states Crossword Puzzles
City- States Develop 2022-10-20
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- A new metal made from tin and copper to make tools
- Were strong Leaders during this time
- to honor the Moon God
- These were fought over fertile land and trade routes
- people skilled at making things by hand
- First civilization to form
- Surplus food gave Sumerians time to learn
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- established to help manage people
- one story houses where the people lived
- Sumer was made up a dozen of these
- built to protect the cities from attack
- society order based on power and wealth
- a city state
13 Clues: a city state • to honor the Moon God • First civilization to form • established to help manage people • Sumer was made up a dozen of these • Were strong Leaders during this time • one story houses where the people lived • built to protect the cities from attack • people skilled at making things by hand • society order based on power and wealth • ...
States of Matter 2022-08-14
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- the measure of space taken up by a solid object
- a state of matter
- opposite of heavy
- matter changes with this
- a solid form of water
- a common form of energy
- glue and milk are examples of this form of matter
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- soft, fluffy and rough are examples of this
- energy that is stored
- how many parts an atom has
- energy that is used
- a state of matter
- opposite of hot
- opposite of fragile
14 Clues: opposite of hot • a state of matter • opposite of heavy • a state of matter • energy that is used • opposite of fragile • energy that is stored • a solid form of water • a common form of energy • matter changes with this • how many parts an atom has • soft, fluffy and rough are examples of this • the measure of space taken up by a solid object • ...
STATES OF INDIA 2019-06-10
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- IT HAS THE FAMOUS MONUMENT CHARMINAR
- IT IS THE MOST POPULOUS STATE OF INDIA
- SMALLEST STATE IN INDIA
- LARGEST STATE IN INDIA BY AREA
- FORMERLY CALLED ORISSA
- FAMOUS FOR ORGAIC FARMING AND TEMI TEA
- BIRTHPLACE OF MAHATMA GANDHI
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- IT'S CAPITAL IS TRIVANDRUM
- IT'S CAPITAL IS BENGALURU
- IT IS THE SEAT OF THE BOLLYWOOD INDUSTRY
- FAMOUS FOR IT'S TEA PLANTATIONS
- WORLD'S THIRD LARGEST URBAN AREA
- ALSO CALLED LAND OF 5 RIVERS
13 Clues: FORMERLY CALLED ORISSA • SMALLEST STATE IN INDIA • IT'S CAPITAL IS BENGALURU • IT'S CAPITAL IS TRIVANDRUM • ALSO CALLED LAND OF 5 RIVERS • BIRTHPLACE OF MAHATMA GANDHI • LARGEST STATE IN INDIA BY AREA • FAMOUS FOR IT'S TEA PLANTATIONS • WORLD'S THIRD LARGEST URBAN AREA • IT HAS THE FAMOUS MONUMENT CHARMINAR • IT IS THE MOST POPULOUS STATE OF INDIA • ...
States of Matter 2023-11-28
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- State of matter with no fixed shape or volume
- The conversion from water to ice is done by?
- State of matter in which the particles are closely packed together
- State of matter which takes the shape of the bottom of a container
- The conversion of liquid to a gas is called?
- Rate of diffusion is faster with bigger or smaller particles?
- The temperature at which substances turn from a solid to a liquid is called the ________ point
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- Gas ________ = force created by gas particles when they collide with the walls of a container
- The movement of substances from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration
- The conversion of gas to a liquid is called?
- Heating a substance gives the particles energy and makes them do what?
- The temperature at which substances turn from a liquid to a gas is called the ________ point
- Rate of diffusion is faster at hotter or colder temperatures?
13 Clues: The conversion from water to ice is done by? • The conversion of gas to a liquid is called? • The conversion of liquid to a gas is called? • State of matter with no fixed shape or volume • Rate of diffusion is faster with bigger or smaller particles? • Rate of diffusion is faster at hotter or colder temperatures? • ...
