states Crossword Puzzles

Our Puzzling Government #2 2022-11-18

Our Puzzling Government #2 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Passing down of responsibilities from the national government to the states.
  2. Grants made to States, private agencies for projects
  3. Network of political, financial, and administrative relationships between units of the federal government and those of state and local governments.
  4. 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).
  5. The powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow out of the very existence of the national government. (Power that belongs to the National Government because it is the government of the sovereign state within the world community)
  6. Constitution's requirement that each state accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state
  7. An act creating a new state
  8. A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
  9. Powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution reasonably suggested.
  10. Thought that Government should be free of parties
  11. powers saved for the states
  12. powers that congress has that are specifically listed in the constitution spelled out expressly.
  13. Powers that are shared by both the Nationaly and state governments
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  1. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
  2. Giving money back to the state and local government with no strings attached
  3. Grant for which Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose
  4. Powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone
  5. Grants of federal money or other resources to the states or their cities, counties, and other local units.
  6. No State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other States
  7. Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution, for example, the authority to print money.
  8. Constitutional agreement by which the national government is created by and relies on subnational governments for its authority
  9. One type of federal grants-in-aid for some particular but broadly defined area of public policy
  10. The first step in the state admission procedure which enables the people of a territory to prepare a constitution
  11. The surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty)

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

Joshua Romain Canada 2015-01-25

Joshua Romain Canada crossword puzzle
Across
  1. New Brunswick is covered in 85% ______
  2. Canada is divided into
  3. Canada's ranking in size
  4. A famous tourist attraction shared by Canada and the untied states
  5. The United states has about 290 million people and canad has____people
  6. Most people in Qubec speak
  7. borders untied states and the United States
Down
  1. Native people called ______ follow more traditional ways of living.
  2. Canada's smallest province
  3. is Latin for New Scotland
  4. National sport for Canada
  5. Famous for being a site of the Winter Olympics
  6. Is celebrated on December 26th
  7. About seventy five percent of the worlds _________ come from Canada
  8. Ice and cold weather sports such as ______ and ice skating

15 Clues: Canada is divided into • Canada's ranking in size • is Latin for New Scotland • National sport for Canada • Canada's smallest province • Most people in Qubec speak • Is celebrated on December 26th • New Brunswick is covered in 85% ______ • borders untied states and the United States • Famous for being a site of the Winter Olympics • ...

Civil war crossword puzzle 2024-01-10

Civil war crossword puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A bag with a shoulder strap
  2. The Southern states that seceded
  3. Northern states
  4. African Americans who were forced to work against their will
  5. States that left the union
  6. Turning point of the war.
  7. A war ship covered in iron
  8. A heavy duty shoe, similar to steel toe boots
  9. A large farm where slaves worked
Down
  1. A person who was against slavery
  2. A person from the Northern states who went to the South to make a profit off of reconstruction
  3. Lincoln President during the Civil War
  4. Slang for U.S. paper dollar
  5. Soldiers marching or fighting on foot
  6. Cannons or weapons

15 Clues: Northern states • Cannons or weapons • Turning point of the war. • States that left the union • A war ship covered in iron • A bag with a shoulder strap • Slang for U.S. paper dollar • A person who was against slavery • The Southern states that seceded • A large farm where slaves worked • Soldiers marching or fighting on foot • Lincoln President during the Civil War • ...

Chapter 12 Vocabulary Worksheet 2013-02-25

Chapter 12 Vocabulary Worksheet crossword puzzle
Across
  1. law that states that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules
  2. law that states that the pressur of a gas at a constant volume is directly proportional to the absolute temperature
  3. the ammount of force exerted per unit area of surface
  4. law that states that the volume of gases involved in a chemical change can be represented by the ration of small whole numbers
  5. the pressure of each gas in a mixture
  6. imaginary gas whose particles are infinitely small and do not interact with each other
  7. movement of particles from regions of higher density to regions of lower density
  8. Si Unit of pressure
  9. law that states that for a fixed amount of gas at a constant pressure the volume of the gas increases as the termpeature of the gas increases and the volume of the gas decreases as the temperature of the gas decreases
  10. Si unit for force
  11. passage of a gas under pressure through a tiny opening
Down
  1. the terperature of 0°C and 1 atm
  2. law that states that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the component gases
  3. law that states that the rate of diffusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of the gass density
  4. Law that states that for a fixed amount of gas at a constant temperature the volume of the gas increases as the pressure of the gas decreases and the volume of the gas decreases as the pressure of the gas increases
  5. theory that explains that the behavior of physical systems depends on the combined actions of the molecules constituting the system
  6. law that states the mathematical relationship of pressure volume temperature the gas constant and the number of moles of a gas

17 Clues: Si unit for force • Si Unit of pressure • the terperature of 0°C and 1 atm • the pressure of each gas in a mixture • the ammount of force exerted per unit area of surface • passage of a gas under pressure through a tiny opening • movement of particles from regions of higher density to regions of lower density • ...

The Constitution 2023-02-21

The Constitution crossword puzzle
Across
  1. of rights
  2. Rebellion
  3. cabinet
  4. force by compulsion
  5. Mr.
  6. promote manufacturing & commerce
  7. financial plan
  8. revolution
  9. of neutrality
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  1. act of 1789
  2. farewell address
  3. of the United States
  4. Treaty
  5. Tax on imports or exports, states
  6. Clause
  7. Treaty
  8. president George Washington
  9. tax
  10. act

19 Clues: Mr. • tax • act • Treaty • Clause • Treaty • cabinet • of rights • Rebellion • revolution • act of 1789 • of neutrality • financial plan • farewell address • force by compulsion • of the United States • promote manufacturing & commerce • Tax on imports or exports, states • president George Washington

Joshua Romain Canada 2015-01-25

Joshua Romain Canada crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Canada's ranking in size
  2. Most people in Qubec speak
  3. Canada's smallest province
  4. Native people called ______ follow more traditional ways of living.
  5. About seventy five percent of the worlds _________ come from Canada
  6. Is celebrated on December 26th
  7. borders untied states and the United States
Down
  1. Canada is divided into
  2. A famous tourist attraction shared by Canada and the untied states
  3. New Brunswick is covered in 85% ______
  4. Famous for being a site of the Winter Olympics
  5. The United states has about 290 million people and canad has____people
  6. National sport for Canada
  7. is Latin for New Scotland
  8. Ice and cold weather sports such as ______ and ice skating

15 Clues: Canada is divided into • Canada's ranking in size • National sport for Canada • is Latin for New Scotland • Most people in Qubec speak • Canada's smallest province • Is celebrated on December 26th • New Brunswick is covered in 85% ______ • borders untied states and the United States • Famous for being a site of the Winter Olympics • ...

Rylee's Chapter 8 Crossowrd Puzzle 2025-04-03

Rylee's Chapter 8 Crossowrd Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a secret network of safe places for slaves to hide
  2. for the people that decided whether they wanted slavery
  3. to not take sides
  4. when someone has the legality to make decisions for you
  5. regional differences on whether a federal or state authority should prevail
  6. states that did not permit slavery
  7. a solution to save the union and solve issues
  8. a member of a small military group
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  1. 7 states formed a government
  2. states that permitted slavery
  3. a subdivision in the army
  4. a position used to help defend against enemies
  5. people against slavery
  6. taxes
  7. states that would break away from the union

15 Clues: taxes • to not take sides • people against slavery • a subdivision in the army • 7 states formed a government • states that permitted slavery • states that did not permit slavery • a member of a small military group • states that would break away from the union • a solution to save the union and solve issues • a position used to help defend against enemies • ...

Gov Unit 1 2023-11-29

Gov Unit 1 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. _____contract; agree to give up some liberty for order
  2. these powers belong to the states
  3. Amendments proposed by 2/3 Congress, ______ by 3/4 states
  4. New Jersey Plan called for ______ representation
  5. Virginia Plan called for ______ representation
  6. _____ review; courts' ability to decide if a law is constitutional
  7. government's duty is to protect this
  8. the Anti-Federalists supported a ______ central government
  9. supported a stronger central government
  10. type of government where all power flows from central location
Down
  1. Connecticut _______
  2. ______ clause says feds win when law in conflict with states
  3. ______ government; only has as much authority as people give it
  4. divides powers between different levels of government
  5. _____ rights; they come from God, not government
  6. three co-equal branches does this to power
  7. amendment where states derive their sovereignty

17 Clues: Connecticut _______ • these powers belong to the states • government's duty is to protect this • supported a stronger central government • three co-equal branches does this to power • Virginia Plan called for ______ representation • amendment where states derive their sovereignty • _____ rights; they come from God, not government • ...

Founding Documents 2024-08-30

Founding Documents crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What month did shays lead an attack on a federal arsenal
  2. States could not print their own
  3. innocent until proven
  4. who wanted the states to have more powers
  5. Who wanted a strong central government
Down
  1. What month was the deceleration of independence adopted
  2. Anti-federalists allied with the
  3. pages How long was the articles of confederation
  4. The national government lacked a court
  5. Each state constitution had to guarantee certain basic
  6. who relied on the states to contribute money
  7. What is one of the natural rights
  8. States raised taxes to pay for debts of the
  9. Congress could not regulate
  10. The federalist allied with the

15 Clues: innocent until proven • Congress could not regulate • The federalist allied with the • Anti-federalists allied with the • States could not print their own • What is one of the natural rights • The national government lacked a court • Who wanted a strong central government • who wanted the states to have more powers • States raised taxes to pay for debts of the • ...

states and emotions 2021-07-14

states and emotions crossword puzzle
Across
  1. karšta
  2. nustebęs
  3. laimingas
  4. piktas
  5. pavargęs
  6. išsigandęs
  7. sergantis
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  1. šalta
  2. nuobodžiaujantis
  3. nelaimingas
  4. alkanas
  5. ištroškęs
  6. sveikas
  7. susidomėjęs

14 Clues: šalta • karšta • piktas • alkanas • sveikas • nustebęs • pavargęs • laimingas • ištroškęs • sergantis • išsigandęs • nelaimingas • susidomėjęs • nuobodžiaujantis

States of matter 2022-09-05

States of matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When _______ is added, particles have more energy
  2. Particles in a solid _____________ on the spot
  3. The particles in a liquid _________ past each other
  4. Liquid particles move at a medium ______
  5. A state of matter that spreads out
  6. Particles in a gas move very ______
  7. The change of state from liquid to solid
  8. The change of state from gas to liquid
Down
  1. Solid particles move slowly and have low _______
  2. The change of state from a liquid to gas
  3. A state of matter that pours
  4. The change of state from a solid to liquid
  5. A state of matter that holds its shape
  6. When heat is ______, particles have less energy

14 Clues: A state of matter that pours • A state of matter that spreads out • Particles in a gas move very ______ • A state of matter that holds its shape • The change of state from gas to liquid • The change of state from a liquid to gas • Liquid particles move at a medium ______ • The change of state from liquid to solid • The change of state from a solid to liquid • ...

United States Elections 2022-10-25

United States Elections crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the elected head of a city or town
  2. One of two major political parties in the U.S. represented by a donkey
  3. name of the system used to elect the president
  4. the national legislative body that meets at the U.S. Capitol
  5. Where a voter's choice is recorded
  6. someone nominated to run for office
  7. An organized effort to influence voters
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  1. the elected head of a state
  2. One of two major political parties in the U.S. represented by an elephant
  3. the rules for a country or community
  4. the day of the week elections are held
  5. the month presidential elections are held on
  6. preliminary elections to select a party's candidate
  7. the elected head of the executive branch

14 Clues: the elected head of a state • the elected head of a city or town • Where a voter's choice is recorded • someone nominated to run for office • the rules for a country or community • the day of the week elections are held • An organized effort to influence voters • the elected head of the executive branch • the month presidential elections are held on • ...

States of Matter 2022-11-22

States of Matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. An example of a solid?
  2. Solids have atoms that are ______ together?
  3. The amount of space that matter takes up?
  4. A change that can be undone?
  5. A type of gas?
  6. Take the shape of their container
  7. Does not have a definite shape or volume?
  8. As the temperature of liquid rises, the molecules?
Down
  1. Rising temperatures causes molecules to?
  2. In a chemical change, the original materials can not be?
  3. A irreversible change creates a new?
  4. In a physical change, the molecules are?
  5. A chemical change results in a new_____?
  6. Chair and tables are examples of?

14 Clues: A type of gas? • An example of a solid? • A change that can be undone? • Take the shape of their container • Chair and tables are examples of? • A irreversible change creates a new? • Rising temperatures causes molecules to? • In a physical change, the molecules are? • A chemical change results in a new_____? • The amount of space that matter takes up? • ...

