861
  7. leading cause of civilwar
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  1. Southern states
  2. 1st battle of civil war
  3. how Harriet Tubman freed 100s of slaves
  4. military leader in civil war
  5. racism
  6. election of 1860
  7. slave who could read and right
  8. battle with more than 23,000 casualties

15 Clues: racism • to get rid of • Southern states • Northern states • election of 1860 • 1st battle of civil war • 16th president of the U.S • leading cause of civilwar • military leader in civil war • leader of confederate states • deadliest war in U.S history • slave who could read and right • Fort was attacked on April 1861 • how Harriet Tubman freed 100s of slaves • ...

Constitution & the creation of the Constitution. 2022-02-18

Constitution & the creation of the Constitution. crossword puzzle
Across
  1. any group of human beings collectively
  2. the act of forming or establishing something
  3. all future generations
  4. something that aids or promotes well-being
  5. relating to a lawmaking assembly
  6. the United States
  7. freedom of choice.
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  1. the lower legislative assembly of the United States Congress
  2. a statement that is added to a proposal or document
  3. the quality of being fair, reasonable, or impartial
  4. the legislature of the United States government
  5. the upper house of the United States Congress
  6. an untroubled state that is free from disturbances
  7. possession of the qualities required to do something

14 Clues: the United States • freedom of choice. • all future generations • relating to a lawmaking assembly • any group of human beings collectively • something that aids or promotes well-being • the act of forming or establishing something • the upper house of the United States Congress • the legislature of the United States government • ...

States of matter vocabulary assignment 2024-08-29

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

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

states of matter vocab 2024-08-30

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

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

AP Gov Unit One Review 2024-04-15

AP Gov Unit One Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. This clause forces states to respect judicial judgements that were made in other states
  2. This clause makes the constitution supersede state courts and constitutions
  3. This clause prevents states from discriminating against citizens of other states
  4. This amendment abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime
  5. Gives congress the ability to make laws to execute the provisions of the constitution
  6. A grant given to states with conditions attached to how the money can be spent
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  1. This amendment established that every citizen must have equal protection under the law
  2. This amendment forbids denying the right to vote on the basis of race
  3. This amendment says that powers not given to the federal government are reserved for the states
  4. This clause gives congress to regulate interstate ______
  5. A government policy that lacks funding for implementation
  6. A grant that gives states total control over how it can be used

12 Clues: This clause gives congress to regulate interstate ______ • A government policy that lacks funding for implementation • A grant that gives states total control over how it can be used • This amendment abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime • This amendment forbids denying the right to vote on the basis of race • ...

The Battle of First Bull Run 2023-11-29

The Battle of First Bull Run crossword puzzle
Across
  1. States where capitol of the Confederacy was
  2. Name of the southern states
  3. Stream near first battle
  4. Fight between armed forces
  5. When a states tries to leave its prior nation
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  1. Having ownership of human beings
  2. States where capitol of the Union was
  3. Name of the northern states
  4. Violent conflict between nations or states
  5. Amount of people dead or injured

10 Clues: Stream near first battle • Fight between armed forces • Name of the northern states • Name of the southern states • Having ownership of human beings • Amount of people dead or injured • States where capitol of the Union was • Violent conflict between nations or states • States where capitol of the Confederacy was • When a states tries to leave its prior nation

government terms 2021-01-14

government terms crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Believed in natural rights- life, liberty, and property; the strongest influence on Thomas Jefferson, who wrote natural rights into the Declaration of Independence
  2. Fupporters of the new Constitution who believed in a strong central government with limited
  3. Chose to preside at the Constitutional Convention; he later became the first president of the United States; he set precedent by stepping down after two terms and initiating a peaceful transition of power
  4. Government is defined by law and serves the people; the law is above everyone and it applies to everyone, whether ruler or the ruled
  5. Explains the purposes of the Constitution and defines the powers of the new government as
  6. The distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union
  7. Government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
  8. Compromise reached in writing the Constitution to satisfy both small and large states by having one house of Congress with an equal number of representatives for each state and the other house’s membership determined by a state’s population
  9. and checks and balances
  10. rights and liberties of the people
  11. First ten amendments to the Constitution, added by the first Congress in 1791; protects the
  12. King/queen controls all aspect of life: social, economic, and political – oftentimes tied to the divine right of kings (authority from God)
  13. Group of people who feared the new government created by the Constitution; gave too much power to the national government at the expense of individual rights
  14. Considered intelligent and decisive, he was a leading supporter of the Constitution and helped write the Federalist Papers
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  1. 3rd president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence; did not take part in writing the Constitution because he was in France at the time. He was a strong advocate for the addition of a Bill of Rights
  2. Type of democracy based on the protection of individual rights from the tyranny of the majority and on the consent of the governed to establish political authority
  3. Powers saved for the states in our system of federalism, guaranteed in the 9th Amendment to the Constitution
  4. from the people of the United States
  5. First plan of government adopted in the United States after the revolution; it was a loose association of states with no authority to tax, no national army, and no chief executive
  6. “Father of the Constitution” and fourth president of the United States; essential to the writing and ratification of the Constitution; he also wrote the first 10 amendments to the Constitution that were ratified as the Bill of Rights
  7. Power is held at the national level, with very little power being held in political subdivisions, such as provinces, states, counties, parishes, or tow
  8. The government is not all-powerful; its powers are limited, and the acts of the government are those willed by the people Constitution were written
  9. The citizens have political authority and are bound by social contract to obey laws with their rights guaranteed by a constitution; citizens willingly subordinate their private, selfish interests to the common good

23 Clues: and checks and balances • rights and liberties of the people • from the people of the United States • Government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens • The distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union • Explains the purposes of the Constitution and defines the powers of the new government as • ...

Unit 3: The New Nation 8.21-8.28 2024-12-05

Unit 3: The New Nation 8.21-8.28 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. interpretation of the Constitution that seeks to adapt its meaning to the needs of the country at that moment
  2. a form of government in which the people rule, either directly or through elected representatives
  3. unsettled territory bordered by the Ohio River, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Mississippi River
  4. to give official approval
  5. Second president of the US, first vice president of the US
  6. deported anyone from a country with which the United States was at war
  7. opposed the constitution
  8. people chosen to speak or make decisions for another person or group of people
  9. representatives
  10. Trail carved out by Daniel Boone through the Cumberland Gap
  11. Washington offered advise on how the nation should move forward
  12. a group of advisors to the president who each head a department of the executive branch
  13. allowed three-fifths of a states slave population to count toward a state's total population
  14. freedoms that are protected by law
  15. allowed congress to divide the Northwest Territory into three to five separate territories
  16. Hamilton wanted to create it to stabilize the economy
  17. a person who buys and sells land for a profit
  18. 16th state of the union
  19. delegates meeting in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation
  20. led a rebellion in Massachusetts following the Revolution over monetary debt crisis at the end of the American Revolutionary War.
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  1. interpretation of the Constitution that maintains the federal government has authority to do ONLY what the Constitution specifically states it can do
  2. approval
  3. limits any one branch from gaining too much power
  4. violent protest against a tax on whiskey that took place in the United States from 1791 to 1794
  5. the idea that government authority comes from people who have agreed to be governed
  6. said the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional and that the states had the right to nullify them
  7. secretary of the treasury in Washington's Cabinet
  8. loosely unified the states by giving basic powers to a weaker central government and more power to the states; government established after the American Revolution in the Colonies
  9. banned any writings thought to be false, harmful, or directed against the government
  10. allows the three branches to keep the other two branches in check
  11. earlier events or actions used as examples for decisions or actions
  12. groups of men who traveled together looking for game; first European people to come to Tennessee
  13. grants Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the powers grated in the Constitution
  14. the first ten amendments; protects the people's basic rights and freedoms
  15. solved the representation issue in the Constitutional Convention
  16. 1st president; general of the Continental Army
  17. a diplomatic incident between the United States and France that occurred in 1797 and 1798
  18. supported the Constitution
  19. a fleet of small ships
  20. change to the Constitution
  21. division of power between the states and federal government
  22. import tax
  23. 1784 divided the Northwest Territory into states

43 Clues: approval • import tax • representatives • a fleet of small ships • 16th state of the union • opposed the constitution • to give official approval • supported the Constitution • change to the Constitution • freedoms that are protected by law • a person who buys and sells land for a profit • 1st president; general of the Continental Army • ...

Sophia Hackers crossword puzzle 2021-03-16

Sophia Hackers crossword puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. This states animal is a grizzly bear
  2. This states animal is a Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
  3. This states animal is a ringtail cat
  4. This states animal is a Olympic Marmots
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  1. This states animal is a grizzly bear
  2. This states animal is a Desert bighorn sheep
  3. This states animal is a Appaloosa horse
  4. This states animal is a bison
  5. This states animal is a American Beaver
  6. Mexico This states animal is a black bear

10 Clues: This states animal is a bison • This states animal is a grizzly bear • This states animal is a grizzly bear • This states animal is a ringtail cat • This states animal is a Appaloosa horse • This states animal is a American Beaver • This states animal is a Olympic Marmots • Mexico This states animal is a black bear • This states animal is a Desert bighorn sheep • ...