States of Matter 2023-11-01
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- the speed gas particles move
- State of matter with definite volume only
- This affects which state matter will be in
- adding heat to a liquid will cause it to
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- Two words, Adding/removing this will cause a phase change
- anything that has mass and volume
- liquid particles are able to do this
- Solid particles do this
- the plural form of the state with the highest energy
- removing heat energy will cause a liquid to
- adding heat to a solid will cause it to
- State of matter with no definite shape or volume
- State of matter with definite shape and volume
13 Clues: Solid particles do this • the speed gas particles move • anything that has mass and volume • liquid particles are able to do this • adding heat to a solid will cause it to • adding heat to a liquid will cause it to • State of matter with definite volume only • This affects which state matter will be in • removing heat energy will cause a liquid to • ...
13 Original States 2023-09-11
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- a state the borders Maryland
- the state that is shaped like Vermont but upside down
- the state that is North of Georgia
- the smallest state
- the most southern state of the original 13
- has the largest city in America
- the state that is north to Salisbury/Fruitland
- the state that has Boston in it
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- the state known for having really great cheese steaks.
- the state that is South of Virginia
- where Mr. Lacouture is from
- state that is right next to Rhode Island
- the state state we live in
13 Clues: the smallest state • the state state we live in • where Mr. Lacouture is from • a state the borders Maryland • has the largest city in America • the state that has Boston in it • the state that is North of Georgia • the state that is South of Virginia • state that is right next to Rhode Island • the most southern state of the original 13 • ...
United States Government 2024-04-06
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- Freedom of Speech and Press
- Make sure no branch of government gets too powerful
- Citizens can worship as they want to
- Branch of government that makes laws
- Second longest river in the United States
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- The First 10 Amendments
- Governor of Virginia
- Senators serve for this many years
- North of the United States
- Has the power to veto a bill
- President of the U.S.
- The Supreme Law of the Land
- South of the United States
13 Clues: Governor of Virginia • President of the U.S. • The First 10 Amendments • North of the United States • South of the United States • Freedom of Speech and Press • The Supreme Law of the Land • Has the power to veto a bill • Senators serve for this many years • Citizens can worship as they want to • Branch of government that makes laws • Second longest river in the United States • ...
States of Matter 2026-02-27
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- When a gas cools down and turns back into a liquid, like dew on grass.
- This state of matter has a definite volume but takes the shape of its container.
- The tiny building block that makes up all matter.
- The process where a solid gains energy and turns into a liquid.
- The process where a liquid loses energy and turns into a solid.
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- When a liquid turns into a gas at the surface, like a puddle drying up.
- A rare change where a solid turns directly into a gas (like dry ice).
- In this state, particles are packed tightly together and only vibrate in place.
- The amount of space an object or substance takes up.
- The "fourth state" of matter found in stars and lightning.
- You must add or remove this to make matter change its state.
- Anything that has mass and takes up space.
- This state of matter has no definite shape or volume and fills all available space.
13 Clues: Anything that has mass and takes up space. • The tiny building block that makes up all matter. • The amount of space an object or substance takes up. • The "fourth state" of matter found in stars and lightning. • You must add or remove this to make matter change its state. • The process where a solid gains energy and turns into a liquid. • ...
2 States Crossword 2025-12-14
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- Popular chowk in Delhi known for it's street food and bridal lehengas
- Ceremony with sun-dried lentils marking the beginning of Marwadi wedding rituals
- Savory crisps often served as an accompaniment with meals in Rajasthan
- Tie-dye textile with wave-like patterns, often worn during Teej
- Bride's favourite latte flavour
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- Groom's favourite sweet dish
- Dangling bridal ornaments tied to bangles
- Respectful bow or gesture of greeting in Marwadi culture
- A traditional Marwadi term for community or festive meal, such as during weddings, religious functions, or celebrations
- Festival that fills Jaipur’s skies with kites
- Floral headgear worn by the groom
- A traditional pre-dawn meal eaten prior to starting Karwa Chauth fast
- North Indian winter festival celebrated with bonfires
13 Clues: Groom's favourite sweet dish • Bride's favourite latte flavour • Floral headgear worn by the groom • Dangling bridal ornaments tied to bangles • Festival that fills Jaipur’s skies with kites • North Indian winter festival celebrated with bonfires • Respectful bow or gesture of greeting in Marwadi culture • Tie-dye textile with wave-like patterns, often worn during Teej • ...