States of Matter? 2020-05-12

States of Matter? crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when a substance changes from solid matter to liquid matter
  2. when water vapour in the air is changed to liquid water
  3. when a substance changes from liquid matter to solid matter
  4. matter which has no fixed shape or volume
  5. when a liquid turns into a gas
  6. matter which has particles that are stable in shape
Down
  1. movement of particles in matter which is elastic
  2. Theory theory which explains the properties of matter and the way its particles move
  3. something which has mass and occupies space
  4. a measurement of how hot or cold something is
  5. when matter in a liquid state turns into gas
  6. the capacity to do the work required to influence action
  7. energy transferred between two things which are different temperatures
  8. matter which forms into the shape of a container

14 Clues: when a liquid turns into a gas • matter which has no fixed shape or volume • something which has mass and occupies space • when matter in a liquid state turns into gas • a measurement of how hot or cold something is • movement of particles in matter which is elastic • matter which forms into the shape of a container • matter which has particles that are stable in shape • ...

States (38-50) 2020-10-20

States (38-50) crossword puzzle
Across
  1. RhodeIsland
  2. SouthCarolina
  3. Wisconsin
  4. Tennessee
  5. Virginia
  6. Washington
  7. SouthDakota
Down
  1. Utah
  2. Oregon
  3. Pennsylvania
  4. Wyoming
  5. WestVirginia
  6. Vermont
  7. Texas

14 Clues: Utah • Texas • Oregon • Wyoming • Vermont • Virginia • Wisconsin • Tennessee • Washington • RhodeIsland • SouthDakota • Pennsylvania • WestVirginia • SouthCarolina

United States Vocabulary 2014-09-08

United States Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. people who share a common culture, language, or history.
  2. form of government in which citizens chose the nation’s leaders by voting for them.
  3. trade without barriers like tariffs or quotas so that goods flow freely between countries.
  4. huge urban settlement made up of several large cities.
  5. smaller community located in the area surrounding a city.
  6. areas that are joined together inside a common boundary.
  7. to change the basic laws of a government.
Down
  1. reusing materials instead of throwing them away.
  2. economic system that operated on free competition, people start and own businesses with limited government intervention.
  3. fuel formed in the earth, such as coil, oil, or natural gas.
  4. relating to the countryside.
  5. structure formed by the skeletons of small sea animals.
  6. relating to the city.
  7. area where trash companies dump the waste they collect.

14 Clues: relating to the city. • relating to the countryside. • to change the basic laws of a government. • reusing materials instead of throwing them away. • huge urban settlement made up of several large cities. • structure formed by the skeletons of small sea animals. • area where trash companies dump the waste they collect. • ...

States of Matter 2023-08-30

States of Matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. state of matter in which the particles are moving the fastest
  2. the 5th state of matter; super cold
  3. state of matter that can take the shape of its container
  4. a state of matter that is a super heated gas
  5. a property used to define a state of matter; this property is fixed in solids, but not in liquids and gases.
  6. a property used to define a state of matter; this property is fixed in solids and liquids, but not in gases.
Down
  1. energy possessed by moving things
  2. the are three (or five) of these
  3. this is the nickname for kinetic energy given by Raquel
  4. as motion of the particles increases, kinetic energy ____________.
  5. changing states from a gas to liquid or liquid to solid would require a ___________ in temperature.
  6. changing from a solid to liquid or liquid to gas would require an increase in ____________.
  7. state of matter with the least kinetic energy
  8. a state of matter can be defined by the movement of its _________.

14 Clues: the are three (or five) of these • energy possessed by moving things • the 5th state of matter; super cold • a state of matter that is a super heated gas • state of matter with the least kinetic energy • this is the nickname for kinetic energy given by Raquel • state of matter that can take the shape of its container • ...

States of Matter 2024-12-05

States of Matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Anything that takes up space and has mass.
  2. State of matter which has no definite volume or shape. The atoms and molecules move freely and spread apart from one another.
  3. The change of state directly from a gas to a solid.
  4. State of matter which has a definite volume but able to change shape by flowing; The atoms and molecules are loosely bonded and they move around but stay close together.
  5. The exact temperature and pressure condition for Boiling to occur.
  6. To change from a liquid state to a gaseous state.
Down
  1. The transition from a liquid state to a solid state.
  2. The change of state from a solid to a liquid.
  3. Smallest unit of matter which is made up on Protons, Neutrons and Electrons.
  4. The exact temperature and pressure condition for Melting to occur.
  5. Form of potential energy which hold atoms together to form molecules.
  6. To change from a solid state directly to the gaseous state without going through a liquid phase.
  7. To change from a gaseous state to a liquid state.
  8. State of matter which is relatively rigid and has a definite volume and shape.

14 Clues: Anything that takes up space and has mass. • The change of state from a solid to a liquid. • To change from a gaseous state to a liquid state. • To change from a liquid state to a gaseous state. • The change of state directly from a gas to a solid. • The transition from a liquid state to a solid state. • ...

States of matter 2024-12-10

States of matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Hard, but may break easily
  2. No definite shape
  3. Easily crushed or squeezed
  4. A device used to measure temperature
  5. Light can pass through an object
  6. cannot be seen through
  7. Anything that takes up space
Down
  1. Something that can pour
  2. Something with definite shape
  3. Lacking shine or brightness
  4. An even and regular surface
  5. Able to soak up liquid
  6. Not easily broken
  7. Uneven, raised patches

14 Clues: No definite shape • Not easily broken • Able to soak up liquid • Uneven, raised patches • cannot be seen through • Something that can pour • Hard, but may break easily • Easily crushed or squeezed • Lacking shine or brightness • An even and regular surface • Anything that takes up space • Something with definite shape • Light can pass through an object • ...

States of Matter 2024-10-02

States of Matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. An air like fluid substance that expands to fill any space available, does not have a definite volume. No bonds between molecules, high molecule movement
  2. The ability of a substance to be flattened
  3. The conversion of a gas to a liquid
  4. A property that is observed when a substance undergoes a chemical change
  5. Rising the temperature of a liquid to a steady temperature at which it bubbles and evaporates
  6. Matter that has a definite shape and volume. Molecules vibrate in place and share strong bonds.
Down
  1. To change from a liquid to a gas state
  2. Turning a liquid into a solid by removing heat (0 degrees Celsius, 32 degrees Fahrenheit)
  3. The ability of a substance to undergo a chemical reaction with another substance
  4. An increase in the volume of a substance while its mass remains the same
  5. A decrease in the volume of a substance while its mass remains that same
  6. Turning a solid into a liquid by adding heat
  7. Matter that has a definite volume but no definite shape (takes the shape of a container). Molecule movement, bonds are easily broken between molecules
  8. Flow of thermal energy from matter with a higher temperature to matter with a lower temperature

14 Clues: The conversion of a gas to a liquid • To change from a liquid to a gas state • The ability of a substance to be flattened • Turning a solid into a liquid by adding heat • An increase in the volume of a substance while its mass remains the same • A decrease in the volume of a substance while its mass remains that same • ...

STATES OF MATER 2024-07-19

STATES OF MATER crossword puzzle
Across
  1. AIR
  2. CANGE SHAPES
  3. COLD OR HOT
  4. DIFFERENT FORMS
  5. GETTING COLD
  6. WARMING UP
  7. THE STAGE BETWEEN WATER AND ICE
Down
  1. HARD
  2. A GAS
  3. LIQUID TO SOLID
  4. HOT WATER
  5. DISOLVING
  6. OVER HEATING
  7. LIQUID

14 Clues: AIR • HARD • A GAS • LIQUID • HOT WATER • DISOLVING • WARMING UP • COLD OR HOT • CANGE SHAPES • OVER HEATING • GETTING COLD • LIQUID TO SOLID • DIFFERENT FORMS • THE STAGE BETWEEN WATER AND ICE

The 13 states 2025-02-21

The 13 states crossword puzzle
Across
  1. 14
  2. 3
  3. 13
  4. 5
  5. 2
  6. 9
Down
  1. 7
  2. 1
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 4
  6. 8
  7. 10
  8. 6

14 Clues: 7 • 1 • 4 • 3 • 8 • 5 • 6 • 2 • 9 • 14 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 10

States and Nations 2025-08-12

States and Nations crossword puzzle
Across
  1. people living in a territory
  2. philosopher supporting natural rights and government protection
  3. political community with territory and sovereignty
  4. ethnic group without a country
  5. accepted authority recognized as rightful
  6. geographic area controlled by a state
Down
  1. decision making and power within groups
  2. ability to influence or control others
  3. philosopher favoring strong government for order
  4. group sharing culture or history
  5. system that creates and enforces laws
  6. life without government or laws
  7. supreme authority of a state
  8. idea that people are born as blank slates

14 Clues: people living in a territory • supreme authority of a state • ethnic group without a country • life without government or laws • group sharing culture or history • system that creates and enforces laws • geographic area controlled by a state • ability to influence or control others • decision making and power within groups • idea that people are born as blank slates • ...

Influences on the Constitution 2024-10-23

Influences on the Constitution crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Thomas Paine argued that the British could not effectively govern the colonies because there was too much __________ between them.
  2. This Enlightenment philosopher believed in monarchy and that people cannot change their government.
  3. John Locke believed all people are entitled to these, and that the government should protect these.
  4. This principle was established in the Magna Carta when there were limitations placed on government power.
  5. This principle states that no one is above the law, including the government.
  6. This concept of people having a voice in government comes from Greek influence.
  7. Jefferson calls for this when government is destructive, and "the people have the right to alter or abolish it."
Down
  1. This principle is present in the Declaration of Independence when it states that power comes from the "consent of the goverened."
  2. The Articles of Confederation failed because the government could not collect these from the states.
  3. This philosopher believed that there should be separation of powers and checks and balances in a government.
  4. This principle states that there should be three branches of government to divide the power.
  5. Another word for power
  6. Under the Articles of Confederation, these held the most power.
  7. How many states it took to make a law under the Articles of Confederation.
  8. The Articles of Confederation was weak because they could not enforce these for the states with other countries.
  9. The Articles of Confederation was weak because they could not raise one of these for protection.

16 Clues: Another word for power • Under the Articles of Confederation, these held the most power. • How many states it took to make a law under the Articles of Confederation. • This principle states that no one is above the law, including the government. • This concept of people having a voice in government comes from Greek influence. • ...

US and Canada Geography 2023-09-25

US and Canada Geography crossword puzzle
Across
  1. feature on Earth's surface
  2. longest river in the United States
  3. ocean found on western border US and Canada
  4. most populated city in the US
  5. mountains. mountain range found on eastern United States
  6. largest collection of freshwater lakes
Down
  1. ocean found on eastern border US and Canada
  2. mountain range found on western United States and Canada
  3. most populated city in Canada
  4. wide open flat land in central United States and Canada
  5. capital of United States
  6. capital of Canada

12 Clues: capital of Canada • capital of United States • feature on Earth's surface • most populated city in Canada • most populated city in the US • longest river in the United States • largest collection of freshwater lakes • ocean found on eastern border US and Canada • ocean found on western border US and Canada • wide open flat land in central United States and Canada • ...

US and Canada Geography 2023-09-25

US and Canada Geography crossword puzzle
Across
  1. feature on Earth's surface
  2. longest river in the United States
  3. ocean found on western border US and Canada
  4. most populated city in the US
  5. mountains. mountain range found on eastern United States
  6. largest collection of freshwater lakes
Down
  1. ocean found on eastern border US and Canada
  2. mountain range found on western United States and Canada
  3. most populated city in Canada
  4. wide open flat land in central United States and Canada
  5. capital of United States
  6. capital of Canada

12 Clues: capital of Canada • capital of United States • feature on Earth's surface • most populated city in Canada • most populated city in the US • longest river in the United States • largest collection of freshwater lakes • ocean found on eastern border US and Canada • ocean found on western border US and Canada • wide open flat land in central United States and Canada • ...

States of matter/phase changes 2021-05-14

States of matter/phase changes crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Solid to liquid
  2. Has no definite shape, definite volume
  3. Physical forms in which a substance can exist
  4. Solid to gas
  5. States that energy can neither be created nor destroyed
  6. Gas to liquid
  7. Energy of an object due to its motion
  8. Like a gas,this state lacks a fixed volume and shape
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  1. Liquid to gas
  2. Has a definite shape and volume
  3. The rate a temperature changes
  4. A liquid's resistance to flow
  5. States that the pressure of a given mass of gas varies directly with the absolute temperature of the gas when volume is kept constant.
  6. Has no definite shape or volume
  7. States that as the temperature of a gas increases, its volume increases by the same amount
  8. States that as the pressure of a gas increases, its volume decreases by the same amount
  9. The ability to dissolve into another substance
  10. Liquid to solid

18 Clues: Solid to gas • Liquid to gas • Gas to liquid • Solid to liquid • Liquid to solid • A liquid's resistance to flow • The rate a temperature changes • Has a definite shape and volume • Has no definite shape or volume • Energy of an object due to its motion • Has no definite shape, definite volume • Physical forms in which a substance can exist • ...

The 1700's and 1800's 2023-04-21

The 1700's and 1800's crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The war in which the North and South fought each other.
  2. A domestic terrorist organization founded shortly after the Civil War.
  3. The side that had more states during the Civil War.
  4. How many states were there before the Civil war?
  5. The last state that slaves gained freedom in.
  6. The last state to surrender in the Civil War.
  7. What the South was known for.
  8. Something that the North hated and the South loved.
  9. Which amendment allowed black Americans to vote.
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  1. The number of years the Civil War lasted.
  2. The state that the Union wanted because of their gold.
  3. Opposed Slavery.
  4. The amendment that abolishes slavery in the United States.
  5. Supported Slavery.
  6. What the slave states were called.
  7. Another reason why the South was angry at the North, other than wanting to end slavery.
  8. The side that won the Civil War.
  9. How many states seceded from the Union?
  10. What the North was known for.
  11. The day the Civil War ended.