Eli's Am. Gov. Crossword Puzzle 2k19 2019-08-30

Eli's Am. Gov. Crossword Puzzle 2k19 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A law that ordered people to return slaves that ran away to their owners and sparked debate in free states
  2. The Executive Branch (the President) has the power to _____ laws passed by Congress
  3. When a state decides to leave the union that is the United States, it participates in _____
  4. A political group that believed states should have more power than the national government
  5. An addition to the US Constitution to explicitly state rights not included in the Constitution
  6. The US's system of government is not a democracy; it's a _____
  7. The document that was sent to King George III on the 4th of July, 1776
  8. The written statement that states how Congress's rulings on Concurrent Powers are higher than any rulings decided by the states (i.e. minimum wage)
  9. Enumerated powers in the constitution that give each branch of government the right to correct others and protect the constituents from unfair rule
  10. A conflict between the national and southern entities, in which the south tried to succeed from the US
  11. A two party system
  12. Abilities of Congress that are not explicitly stated in a document, but can still be enacted without overreaching in power
  13. A national system of government
  14. A method for the selection of judges in this state and other states that adopted this method
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  1. Different groups of people with similar beliefs that agree to vote a certain way in most elections and affairs
  2. A political group that believed states should have less power than the national government
  3. A conclusion by the government that slaves would be counted as 3/5 of a person to determine population
  4. Government run by the people as a whole (i.e. voting on all issues and decisions)
  5. Different branches of government are used to achieve this and, as an intended result, have a more fair and separated system with checks and balances
  6. The decision agreed to by large and small states that set up the US Congress and the numbers of representatives for both the Senate and the House of Representatives
  7. A document written to outline a government's system and people's rights
  8. Abilities of Congress explicitly stated in the Constitution
  9. Unstated abilities that overlap when it comes to whether the states or Congress has the right to decide
  10. The first trial of a national document to outline the US's government; written before the constitution
  11. Our indirect system of voting uses people in the _____ to officially vote
  12. A national government that is not divided into a federal system and a state system
  13. The document that contains the first ten amendments added to the Constitution
  14. The Supreme Court's power to decide whether a law passed by congress is constitutional or not
  15. A totalitarian form of government in which one person is the sole decision maker of the country
  16. Abilities saved for the states to decide for themselves; sometimes overlapping with national implied powers

30 Clues: A two party system • A national system of government • Abilities of Congress explicitly stated in the Constitution • The US's system of government is not a democracy; it's a _____ • The document that was sent to King George III on the 4th of July, 1776 • A document written to outline a government's system and people's rights • ...

While You're Waiting 2020-11-05

While You're Waiting crossword puzzle
Across
  1. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
  2. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
  3. having power of situation
  4. people sometimes feel this way
  5. Government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people
  6. country of 50 states spanning North America
  7. leader of United States
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  1. lower house of the United States Congress
  2. combining efforts
  3. Life of Pablo
  4. A friend
  5. bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States
  6. a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative
  7. roses are

14 Clues: A friend • roses are • Life of Pablo • combining efforts • leader of United States • having power of situation • people sometimes feel this way • lower house of the United States Congress • 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC • country of 50 states spanning North America • Government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people • ...

North American Quiz/Review 2023-09-25

North American Quiz/Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A government that can't get too powerful
  2. is part of the legislative branch
  3. Mountains found in the Western United States
  4. The"E" in ESPeN stands for__________
  5. Cultural ________ is the spreading of culture
  6. Is part of the executive branch
  7. form of government found in the United States
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  1. Free ________ is a type of economic system
  2. Ocean found along East coast of United States
  3. Canada has two official languages, English and...
  4. ________ are part of the judicial branch
  5. _________ colonized the United States
  6. A sub-arctic climate can be found more in ______
  7. GDP stands for Gross Domestic _____________

14 Clues: Is part of the executive branch • is part of the legislative branch • The"E" in ESPeN stands for__________ • _________ colonized the United States • A government that can't get too powerful • ________ are part of the judicial branch • Free ________ is a type of economic system • GDP stands for Gross Domestic _____________ • Mountains found in the Western United States • ...

Midterm Vocab Review 2020-09-28

Midterm Vocab Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a post-Civil War American secret society advocating white supremacy.
  2. was a long series of English laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships shipping, trade, and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies
  3. They were distinguished by their fierce advocacy for the abolition of slavery, enfranchisement of black citizens, and holding the Southern states financially and morally culpable for the war.
  4. was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877, during which the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states that had seceded and determining the legal status of African Americans.
  5. the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.
  6. This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
  7. first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
  8. the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.
  9. information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
  10. was a conflict fought between the United States and its allies, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its allies
  11. the federal principle or system of government.
  12. the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
  13. a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.
  14. 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
  15. restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.
  16. of confederation
  17. stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).
  18. an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
  19. principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives, who are the source of all political power.
  20. The first permanent English settlement in NorthAmerica
  21. Was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries
  22. pronouncement adopted by the second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.
  23. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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  1. was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. All the school's property, known as the Carlisle Barracks, is now part of the U.S. Army War College. Horrible conditions
  2. indentured laborer is an employee within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract to work without pay for the owner of theindenture for a period of time.
  3. belief in the benefits of profitable trading commercialism.
  4. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
  5. a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
  6. armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes
  7. method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.
  8. late-18th century movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government
  9. This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. ... By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, to the United States.
  10. a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside.
  11. principle of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches and are induced to share power.
  12. were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
  13. pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by Native American allies.
  14. this amendment states All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside
  15. a person who remains loyal to the established ruler or government, especially in the face ofa revolt.
  16. warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
  17. A crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
  18. acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803.
  19. a steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort a Bessemer converter.
  20. war a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.
  21. This amendment states the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  22. closed down colonial expansion westward beyond Appalachia
  23. a prolonged war or period of conflict during which each side seeks to gradually wearout the other by a series of small-scale actions.
  24. authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots. Only those Native Americans who accepted the individual allotments were allowed to become US citizens
  25. legal designation for an area of land managed by a federally recognized Indian tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs rather than the state governments of the United States in which they are physically located.

48 Clues: of confederation • the federal principle or system of government. • The first permanent English settlement in NorthAmerica • first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. • closed down colonial expansion westward beyond Appalachia • belief in the benefits of profitable trading commercialism. • ...

Government Review - Alaina Takacs 2020-12-03

Government Review - Alaina Takacs crossword puzzle
Across
  1. no state can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in another state
  2. the supremacy clause in the constitution establishes the constitution and U.S. laws as the _________
  3. second long segments
  4. grants of federal money or other resources to the states and/or their cities, counties, or localities
  5. for a specific purpose,states must make contribution money,states must provide for an agency to administrator the grant, must obey guidlines
  6. powers that both the national and state government have
  7. a collection of people who share some common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends
  8. the legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state is returned to that state
  9. powers that the constitution does not give the national government but at the same time does not deny to the states
  10. the fourth branch of government
  11. for a specific project
  12. the states have a say in how the money is used
  13. size, intensity, and _____ make interest groups powerful
  14. money that goes to a local government in areas where there are large federal land holding in lieu of property taxes that the local government can't get from the national government
  15. are not expressly stated in the constitution but are implied by the expressed powers (national)
  16. factions are bad but a necessary evil
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  1. a system of government in which a written constitution divides the powers between the national and state governments
  2. found directly within the constitution for the national government
  3. ensures that states recognize the laws, documents, and court proceedings of another state
  4. an act creating a new state
  5. belong only because the U.S. is sovereign Ex. Immigration (national)
  6. agreements among states
  7. the censoring of news before it is released
  8. helped to fund state universities with the sale of public land given to the state by the federal governments (1862)
  9. keep people in office who are sympathetic to group wants and needs
  10. powers that can be exercised by the national government alone
  11. an act directing people of the territory to frame a proposed constitution

27 Clues: second long segments • for a specific project • agreements among states • an act creating a new state • the fourth branch of government • factions are bad but a necessary evil • the censoring of news before it is released • the states have a say in how the money is used • powers that both the national and state government have • ...

Civil War Level 2 2021-04-08

Civil War Level 2 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A boundary or border that split the free states from the slave states. It went between Pennsylvania to the north and Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware to the south.
  2. The fighting during the Civil War that took place west of the Appalachian Mountains. It eventually included the fighting in Georgia and the Carolinas as well.
  3. These states were slave states that did not leave the Union, but largely supported the cause of the Confederates. They included Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware
  4. Part of a country leaves
  5. The south during the Civil War
  6. A nickname for people from the North as well as Union soldiers.
  7. Led a March to the sea, the last campaign of the war
  8. soldiers that travel on horseback
  9. A nickname for the South.
  10. A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery
  11. Crackers eaten by Civil War soldiers made from flour, water, and salt.
  12. soldiers that travel by foot
  13. a death or loss at war
  14. The north during the Civil War
  15. an army of the people used during emergencies
  16. A nickname for northerners who were against the Civil War
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  1. A law passed by Congress in 1850 that said escaped slaves in free states had to be returned to their owners.
  2. Lincoln's War Plan
  3. Large caliber firearms like cannons and mortars
  4. knife on end of musket used in battle
  5. A term meaning "before war". ...
  6. A term used to describe people who supported the Union.
  7. Court house where surrender was signed
  8. A nickname for United States paper money that was first used in 1862. It got its name from the green ink used in printing.
  9. When a person is murdered for political reasons
  10. A cap worn by Civil War soldiers.
  11. The rebuilding of war torn southern states so they could be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War.
  12. a warship covered in iron
  13. When you get pooled to go to war
  14. The side of an army or military unit.

30 Clues: Lincoln's War Plan • a death or loss at war • Part of a country leaves • a warship covered in iron • A nickname for the South. • soldiers that travel by foot • The south during the Civil War • The north during the Civil War • A term meaning "before war". ... • When you get pooled to go to war • A cap worn by Civil War soldiers. • soldiers that travel on horseback • ...