first 13 states 2025-03-06
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- Its capital is Hartford
- Its capital is Dover
- Its capital is Boston
- Its capital is Columbia
- Its capital is Albany
- Its capital is Harisberg
- Its capital is Richmond
- Its capital is Annapolis
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- Its capital is Concord
- Its capital is Atlanta
- Its capital is Providence
- Its capital is Trenton
- Its capital is Raleigh
13 Clues: Its capital is Dover • Its capital is Boston • Its capital is Albany • Its capital is Concord • Its capital is Atlanta • Its capital is Trenton • Its capital is Raleigh • Its capital is Hartford • Its capital is Columbia • Its capital is Richmond • Its capital is Harisberg • Its capital is Annapolis • Its capital is Providence
change of states 2025-05-16
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- the name of gaseous form of water from evaporation
- equals to freezing point
- heating is a energy- _____ process
- the process changes from gas to liquid
- Cooling is a energy- _____ process
- process to describe rock changing state to lava
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- the process changes from solid to gas directly
- the process changes from liquid to gas at any temperature
- the name of gaseous form of water from boiling
- 100°C in water is called ____?
- process to describe fruit juice changing state to smoothie
- when water evaporates, energy is absorbed or released?
- the process changes from liquid to gas at a fixed temperature
13 Clues: equals to freezing point • 100°C in water is called ____? • heating is a energy- _____ process • Cooling is a energy- _____ process • the process changes from gas to liquid • the process changes from solid to gas directly • the name of gaseous form of water from boiling • process to describe rock changing state to lava • the name of gaseous form of water from evaporation • ...
States of Matter 2026-09-10
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- No forces so the particles move very fast and spread out to fill the whole container
- When particles change state from a solid to a liquid
- Amount of space a substance occupies
- Amount of matter in an object or substance
- What substances and objects are made of
- When particles change state from a gas to a liquid
- Weak forces hold the particles together so they roll over each other and take the shape of the container
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- When particles change state from a solid directly to a gas
- When particles change state from a liquid to a solid
- When particles change state from a liquid to a gas
- Particles that form the building blocks of matter
- Strong forces hold the particles close together in a fixed shape
- Mass of a fixed volume of matter
13 Clues: Mass of a fixed volume of matter • Amount of space a substance occupies • What substances and objects are made of • Amount of matter in an object or substance • Particles that form the building blocks of matter • When particles change state from a liquid to a gas • When particles change state from a gas to a liquid • When particles change state from a liquid to a solid • ...
States of Matter 2026-04-25
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- positively and negatively charged ions held together by ionic bonds
- are formed via strong metallic bonds.
- a body shifts from one point in space to another
- describes all matter as tiny particles that are in constant motion.
- an object moves rapidly back and forth
- The energy an object has because of its motion
- the result of forces between the molecules of gas and the container walls
- molecules that are held together by the relatively weak intermolecular forces
- Standard temperature and pressure temperature of 0°C,atmosphericpressure at sea level (100 kPa
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- Any substance that flows
- networks of atoms held together by covalent bonds
- a body spins around a fixed point
- The orderly structure of crystalline solids consists of groups of atoms that repeat in space.
13 Clues: Any substance that flows • a body spins around a fixed point • are formed via strong metallic bonds. • an object moves rapidly back and forth • The energy an object has because of its motion • a body shifts from one point in space to another • networks of atoms held together by covalent bonds • positively and negatively charged ions held together by ionic bonds • ...
Bill of Rights and Constitution 2022-02-14
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- This gives the right to bear firearms.
- People sworn to give a verdict on a legal case.
- This part of the government inspects laws.
- Where they made the Constitution.
- The lower part of the United States Congress.
- The supreme laws of the United States.