20 Clues: Opposed Slavery. • Supported Slavery. • The day the Civil War ended. • What the North was known for. • What the South was known for. • The side that won the Civil War. • What the slave states were called. • How many states seceded from the Union? • The number of years the Civil War lasted. • The last state that slaves gained freedom in. • ...

Math Vocab 2023-09-21

Math Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Can't be written as a fraction and is not repeating
  2. Can be written as a fraction, and is repeating
  3. the inverse that states its a number that is the opposite of what gets you zero
  4. The length around an object
  5. 3 or more numbers in any order
  6. This property states that you have to divide or multiply by the same number
  7. The number in front of the variable
  8. (0, 0)
  9. Answer to a multiplication problem
Down
  1. Add or multiply 2 numbers in any order
  2. This property states that you have to add or subtract the same number from each side
  3. 2 numbers (x, y) that mark a location
  4. The amount of space inside an object
  5. Piece of an expression
  6. The inverse that states it has two numbers that when you multiply it gets you zero
  7. A corner of a grid
  8. Answer to an addition problem
  9. A number with no variable

18 Clues: (0, 0) • A corner of a grid • Piece of an expression • A number with no variable • The length around an object • Answer to an addition problem • 3 or more numbers in any order • Answer to a multiplication problem • The number in front of the variable • The amount of space inside an object • 2 numbers (x, y) that mark a location • Add or multiply 2 numbers in any order • ...

Math Vocab 2023-09-21

Math Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Can't be written as a fraction and is not repeating
  2. Can be written as a fraction, and is repeating
  3. the inverse that states its a number that is the opposite of what gets you zero
  4. The length around an object
  5. 3 or more numbers in any order
  6. This property states that you have to divide or multiply by the same number
  7. The number in front of the variable
  8. (0, 0)
  9. Answer to a multiplication problem
Down
  1. Add or multiply 2 numbers in any order
  2. This property states that you have to add or subtract the same number from each side
  3. 2 numbers (x, y) that mark a location
  4. The amount of space inside an object
  5. Piece of an expression
  6. The inverse that states it has two numbers that when you multiply it gets you zero
  7. A corner of a grid
  8. Answer to an addition problem
  9. A number with no variable

18 Clues: (0, 0) • A corner of a grid • Piece of an expression • A number with no variable • The length around an object • Answer to an addition problem • 3 or more numbers in any order • Answer to a multiplication problem • The number in front of the variable • The amount of space inside an object • 2 numbers (x, y) that mark a location • Add or multiply 2 numbers in any order • ...

Constitution Vocabulary 2022-10-31

Constitution Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The people exercise their power by voting for their political representatives.
  2. an addition to a formal document such as the Constitution
  3. 1st Constitution of the U.S.
  4. A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
  5. basic rights people are born with, also called unalienable rights
  6. A government in which the people rule.
  7. trade between two or more states
  8. independent power
  9. Formal approval
  10. The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional
  11. The US government's power is limited by the US Constitution.
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  1. the division of power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government
  2. A government in which the people rule.
  3. Ordinance a law that established a procedure for the admission of new states to the Union
  4. an agreement between opposing sides
  5. the supreme law of the United States
  6. complaint
  7. an alliance of states created for a common purpose
  8. Two house legislature

19 Clues: complaint • Formal approval • independent power • Two house legislature • 1st Constitution of the U.S. • trade between two or more states • an agreement between opposing sides • the supreme law of the United States • A government in which the people rule. • A government in which the people rule. • an alliance of states created for a common purpose • ...

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 2025-05-07

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Practice of giving government jobs to political supporters
  2. Political party formed to support Jackson
  3. Route taken by Native Americans during forced relocation
  4. Nickname for the 1828 tariff that angered the South
  5. Jackson’s Vice President and advocate for states’ rights
  6. State banks where Jackson deposited federal funds
  7. Public meetings to select party candidates
  8. Belief that states have powers independent of the federal government
  9. Political party formed by Jackson’s opponents
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  1. Jackson’s political rival and leader of the Whig Party
  2. Principle that the side with the most votes wins
  3. Financial crisis blamed on Van Buren but caused by Jackson’s policies
  4. Seventh President of the United States
  5. Jackson’s Secretary of State and later President
  6. Forced relocation of Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi
  7. Jackson’s informal group of trusted advisers
  8. Idea that states can invalidate federal laws they consider unconstitutional
  9. Ordinary citizens whom Jackson claimed to represent

18 Clues: Seventh President of the United States • Political party formed to support Jackson • Public meetings to select party candidates • Jackson’s informal group of trusted advisers • Political party formed by Jackson’s opponents • Principle that the side with the most votes wins • Jackson’s Secretary of State and later President • ...

Final Exam Crossword Puzzle 2020-06-02

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

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

The Reconstruction Era Crossword Puzzle 2021-11-01

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

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

American history crossword. 2022-01-04

American history crossword. crossword puzzle
Across
  1. an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
  2. American South who embraced progressive ideas
  3. Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugee
  4. a person who works despite an ongoing strike
  5. restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans
  6. Mexican revolutionary and president of Mexico
  7. dictatorial president of Mexico
  8. American white supremacist terrorist hate group
  9. stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions.
  10. an artificial 82 km (51 mi) waterway in Panama
  11. a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America
  12. a peace activist and a leader of the settlement house movement in America.
Down
  1. an organization of employees
  2. Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898
  3. commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812
  4. flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a Latin American country, the United States could intervene in that country's internal affairs.
  5. House of Representatives is the lower house of the United States Congress
  6. applying the Darwinian theory of evolution to philosophical and historical studies
  7. the economic, military, and cultural influence of the United States on other countries.
  8. an educator and reformer,
  9. protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China
  10. list of persons whose opinions or associations were deemed politically inconvenient or commercially troublesome
  11. the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union
  12. an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist

24 Clues: an educator and reformer, • an organization of employees • dictatorial president of Mexico • a person who works despite an ongoing strike • American South who embraced progressive ideas • Mexican revolutionary and president of Mexico • an artificial 82 km (51 mi) waterway in Panama • American white supremacist terrorist hate group • ...

Chapter 18 Reconstruction 2017-09-27

Chapter 18 Reconstruction crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Social organization fromed in 1866 in Tennessee that intimidated African Americans and White Supporters with violent Tactics
  2. Gave African Americans the right to vote
  3. members of congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union
  4. Granted equal rights to african americans
  5. Agency that provided relief for freed-people and certain poor people in the South
  6. Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
  7. The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
  8. required states to swear an oath of loyalty to the united states and agree that slavery was illegal
  9. Office holders who were northern-born Republicans who had moved South after the War
  10. Leader of the Radical Republicans
  11. Ulysees S. Grant is elected President, in part, to votes by African Americans in the South
Down
  1. southern states took advantage of this reconstruction plan as he was from the south
  2. hid in his office after President Johnson attempted to fire him
  3. Forced labor system that required former slaves to enter contracts with white planters to work off debts
  4. made slavery illegal throughout the united states
  5. Requried potential voters to read and explain difficult concepts in order to vote
  6. Fake railroad corporation created by Union Pacific stockholders and paid themselves with grants from the Federal Government
  7. Limited the president's power to hire and fire officials
  8. poor African Americans worked a piece of land and gave land owner 1/3-1/2 of annual crop
  9. Southern whites who became republicans
  10. African Americans rented a piece of land to farm from a land owner
  11. the process of readmitting the former confederate states to the union

22 Clues: Leader of the Radical Republicans • Southern whites who became republicans • Gave African Americans the right to vote • Granted equal rights to african americans • made slavery illegal throughout the united states • Limited the president's power to hire and fire officials • Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans • ...

Chapter 18 Reconstruction 2017-09-27

Chapter 18 Reconstruction crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Granted equal rights to african americans
  2. Limited the president's power to hire and fire officials
  3. Fake railroad corporation created by Union Pacific stockholders and paid themselves with grants from the Federal Government
  4. Gave African Americans the right to vote
  5. southern states took advantage of this reconstruction plan as he was from the south
  6. Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
  7. poor African Americans worked a piece of land and gave land owner 1/3-1/2 of annual crop
  8. the process of readmitting the former confederate states to the union
  9. hid in his office after President Johnson attempted to fire him
Down
  1. African Americans rented a piece of land to farm from a land owner
  2. Requried potential voters to read and explain difficult concepts in order to vote
  3. required states to swear an oath of loyalty to the united states and agree that slavery was illegal
  4. members of congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union
  5. made slavery illegal throughout the united states
  6. Social organization fromed in 1866 in Tennessee that intimidated African Americans and White Supporters with violent Tactics
  7. Office holders who were northern-born Republicans who had moved South after the War
  8. Leader of the Radical Republicans
  9. Agency that provided relief for freed-people and certain poor people in the South
  10. Ulysees S. Grant is elected President, in part, to votes by African Americans in the South
  11. Forced labor system that required former slaves to enter contracts with white planters to work off debts
  12. Southern whites who became republicans
  13. The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official

22 Clues: Leader of the Radical Republicans • Southern whites who became republicans • Gave African Americans the right to vote • Granted equal rights to african americans • made slavery illegal throughout the united states • Limited the president's power to hire and fire officials • Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans • ...

The Makings of American Government 2019-08-30

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

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

The Makings of American Government 2019-08-30

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

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

The Crisis of Cuba 2015-03-26

The Crisis of Cuba crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The United States was allowed stored nuclear missiles in this country near the Soviet Union.
  2. The city in Florida where many Cubans tried to travel to to escape their country.
  3. This date in 1962 was when photographs were first released of Cuban missile bases.
  4. A small nation that was invaded by the U.S. and was used for missile storage by the U.S.S.R.
  5. The crisis between the United States against Cuba and the Soviet Union. This involved the placement of nuclear missiles.
  6. Where the United States landed in Cuba while trying to topple the government.
  7. Recently self-appointed Cuban dictator during the crises.
  8. The government organization responsible for conducting the Bay of Pigs operation.
  9. This treaty between the United States and Soviet Union barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere.
  10. Arming a nation for total war including military and nuclear. Kennedy was criticized for using this.
  11. This union was sending nuclear weapons to Cuba.
  12. Leader of the Soviet Union during this crisis.
Down
  1. This doctrine made by a U.S. President was the reason the U.S. Stored its weapons in Turkey.
  2. What the U.S. Was trying to do to Cuba in order to stop missile carrying ships from entering it.
  3. What Castro relied on when people of Cuba did not agree with him.
  4. A political group blamed for the loss of Cuba.
  5. What the CIA failed at striking in Cuba and reported it sucessful.
  6. What the U.S. tried to do in Cuba to topple the dictator.
  7. These were stored in Turkey and Cuba and would cause major destruction.
  8. United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  9. A dedicated between the United States and Kremlin.

21 Clues: A political group blamed for the loss of Cuba. • Leader of the Soviet Union during this crisis. • This union was sending nuclear weapons to Cuba. • A dedicated between the United States and Kremlin. • United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis. • What the U.S. tried to do in Cuba to topple the dictator. • ...

History Extra Credit 2016-01-04

History Extra Credit crossword puzzle
Across
  1. War between the Union states of the North and the Confederate states of the South; fought from 1861 to 1865
  2. Type of veto a chief executive may use after a legislature has adjourned; it is applied when the chief executive does not formally sign or reject a bill within the time period allowed to do so.
  3. People who travel from place to place, usually following available food sources,instead of living in one location.
  4. Process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture.
  5. Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories.
  6. nickname for a white Southern Republican after the Civil War.
  7. A policy of favoring native-born Americans over immigrants.
  8. The first women's rights convention in United States history, held in 1848.
  9. First major battle of the Civil War, won by the Confederates in July 1861
  10. Required military service
  11. Place where weapons are stored.
  12. To join or attach, as in the joining of a new territory to an existing country
  13. The right to vote
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  1. Regulation that prohibited certain private activities people considered immoral, such as drinking alcohol on Sundays.
  2. A program implemented by the federal government to repair the damage to the South caused by the Civil War and to restore the southern states to the Union.
  3. An official forgiveness of a crime.
  4. Railway extending from coast to coast.
  5. The United States as a national unit; or, during the Civil War, the North.
  6. Procedure that permits voters to remove public officials from office before the next election.
  7. In the Civil War, the states between the North and the South.

20 Clues: The right to vote • Required military service • Place where weapons are stored. • An official forgiveness of a crime. • Railway extending from coast to coast. • A policy of favoring native-born Americans over immigrants. • nickname for a white Southern Republican after the Civil War. • In the Civil War, the states between the North and the South. • ...