1920s 2013-12-18

1920s crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Pioneering trumpet player and bandleader
  2. Owner of GM in the 1920s
  3. An author in the 1920s
  4. An American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance
  5. Prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
  6. Flagpole sitting, marathon dances, crossword games, radio, jazz, and etc.
  7. Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921
  8. The right for woment to vote
  9. Creater of assembly line
  10. Someone who makes, sells or smuggles liquor
  11. A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, esp. the political affairs of other countries.
  12. A famous trial of a teacher who was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act
  13. Art and Literature in blacks community in 1920s
  14. Most impact of any household appliance
  15. An act to carry the 18th Amendment
  16. Jazz composer and Piano Player
  17. Industrial Workers of the World
  18. American Artist
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  1. Old fashion term for country music
  2. Repealed 18th amendment
  3. United States writer
  4. Famous baseball player and hero in 1920s
  5. The plan to make payments by Installment
  6. National Association for the Advancements of Colored People
  7. A bribery incident that took place from 1920-1923 when Harding was President
  8. The movement of African Americans from the southern portion of the United States to the Northern and Western parts
  9. The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, esp. in the US between 1920 and 1933.
  10. First Pilot who flew across the Atlantic Ocean with out stopping in 1927
  11. A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
  12. Teacher in Tennessee who violated state law by teaching evolution
  13. United States gangster
  14. Communists that were living in the U.S.
  15. 29th President of the United States
  16. An illicit night club or liquor store
  17. Popular music including saxophones, trumpets, flutes, and etc.
  18. Executive for the NAACP
  19. United States Blues Singer
  20. The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
  21. 30th President of the United States
  22. A racist group of people who attacked blacks

40 Clues: American Artist • United States writer • An author in the 1920s • United States gangster • Repealed 18th amendment • Executive for the NAACP • Owner of GM in the 1920s • Creater of assembly line • United States Blues Singer • The right for woment to vote • Jazz composer and Piano Player • Industrial Workers of the World • Old fashion term for country music • ...

Unit 3- American Government Rachel Hamrick 2017-09-26

Unit 3- American Government Rachel Hamrick crossword puzzle
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  1. Served as an interpreter and guide on the Corps of Discovery
  2. political party known for its support of strong state governments; founded by Thomas Jefferson
  3. Great Britain will remove itself from the Midwestern territories and for that will be permitted to continue hunting in the U.S. territories
  4. Bank of the United States; would issue money and handle tax receipts and other government funds
  5. meeting of New England Federalists to discuss the War of 1812 with possible secession of the New England states and their own peace agreement with Great Britain
  6. tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr; Alexander Hamilton helps sway some Federalists to switch their votes to Jefferson
  7. Virginia and Kentucky wrote resolutions saying they as states should have the right to nullify laws they do not agree with; written about the Alien and Sedition Acts
  8. Declared an armistice, but did not address major issues
  9. supports of the Constitution and of a strong National Government
  10. a.k.a. The Treaty of San Lorenzo, received official recognition of independence from Spain; own property to the Mississippi River and can trade on the river
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  1. Increased the number of federal judges by sixteen
  2. first Secretary of the Treasury
  3. Statement that the United States would not support either side in any international conflict
  4. a series of laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the United States
  5. group of advisers to the President
  6. U.S. minister to Britain who went to negotiate with Spain
  7. the 1803 purchase by the United States of France's Louisiana Territory
  8. Shawnee Chief who wanted to create a confederation to protect their homeland against intruding white settlers
  9. war between the United States and British Canada; fought mostly in the Great Lakes region
  10. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who went to negotiate with ENgland
  11. incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats
  12. to consider void
  13. Young Congressmen from the West and South who encouraged Congress to go to war against England

23 Clues: to consider void • first Secretary of the Treasury • group of advisers to the President • Increased the number of federal judges by sixteen • Declared an armistice, but did not address major issues • U.S. minister to Britain who went to negotiate with Spain • Served as an interpreter and guide on the Corps of Discovery • ...

Chapter 4 2021-12-03

Chapter 4 crossword puzzle
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  1. powers saved for the states
  2. no State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other States
  3. the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty)
  4. the first step in the state admission procedure which enables the people of a territory to prepare a constitution
  5. powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone
  6. powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution reasonably suggested.
  7. Greg Hartman, Chris Monzel, Todd Portune
  8. Thought that Government should be free of parties, Established a Council-Manager form of government, New charter created a nine-member council, Mandated nonpartisan municipal elections and proportional representation with preference-ranked voting
  9. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
  10. Maureen O'Connor
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  1. Giving money back to the state and local government with no strings attached
  2. power that belongs to the National Government because it is the government of the sovereign state within the world community
  3. an act creating a new state
  4. Grant for which Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose
  5. powers that are shared by both the National and state governments
  6. a system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
  7. grants made to States, private agencies for projects
  8. powers that congress has that are specifically listed in the constitution spelled out expressly.
  9. faithandCreditClause Constitution's requirement that each state accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state
  10. Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution, for example, the authority to print money.
  11. John Kasich
  12. grants of federal money or other resources to the states or their cities, counties, and other local units.
  13. Mary Taylor
  14. one type of federal grants-in-aid for some particular but broadly defined area of public policy
  15. Basic principle of federalism; the constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis (in the United States, between the National Government and the States).

25 Clues: John Kasich • Mary Taylor • Maureen O'Connor • powers saved for the states • an act creating a new state • Greg Hartman, Chris Monzel, Todd Portune • grants made to States, private agencies for projects • powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone • powers that are shared by both the National and state governments • ...

Physical Chemistry Crossword 2024-05-02

Physical Chemistry Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. This is often described as the disorder of a system
  2. This form of energy has the lowest number of states (partition function)
  3. This type of matter is the easiest to do calculations and models for
  4. This type of system holds pressure constant
  5. Dr. Poler's favorite candy that he can't stop dropping jars of
  6. this type of system holds temperature constant
  7. This partition function describes the number of accessible states of a system
  8. The resistance to flow
  9. This order of reaction is independent of reactant concentrations
  10. The probability distribution of molecular states
  11. This partition function describes the number of accessible states of one molecule
  12. This form of energy is associated with things in motion
  13. This branch of chemistry is known for causing mental pain for students
  14. This is the time it takes for 1/2 a given amount of substance to decay (also a very popular game series started in 1998)
  15. The energy needed to move against a force
  16. Students draw many of these types of structures horribly wrong
  17. The average distance traveled without collisions
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  1. This is held constant in the universe and isolated systems
  2. This form of energy has the highest number of states (partition function)
  3. This describes the rate based on the amount of substance used
  4. This type of system holds heat constant
  5. This theorem relates degrees of freedom to contributions of energy
  6. This describes the physical property of a substance needed to increase it by 1 ºC
  7. This program was used to build and calculate values for molecular properties
  8. This type of system holds volume constant
  9. The branch of physical sciences that deal with relations between heat and other forms of energy
  10. This form of energy has the third highest number of states (partition function)
  11. A type of process whose system is related to spontaneity
  12. This type of inhibitor races the substrate to reach the enzyme active site
  13. The total heat content of a system
  14. A fitting parameter that describes population distribution
  15. This form of energy has the second highest number of states (partition function)

32 Clues: The resistance to flow • The total heat content of a system • This type of system holds heat constant • This type of system holds volume constant • The energy needed to move against a force • This type of system holds pressure constant • this type of system holds temperature constant • The probability distribution of molecular states • ...

Student Name:____________. No Spaces 2024-11-21

Student Name:____________. No Spaces crossword puzzle
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  1. written in 1812 and limited the power of the king
  2. a conflict between the United States and Great Britain, primarily caused by British practices like "impressment"
  3. the belief in manifest destiny, federally issued Indian removal acts, and economic promise
  4. violent protest against a new tax on distilled spirits and the stills that produced them.
  5. government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony
  6. proposed a strong central government composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
  7. authority of the federal courts to declare that actions by the federal or state government violate the Constitution.
  8. The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were both written in this state
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  1. an agreement made during the drafting of the US Constitution where enslaved people were counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state's population for representation in Congress
  2. a tax or fee imposed on imported goods to protect domestic industries from foreign competitio
  3. foreign policy statement made by President James Monroe in 1823 that outlined the United States' role in the Western Hemisphere and its relationship with Europe:
  4. known as Revolutionaries, Continentals, Rebels, or Whigs, were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who opposed the Kingdom of Great Britain's control
  5. led the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, helped create the U.S. Constitution, and served as the first president of the United States.
  6. The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the size of the country.
  7. a diplomatic incident between the United States and France that occurred in 1797 and 1798 during the presidency of John Adams
  8. "Give me liberty or give me death'
  9. a political group in the late 18th century who opposed the creation of a stronger federal government and the ratification of the 1787 Constitution
  10. someone who believes in the type of political system in which states or territories share control with a central government.
  11. signed on February 2, 1848, in the Mexican city of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War:
  12. the first constitution of the United States, establishing the country's national government after the American Revolution:

20 Clues: "Give me liberty or give me death' • written in 1812 and limited the power of the king • government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony • violent protest against a new tax on distilled spirits and the stills that produced them. • The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were both written in this state • ...

Social Studies: Drafting the Constitution 2024-12-05

Social Studies: Drafting the Constitution crossword puzzle
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  1. none could be charged on trade between the states
  2. Only George Washington granted most of his freedom
  3. states with larger ones receive more representatives
  4. wealthy, influential and well educated
  5. to argue an opinion
  6. national, state and local governments share power
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  1. kept free and open among states
  2. each had to use the same coinage or money
  3. all states get the same amount...two
  4. representatives
  5. a give and take situation

11 Clues: representatives • to argue an opinion • a give and take situation • kept free and open among states • all states get the same amount...two • wealthy, influential and well educated • each had to use the same coinage or money • none could be charged on trade between the states • national, state and local governments share power • ...

Unit Three: Vocabulary Fun Study 2016-09-21

Unit Three: Vocabulary Fun Study crossword puzzle
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  1. between the United States and British Canada; fought mostly in the Great Lakes region
  2. 1803 purchase by the United States of France's Louisiana Territory
  3. that the United States would not support either side in any international conflict
  4. Congressmen from the West and South who encouraged Congress to go to war against England
  5. consider void
  6. an armistice, but did not address major issues
  7. the number of federal judges by sixteen
  8. The Treaty of San Lorenzo, received official recognition of independence from Spain; own property to the Mississippi River and can trade on the river
  9. minister to Britain who went to negotiate with Spain
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  1. of New England Federalists to discuss the War of 1812 with possible secession of the New England states and their own peace agreement with Great Britain
  2. party known for its support of strong state governments; founded by Thomas Jefferson
  3. Justice of the Supreme Court who went to negotiate with ENgland
  4. of the Constitution and of a strong National Government
  5. Hamilton/first Secretary of the Treasury
  6. and Kentucky wrote resolutions saying they as states should have the right to nullify laws they do not agree with; written about the Alien and Sedition Acts
  7. who wanted to create a confederation to protect their homeland against intruding white settlers
  8. of advisers to the President
  9. between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr; Alexander Hamilton helps sway some Federalists to switch their votes to Jefferson
  10. Affair incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats
  11. series of laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the United States
  12. as an interpreter and guide on the Corps of Discovery
  13. Britain will remove itself from the Midwestern territories and for that will be permitted to continue hunting in the U.S. territories
  14. Bank/Bank of the United States; would issue money and handle tax receipts and other government funds

23 Clues: consider void • of advisers to the President • the number of federal judges by sixteen • Hamilton/first Secretary of the Treasury • an armistice, but did not address major issues • minister to Britain who went to negotiate with Spain • as an interpreter and guide on the Corps of Discovery • of the Constitution and of a strong National Government • ...

civil war 2016-11-30

civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. /assassinator of Abraham Lincoln
  2. / This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states
  3. / a young black woman that secretly saved over 300 slaves
  4. /confederate president and us Representative
  5. /a book written by a slave to encourage the end of slavery
  6. /the surrender of the Confederate Army took place
  7. /river in which a battle takes place
  8. / A person who worked to end slavery.
  9. / the term for the greater producer of cotton
  10. / paragraph in the constitution
  11. / made to stop something or someone
  12. / Another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union
  13. / the act of picking something based off of a group
  14. / withdraw from something
  15. /people hold the authority in government
  16. / the plan to "choke" the south out of resources
  17. / the rights that each state will receive
  18. / warship covered in iron
  19. /a battle and grave site
  20. /yet another battle
  21. /act to let owners beat slaves for trying to escape
  22. /deceleration that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free
  23. /outlaw to slavery
  24. / an agreement
  25. / a military draft
  26. / president and general
  27. / states that no one can create a law to restrict freedom
  28. / a state that borders the boundaries of america.
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  1. /common battle site/
  2. /fort of a battle
  3. /the general who destroyed the south with a march
  4. /case for slavery
  5. /infantry nicknamed swamp angels
  6. /city to surrender during the civil war
  7. /the states in which seceded from the us and continued slavery
  8. / northerners who took to the south
  9. /a house were trails are made
  10. / During the Civil War, the Union came to mean the government and armies of the North
  11. / tax paid to the state
  12. / constitutional law that lets slave men vote
  13. / the time america was rebuilding from the war
  14. /along with 17
  15. / the act of working people with no pay
  16. / president of the union
  17. /the Slave Act, Made popular in most other states
  18. / a week long bloody battle
  19. /the american war
  20. / confederate general

48 Clues: /along with 17 • / an agreement • /fort of a battle • /case for slavery • /the american war • /outlaw to slavery • / a military draft • /yet another battle • /common battle site/ • / confederate general • / tax paid to the state • / president and general • / president of the union • /a battle and grave site • / withdraw from something • / warship covered in iron • / a week long bloody battle • ...

Antelbellum America, the Civil War, and Recanstruction Vocabulary 2013-05-16

Antelbellum America, the Civil War, and Recanstruction Vocabulary crossword puzzle
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  1. gin Used to seperate the seeds from the cotton fiber
  2. of chickamauga Union general led his troops seven miles south of chattanooga at chickamauga Creek
  3. bureau A federal government organization etsablished in 1865 that helped the newly freed slaves after the Civil War
  4. proclamation A document issueed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that freed the slaves in the confedereacy
  5. Unfair treatment of a person or group because of prejudice
  6. Amendment An amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified in 1865, that made slavery illegal
  7. of 1850 Legislation passed by Congress by which California entered the Union as a free state
  8. The ability to buy something now and pay for it later over a period of time
  9. farming Owned some agricultural equipment
  10. amendment Granted citizensship to the former slaves and forbade the states from denying anyone the "equal protection of the law"
  11. klux klan Worked to keep the freedmen from voting after the Civil War
  12. amendment Extended the right to vote to all males
  13. lincoln Elected in 1860
  14. states A state that allowed slavery
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  1. codes set of laws passed by Georgia , and most outhern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights of the freedman
  2. To declare invalid
  3. sovereighty The ability if the residnets of an area to decide upon an issue, such as whether they would allow slavery
  4. compromise Legislation passed by congress in 1820 by which Maine entered the Union as a free state, Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, slavery was prohibited north of the southern border of Missouri
  5. and antebellum The period before the Civil War
  6. runners Mostly private ships that slipped around the blockade
  7. The act of pulling out of the Union
  8. Landowners provided land, houses, farming tools, and fertilizer
  9. The period immediately after the Civil War when the south rebulit and the southern states returned to the Union
  10. Confederate prison for Union soldiers
  11. states A state that did not allow slavery
  12. to abolish slavery
  13. The right to vote
  14. rights The belief that states interest should precedence over the interest of the national government

28 Clues: The right to vote • To declare invalid • to abolish slavery • lincoln Elected in 1860 • The act of pulling out of the Union • states A state that allowed slavery • Confederate prison for Union soldiers • states A state that did not allow slavery • farming Owned some agricultural equipment • and antebellum The period before the Civil War • ...

apush crossword 2021-12-20

apush crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. slave sues because of extended time in the north he should be free, judge rules that he's property and not a citizen, therefore he didn't have any rights
  2. self-sufficient American economy with increased manufacturing industry
  3. a period in the political history of the United States that reflected rising nationalism in America after between 1817-1825
  4. Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women
  5. pro-slavery constitution written for Kansas' admission to the union
  6. California becomes a free state, NM and UT get to decide whether they want to be free or slave states, stricter Fugitive Slave Laws
  7. the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people
  8. popular sovereignty settles the issue of slavery in these 2 territories
  9. period after the Civil War during which Northern political leaders created plans for the governance of the South and a procedure for former Southern states to rejoin the Union
  10. the notion that women should serve as educators of young men in order to teach them to become productive American citizens and embrace the Enlightenment ideas
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  1. freed all slaves in Confederate states
  2. God given right to expand coast to coast
  3. The "average" American citizen, whose concerns are represented in government
  4. provided food, clothing, education, and job training to freed slaves
  5. Maine joined as a free state and Missouri joined as a slave state. Congress also made a line across the southern border of Missouri saying except for the state of Missouri, all states north of that line must be free states or states without slavery
  6. first major financial crisis in the US, led to foreclosures, bank failures, and unemployment
  7. war between the U.S. and Great Britain caused by American outrage over the impressment of American sailors by the British, the British seizure of American ships, and British aid to the Indians attacking the Americans on the western frontier
  8. Lincoln praises the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War
  9. law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves
  10. first peaceful transfer of power

20 Clues: first peaceful transfer of power • freed all slaves in Confederate states • God given right to expand coast to coast • law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves • pro-slavery constitution written for Kansas' admission to the union • provided food, clothing, education, and job training to freed slaves • ...

vocab review project 2020-09-28

vocab review project crossword puzzle
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  1. the belief that the united states is destined by god to expand
  2. integration of people being forced to blend in
  3. people have representatives to vote for them uses principles from both republics and democracies
  4. war between the united states and britain after britain violated americas shipping rights
  5. citizenship now includes african americans
  6. to ensure the federal government could not infringe on individual rights, greatest tool to protect ourselves from oppression of the government
  7. actor who assassinated lincoln
  8. an escaped slave who became a huge abolitionist leader
  9. a tax on sugar,molasses, coffee, and indigo
  10. series of forced relocations of native americans that was a long brutal journey where many died
  11. the united states acquired louisiana territory from france
  12. a slave sued for freedom but the supreme court ruled that there was no case because slaves are property and not people
  13. legal discrimination of african americans used by segregation
  14. granted freedom to the slaves held in confederate states
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  1. granted african american males the right to vote
  2. federal law intended to form native americans into farmers
  3. officially ended all slavery
  4. patriots dressed as natives to dump the kings tea shipment into the harbor
  5. a tax on all paper goods put on the colonists
  6. wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the missouri river to oregon
  7. battle where the british surrendered to washington marking the end of the war
  8. an estate on which crops are cultivated by resident labor
  9. a writer of the declaration of independence and a crucial colonist who fought for their freedom
  10. 3 branches, larger states had more power, government had power to tax
  11. a person who wanted to abolish slavery
  12. established by congress to help former slaves and poor whites in the south in the aftermath of the civil war
  13. 3 branches all states had equal say no matter population size, gave government power to tax
  14. people get to directly decide on policies instead of having someone represent them
  15. the withdrawal of eleven southern states from union in 1860 leading to the civil war
  16. belief that trading brings you wealth

30 Clues: officially ended all slavery • actor who assassinated lincoln • belief that trading brings you wealth • a person who wanted to abolish slavery • citizenship now includes african americans • a tax on sugar,molasses, coffee, and indigo • a tax on all paper goods put on the colonists • integration of people being forced to blend in • ...