Topic 6 Test Review 2024-03-26

Topic 6 Test Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. 1830 act that led to the relocation of Native American tribes to the West
  2. Agreement that temporarily resolved the issue of slavery in new states
  3. Pioneers traveled this route to settle in the Pacific Northwest
  4. 1832-1833 conflict over a southern state's refusal to enforce federal tariffs
  5. Political party that opposed President Jackson and the Democrats
  6. 1828 tariff that caused significant discord between northern manufacturers and southern planters
  7. Nickname for those who flocked to California in search of gold
  8. Nickname for Andrew Jackson, reflecting his tough and stubborn personality
  9. Agreement that led to the acquisition of Florida from Spain
  10. A severe economic downturn that began during Jackson's presidency
  11. President known for overseeing significant territorial expansion of the United States
  12. Texas' nickname after winning independence from Mexico in 1836
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  1. Mass migration to California following the discovery of gold in 1848
  2. 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
  3. Supreme Court case regarding Native American sovereignties
  4. The only Native American tribe that successfully resisted removal to the West
  5. Mission in San Antonio, site of a famous battle in the Texas Revolution
  6. War between Mexico and Texan colonists, resulting in Texan independence
  7. 1824 election controversy, hinting at an under-the-table deal
  8. Battle that secured Texas independence from Mexico
  9. Practice of rewarding political supporters with public office
  10. Seventh President of the United States, known for his populist policies
  11. Forced westward migration of Cherokee and other tribes
  12. Jackson's campaign against the Second Bank of the United States
  13. Early explorers of the Western United States, often fur trappers
  14. Sixth President of the United States, played a key role in the 'Corrupt Bargain'

26 Clues: Battle that secured Texas independence from Mexico • Forced westward migration of Cherokee and other tribes • Supreme Court case regarding Native American sovereignties • Agreement that led to the acquisition of Florida from Spain • 1824 election controversy, hinting at an under-the-table deal • Practice of rewarding political supporters with public office • ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Westward Expansion 2025-04-08

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

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

CRM: Multiple States 2017-03-12

CRM: Multiple States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. City where Oliver Brown tried to enroll his child, but was denied access
  2. Thurgood _____________ was appointed the first black justice of the Supreme Court in 1967
  3. Supreme Court ruling that stated separating schools due to skin color was unconstitutional
  4. This president sent Army troops to gain control of the situation at Little Rock Central High School
  5. In the summer of 1960, a strict segregation policy at this amusement part was challenged by the Non-Violent Action group (NAG) with march protests
  6. A massacre that occurred on February 8, 1968, killing 3 people on the campus of a South Carolina State University
  7. "Separate but equal" became _____________ law
  8. Bridges The first black student to desegregate a school in New Orleans
  9. The first black students who attempted to attend Little Rock Central High School
Down
  1. Plessy vs. _____________ is the case that legalized segregation in Louisiana
  2. This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  3. The largest human rights political rally in U.S. history
  4. This tactic was to refuse bail and cause jails to be overcrowded
  5. This sit-in on February 1, 1960 was the beginning of many sit-ins through the south, starting in North Carolina

14 Clues: "Separate but equal" became _____________ law • This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 • The largest human rights political rally in U.S. history • This tactic was to refuse bail and cause jails to be overcrowded • Bridges The first black student to desegregate a school in New Orleans • ...

CRM: Multiple States 2017-03-12

CRM: Multiple States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A massacre that occurred on February 8, 1968, killing 3 people on the campus of a South Carolina State University
  2. This president sent Army troops to gain control of the situation at Little Rock Central High School
  3. Thurgood _____________ was appointed the first black justice of the Supreme Court in 1967
  4. "Separate but equal" became _____________ law
  5. The first black students who attempted to attend Little Rock Central High School
  6. The largest human rights political rally in U.S. history
Down
  1. This sit-in on February 1, 1960 was the beginning of many sit-ins through the south, starting in North Carolina
  2. Supreme Court ruling that stated separating schools due to skin color was unconstitutional
  3. Bridges The first black student to desegregate a school in New Orleans
  4. Plessy vs. _____________ is the case that legalized segregation in Louisiana
  5. This tactic was to refuse bail and cause jails to be overcrowded
  6. City where Oliver Brown tried to enroll his child, but was denied access
  7. This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  8. In the summer of 1960, a strict segregation policy at this amusement part was challenged by the Non-Violent Action group (NAG) with march protests

14 Clues: "Separate but equal" became _____________ law • This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 • The largest human rights political rally in U.S. history • This tactic was to refuse bail and cause jails to be overcrowded • Bridges The first black student to desegregate a school in New Orleans • ...

United States Review 2017-12-04

United States Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. One of the ways Nomads moved to North America
  2. This had the biggest effect on the New World; Columbian Exchange
  3. The most common nickname for the Northeastern US
  4. The leading producer of food in the World (continent)
  5. The region of the US known for it's shellfish (Crab and Lobster)
  6. The states of Michican, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana
Down
  1. One of the largest fishing industries is in this region
  2. The region of the United States that is America's Dairy Land
  3. The region with the most arid land
  4. The resource Texas was known for in the early 1900's
  5. Cultural blend of Anglo and Mexican
  6. North America has an abundant amount of these
  7. This is something that was mined a lot in the Northeast (still is)
  8. One of the largest industries in the Pacific Northwest

14 Clues: The region with the most arid land • Cultural blend of Anglo and Mexican • One of the ways Nomads moved to North America • North America has an abundant amount of these • The most common nickname for the Northeastern US • The resource Texas was known for in the early 1900's • The leading producer of food in the World (continent) • ...

States and Capitols 2015-02-24

States and Capitols crossword puzzle
Across
  1. New Jersey
  2. Maine
  3. Michigan
  4. Ohio
  5. Vermont
  6. New Hampshire
  7. Connecticut
Down
  1. Deleware
  2. Indiana
  3. New York
  4. Rhode Island
  5. Pennsylvania
  6. Wisconsin
  7. Massachusetts

14 Clues: Ohio • Maine • Indiana • Vermont • Deleware • New York • Michigan • Wisconsin • New Jersey • Connecticut • Rhode Island • Pennsylvania • Massachusetts • New Hampshire

States of matter 2021-03-08

States of matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When a liquid turns into a gas which is steam
  2. A solids turning from a solid to a liquid
  3. A combination of atoms.
  4. How much matter something takes up
  5. Heat energy.
  6. Vibrates in place
Down
  1. A Liquid turning from liquid to a solid.
  2. How much matter something takes up
  3. Fastest moving particle
  4. A Gas changing from a gas to a liquid.
  5. The measurable and observable states of matter
  6. Synonym to atom
  7. Anything that has mass and takes up space.
  8. One particle
  9. Slide past each other

15 Clues: One particle • Heat energy. • Synonym to atom • Vibrates in place • Slide past each other • Fastest moving particle • A combination of atoms. • How much matter something takes up • How much matter something takes up • A Gas changing from a gas to a liquid. • A Liquid turning from liquid to a solid. • A solids turning from a solid to a liquid • ...

States of Matter 2021-09-10

States of Matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. gas particles collide with each other and the ________ of a container
  2. has an indefinite shape and an indefinite volume
  3. all matter is composed of __________
  4. the state of a sample of matter depends on __________
  5. liquid particles have more space and ________ past each other
  6. thermal __________ is the increase in size of a substance when the temperature increases, and contracts when cooled
  7. solid particles are closely packed in a _________ arrangement
Down
  1. particles are in _________, random motion
  2. the exception to the rule of thermal expansion
  3. anything that has mass and takes up space
  4. has a definite shape and definite volume
  5. related to the average kinetic energy of an object's atoms or molecules
  6. a high temperature gas
  7. has an indefinite shape and definite volume
  8. ________ theory that explains how particles in matter behave

15 Clues: a high temperature gas • all matter is composed of __________ • has a definite shape and definite volume • particles are in _________, random motion • anything that has mass and takes up space • has an indefinite shape and definite volume • the exception to the rule of thermal expansion • has an indefinite shape and an indefinite volume • ...

states of mater 2022-06-10

states of mater crossword puzzle
Across
  1. water in an ice tray
  2. it comes of of hot coffee
  3. you put it in a car
  4. Formation of snow.
  5. liquid
  6. Frost formation
  7. the ice disappearing from your drink
  8. brick
Down
  1. Kettle Whistle
  2. Morning Dew on the Grass
  3. water vapor changes directly to ice without first becoming a liquid.
  4. H2O (water)
  5. water
  6. Lightning

14 Clues: water • brick • liquid • Lightning • H2O (water) • Kettle Whistle • Frost formation • Formation of snow. • you put it in a car • water in an ice tray • Morning Dew on the Grass • it comes of of hot coffee • the ice disappearing from your drink • water vapor changes directly to ice without first becoming a liquid.

States and Capitals 2022-09-02

States and Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Oklahoma City
  2. Little Rock
  3. Richmond
  4. Jackson
  5. Austin
  6. Phoenix
Down
  1. Frankfort
  2. Columbia
  3. Baton Rouge
  4. Nashville
  5. Atlanta
  6. Santa Fe
  7. Tallahassee
  8. Montgomery

14 Clues: Austin • Atlanta • Jackson • Phoenix • Columbia • Richmond • Santa Fe • Frankfort • Nashville • Montgomery • Little Rock • Baton Rouge • Tallahassee • Oklahoma City

States of Matter 2022-08-23

States of Matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Dry Ice turning into CO2
  2. Water into Steam
  3. Frost forming on the ground
  4. Cooling Process
  5. Force that gives a ballon its shape
  6. Occurs inside stars
  7. oxygen in the atmosphere
Down
  1. The Force in the top of the water bottle on a hot day
  2. All three
  3. The water running down the side of a glass of cold water on a warm day
  4. Warming Process
  5. No liquid beyond
  6. Water turning into ice
  7. Molecules with rapid motion
  8. No motion of Particles

15 Clues: All three • Warming Process • Cooling Process • Water into Steam • No liquid beyond • Occurs inside stars • Water turning into ice • No motion of Particles • Dry Ice turning into CO2 • oxygen in the atmosphere • Frost forming on the ground • Molecules with rapid motion • Force that gives a ballon its shape • The Force in the top of the water bottle on a hot day • ...

States Of Matter 2023-12-13

States Of Matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. - type of energy we use to heat up substances
  2. - between particles and holds states of matter together
  3. - state of matter, particles close, but can move
  4. - when a liquid turns to a solid
  5. - when a gas turns into a liquid
  6. - substance that dissolves in a solvent
  7. - when a solid turns into a liquid
Down
  1. - when a liquid turns into a gas
  2. - very small, what all states of matter are made up of
  3. - when a solvent and solute are mixed together
  4. - type of energy particles have
  5. - state of matter, particles cannot move.
  6. - liquid that mixes with a solute to form a solution
  7. - state of matter, particles very far apart and move quickly

14 Clues: - type of energy particles have • - when a liquid turns into a gas • - when a liquid turns to a solid • - when a gas turns into a liquid • - when a solid turns into a liquid • - substance that dissolves in a solvent • - state of matter, particles cannot move. • - type of energy we use to heat up substances • - when a solvent and solute are mixed together • ...

States Of Matter 2023-12-13

States Of Matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. - type of energy we use to heat up substances
  2. - between particles and holds states of matter together
  3. - state of matter, particles close, but can move
  4. - when a liquid turns to a solid
  5. - when a gas turns into a liquid
  6. - substance that dissolves in a solvent
  7. - when a solid turns into a liquid
Down
  1. - when a liquid turns into a gas
  2. - very small, what all states of matter are made up of
  3. - when a solvent and solute are mixed together
  4. - type of energy particles have
  5. - state of matter, particles cannot move.
  6. - liquid that mixes with a solute to form a solution
  7. - state of matter, particles very far apart and move quickly

14 Clues: - type of energy particles have • - when a liquid turns into a gas • - when a liquid turns to a solid • - when a gas turns into a liquid • - when a solid turns into a liquid • - substance that dissolves in a solvent • - state of matter, particles cannot move. • - type of energy we use to heat up substances • - when a solvent and solute are mixed together • ...

states of matter 2023-10-25

states of matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container, especially when great.
  2. The states in which matter can exist
  3. a substance that flows freely but is of constant volume, having a consistency like that of water or oil. substance that flows freely but is of constant volume
  4. firm and stable in shape; not liquid or fluid.
  5. the process of turning from liquid into vapor.
Down
  1. water which collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it.
  2. solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.
  3. below 32°F (0°C).
  4. the energy contained within a system that is responsible for its temperature
  5. a coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape.
  6. becoming liquefied by heat.
  7. the colorless fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk, in which corpuscles or fat globules are suspended.
  8. a substance or matter in a state in which it will expand freely to fill the whole of a container,
  9. at or near boiling point.

14 Clues: below 32°F (0°C). • at or near boiling point. • becoming liquefied by heat. • solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. • The states in which matter can exist • firm and stable in shape; not liquid or fluid. • the process of turning from liquid into vapor. • a coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape. • ...