Forming a Government 2025-01-04

Forming a Government crossword puzzle
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  1. The branch called Congress with two houses that proposes and passes laws.
  2. The Confederation Congress did not have the power to force Great Britain to pay ___________ which allowed the British to continue selling their cheaper goods in the U.S.
  3. A committee of 13 drafted this, it was the first U.S Constitution.
  4. The original goal of this group was to revise the Articles of Confederation, not to draft and whole new Constitution.
  5. These were wrote to help persuade Americans to ratify the Constitution.
  6. This plan for congress was supported by the large states and allowed states to be represented by population.
  7. This compromise was used when deciding a state's slave population in regards to representation in Congress.
  8. Political power belongs to the people.
  9. The compromise between the large states plan and the small states plan.
  10. Due to high taxes and heavy debt, _____________ and other farmers rebelled, leading to "Shay's Rebellion".
  11. The Articles of Confederation gave power to the national government to settle _________________________________.
  12. This determined how western lands would be divided into townships.
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  1. The branch with the President and other departments that run the government.
  2. This plan for congress was supported by the small states and allowed each state equal representation.
  3. Control of the western lands was an issue that needed to be negotiated before all states agreed to ___________ the Articles of Confederation.
  4. Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio were all included in this territory.
  5. In an effort to hurt the economy of the newly developed and young United States, this country forced the U.S to pay high tariffs on goods and closed shipping ports in the West Indies to the U.S ships
  6. The first ten amendments are called _________________ and they protect individual rights.
  7. Antifederalist such as George Mason and ____________ opposed the Constitution because it gave too much power to the national government.
  8. The branch with the Supreme Court and all the national courts.
  9. This person was known as the "Father of the Constitution".
  10. The year that delegates decided that slavery could be banned.

22 Clues: Political power belongs to the people. • This person was known as the "Father of the Constitution". • The year that delegates decided that slavery could be banned. • The branch with the Supreme Court and all the national courts. • A committee of 13 drafted this, it was the first U.S Constitution. • ...

Gov. Review- Hyatt and Olivia 2017-05-17

Gov. Review- Hyatt and Olivia crossword puzzle
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  1. the leader of a party in a legislative assembly.
  2. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest federal court of the United States
  3. a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
  4. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
  5. largest amount of voted
  6. the central banking system of the United States.
  7. The U.S. judiciary features a dual court systemcomprising a federal court system and the courts in each of the fifty states
  8. the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters
  9. public life of the citizen
  10. money earned
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  1. leader of a political party
  2. a right to silence warning given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody
  3. business cost is more than the profit
  4. personal life of a citizen
  5. the state of being subject only to laws established for the good of the community, especially with regard to freedom of action and speech
  6. two parties finding common ground
  7. compromised of adjoining precincts
  8. voting districts
  9. support of a party
  10. policy or practice based on the political and economic theory of socialism

20 Clues: money earned • voting districts • support of a party • largest amount of voted • personal life of a citizen • public life of the citizen • leader of a political party • two parties finding common ground • compromised of adjoining precincts • business cost is more than the profit • the leader of a party in a legislative assembly. • the central banking system of the United States. • ...

history 2022-11-22

history crossword puzzle
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  1. - make full use of and derive benifent
  2. - Latin America and the united states came together
  3. corollary - prevent european nations from sending troops to the carrabian and central america
  4. of influence - an area where a foreign nation controlled economic development
  5. Roosevelt - 26th president
  6. - imperial powers allowed local rulers to stay in control
  7. - part of manifest destiny
  8. rebellion - a group that wiped out foreign devils
  9. Marti - writer/poet who committed to the cause of the Cuban independence
  10. diplomancy - countrys finacial power to extend its international influence
  11. c.perry - ordered the commodore to take a navel expedition to japan to negotiate a trade treaty
  12. white fleet - president Roosevelt sent 16 battle ships of the united states navy
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  1. - economic and political domination of a strong nation
  2. Pulitzer - the owner of a major newspaper in the world
  3. door policy - all countries should be allowed to trade with china
  4. - the attitude of aggressive nationalism
  5. t Mahon - an officer in the united states navy who naught of naval war college
  6. amendment - Cuba rules for the island with the united states
  7. treaty - gave united states the executive right to build and control any canal through central america
  8. journalism - exaggerated or made of the story to attract readers
  9. - emotional strain
  10. cross a person
  11. Randolph Hearst- the owner of a major newspaper the journal

23 Clues: cross a person • - emotional strain • Roosevelt - 26th president • - part of manifest destiny • - make full use of and derive benifent • - the attitude of aggressive nationalism • rebellion - a group that wiped out foreign devils • - Latin America and the united states came together • - economic and political domination of a strong nation • ...

2nd Hr Gov Petrous 2022-01-07

2nd Hr Gov Petrous crossword puzzle
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  1. The practice where members of interest groups talk with Congresspersons about bills.
  2. spending more money than taking in
  3. The head of the House of Reps.
  4. Powers clearly listed by the constitution
  5. The 2nd in command and leader of the Senate.
  6. A group of people with similar beliefs who run in elections.
  7. The lower house of Congress, where different states elect representatives by population.
  8. The upper house of Congress, where each state gets 2 senators.
  9. The Head of State of the United States.
  10. The branch that interprets the Constitution and handles legal/criminal cases.
  11. A municipal/county government, such as a City.
  12. The legislature of the United States.
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  1. Powers that are not listed by the constitution, but are necessary for the government to
  2. Groups that support certain legislation
  3. The head of the Military, also the President.
  4. A president shooting down a bill passed by Congress.
  5. Laws passed by State legislatures that apply only to their respective states.
  6. A form of government where citizens elect representatives to pass laws.
  7. A form of government where States and the Central government have equal power.
  8. 2 legislative bodies make up the legislature.
  9. Laws that apply everywhere in the country.
  10. how countries deal with issues outside of their borders.
  11. Approve/pass a new amendment to the Constitution.
  12. The executive of a state.

24 Clues: The executive of a state. • The head of the House of Reps. • spending more money than taking in • The legislature of the United States. • Groups that support certain legislation • The Head of State of the United States. • Powers clearly listed by the constitution • Laws that apply everywhere in the country. • The 2nd in command and leader of the Senate. • ...

Cold War to 2000 Vocabulary 2022-01-20

Cold War to 2000 Vocabulary crossword puzzle
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  1. separated east Berlin from West Berlin
  2. joined the naval academy
  3. political tension between United States and Soviet Union after WWII
  4. leader of Cuba
  5. War 1950-1953 between north and south that fought over land, later became two countries
  6. war 1955-1975 between north and south and America had to pull out which allowed north to overcome the south
  7. was the first man mission to land on the moon
  8. leader of Iraq
  9. president of Korea
  10. american investment in scientific research and education important increased
  11. United States was determined to remove Castro from power
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  1. this economic and foreign policy planning on a global basis
  2. United States feared soviet unions would spread communism again
  3. invasion by president Kennedy that was a fail and lasted three days
  4. scientist left Germany WWII, came to United States warned leaders the dangers of nuclear weapons
  5. United States and other allies flew supplies into western Berlin
  6. evacuated Americans and loves ones from Saigon
  7. political theory and economic system all property is owned and each person works and is paid according to ability or needs
  8. ongoing research into scientific missions into space
  9. reduction or elimination of military force
  10. anti ballistic missile system
  11. the Soviet Union successfully launched the first man-made satellite into space
  12. became the general secretary or leader of the Soviet Union
  13. president of Vietnam

24 Clues: leader of Cuba • leader of Iraq • president of Korea • president of Vietnam • joined the naval academy • anti ballistic missile system • separated east Berlin from West Berlin • reduction or elimination of military force • was the first man mission to land on the moon • evacuated Americans and loves ones from Saigon • ongoing research into scientific missions into space • ...

Unit 5 - Layer B - Crossword 2022-03-21

Unit 5 - Layer B - Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A supporter of a strong federal government
  2. The declarations passed in 1798 and 1799 that claimed that each state has the right to decie whether a federal law is constitutional
  3. Author of the Federalist,secretary of the treasury under President George Washington,and founder of the Federalist Party
  4. The Federalist-supported laws created in 1798 that permitted the president to expel foreigners,make it harder for immigrants to become citizens, and allowed for citizens to be fined or jailed if they criticized the government or its officials
  5. Leader in the American Revolution. He went on to serve as the First Vice President and the second president of the United States
  6. An 1803 court case in which the supreme court ruled that it had the power to decide whether laws passed by congress were constitutional
  7. One of the authors of the Declaration independence and third president of the United States
  8. The sixth president of the United States who earlier served as a US diplomat, senator,and secretary of state.
  9. A rebellion in France beginning in 1789 that overthrew the French Monarchy
  10. The cast territory extending from the Mississippi river to the Rocky Mountains, purchased from France in 1803
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  1. At the end of the war of 1812, a battle between British & US forces, led by Andrew Jackson, that ended in a victory for the United States
  2. Loyalty to a state or section rather than the whole country
  3. President Monroe's foreign policy statement warning Europeans nations not to interfere in Latin America
  4. He earlier served as a military officer during conflict with Creek Indians during the war of 1812 and during conflicts with Spain over Florida
  5. A devotion to one's nation and its interests
  6. A 1794 protest over a tax on all liquor made and sold in the United States.
  7. A member of the political party founded by Thomas Jefferson
  8. The fourth president of the United States
  9. The chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835
  10. A law that created the structure of the Supreme Court and set up a system of district courts and circuit courts for the nation.

20 Clues: The fourth president of the United States • A supporter of a strong federal government • A devotion to one's nation and its interests • Loyalty to a state or section rather than the whole country • A member of the political party founded by Thomas Jefferson • The chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835 • ...