States of Matter 2020-10-03

States of Matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Water in its gas state is called __________ or water vapour.
  2. Gases can be __________ but solids and liquids cannot.
  3. Solids have a definite shape and __________.
  4. __________ is when a liquid is heated and changes into a gas.
  5. Water in the sea is in its __________ state.
  6. Liquids do not have a definite __________.
Down
  1. _____________ is where cooling a gas causes it to change into a liquid.
  2. Liquids and gases can both ______ but solids cannot.
  3. Melting is the reverse of ___________.
  4. ___________ is where heating a solid causes it to change into a liquid.
  5. Freezing is where cooling a liquid causes it to turn into a _________.
  6. sublimation is when a solid is changed directly into a ______ without changing into a liquid.
  7. Water in its solid state is called ______.
  8. the fourth state of matter is called ________.

14 Clues: Melting is the reverse of ___________. • Water in its solid state is called ______. • Liquids do not have a definite __________. • Solids have a definite shape and __________. • Water in the sea is in its __________ state. • the fourth state of matter is called ________. • Liquids and gases can both ______ but solids cannot. • ...

States and Nations 2024-08-01

States and Nations crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Individuals are born without built–in mental content and that all knowledge comes from experience and perception
  2. An English philosopher, absolute government is necessary to maintain order and prevent the chaos of the state of nature.
  3. Ultimate authority and control a state or governing entity has over its territory and affairs
  4. A political entity with a defined territory
  5. English philosopher known for his influential ideas on natural rights
  6. Influence/control someone's behavior or events
  7. A group of people who share a common identity
  8. The authority a person or organization holds within a structured system
Down
  1. A group of people who share a common identity but do not have an independent
  2. A geographic area that is controlled or claimed by someone or something
  3. Describes a hypothetical human condition before government and laws
  4. A system responsible for enforcing laws, decisions, and protecting citizens’ rights and welfare.
  5. A total number of individuals living in a specific area
  6. Involves actions and policies to gain and maintain power in a government

14 Clues: A political entity with a defined territory • A group of people who share a common identity • Influence/control someone's behavior or events • A total number of individuals living in a specific area • Describes a hypothetical human condition before government and laws • English philosopher known for his influential ideas on natural rights • ...

States of Matter 2024-08-07

States of Matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When a solid is heated to the point where they no longer hold its shape
  2. Negatively charged
  3. Have a tendency to take the shape of whatever object they are contained in
  4. Smallest unit of matter
  5. Process of turning liquid into solid
  6. Its particles move the fastest
  7. No charge
Down
  1. When particles slow down to form a solid structure
  2. A group of atoms bonded together
  3. Responsible for rain
  4. Anything you can touch or feel
  5. Positively charged
  6. Point Point where substances melt at different temperatures
  7. Measure of how fast particles of a substance are moving
  8. Has the lowest resting temperature of all states of matter

15 Clues: No charge • Negatively charged • Positively charged • Responsible for rain • Smallest unit of matter • Anything you can touch or feel • Its particles move the fastest • A group of atoms bonded together • Process of turning liquid into solid • When particles slow down to form a solid structure • Measure of how fast particles of a substance are moving • ...

States in America 2024-08-11

States in America crossword puzzle
Across
  1. York Home to a bustling metropolis with iconic landmarks like Times Square.
  2. Known for its beaches, Hollywood, and technology industry.
  3. Known for its vibrant culture, jazz music, and cuisine.
  4. Famous for its vast wilderness, wildlife, and cold climate.
  5. Known for its major city with a famous skyline and deep-dish pizza.
  6. Known for its historical significance, including Independence Hall.
  7. Known for its large size, cowboy culture, and oil industry.
Down
  1. Famous for its peaches, historic sites, and southern hospitality.
  2. Known for its Rocky Mountain scenery and ski resorts.
  3. Known for its evergreen forests, coffee culture, and tech industry.
  4. An island state known for its tropical climate, volcanoes, and beaches.
  5. Renowned for its theme parks, beaches, and warm climate.
  6. Famous for its desert landscapes and vibrant nightlife in Las Vegas.
  7. Home to the Grand Canyon and desert landscapes.

14 Clues: Home to the Grand Canyon and desert landscapes. • Known for its Rocky Mountain scenery and ski resorts. • Known for its vibrant culture, jazz music, and cuisine. • Renowned for its theme parks, beaches, and warm climate. • Known for its beaches, Hollywood, and technology industry. • Famous for its vast wilderness, wildlife, and cold climate. • ...

States & Capitals MW 2024-09-15

States & Capitals MW crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Minnesota
  2. Kansas
  3. Missouri
  4. North Dakota
  5. Nebraska
  6. Georgia
  7. Indiana
  8. Wisconsin
Down
  1. Ohio
  2. Iowa
  3. Wyoming
  4. South Dakota
  5. Illinois
  6. Michgan

14 Clues: Ohio • Iowa • Kansas • Wyoming • Michgan • Georgia • Indiana • Missouri • Illinois • Nebraska • Minnesota • Wisconsin • South Dakota • North Dakota

States and Capitals 2023-01-31

States and Capitals crossword puzzle
Across
  1. is the Capital of Ranchi
  2. is the Capital of Maharasthra
  3. is the Capital of Goa
  4. is the Capital of Bihar
  5. is the Capital of West Bengal
  6. is the Capital of Telengana
  7. is the Capital of Sikkim
Down
  1. is the Capital of Tamil Nadu
  2. is the Capital of Assam
  3. is the Capital of Rajastan
  4. is the Capital of Karnataka
  5. is the Capital of Manipur
  6. is the Capital of Tripura
  7. is the Capital of Madhya Pradesh

14 Clues: is the Capital of Goa • is the Capital of Assam • is the Capital of Bihar • is the Capital of Ranchi • is the Capital of Sikkim • is the Capital of Manipur • is the Capital of Tripura • is the Capital of Rajastan • is the Capital of Karnataka • is the Capital of Telengana • is the Capital of Tamil Nadu • is the Capital of Maharasthra • is the Capital of West Bengal • ...

States Of America 2023-03-24

States Of America crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Square
  2. Deserted far away from the rest of USA
  3. Fried Chicken
  4. Mr Beast Lives Here
  5. Welcome to ____
  6. What has 4 Eyes But Can’t See
  7. Los Angeles is in
Down
  1. Pennies!
  2. White House!
  3. Very Big But Not the Biggest
  4. There’s No Ten I See
  5. Largest State
  6. It’s a country south of US but more Modern
  7. Weird Stuff Happen Here

14 Clues: Square • Pennies! • White House! • Fried Chicken • Largest State • Welcome to ____ • Los Angeles is in • Mr Beast Lives Here • There’s No Ten I See • Weird Stuff Happen Here • Very Big But Not the Biggest • What has 4 Eyes But Can’t See • Deserted far away from the rest of USA • It’s a country south of US but more Modern

States of matter 2023-05-12

States of matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. PARTICLES MOVE FREELY AROUND EACH OTHER
  2. THIS IS A GAS IN THE AIR
  3. THE NUMBER OF STATES OF MATTER
  4. WHEN LIQUID TURNS INTO GAS, IT...
  5. PARTICLES OF SOLIDS DO THIS
  6. REMOVE HEAT
  7. THE PARTICLES HAVE LOTS OF ENERGY
Down
  1. THE PROCESS OF GAS TURNING INTO A LIQUID
  2. SMALL UNITS OF A SUBSTANCE
  3. THE PROCESS OF MAKING A SOLID FROM A LIQUID
  4. THIS SUBSTANCE CAN BE FOUND IN LIQUID, SOLID OR GAS PHASE IN YOUR HOME
  5. WHAT A SOLID DOES WHEN IT BECOMES A LIQUID
  6. PARTICLES ARE TIGHTLY PACKED IN A......
  7. TO CHANGE THE STATE OF MATTER WE ADD OR REMOVE .....

14 Clues: REMOVE HEAT • THIS IS A GAS IN THE AIR • SMALL UNITS OF A SUBSTANCE • PARTICLES OF SOLIDS DO THIS • THE NUMBER OF STATES OF MATTER • WHEN LIQUID TURNS INTO GAS, IT... • THE PARTICLES HAVE LOTS OF ENERGY • PARTICLES MOVE FREELY AROUND EACH OTHER • PARTICLES ARE TIGHTLY PACKED IN A...... • THE PROCESS OF GAS TURNING INTO A LIQUID • WHAT A SOLID DOES WHEN IT BECOMES A LIQUID • ...

States and Nations 2025-08-12

States and Nations crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a group of people with common language, history, and culture
  2. the idea that people are shaped by learning experiences
  3. A man who believed we need government and we are born the way we are
  4. The right for a state to rule without
  5. A territory with a government
  6. A man who believed human behaviors are learned and we have natural rights
  7. The role to make others do something or make something happen
  8. power that people think is rightfully given
Down
  1. A group of people without its own country
  2. Restricted land by government
  3. a world where there is no law or government
  4. A group of people that enforce and make decisions for a country or
  5. The amount of people living in an area
  6. The way people control the decision making of countries and compete for power

14 Clues: Restricted land by government • A territory with a government • The right for a state to rule without • The amount of people living in an area • A group of people without its own country • a world where there is no law or government • power that people think is rightfully given • the idea that people are shaped by learning experiences • ...

Western United States 2025-10-06

Western United States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Southwestern state that's part of the Four Corners and borders Mexico.
  2. Pacific Northwest state with the Puget Sound and Mount Rainier.
  3. U.S. state made up entirely of islands in the Pacific.
  4. U.S. state separated from the lower 48 by Canada.
  5. State that's part of the Four Corners region and the Rocky Mountains.
  6. Square-shaped state home to most of Yellowstone National Park.
  7. Big Sky Country, bordering Canada and home to part of Glacier National Park.
  8. State that's part of the Four Corners and contains the Great Salt Lake.
Down
  1. Second largest state, bordering Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico.
  2. State with a panhandle, located north of Texas and bordering Arkansas.
  3. Rocky Mountain state famous for its panhandle and bordering six states.
  4. Pacific-coast state with the highest and lowest points in the contiguous U.S.
  5. Pacific Northwest state bordered by the Columbia River and the ocean.
  6. Mostly desert state, home to most of the Great Basin.

14 Clues: U.S. state separated from the lower 48 by Canada. • Mostly desert state, home to most of the Great Basin. • U.S. state made up entirely of islands in the Pacific. • Second largest state, bordering Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico. • Square-shaped state home to most of Yellowstone National Park. • Pacific Northwest state with the Puget Sound and Mount Rainier. • ...

Civil War Reconstruction 2023-05-17

Civil War Reconstruction crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Enslaved african american man who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom the case went to the supreme court
  2. 16th president and was president during the civil war
  3. Referred to as the confederacy maned of the unrecognized country temporarily created by the southern states which seceded from the union
  4. An action of formality withdrawing from a federation
  5. prohibited the denial of the vote bc of race, color or previous servitudeBlackcodes Numerous laws enacted in the former confederate states after the civil war which limited the rights and liberties of african americans
  6. Required all escaped slaves to be returned to their masters and that citizens of free states must cooperate
  7. Abolitionist led attacks in kansas during bleeding kansas planned to arm slaves in revolt
Down
  1. Secret society that used violence against freedman and their white supporters they practiced violence to intimidate newly freed african americans
  2. abolished slavery
  3. A war between citizens in the same country
  4. The owner of a plot of land lets someone work the land in exchange for ½ or more of the crop it was used to keep newly freed slaves in a cycle
  5. An anti slavery novel, harriet beecher stowe, helped spread the abolishment movement throughout north
  6. Law allowed territories to decide for themselves weather or not to allow slavery by utilizing popular sovereignty
  7. California wanted to join the union as a free state which caused conflict between the north and the south
  8. granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the us
  9. Slave states that stayed with the union during the civil war
  10. To be set free, set free all slaves in the confederacy only- abraham lincoln
  11. Numerous laws enacted in the former confederate states after the civil war which limited the rights and liberties of african americans
  12. Division of power between state and federal gov. Civil war started over a fight over these states rights the southern states believed they had the right to decide to keep slavery and not pay tariffs
  13. An action of formality withdrawing from a federation

20 Clues: abolished slavery • A war between citizens in the same country • An action of formality withdrawing from a federation • An action of formality withdrawing from a federation • 16th president and was president during the civil war • Slave states that stayed with the union during the civil war • granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the us • ...

Sec 4 crossword project 2023-09-25

Sec 4 crossword project crossword puzzle
Across
  1. law which benefited the Southern states to count 3/5s of every black slave
  2. An increased tax on import goods to raise the purchase of American products
  3. Three branches of the United States of america executive legislative and judicial in which they all monitor each other so no one has a higher power
  4. led a political group called the federalist who who favored a one national government
  5. divided the new land into five new state Wisconsin Illinois Michigan Indiana Ohio
  6. farmers who rebelled against the banks for taking the farms so they burned them down
  7. we’re not equal and only benefited big states with a large population like the south
  8. act put by John adams where he could deport immigrants who disliked or didn’t believe in the same views as him
Down
  1. The United States of America first set of laws which were weak and vague
  2. two states who disagreed with John adams alien and sedition act violating the 1st admendment
  3. General who fought in the revolution and was selected unanimously selected as the first president
  4. first 10 amendments to the new constitution which protected people from the government
  5. politicians who favored a strong national government and believed the wealthy were needed to rule
  6. A political party who believed in a strong state government common man
  7. third president of the United States of America in 1800 who was a dem/rep
  8. believed all states should be equal and have two representatives/Delegates represent them

16 Clues: A political party who believed in a strong state government common man • The United States of America first set of laws which were weak and vague • third president of the United States of America in 1800 who was a dem/rep • law which benefited the Southern states to count 3/5s of every black slave • ...