How our government - The US Constitution - was born 2021-11-22

How our government - The US Constitution - was born crossword puzzle
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  1. Another question for revising the government was: Should the government's power to rule come from the states or the ___?(6).
  2. The delegates believed the basic ___ of government was to protect the rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”(3).
  3. The first government called the Articles of Confederation could establish a post office, raise an army, declare war, and print money, but it could not levy ___(2).
  4. ___ system- a strong national government that shared power with the states(8).
  5. These were created when ratifying the Constitution was in question and a divide among Americans began.
  6. States had to make several agreements or ___ when creating the United State's Constitution(1).
  7. Some leaders from the American Revolution did not attend the convention because they feared that a ___ national government would hurt states’ rights(3).
  8. The U.S. Constitution is the ___ used written charter in the entire world(1).
  9. A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government - each state has their own of these(4).
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  1. state leaders present at the Constitutional Convention(2).
  2. A country governed by elected representatives(3).
  3. When revising the government, the hardest question was how ___ the government should be. Many wanted to preserve the rights of the states and feared too strong of a national government(5).
  4. A formal alliance, in this case among states(2).
  5. The Three-Fifths Compromise counted each slave as only ⅗ a person for representation in the government(7).
  6. after declaring independence, Congress tried to unite the states under one ___(1)
  7. This government, the Articles of Confederation was not what the country ___ because it could not raise funds to do anything effective(3).
  8. Representatives in government help gain a ___ on decision making for laws, taxes, and policies(7).
  9. If the central government is too ___, it could not protect liberty and property(5).
  10. to formally approve a plan or an agreement(8).
  11. An agreement was reached in which ___ the population and size of state applied to the amount of representation in government(6).

20 Clues: to formally approve a plan or an agreement(8). • A formal alliance, in this case among states(2). • A country governed by elected representatives(3). • state leaders present at the Constitutional Convention(2). • The U.S. Constitution is the ___ used written charter in the entire world(1). • ...

Our Solar System 2022-02-23

Our Solar System crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Soviet crewed spacecraft resulting Yuri Gagarin as the first man in space
  2. Third United States spaceflight program resulting in the first humans on Luna
  3. Russian space mission to Venus set to be launched in 2029
  4. Curie, Sojourner's flight spare
  5. Soviet artifical satelites and first launched into orbit in October 1957
  6. Failed space shuttle resulting in death of 7 crew members in 1986
  7. Airborne Observatory, Aka KAO jet used by NASA for infrared astronomy
  8. Lab, First United States space station launched in 1973
  9. NASA program beginning in 1992 to improve understanding of our solar system
  10. Mission resulting in successful keeping of humans on the ISS since 2000
  11. robotic lunar rovers made by the Soviets during the Moon race
  12. Communication using electromagnetic waves between 30 hertz and 300 gigahertz
  13. NASA mission that mapped entire surface of Venus
  14. retired space shuttle that was created after Challenger
  15. First successful Mars lander in 1976
  16. United States uncrewed space mission in the 1960s to take close photos of Luna
  17. Tool used to see faraway objects
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  1. First Mars rover and first wheeled vehicle on another planet that landed in 1997
  2. First United States spacecraft to achieve orbit
  3. Soviet program that sent spacecraft to our moon for study
  4. Global Surveyor, United States space probe launched in 1996 to globally map Mars
  5. Rover that landed on Mars in 2012
  6. Robotic interstellar probes launched in 1977 to collect data of Jupiter and Saturn
  7. Pathfinder, United States robotic spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1997
  8. United States space probe launched in 1972 passing Jupiter and first to leave our solar system
  9. Research mission between NASA and ISA to study Saturn
  10. United States robotic space probe launched 1989 to study Jupiter and its moons
  11. Shuttle, Comprising of two solid rocket boosters, one external tank and an orbiter (or space-plane)
  12. Mars rover active from 2004 to 2010
  13. Space probes launched to photograph and study interplanetary matter of Mars and Venus
  14. Space Station, Intergovernmental establishment in orbit of Earth comprised of modules
  15. Device that uses the reverberation of radio waves to sense objects

32 Clues: Curie, Sojourner's flight spare • Tool used to see faraway objects • Rover that landed on Mars in 2012 • Mars rover active from 2004 to 2010 • First successful Mars lander in 1976 • First United States spacecraft to achieve orbit • NASA mission that mapped entire surface of Venus • Research mission between NASA and ISA to study Saturn • ...

Civil War 2017-03-02

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. (June 10, 1861) First battle of the American Civil War.
  2. A term used to refer to the stomach.
  3. A battle that occurred July 1, 1863—lasting for 3 days-- that was marked as one of the bloodiest battles
  4. Joined the Union Army and became general during the Civil War. Elected president of the United States in 1869.
  5. Someone who believes slavery is wrong and wants to get rid of it.
  6. Surrendered to General Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 19, 1865.
  7. States that all slaves be freed from the Confederate states. Issued by Abraham Lincoln.
  8. A term used to describe a person that is bad or good for nothing.
  9. A uncivilized killing of a large number of innocent, helpless people. One term used to describe the civil war.
  10. War that lasted from April 12, 1861-May 9, 1865 between the North and South in America.
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  1. New soldiers that have never fought in a battle or war before.
  2. States that had allowed slavery.
  3. A term used when you have been through a lot or have "seen it all".
  4. Speech given on November 19, 1863 by president Abraham Lincoln that commemorated the soldiers that died in the battles.
  5. An acronym used when a soldier would leave his post or place in the army without leave.
  6. Used during the Civil War to transport soldiers to different areas for battle. Used mostly by the North.
  7. Governor of Ohio 1868-1972. 19th president of the United States .
  8. States that had outlawed slavery.
  9. Born 1808. Instructed the confederate generals on decisions during the Civil War.
  10. A system invented in 1837 by Samuel Morse then sends messages along a wire. Used by the Northerners and Abraham Lincoln to communicate during the Civil War.
  11. 16th president of the United States. Wished to end slavery. Issued the Emancipation Proclamation, setting many slaves free.
  12. (July 11, 1861) First battle over land in the Civil War.
  13. Vice president to Abraham Lincoln, Became president (1865-1869) after Lincolns assassination and tried to reconstruct America.

23 Clues: States that had allowed slavery. • States that had outlawed slavery. • A term used to refer to the stomach. • (June 10, 1861) First battle of the American Civil War. • (July 11, 1861) First battle over land in the Civil War. • New soldiers that have never fought in a battle or war before. • Governor of Ohio 1868-1972. 19th president of the United States . • ...

Civil War 2017-04-05

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Famous Confederate General who surrendered to General Grant
  2. First state to secede from the United States
  3. In the civil war the states between the north and the south: delaware, mayland, kentucky, and missouri
  4. The North
  5. Laws in a Southern state that controlled enslaved people
  6. Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North.
  7. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and called for popular sovereignty to decide whether slavery would be allowed within new states
  8. The main export of the Southern Economy
  9. President of the Union
  10. Address by Lincoln in which he "freed" the enslaved people of the South
  11. President of the Confederacy
  12. Armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into and out of an area
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  1. An unfair opinion not based on facts
  2. People who sought to end slavery in the United States in the early 1800s
  3. To break away from the rest of the states, form their own nation
  4. This act made assisting a fugitive slave to freedom in any way a crime punishable by fine or imprisonment
  5. The right of states to limit the power of the federal government
  6. Lead the raid of Harper's Ferry in 1858
  7. A system where residents vote to decide an issue
  8. A system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
  9. Warships with very tough Oak walls with iron sheets on the sides
  10. These people believed that since the states voluntarily joined the Union, they can also choose to leave.
  11. The compromise that blocked slavery north of 36*30' N
  12. Established that Congress could not ban slavery and slaves could not sue for their freedom since they are not citizens
  13. Unfair treatment
  14. This compromise allowed California to be admitted as a free state, new territories in the west would be decided by popular sovereignty, and the Fugitive Slave Law
  15. The South
  16. Soldiers on horseback

28 Clues: The North • The South • Unfair treatment • Soldiers on horseback • President of the Union • President of the Confederacy • An unfair opinion not based on facts • Lead the raid of Harper's Ferry in 1858 • The main export of the Southern Economy • First state to secede from the United States • A system where residents vote to decide an issue • ...

Civil War: Significant People 2022-11-28

Civil War: Significant People crossword puzzle
Across
  1. served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses; created the first generation of American mental asylums
  2. U.S. commanding officer of the Confederate Army of Tennessee at the Battle of Chickamauga and Chattanooga
  3. 18th U.S. President; lead the Union Army during the American Civil War
  4. Stage actor; assassinator of Abraham Lincoln
  5. U.S. Army officer; helped lead during Mexican-American War and Civil War
  6. Union army officer who was in command of a regiment of African American troops
  7. Nurse who becomes one of the most honored women in American History
  8. started a rebellion known as the Southampton Insurrection
  9. General of the Confederate States
  10. former U.S. Secretary of State during John Quincy Adam's Presidency
  11. slave who sued over being denied freedom
  12. President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
  13. american journalist who helped organize both the New England and American Anti-Slavery Society
  14. U.S. Army officer who became a major general for the Confederate States Army
  15. American commander of the U.S. Army garrison of Fort Sumter
  16. 16th president of the United States
  17. 6th President of the United States
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  1. An architect of the American abolitionist movement; lectured for the American Anti-Slavery Society
  2. American abolitionist; rose to fame after publishing The Narrative of the Life of (himself)
  3. Served as an engineer during Mexican-American War and was transferred east by President Lincoln as a Union general
  4. strong hate for slavery; started
  5. helped many slaves escape to the North via the Underground Railroad
  6. an American abolisionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist
  7. former U.S. Senator for the Democratic party; one who promoted the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  8. former U.S. Secretary of State during Millard Fillmore's Presidency
  9. was formerly enslaved and a Carpenter; accused of planning a major slave revolt in 1822
  10. author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin
  11. Wife of Abraham Lincoln
  12. Famous military leader and Union general who played a crucial role in the victory over the Confederate States
  13. One of the best-known commanders of the Confederate States Army after Robert E. Lee

30 Clues: Wife of Abraham Lincoln • strong hate for slavery; started • General of the Confederate States • 6th President of the United States • 16th president of the United States • author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin • slave who sued over being denied freedom • Stage actor; assassinator of Abraham Lincoln • President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 • ...