Social Studies Final Crossword Puzzle 2022-12-12

Social Studies Final Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Period in time that affected specifically Mexican-Americans.
  2. Several states including Texas that are located among this area within the United States.
  3. A military force that was implemented to protect the settlers.
  4. A coach that was pulled by horses.
  5. Hispanic residents of Texas.
  6. The practice of a policy for separating a certain race, class, or group from the rest of society.
  7. Period in time where drought took place among the Great Plains.
  8. American War between the Norther states and Southern states.
Down
  1. To break away from
  2. Rights that are given to all Americans to ensure equality is practiced everywhere.
  3. Holiday that is remembered when slaves were freed.
  4. The process of moving to a new country for a better way of life.
  5. The Southern states called themselves this during the Civil War era.
  6. A piece of land set aside by our government to house certain groups of people.
  7. Executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln to end slavery.
  8. Coast that is closest to the Rio Grande Valley.
  9. Process by which certain groups would start learning the dominant culture and characteristics.

17 Clues: To break away from • Hispanic residents of Texas. • A coach that was pulled by horses. • Coast that is closest to the Rio Grande Valley. • Holiday that is remembered when slaves were freed. • Period in time that affected specifically Mexican-Americans. • American War between the Norther states and Southern states. • ...

Chapter 18 Reconstruction 2017-09-27

Chapter 18 Reconstruction crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
  2. members of congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union
  3. Southern whites who became republicans
  4. Agency that provided relief for freed-people and certain poor people in the South
  5. Leader of the Radical Republicans
  6. Granted equal rights to african americans
  7. the process of readmitting the former confederate states to the union
  8. required states to swear an oath of loyalty to the united states and agree that slavery was illegal
  9. Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
  10. Fake railroad corporation created by Union Pacific stockholders and paid themselves with grants from the Federal Government
  11. Requried potential voters to read and explain difficult concepts in order to vote
  12. African Americans rented a piece of land to farm from a land owner
  13. Social organization fromed in 1866 in Tennessee that intimidated African Americans and White Supporters with violent Tactics
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  1. Office holders who were northern-born Republicans who had moved South after the War
  2. Forced labor system that required former slaves to enter contracts with white planters to work off debts
  3. made slavery illegal throughout the united states
  4. Gave African Americans the right to vote
  5. Limited the president's power to hire and fire officials
  6. southern states took advantage of this reconstruction plan as he was from the south
  7. Ulysees S. Grant is elected President, in part, to votes by African Americans in the South
  8. hid in his office after President Johnson attempted to fire him
  9. poor African Americans worked a piece of land and gave land owner 1/3-1/2 of annual crop

22 Clues: Leader of the Radical Republicans • Southern whites who became republicans • Gave African Americans the right to vote • Granted equal rights to african americans • made slavery illegal throughout the united states • Limited the president's power to hire and fire officials • Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans • ...

New Republic Review 2021-02-04

New Republic Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. first president of the United States
  2. first Democratic-Republican president
  3. English Navy would force American sailors into service
  4. Hero of the Battle of New Orleans and Horseshoe Bend
  5. 1st Secretary of Treasury
  6. the Supreme Court case that made the judicial branch an equal branch of the government
  7. example for others to follow
  8. Farmers in western Pennsylvania rebelled angry over this tax
  9. National government took over all states' debt from the American Revolution
  10. political party of the "have nots", headed by Thomas Jefferson
  11. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions tried to establish this power for the states
  12. France demanded money to talk to the United States
  13. The power of the Supreme Court to rule if a law is unconstitutional
  14. treaty that ended the War of 1812
  15. poem written by Francis Scott Key during the Battle of Baltimore (Fort McHenry)
Down
  1. presidency called the "Era of Good Feelings"
  2. This closed the Western Hemisphere to new colonization
  3. tax on imports
  4. George Washington's foreign policy
  5. where the Federalist convention was held when New England threatened to secede if the War of 1812 did not end quickly
  6. the expedition by Lewis and Clark to map the route from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast
  7. 2nd president of the United States
  8. Compromise to settle slavery in the Louisiana Territory
  9. law that took away freedom of the press nd speech
  10. treaty that ceded Florida to the United States for $5 million
  11. the political party of the rich elite
  12. land bought from France for $15 million
  13. advisors to the President
  14. president during the War of 1812

29 Clues: tax on imports • 1st Secretary of Treasury • advisors to the President • example for others to follow • president during the War of 1812 • treaty that ended the War of 1812 • George Washington's foreign policy • 2nd president of the United States • first president of the United States • first Democratic-Republican president • the political party of the rich elite • ...

American history crossword. 2022-01-04

American history crossword. crossword puzzle
Across
  1. an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
  2. American South who embraced progressive ideas
  3. Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugee
  4. a person who works despite an ongoing strike
  5. restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans
  6. Mexican revolutionary and president of Mexico
  7. dictatorial president of Mexico
  8. American white supremacist terrorist hate group
  9. stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions.
  10. an artificial 82 km (51 mi) waterway in Panama
  11. a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America
  12. a peace activist and a leader of the settlement house movement in America.
Down
  1. an organization of employees
  2. Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898
  3. commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812
  4. flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a Latin American country, the United States could intervene in that country's internal affairs.
  5. House of Representatives is the lower house of the United States Congress
  6. applying the Darwinian theory of evolution to philosophical and historical studies
  7. the economic, military, and cultural influence of the United States on other countries.
  8. an educator and reformer,
  9. protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China
  10. list of persons whose opinions or associations were deemed politically inconvenient or commercially troublesome
  11. the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union
  12. an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist

24 Clues: an educator and reformer, • an organization of employees • dictatorial president of Mexico • a person who works despite an ongoing strike • American South who embraced progressive ideas • Mexican revolutionary and president of Mexico • an artificial 82 km (51 mi) waterway in Panama • American white supremacist terrorist hate group • ...

American history crossword. 2022-01-04

American history crossword. crossword puzzle
Across
  1. an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
  2. American South who embraced progressive ideas
  3. Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugee
  4. a person who works despite an ongoing strike
  5. restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans
  6. Mexican revolutionary and president of Mexico
  7. dictatorial president of Mexico
  8. American white supremacist terrorist hate group
  9. stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions.
  10. an artificial 82 km (51 mi) waterway in Panama
  11. a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America
  12. a peace activist and a leader of the settlement house movement in America.
Down
  1. an organization of employees
  2. Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898
  3. commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812
  4. flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a Latin American country, the United States could intervene in that country's internal affairs.
  5. House of Representatives is the lower house of the United States Congress
  6. applying the Darwinian theory of evolution to philosophical and historical studies
  7. the economic, military, and cultural influence of the United States on other countries.
  8. an educator and reformer,
  9. protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China
  10. list of persons whose opinions or associations were deemed politically inconvenient or commercially troublesome
  11. the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union
  12. an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist

24 Clues: an educator and reformer, • an organization of employees • dictatorial president of Mexico • a person who works despite an ongoing strike • American South who embraced progressive ideas • Mexican revolutionary and president of Mexico • an artificial 82 km (51 mi) waterway in Panama • American white supremacist terrorist hate group • ...

American history crossword. 2022-01-04

American history crossword. crossword puzzle
Across
  1. an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
  2. American South who embraced progressive ideas
  3. Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugee
  4. a person who works despite an ongoing strike
  5. restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans
  6. Mexican revolutionary and president of Mexico
  7. dictatorial president of Mexico
  8. American white supremacist terrorist hate group
  9. stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions.
  10. an artificial 82 km (51 mi) waterway in Panama
  11. a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America
  12. a peace activist and a leader of the settlement house movement in America.
Down
  1. an organization of employees
  2. Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898
  3. commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812
  4. flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a Latin American country, the United States could intervene in that country's internal affairs.
  5. House of Representatives is the lower house of the United States Congress
  6. applying the Darwinian theory of evolution to philosophical and historical studies
  7. the economic, military, and cultural influence of the United States on other countries.
  8. an educator and reformer,
  9. protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China
  10. list of persons whose opinions or associations were deemed politically inconvenient or commercially troublesome
  11. the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union
  12. an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist

24 Clues: an educator and reformer, • an organization of employees • dictatorial president of Mexico • a person who works despite an ongoing strike • American South who embraced progressive ideas • Mexican revolutionary and president of Mexico • an artificial 82 km (51 mi) waterway in Panama • American white supremacist terrorist hate group • ...

Chapter 4 | Our Puzzling Government 2022-11-18

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

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

Jade Winters 2020-02-06

Jade Winters crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The relaxing of tension between the superpowers
  2. A competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to prove their superiority in technology (2 words)
  3. a name given to the Soviet Union and its communist controlled states in Eastern Europe such as Poland, East Germany, and Bulgaria. (2 words)
  4. said that the United States would help countries that were threatened by armed minorities or outside pressures. (2 words)
  5. President during the cold war, 33rd President (2 words)
  6. an alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European communist nations. (2 words)
  7. Name for the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
  8. designed to shoot down ballistic missiles before they reach their targets. (3 words)
  9. Called the red telephone in 1963
  10. An economic theory in which collective ownership of property leads to a classless society.
  11. A nuclear bomb that is either lost, stolen, or accidentally launched that causes a nuclear accident. (2 words)
Down
  1. The term translates to "restructuring" in Russian.
  2. A threat was intended to prevent, or deter, anyone from attacking. (2 words)
  3. Republican senator from Wisconsin who capitalized on Cold War fears of Communism in the early 1950s (2 words)
  4. a movement in Poland to create a trade union that was not controlled by the communist party.
  5. Describes the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states. (2 words)
  6. A crossing point between West Berlin and East Berlin when the Berlin Wall divided the city (2 words)
  7. A policy that allowed for more openness in the Soviet government as well as some level of freedom of speech.
  8. Philosophy named after Karl Marx.
  9. when the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to limit the number of nuclear weapons they made.

20 Clues: Called the red telephone in 1963 • Philosophy named after Karl Marx. • The relaxing of tension between the superpowers • The term translates to "restructuring" in Russian. • President during the cold war, 33rd President (2 words) • Name for the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War. • ...

Unit IV Vocabulary Leandro Montarroyos 2020-11-29

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

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

Westward Expansion 2025-04-08

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

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

Unit 3: New Nation 1800-1877 2025-12-08

Unit 3: New Nation 1800-1877 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. President during the Civil War who issued the Emancipation Proclamation
  2. 1803 land deal that doubled the sized of the United States
  3. Lincoln ´ s order freeing enslaved people in rebel states
  4. When Southern states broke away from the Union to form the Confederacy
  5. Southern Laws that restricted the rights of freedmen
  6. The belief that states should have more power than the federal government
  7. New communication invention using electric signals
  8. One of the leaders of the expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory
  9. Conflict with Britain that boosted American nationalism
  10. Loyalty to a region rather than the whole nation
  11. ¨ Father of the constitution and president ¨ during the War of 1812
  12. Agreement that tried to balance free and slave states
Down
  1. Former president who fought strongly against slavery in Congress
  2. A major slave uprising in Virginia that increased Southern fear and stricter slave laws
  3. forced removal of Cherokee people from their land
  4. Wrote the Declaration of Independence
  5. Partner of Lewis on the western expedition
  6. Machine that increased cotton production and slavery
  7. Deal that included the Fugitive Slave Act
  8. War that led to the U.S. gaining the Southwest
  9. Major conflict between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
  10. Improved river travel and trade
  11. Union general who later became president
  12. Belief that the U.S. was meant to expand west
  13. President known for the ¨common man¨
  14. Period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
  15. President who created a doctrine warning Europe to stay out of the Americas
  16. Main Confederate general during the Civil War
  17. Movement to end slavery in the United States
  18. Major transportation system that expanded westward

30 Clues: Improved river travel and trade • President known for the ¨common man¨ • Wrote the Declaration of Independence • Union general who later became president • Deal that included the Fugitive Slave Act • Partner of Lewis on the western expedition • Movement to end slavery in the United States • Belief that the U.S. was meant to expand west • ...

Revolution and the Constitution 2014-03-11

Revolution and the Constitution crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the country that helped The United States in The Revolution
  2. where Washington and his men spent the winter of 1777 (308)
  3. the branch of government that is made up of the courts
  4. the place where the Constitutional Convention met. (343)
  5. another word for "representative" (345)
  6. wrote the constitution
  7. the rapid rise in prices(340)
  8. the branch of government that is known as Congress.
  9. a plan that gave all states equal representation (346)
  10. the treaty that ended The American Revolution (319)
Down
  1. the branch of government that includes the President
  2. a plan that benefited larger states (346)
  3. first plan of goverment after The Revolution (338)
  4. how many branches of government in the United States (338)
  5. when the President votes "no" on a bill
  6. when each side gives up something to reach an agreement
  7. the introduction to the constitution
  8. place where Cornwallis surrendered

18 Clues: wrote the constitution • the rapid rise in prices(340) • place where Cornwallis surrendered • the introduction to the constitution • another word for "representative" (345) • when the President votes "no" on a bill • a plan that benefited larger states (346) • first plan of goverment after The Revolution (338) • the branch of government that is known as Congress. • ...