Chapter 5 VTP 2023-10-09

Chapter 5 VTP crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a document, adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of govt. of the new United States
  2. a political system in which a national govt. and constituent units, such as state govt.’s, share power
  3. helped write The Federalist Papers
  4. the branch of govt. that interprets the laws and the constitution
  5. the branch of govt. that makes the laws
  6. a 1787 law that established a procedure for the admission of new states to the union
  7. an opponent of the Constitution and a strong central government
  8. helped write The Federalist.
  9. a political leader from Connecticut who suggested the Great Compromise
  10. He is known as the “father of the Constitution”
  11. a veteran of the Revolutionary War who led an army of farmers to close the courts
  12. a 1785 law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains
  13. the Constitutional Convention’s agreement to establish a two-house national legislature, compromising between the New Jersey and Virginia Plans
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  1. an alliance permitting states or nations to act together on matters of mutual concern
  2. a govt. in which the citizens rule through elected representatives
  3. supporters of the Constitution and of a strong national government
  4. the provisions in the U.S. Constitution that prevent any branch of govt. from dominating the other two branches
  5. an uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers, protesting increased state taxes in 1787
  6. the branch of govt. that administers and enforces the laws
  7. the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, added in 1791 and consisting of a formal list of citizens’ rights and freedoms
  8. a series of essays defending and explaining the Constitution, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
  9. a group selected by the states to elect the president and V.P. in which each states # of electors is equal to the # of its senators and representatives in Congress
  10. the official approval of the Constitution, or of an amendment, by the states
  11. Antifederalist who led the opposition in Virginia

24 Clues: helped write The Federalist. • helped write The Federalist Papers • the branch of govt. that makes the laws • He is known as the “father of the Constitution” • Antifederalist who led the opposition in Virginia • the branch of govt. that administers and enforces the laws • an opponent of the Constitution and a strong central government • ...

Student Name:____________ 2024-11-21

Student Name:____________ crossword puzzle
Across
  1. written in 1812 and limited the power of the king
  2. a conflict between the United States and Great Britain, primarily caused by British practices like "impressment"
  3. the belief in manifest destiny, federally issued Indian removal acts, and economic promise
  4. violent protest against a new tax on distilled spirits and the stills that produced them.
  5. government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony
  6. proposed a strong central government composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
  7. authority of the federal courts to declare that actions by the federal or state government violate the Constitution.
  8. The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were both written in this state
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  1. an agreement made during the drafting of the US Constitution where enslaved people were counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state's population for representation in Congress
  2. a tax or fee imposed on imported goods to protect domestic industries from foreign competitio
  3. foreign policy statement made by President James Monroe in 1823 that outlined the United States' role in the Western Hemisphere and its relationship with Europe:
  4. known as Revolutionaries, Continentals, Rebels, or Whigs, were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who opposed the Kingdom of Great Britain's control
  5. led the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, helped create the U.S. Constitution, and served as the first president of the United States.
  6. The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the size of the country.
  7. a diplomatic incident between the United States and France that occurred in 1797 and 1798 during the presidency of John Adams
  8. "Give me liberty or give me death'
  9. a political group in the late 18th century who opposed the creation of a stronger federal government and the ratification of the 1787 Constitution
  10. someone who believes in the type of political system in which states or territories share control with a central government.
  11. signed on February 2, 1848, in the Mexican city of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War:
  12. the first constitution of the United States, establishing the country's national government after the American Revolution:

20 Clues: "Give me liberty or give me death' • written in 1812 and limited the power of the king • government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony • violent protest against a new tax on distilled spirits and the stills that produced them. • The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were both written in this state • ...

States of Matter and Changes of States 2021-03-23

States of Matter and Changes of States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. no defined shape or volume
  2. any liquid becoming a solid
  3. randomly oriented particles
  4. has defined volume but not defined shape
  5. the liquids tend to ball up and stick together
  6. vaporization takes place inside as well as at the surface
  7. particles in a repeating formation
  8. has defined space and volume
  9. any liquid becoming a gas
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  1. vaporization takes place only at the surface
  2. gas loses enough energy to become liquid
  3. solid gain enough energy to become a gas
  4. a measure of how well the liquid flows
  5. any solid becoming a liquid

14 Clues: any liquid becoming a gas • no defined shape or volume • any liquid becoming a solid • randomly oriented particles • any solid becoming a liquid • has defined space and volume • particles in a repeating formation • a measure of how well the liquid flows • gas loses enough energy to become liquid • has defined volume but not defined shape • ...

The Civil War 2022-10-06

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

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

Culture Review = 7th Social Studies 2023-11-15

Culture Review = 7th Social Studies crossword puzzle
Across
  1. teams, clubs, friends, etc....
  2. using hand gestures and facial expressions to communicate
  3. how a culture expresses itself
  4. capitalism in the United States is an example
  5. a belief system that explains the meaning of life
  6. three meals a day is an example
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  1. July 4, 1776 is ___________ day in the United States
  2. the 13 Colonies belonged to this empire
  3. the United States follows a Representative Democracy
  4. a group of people and their way of life
  5. type of religion that most people in the US follow
  6. type of government that has a King or Queen
  7. English, Spanish, French, etc....
  8. a record of the past
  9. type of currency used in the United States

15 Clues: a record of the past • teams, clubs, friends, etc.... • how a culture expresses itself • three meals a day is an example • English, Spanish, French, etc.... • the 13 Colonies belonged to this empire • a group of people and their way of life • type of currency used in the United States • type of government that has a King or Queen • ...

Music Genres 2020-07-04

Music Genres crossword puzzle
Across
  1. /evolved during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types may be called world music.
  2. /genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States.
  3. /combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
  4. /originated in the African American community throughout the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz.
  5. /usually abbreviated, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.
  6. /originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
  7. /originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
  8. /originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime.
  9. /a genre of Christian music.
  10. /emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1960s garage rock.
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  1. /a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
  2. /also known as dance music, club music, or simply dance, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves and festivals.
  3. /takes its roots from genres such as blues and old-time music, and various types of American folk music including Appalachian, Cajun, and the cowboy Western music styles of Red Dirt, New Mexico, Texas country, and Tejano.
  4. /originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora.
  5. /originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1870s by African-Americans from roots in African musical traditions, African-American work songs, and spirituals.
  6. /developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans and Latino Americans in the Bronx borough of New York City in the 1970s.
  7. /a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment.
  8. /a form of jazz that developed in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s.
  9. /art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical and secular music.

19 Clues: /a genre of Christian music. • /combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. • /emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1960s garage rock. • /a form of jazz that developed in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. • /evolved during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types may be called world music. • ...

Government mid-term crossword 2022-01-03

Government mid-term crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. ensures that states recognize the laws and documents,and court proceedings of the other States.
  2. supported a weaker central government felt too much power was taken from the states and wanted a bill of rights
  3. no State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other States.
  4. God's given rights to life liberty and property
  5. dividing the national
  6. assigns certain powers to the National Government and certain powers to the States
  7. a type of government where the people hold the power and elected representatives to govern according to the rule of law.
  8. powers given to congress by the constitution itself
  9. a type of government where the power of the national has less power then the state government.
  10. the implicit agreement between people and their government. People sacrifice a piece of their freedom and consent to be ruled in exchange for the government's protection of their lives , liberty , and property.
  11. supported the constitution and a strong central government
  12. Congress has the power to restrict the use of American forces in combat in areas where a state of war does not exist.
  13. establishes the constitution and the supreme law of the land
  14. a letter to the king of England written by Thomas Jefferson
  15. states the expressed powers of congress.
  16. powers that aren't specifically in the constitution but are found though deduction.
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  1. the first 10 admendments added to the constitution.
  2. allows members of Congress to mail letters and other materials postage free by substituting their facsimile signature for the postage
  3. a type of grant that state has more control on what to use it for
  4. a type of grant that is used for a specific purpose
  5. into three separate branches and assigning separate responsibilities instead of one.
  6. agreements between states allowed by congress
  7. is the legal process by which a fugitive from one state is returned to that state
  8. powers granted viva the constitution's creation of an national government
  9. gives each of three branches of government the power to restrict the actions of others

25 Clues: dividing the national • states the expressed powers of congress. • agreements between states allowed by congress • God's given rights to life liberty and property • the first 10 admendments added to the constitution. • a type of grant that is used for a specific purpose • powers given to congress by the constitution itself • ...

Chapter 4 2021-12-03

Chapter 4 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. powers saved for the states
  2. no State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other States
  3. the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty)
  4. the first step in the state admission procedure which enables the people of a territory to prepare a constitution
  5. powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone
  6. powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution reasonably suggested.
  7. Greg Hartman, Chris Monzel, Todd Portune
  8. Thought that Government should be free of parties, Established a Council-Manager form of government, New charter created a nine-member council, Mandated nonpartisan municipal elections and proportional representation with preference-ranked voting
  9. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
  10. Maureen O'Connor
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  1. Giving money back to the state and local government with no strings attached
  2. power that belongs to the National Government because it is the government of the sovereign state within the world community
  3. an act creating a new state
  4. Grant for which Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose
  5. powers that are shared by both the National and state governments
  6. a system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
  7. grants made to States, private agencies for projects
  8. powers that congress has that are specifically listed in the constitution spelled out expressly.
  9. faithandCreditClause Constitution's requirement that each state accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state
  10. Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution, for example, the authority to print money.
  11. John Kasich
  12. grants of federal money or other resources to the states or their cities, counties, and other local units.
  13. Mary Taylor
  14. one type of federal grants-in-aid for some particular but broadly defined area of public policy
  15. Basic principle of federalism; the constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis (in the United States, between the National Government and the States).

25 Clues: John Kasich • Mary Taylor • Maureen O'Connor • powers saved for the states • an act creating a new state • Greg Hartman, Chris Monzel, Todd Portune • grants made to States, private agencies for projects • powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone • powers that are shared by both the National and state governments • ...

Chapter 4 2022-11-18

Chapter 4 crossword puzzle
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  1. levied on individual earnings has become the major source of money for the national government
  2. hand over (a person accused or convicted of a crime) to the jurisdiction of the foreign state in which the crime was committed.
  3. Those powers that the national government may exercise simply because it is a government are its
  4. the basis for the implied powers is the necessary and proper clause (Article I, Section 8).
  5. one of the earliest federalists
  6. when signed by the president, enables the people of the territory interested in becoming a state to prepare a constitution
  7. Those powers that the national government requires to carry out the powers that are expressly defined in the Constitution are called
  8. One view the favors state and local action in dealing with problems.
  9. landmark case of 1819
  10. Since the mid 1960s, Congress has used ______, or the power to assume responsibility for a state government function, in order to gain authority over a state.
  11. another early federalist
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  1. those powers granted to the national government under the United States Constitution
  2. Article VI, Section 2, of the Constitution makes the acts and treaties of the United States supreme.
  3. The Constitution states that full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts,records,and judicial proceedings of every other state
  4. The courts have never given a complete listing of
  5. forbidding racial discrimination in public accommodations such as hotels and restaurants
  6. government and the states have.
  7. are those powers directly expressed or stated in the Constitution by the Founders.
  8. The Constitution also reserves certain powers strictly to the states.
  9. A nationalist Chief Justice; presided during McCulloch
  10. The principal way in which states may do this is to negotiate
  11. Expressed powers are also called
  12. are those powers that both the
  13. A second view the favors national action in dealing with these matters.
  14. - This clause applies only to civil law, or laws relating to disputes between individuals, groups, or with the state
  15. The main way the national government provides money to the states is through

26 Clues: landmark case of 1819 • another early federalist • are those powers that both the • government and the states have. • one of the earliest federalists • Expressed powers are also called • The courts have never given a complete listing of • A nationalist Chief Justice; presided during McCulloch • The principal way in which states may do this is to negotiate • ...

Civil War 2023-05-12

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Referred to as the Confederacy . Name of the unrecognized ¨country¨ temporarily created by the southern states which seceded from the union.
  2. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.
  3. Act Law allowed those territories to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery by utilizing popular voting.
  4. Slave states that stayed with the United States during the civil war.
  5. 16th president, he was president during the Civil War
  6. The action of formally withdrawing from a federation
  7. A war between citizens of the same country. The American civil war was a war between Americans over states rights. It was a 4 year war and over 600,000 Americans died.
  8. An enslaved African American man, he unsuccessfully sued for his freedom, and the case went to the supreme court.
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  1. The 13th amendment abolished slavery, and the 14th granted all citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. . 15th prohibited the denial of the vote because of race, color, or previous servitude.
  2. Required all escaped slaves to be returned to their masters and that citizens of free states must cooperate.
  3. of 1850 California wanted to join the union as a free state which caused conflict between the North and the South
  4. To be set free. Lincoln's emancipation proclamation set free all slaves in the confederacy only.
  5. Numerous laws enacted in the former Confederate states after the civil war limited the rights and liberties of African Americans.
  6. A place where weapons and other military supplies are stored.
  7. Abolitionist, Led attacks in Kansas during ¨bleeding Kansas¨, planned to arm slaves in a revolt.
  8. The largest organizational group of soldiers, made up of one or more corps.
  9. The period of U.S. history immediately following the Civil War in which the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union.
  10. To lie in wait for an unexpected attack.
  11. An anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It helped spread the abolitionist movement throughout the north.
  12. marked the official beginning of the American Civil Wa

20 Clues: To lie in wait for an unexpected attack. • Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery. • The action of formally withdrawing from a federation • 16th president, he was president during the Civil War • marked the official beginning of the American Civil Wa • A place where weapons and other military supplies are stored. • ...

Civil War 2024-05-09

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. The Southern states that seceded from the United States and formed their own government during the Civil War.
  2. Locations where military engagements or battles took place during the Civil War.
  3. The principle that states have the authority to govern themselves independently of the federal government, a contentious issue leading up to the Civil War.
  4. Large-caliber weapons used in warfare, such as cannons and mortars.
  5. The Northern states that remained loyal to the United States government during the Civil War, also referring to the preservation of the United States as a single nation.
  6. Foot soldiers who fought on the ground, armed with rifles and bayonets.
  7. A person who advocated for the complete abolition of slavery.
  8. The process of restoring friendly relations between opposing factions or parties.
  9. The period following the Civil War in which the United States sought to rebuild and reunify the nation, addressing the social, economic, and political aftermath of the conflict.
  10. Mounted soldiers trained for combat on horseback, often used for reconnaissance and skirmishing during the Civil War.
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  1. The act of withdrawing or breaking away from a larger political entity, such as a state seceding from the Union.
  2. The act of using naval forces to prevent ships from entering or leaving ports, often used as a military strategy during the Civil War.
  3. Military structures or defenses built to protect strategic locations, such as forts, trenches, and earthworks.
  4. The compulsory enlistment of people into military service, also known as the draft.
  5. Persons killed, wounded, or missing in action during a military conflict.
  6. A small-scale battle or clash between opposing forces.
  7. The act of setting free or liberating individuals from slavery.
  8. A type of warship protected by iron or steel armor, used during the Civil War to revolutionize naval warfare.
  9. The act of yielding to the authority or control of another, often referring to the capitulation of one side in a conflict to the other.
  10. warfare Irregular military tactics used by small, mobile groups to harass and disrupt enemy forces.

20 Clues: A small-scale battle or clash between opposing forces. • A person who advocated for the complete abolition of slavery. • The act of setting free or liberating individuals from slavery. • Large-caliber weapons used in warfare, such as cannons and mortars. • Foot soldiers who fought on the ground, armed with rifles and bayonets. • ...

Student Name:___________ 2024-11-21

Student Name:___________ crossword puzzle
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  1. a political group in the late 18th century who opposed the creation of a stronger federal government and the ratification of the 1787 Constitution
  2. a conflict between the United States and Great Britain, primarily caused by British practices like "impressment"
  3. violent protest against a new tax on distilled spirits and the stills that produced them.
  4. a diplomatic incident between the United States and France that occurred in 1797 and 1798 during the presidency of John Adams
  5. proposed a strong central government composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
  6. an agreement made during the drafting of the US Constitution where enslaved people were counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state's population for representation in Congress
  7. authority of the federal courts to declare that actions by the federal or state government violate the Constitution.
  8. "Give me liberty or give me death'
  9. foreign policy statement made by President James Monroe in 1823 that outlined the United States' role in the Western Hemisphere and its relationship with Europe:
  10. a tax or fee imposed on imported goods to protect domestic industries from foreign competitio
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  1. written in 1812 and limited the power of the king
  2. The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were both written in this state
  3. the belief in manifest destiny, federally issued Indian removal acts, and economic promise
  4. signed on February 2, 1848, in the Mexican city of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War:
  5. someone who believes in the type of political system in which states or territories share control with a central government.
  6. government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony
  7. The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the size of the country.
  8. led the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, helped create the U.S. Constitution, and served as the first president of the United States.
  9. the first constitution of the United States, establishing the country's national government after the American Revolution:
  10. known as Revolutionaries, Continentals, Rebels, or Whigs, were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who opposed the Kingdom of Great Britain's control

20 Clues: "Give me liberty or give me death' • written in 1812 and limited the power of the king • government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony • The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were both written in this state • violent protest against a new tax on distilled spirits and the stills that produced them. • ...

Student Name:____________. No Spaces 2024-11-21

Student Name:____________. No Spaces crossword puzzle
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  1. violent protest against a new tax on distilled spirits and the stills that produced them.
  2. a tax or fee imposed on imported goods to protect domestic industries from foreign competitio
  3. signed on February 2, 1848, in the Mexican city of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War:
  4. known as Revolutionaries, Continentals, Rebels, or Whigs, were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who opposed the Kingdom of Great Britain's control
  5. foreign policy statement made by President James Monroe in 1823 that outlined the United States' role in the Western Hemisphere and its relationship with Europe:
  6. written in 1812 and limited the power of the king
  7. an agreement made during the drafting of the US Constitution where enslaved people were counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state's population for representation in Congress
  8. the belief in manifest destiny, federally issued Indian removal acts, and economic promise
  9. The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the size of the country.
  10. proposed a strong central government composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
  11. a political group in the late 18th century who opposed the creation of a stronger federal government and the ratification of the 1787 Constitution
  12. a diplomatic incident between the United States and France that occurred in 1797 and 1798 during the presidency of John Adams
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  1. authority of the federal courts to declare that actions by the federal or state government violate the Constitution.
  2. government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony
  3. someone who believes in the type of political system in which states or territories share control with a central government.
  4. the first constitution of the United States, establishing the country's national government after the American Revolution:
  5. a conflict between the United States and Great Britain, primarily caused by British practices like "impressment"
  6. led the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, helped create the U.S. Constitution, and served as the first president of the United States.
  7. The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were both written in this state
  8. "Give me liberty or give me death'

20 Clues: "Give me liberty or give me death' • written in 1812 and limited the power of the king • government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony • violent protest against a new tax on distilled spirits and the stills that produced them. • The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were both written in this state • ...

Major Wars of the United States 2024-08-06

Major Wars of the United States crossword puzzle
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  1. This chilly war pitted the United States and Russia against each other to see who would be top dog of the world
  2. Many consider this war to be the first major lost that the United States faced
  3. This war started because the United States wanted to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction
  4. This war was a direct response to the September 11th attacks on the United States
  5. This war allowed Americans to win their independence from England
  6. Allied Powers Vs. Central Powers
  7. This war ended with the United States gaining 1/3 of the entire country from Mexico
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  1. Allied Powers Vs. Axis Powers
  2. The war ended with a DMZ placed between two countries that still exist today
  3. This war led to the inclusion of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as U.S. territories
  4. The United States got involved in this war to protect its rights to Middle Eastern Oil
  5. This war ended with no gains from England or the United States
  6. 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 • ...