States of matter/phase changes 2021-05-14

States of matter/phase changes crossword puzzle
Across
  1. States that as the pressure of a gas increases, its volume decreases by the same amount
  2. Liquid to gas
  3. States that the pressure of a given mass of gas varies directly with the absolute temperature of the gas when volume is kept constant.
  4. Like a gas,this state lacks a fixed volume and shape
  5. Energy of an object due to its motion
  6. States that as the temperature of a gas increases, its volume increases by the same amount
  7. The ability to dissolve into another substance
  8. The rate a temperature changes
  9. States that energy can neither be created nor destroyed
  10. Has no definite shape or volume
  11. Liquid to solid
  12. Solid to gas
Down
  1. Has a definite shape and volume
  2. Has no definite shape, definite volume
  3. Physical forms in which a substance can exist
  4. A liquid's resistance to flow
  5. Gas to liquid
  6. Solid to liquid

18 Clues: Solid to gas • Liquid to gas • Gas to liquid • Solid to liquid • Liquid to solid • A liquid's resistance to flow • The rate a temperature changes • Has a definite shape and volume • Has no definite shape or volume • Energy of an object due to its motion • Has no definite shape, definite volume • Physical forms in which a substance can exist • ...

Westward Expansion 2016-10-28

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

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

History 2023-05-04

History crossword puzzle
Across
  1. this state decided in the civil war
  2. the devide between slave states and Free states
  3. These states wanted slavery
  4. these debates led towards the Lincoln stopping slavery
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  1. slaves were mainly taken from this country
  2. these leaders sold their enemies for weaponry
  3. this was a war that ended slavery
  4. This book influenced the civil war
  5. These people wanted slavery
  6. this invention raised slavery rates
  7. These states wanted to abolish slavery
  8. Many Slaves Used The ______ to Escape
  9. these people wanted to abolish slavery
  10. This shaped Americas economy

14 Clues: These people wanted slavery • These states wanted slavery • This shaped Americas economy • this was a war that ended slavery • This book influenced the civil war • this state decided in the civil war • this invention raised slavery rates • Many Slaves Used The ______ to Escape • These states wanted to abolish slavery • these people wanted to abolish slavery • ...

The Civil War/Free slaves 2024-04-08

The Civil War/Free slaves crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Someone who advertised something to get people to come
  2. Someone who wants to end Slavery
  3. A change a government
  4. A group of people who make laws for the united states
  5. What people used to get around
  6. Proclamation An order issued by Abraham Lincoln
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  1. A system of government in which power is divided
  2. Head of an executive branch
  3. Eleven southern states
  4. A written document of the United States
  5. To Break away from
  6. The United States of America
  7. A geographic area with boundaries and a secure government
  8. Someone from another county

14 Clues: To Break away from • A change a government • Eleven southern states • Head of an executive branch • Someone from another county • The United States of America • What people used to get around • Someone who wants to end Slavery • A written document of the United States • Proclamation An order issued by Abraham Lincoln • A system of government in which power is divided • ...

The Civil War/Free slaves 2024-04-08

The Civil War/Free slaves crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Someone who advertised something to get people to come
  2. Someone who wants to end Slavery
  3. A change a government
  4. A group of people who make laws for the united states
  5. What people used to get around
  6. Proclamation An order issued by Abraham Lincoln
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  1. A system of government in which power is divided
  2. Head of an executive branch
  3. Eleven southern states
  4. A written document of the United States
  5. To Break away from
  6. The United States of America
  7. A geographic area with boundaries and a secure government
  8. Someone from another county

14 Clues: To Break away from • A change a government • Eleven southern states • Head of an executive branch • Someone from another county • The United States of America • What people used to get around • Someone who wants to end Slavery • A written document of the United States • Proclamation An order issued by Abraham Lincoln • A system of government in which power is divided • ...

Revolutionary Characters 2019-06-27

Revolutionary Characters crossword puzzle
Across
  1. John Adam's career choice
  2. location that northern states wanted capital
  3. "The Indispensable Man"
  4. revolutionary, believed he was underrated, neglected
  5. father of the Bill of Rights
  6. Hamilton's way of gaining support
  7. type of government Paine supported
  8. America's first secretary of treasury
  9. cruel use of power
  10. Alexander Hamilton's wife (last name)
  11. pseudonym the authors of Federalist papers use
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  1. richest colony turned state 1776
  2. River on which southern states wanted capital
  3. Hamilton's rank in NY artillery
  4. war that Paine served in
  5. reserved, self-possessed, and incurably optimistic
  6. Connecticut Compromise allowed each state two ___________
  7. inherited property by eldest son
  8. location that middle states wanted capital
  9. Third Vice President of US

20 Clues: cruel use of power • "The Indispensable Man" • war that Paine served in • John Adam's career choice • Third Vice President of US • father of the Bill of Rights • Hamilton's rank in NY artillery • richest colony turned state 1776 • inherited property by eldest son • Hamilton's way of gaining support • type of government Paine supported • America's first secretary of treasury • ...

Westward Expansion 2016-10-28

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

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

American History Vocab Unit 5 2021-02-22

American History Vocab Unit 5 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The time period immediately after the War of 1812 - Won the battle of New Orleans, only one political party.
  2. 1829-1837 Hero of the Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812), took Florida from Spain, 7th President of the US, democrat, pushed for the removal of Indians off their netive land, killed the national bank, hired unqualified friend for gov’t jobs, vetoed most bills, threatened to kill his vice-president, ignored other branches of government, did what he wanted, expanded voting rights.
  3. tax on imported goods, made to protect American industry or to collect tax money off foreign goods sold in the states.
  4. 1820 - A deal made in Congress to allow Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and it created Maine as a free state to keep an equal balance of free and slave states. It also established the line of latitude where anything above the line would be a free state and everything below, a slave state.
  5. A manager of the National Bank named Mcculloch sued the state of Maryland for being forced to pay taxes. Mcculloch won because a state cannot tax a federal bank.
  6. 1821-1825 a huge canal system that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, 363 miles, cuts the price of shipping goods.
  7. 1838-1839 The forced removal ofabout 15,000 Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole Indians west, a quarter of them dies along the way. They did not have time to prepare for the journey.
  8. “Great Compromiser” - developed the American System, Missouri Compromise, fixed the Nullification Crisis, predicted the annexation of Texas would cause war, and the Compromise of 1850.
  9. A rivalry based on the special interests of different areas (North vs South).
  10. 1830 Debate that started as an issue over land sales and uncovers a huge issue that shows th US is splitting apart -South (Robert Hayne): “states should have power to get rid of federal laws.” -North (Daniel Webster): “Constitution is the supreme law of the land and US should be one unified nation.”
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  1. 1823 - President Monroe issued the doctrine stating that Europe could no longer colonize North or South America, written by John Quincy Adams.
  2. 1825-1829 6th President of the United State; author to the Monroe Doctrine.
  3. In 1816, the Democratic-Republicans in Congress voted in another charter.
  4. Tariff passed in 1828 designed to protect industry in the northern states, the southern states called it this because they disliked them.
  5. 1832 John C Calhoun claimed that states should have the right to nullify or refuse to accept a federal law if it wasn’t in the states best interest.
  6. 1819 - treaty that gave control of Spanish Florida to the United States as well as claims to the Oregon Country. The US gives up parts of Spanish Texas.
  7. To withdraw of break away from a nation of organization: when southern leave the United States during the Civil War.
  8. 1817-1825 5th President of the United States, Democratic-Republican, wanted a strong federal government.
  9. 1830 Law that allowed the Federal gov’t to pay Native Americans to move west.
  10. Had support of Southern states, vice-president to Jackson, led South Carolina to threat secession during the Nullification Crisis, loved state rights over federal government rights

20 Clues: In 1816, the Democratic-Republicans in Congress voted in another charter. • 1825-1829 6th President of the United State; author to the Monroe Doctrine. • 1830 Law that allowed the Federal gov’t to pay Native Americans to move west. • A rivalry based on the special interests of different areas (North vs South). • ...

American History Unit 5 Vocab 2021-02-22

American History Unit 5 Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. In 1816, the Democratic-Republicans in Congress voted in another charter.
  2. 1825-1829 6th President of the United State; author to the Monroe Doctrine.
  3. 1832 John C Calhoun claimed that states should have the right to nullify or refuse to accept a federal law if it wasn’t in the states best interest.
  4. 1838-1839 The forced removal ofabout 15,000 Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole Indians west, a quarter of them dies along the way. They did not have time to prepare for the journey.
  5. 1823 - President Monroe issued the doctrine stating that Europe could no longer colonize North or South America, written by John Quincy Adams.
  6. A rivalry based on the special interests of different areas (North vs South).
  7. To withdraw of break away from a nation of organization: when southern leave the United States during the Civil War.
  8. 1817-1825 5th President of the United States, Democratic-Republican, wanted a strong federal government.
  9. A manager of the National Bank named Mcculloch sued the state of Maryland for being forced to pay taxes. Mcculloch won because a state cannot tax a federal bank.
  10. 1830 Law that allowed the Federal gov’t to pay Native Americans to move west.
  11. “Great Compromiser” - developed the American System, Missouri Compromise, fixed the Nullification Crisis, predicted the annexation of Texas would cause war, and the Compromise of 1850.
Down
  1. 1819 - treaty that gave control of Spanish Florida to the United States as well as claims to the Oregon Country. The US gives up parts of Spanish Texas.
  2. 1821-1825 a huge canal system that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, 363 miles, cuts the price of shipping goods.
  3. The time period immediately after the War of 1812 - Won the battle of New Orleans, only one political party.
  4. 1820 - A deal made in Congress to allow Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and it created Maine as a free state to keep an equal balance of free and slave states. It also established the line of latitude where anything above the line would be a free state and everything below, a slave state.
  5. Tariff passed in 1828 designed to protect industry in the northern states, the southern states called it this because they disliked them.
  6. Had support of Southern states, vice-president to Jackson, led South Carolina to threat secession during the Nullification Crisis, loved state rights over federal government rights
  7. tax on imported goods, made to protect American industry or to collect tax money off foreign goods sold in the states.
  8. 1829-1837 Hero of the Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812), took Florida from Spain, 7th President of the US, democrat, pushed for the removal of Indians off their netive land, killed the national bank, hired unqualified friend for gov’t jobs, vetoed most bills, threatened to kill his vice-president, ignored other branches of government, did what he wanted, expanded voting rights.
  9. 1830 Debate that started as an issue over land sales and uncovers a huge issue that shows th US is splitting apart -South (Robert Hayne): “states should have power to get rid of federal laws.” -North (Daniel Webster): “Constitution is the supreme law of the land and US should be one unified nation.”

20 Clues: In 1816, the Democratic-Republicans in Congress voted in another charter. • 1825-1829 6th President of the United State; author to the Monroe Doctrine. • A rivalry based on the special interests of different areas (North vs South). • 1830 Law that allowed the Federal gov’t to pay Native Americans to move west. • ...

Unit 5 Early Republic By:Fetume teklu 2018-01-17

Unit 5 Early Republic By:Fetume teklu crossword puzzle
Across
  1. -John Marshall (1755–1835) was the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835.
  2. -to cancel
  3. -the vast territory extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, purchased from France in 1803
  4. -a 1794 protest over a tax on all liquor made and sold in the United States
  5. -an 1803 court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that it had the power to decide whether laws passed by Congress were constitutional
  6. -a peace treaty signed by Britain and the United States in 1814 to end the War of 1812
  7. -the declarations passed in 1798 and 1799 that claimed that each state has the right to decide whether a federal law is constitutional
  8. -a member of the political party founded by Thomas Jefferson
  9. -the power of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional
  10. -at the end of the War of 1812, a battle between British and U.S. forces, led by Andrew Jackson, that ended in a victory for the United States
  11. -a devotion to one's nation and its interests
  12. -a 1795 agreement between Britain and the United States that settled differences and put off a threat of military conflict between the two nations
  13. a payment by a weaker party to a stronger party in return for protection
  14. -the practice of forcing people into military servic
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  1. -the members of Congress from the South and the West who called for war with Britain prior to the War of 1812
  2. -The Lewis and Clark Expedition from May 1804 to September 1806, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States.
  3. -an 1807 law that imposed a total ban on foreign trade
  4. -a supporter of a strong federal government
  5. -loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country
  6. -a plan of action by a nation toward other nations
  7. -the group of officials who head government departments and advise the President
  8. -a law that created the structure of the Supreme Court and set up a system of district courts and circuit courts for the nation
  9. -President Monroe's foreign policy statement warning European nations not to interfere in Latin America
  10. -the treaty signed by some Native Americans in 1795, giving up land that would later become part of Ohio
  11. -a 1793 statement by President Washington that declared the United States would not support or aid either France or Britain in their European conflict
  12. -the Federalist-supported laws created in 1798 that permitted the President to expel foreigners, made it harder for immigrants to become citizens, and allowed for citizens to be fined or jailed if they criticized the government or its officials
  13. -in 1811, a battle over white settlement in the Indiana Territory
  14. -the right of states to limit the power of the federal government
  15. -a 1797 French attempt to demand a bribe of money from the United States before discussing French seizure of neutral American ships
  16. -Onis Treaty-an 1821 treaty between Spain and the United States in which Spain agreed to sell Florida to the United States
  17. -an act or decision that sets an example for others to follow

31 Clues: -to cancel • -a supporter of a strong federal government • -a devotion to one's nation and its interests • -a plan of action by a nation toward other nations • -the practice of forcing people into military servic • -an 1807 law that imposed a total ban on foreign trade • -a member of the political party founded by Thomas Jefferson • ...

AP Exam Review Gov 2023-04-24

AP Exam Review Gov crossword puzzle
Across
  1. trading votes to gain support for a bill
  2. Two-House legislature
  3. Essay, primarily concerned with factions, argues that in a large republic factions would need to compromise to achieve their goals
  4. Last name of the president who signed the Welfare Reform Act into law
  5. Legislative attempt to limit the power of the president during wartime
  6. Place in the Constitution that discusses the Judicial Branch
  7. primary concern of Federalist 51
  8. Term that means states are to return fugitives (or runaway slaves) to states were the crime was committed
  9. Right claimed by states who attempted to declare federal law null and void
  10. Defined as one who claims that the Constitution should be interpreted literally
  11. Before the Constitution could become the law of the land, states had to complete this process.
  12. Clause that is at the core of the US v. Lopez case
  13. Powers not specifically listed in the Constitution but deriving from the elastic clause
  14. Amendment III states that the government could not do this(hint: Housing Soldiers)
  15. the way House members can get a bill stalled in committee onto the floor for a vote
  16. Known as the "reserved powers Amendment"
  17. Opposed a strong central government
  18. Those on the Supreme Court who disagree with the Majority write one of these.
  19. non-germane amendments to a bill
  20. Distribution of representatives following a census
  21. Madison's work, which became the agenda at the Constitutional Convention
  22. The most powerful person in Congress
  23. Sharing power between states and a central authority
  24. Primary presidential concern of the 25th Amendment
  25. The strings attached to categorical grants
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  1. Decides the presidential election
  2. established a two-house legislature where one house would be based on population and the other would be based on equal representation
  3. The 17th Amendment allows us to directly elect these people
  4. The nickname of the Affordable Care Act
  5. One of the authors of the Federalist papers and first Supreme Court Chief Justice
  6. After 9/11 the president signed this bill into law that significantly hindered civil liberties
  7. If the president sets a bill aside and Congress adjourns before the bill is signed
  8. A federal directive that states must comply with
  9. Term used to describe the flow of money to interest groups, states, and local governments
  10. Also known as Rule 22, it can stop a filibuster
  11. Member in the House who is in charge of party discipline.
  12. Powers held by both states and federal government
  13. Balanced North/South population in the House of Representatives during the Constitutional Convention
  14. System of government prior to the Constitution that gave states all of the power
  15. The House can vote to start a trial of the president. This is called:
  16. Place in the Constitution that discusses the Legislative Branch
  17. giving more power to the states
  18. Joint committee where members resolve differences in a bill
  19. Acronym for the most costly of the unfunded mandates
  20. Last name of the president who interned Americans during WWII
  21. the 16th Amendment allowed the Federal government to collect this
  22. the name for stalling action on a bill in the Senate by talking
  23. Author of the Declaration of Independence
  24. Father of the Constitution
  25. Opening of the Constitution... starts with "We the people"

50 Clues: Two-House legislature • Father of the Constitution • giving more power to the states • primary concern of Federalist 51 • non-germane amendments to a bill • Decides the presidential election • Opposed a strong central government • The most powerful person in Congress • The nickname of the Affordable Care Act • trading votes to gain support for a bill • ...

Civil War Vocabulary 2022-09-26

Civil War Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million
  2. Polk: The 11th U.S. President, he led the country during the Mexican War and sought to expand the United States
  3. Kansas: a sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
  4. Ferry: john Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal; Brown and remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was hanged
  5. the adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit.
  6. Slave Act: a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders
  7. territory acquired by the Pierce administration to facilitate a southern transcontinental railroad and completed the lower 48 States
  8. ruled that Dred Scott was the property of Sanford and, as a slave, was prohibited from suing in court. Chief Justice Taney gives his opinion that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Decision adds to sectionalism between North and South that will lead to the Civil War.
  9. political party- anti slavery roots
  10. expansion of slavery
  11. Election 1860:lincoln wins, southern states begin to secede
  12. States of America: the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
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  1. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
  2. the belief that an individual state may restrict federal authority, belief that because the states created the United States, individual states have the power to nullify federal laws
  3. of 1850: includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War
  4. Party 1850's:
  5. Nebraska Act: this Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare.
  6. Compromise 1820: Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1820)
  7. Scott v Sanford 1857:
  8. Purchase
  9. Douglas Debates: 1858 Senate Debate, Lincoln forced Douglas to debate issue of slavery, Douglas supported pop-sovereignty, Lincoln asserted that slavery should not spread to territories, Lincoln emerged as strong Republican candidate but lost senate election
  10. American War: 1846 - 1848 - President Polk declared war on Mexico over the dispute of land in Texas. At the end, American ended up with 55% of Mexico's land.
  11. Proviso: Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico
  12. Brown violent abolitionist who murdered slaveholders in Kansas and Missouri (1856-1858) before his raid at Harpers Ferry (1859), hoping to incite a slave rebellion; he failed and was executed, but his martyrdom by northern abolitionists frightened the South.
  13. party, unite regional political ideas

25 Clues: Purchase • Party 1850's: • expansion of slavery • Scott v Sanford 1857: • political party- anti slavery roots • party, unite regional political ideas • Election 1860:lincoln wins, southern states begin to secede • the adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit. • Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole • ...

Federalism 2014-10-28

Federalism crossword puzzle
Across
  1. demands on a state to carry out certain policies
  2. a grant that can only be used for a specific reason
  3. power granted to the national government by the Constitution
  4. power that historically have been recognized as naturally belonging
  5. both state and national were equal authorities in their sphere
  6. the idea that states had the right to separate themselves
  7. power held by the national and state at the same time
  8. federalism of spending, taxing, and providing aid
  9. federalism under President Lyndon Johnson
  10. a grant that is given for a general purpose
  11. power that are logical extensions of expressed powers
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  1. Article IV of the Constitution
  2. money and other resources that the national government provides
  3. the idea that states had the right to cancel national laws
  4. the idea of returning powers to the states
  5. federalism under the New Deal
  6. authority is returned to the state government
  7. power that belong to the states

18 Clues: federalism under the New Deal • Article IV of the Constitution • power that belong to the states • federalism under President Lyndon Johnson • the idea of returning powers to the states • a grant that is given for a general purpose • authority is returned to the state government • demands on a state to carry out certain policies • ...

chapter five vocab 2021-05-06

chapter five vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a storage place for weapons
  2. war - a conflict between citiznes of the same countries
  3. soverighty- allowing people to decide issues for themselves.
  4. refers to a union soldier
  5. runner- refers to a confederate ship that sailed in and out of closed southern ports.
  6. describes when a military
  7. ruffians-proslavery supporters from Missouri who traveled in armed groups and crossed into Kansas to vote in the 1855 election.
  8. means withdrawal from the union
  9. to free enslaved people
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  1. rights- the theory that says states are independent powers with the right to make decisions
  2. exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country
  3. -a person who runs away from the law
  4. war- a war on all aspects of the enemeies life
  5. a ship covered with iron plates
  6. a person who called who dies for a great cause
  7. states- the four states that allowed slavery yet remained in the union
  8. leave the union
  9. to go on the attack
  10. to cast votes

19 Clues: to cast votes • leave the union • to go on the attack • to free enslaved people • refers to a union soldier • describes when a military • a storage place for weapons • a ship covered with iron plates • means withdrawal from the union • -a person who runs away from the law • war- a war on all aspects of the enemeies life • a person who called who dies for a great cause • ...

Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2021-10-14

Civil War Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The turning point of the American Civil War where the Union took a victory.
  2. 16th President of the United States from 1861-1865
  3. the government of the 11 Southern states seceded from the Union.
  4. The executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln that stated all slaves shall be free.
  5. A naval battle during the American Civil War also known as the Battle of Hampton Roads
  6. the 18th president of the US who served from 1869-1877
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  1. The actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
  2. the bloodiest one-day battle of the American Civil War
  3. the overall commander of the Confederate States Army
  4. July 21, 1861; first major land battle of the American Civil War
  5. One of the most famous US military leaders in US history who has a tree named after him.
  6. a military strategy to create a naval blockade around the Confederate States.
  7. The failed plan to cut off cotton supply to Britain and France during the American Civil War
  8. The location where the American Civil War ended.
  9. War a fight between states supporting the federal union and southern states.

15 Clues: The actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. • The location where the American Civil War ended. • 16th President of the United States from 1861-1865 • the overall commander of the Confederate States Army • the bloodiest one-day battle of the American Civil War • the 18th president of the US who served from 1869-1877 • ...

American History Key Terms & People (Midterm) by Samania Choudhury 2023-12-12

American History Key Terms & People (Midterm) by Samania Choudhury crossword puzzle
Across
  1. U.S. general who led troops to capture Villa
  2. A leading proponent of woman suffrage
  3. First African American to receive a doctorate degree from Harvard
  4. Policy of intervening in other countries to protect U.S. business interests
  5. Mexican rebel
  6. Roosevelt's 1904 extension of Monroe Doctrine, stating that United States has right to protect its economic interests in South Central America by using military force
  7. An American nurse who founded the American Red Cross.
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  1. A prosperous businessman who organised War Industries Board
  2. Inventor who unveiled dramatic invention of telephone in 1876
  3. Former President of the Confederate States of America from 1862 to 1865
  4. The 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853
  5. A prominent organiser in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement
  6. An American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832.
  7. An American statesma and a Founding Father of the United States.
  8. A channel across Central America between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans opened in 1914

15 Clues: Mexican rebel • A leading proponent of woman suffrage • U.S. general who led troops to capture Villa • An American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. • A prosperous businessman who organised War Industries Board • Inventor who unveiled dramatic invention of telephone in 1876 • An American statesma and a Founding Father of the United States. • ...

Early 1800s History 2014-04-13

Early 1800s History crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Settlers of the west traveled on the _______ Trail
  2. The river that separates the eastern and western areas of the United States
  3. Pioneers traveled ________ of the Mississippi River to the plains and northwest
  4. The European nation from which the Louisiana Territory was purchased
  5. Lewis and Clark made _______ of the western USA after their expedition
  6. The third president of the USA
  7. The practice in which African Americans were forced to work against their will with no rights
  8. In a ________ state, slavery was acceptable
  9. Before the Louisiana Purchase, most Americans lived ______ of the Mississippi River
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  1. The name of Americans who traveled to settle the western United States
  2. The _____________ Purchase more than doubled the land area of the United States
  3. The Missouri ____________ was made to balance power between slave states and free states
  4. Lewis and Clark explored the west with the Corps of _____________
  5. The young Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition
  6. ____________ Americans were moved to other lands as Americans began to settle the west
  7. One of the first explorers of the Louisiana Purchase
  8. In a _______ state, slavery was not allowed

17 Clues: The third president of the USA • In a _______ state, slavery was not allowed • In a ________ state, slavery was acceptable • Settlers of the west traveled on the _______ Trail • One of the first explorers of the Louisiana Purchase • Lewis and Clark explored the west with the Corps of _____________ • ...

Civil War 2021-02-17

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. At the heart of the divide between the North and the South was?
  2. What was the south’s main source of income
  3. The United States was able to communicate by using the?
  4. What were the northern states called?
  5. What fort did Confederate General P.G.T Beauregard fire on to start the Civil War
  6. A long blade or knife attached to the end of a musket, Soldiers would use it like a spear in close combat.
  7. Soldiers that fight and travel by foot
  8. Who was a former slave who sued for his freedom in the supreme court?
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  1. Who was elected President of the United states in 1860?
  2. a long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers shot from the shoulder
  3. Who served as president of the confederate States of America?
  4. What was the major cause of death during the Civil War?
  5. Where did the Civil War begin
  6. What were the southern states called
  7. First major land battle of cCivil wWar on July 1st 1861
  8. What was used on both sides of the war to destroy enemy soldiers vehicles?
  9. Who was the general for the confederacy

17 Clues: Where did the Civil War begin • What were the southern states called • What were the northern states called? • Soldiers that fight and travel by foot • Who was the general for the confederacy • What was the south’s main source of income • Who was elected President of the United states in 1860? • What was the major cause of death during the Civil War? • ...