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- The first ten amendments of the United States Constitution.
- This allows people to express opinions without restraint.
- This part of the government enforces laws.
- The Congress is part of this branch
- No soldiers can be quartered in a time of peace.
- Wrote the amendments to the Bill of Rights.
- This secures property from unreasonable searches.
- The upper part of the United States Congress
- A person who is represents others, or who is elected to vote or act for others.
15 Clues: Where they made the Constitution. • The Congress is part of this branch • This gives the right to bear firearms. • The supreme laws of the United States. • This part of the government enforces laws. • This part of the government inspects laws. • Wrote the amendments to the Bill of Rights. • The upper part of the United States Congress • ...
Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2023-03-27
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- Union Victory which split the Confederacy in two
- Place where Lee surrendered to Grant
- Union general in charge of the the March to the Sea (Atlanta) Campaign
- Proposed idea on how to defeat the Confederate States
- Lincoln's declaration freeing the slaves in the Confederate states
- the formal withdrawal from a federation, especially a political state
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- President of the Confederate States
- Bloodiest single day of fighting in the Civil War
- Top general of the Confederate Army
- Site of the first battle of the Civil War
- Bloodies battle and the turning point of the Civil War
- Top general of the Union Army
- President of the United States
- Person who killed President Abraham Lincoln
- First time both armies faced against each other, on land, battle of the Civil War
15 Clues: Top general of the Union Army • President of the United States • President of the Confederate States • Top general of the Confederate Army • Place where Lee surrendered to Grant • Site of the first battle of the Civil War • Person who killed President Abraham Lincoln • Union Victory which split the Confederacy in two • Bloodiest single day of fighting in the Civil War • ...
History Crossword - Civil War 2023-01-31
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- 18th President of the United States
- The nation formed by the states that seceded
- Important due to it being located on the Mis. River
- Amendment that ended slavery
- The (blank) plan was the plan to surround and strangle the Confederate States
- The (blank) Proclamation declared slaves in the rebelling states will be free
- President of the Confederacy
- caused riots around the nation
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- The first full battle was called (blank) run
- (blank) Power was a very hot issue during the time.
- The attack on Fort (blank) marked the start of the war
- Last name of the man who shot lincoln
- The Pacific (blank) Act was signed in 1862
- President during the Civil War
- The bloodiest battle of the war, and a turning point.
15 Clues: Amendment that ended slavery • President of the Confederacy • President during the Civil War • caused riots around the nation • 18th President of the United States • Last name of the man who shot lincoln • The Pacific (blank) Act was signed in 1862 • The first full battle was called (blank) run • The nation formed by the states that seceded • ...
Branches of the Government 2022-11-25
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- leader of the executive branch
- upper chamber of Congress each state has two representatives that serve six year terms
- two branches
- proposal that favored smaller states and equal representation of the states regardless of population
- not in accordance with the US Constitution
- branch of the US government that evaluates laws
- lower chamber of Congress that represents the states by population and serve two year terms
- leaders of the judicial branch
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- branch of the US government that carries out laws
- proposal that favored larger states and a strong central government consisting of three branches
- branch of the US government that makes laws
- where Congress meets
- where the executive branch works
- name of the leaders of the legislative branch
- reject a decision or proposal made by a law making body
15 Clues: two branches • where Congress meets • leader of the executive branch • leaders of the judicial branch • where the executive branch works • not in accordance with the US Constitution • branch of the US government that makes laws • name of the leaders of the legislative branch • branch of the US government that evaluates laws • branch of the US government that carries out laws • ...
Unit Vocabulary 2024-01-03
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- Plan: The Union's strategy to defeat the Confederacy by surrounding it and cutting off its resources
- Amendment: This amendment abolished slavery in the United States
- wagon: A wagon that follows an army to sell provisions to the soldiers
- The act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity
- A Southern white who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the Civil War
- Proclamation: A presidential proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln that declared all slaves in Confederate-held territory to be free
- The period after the Civil War when the United States began to rebuild and readmit Southern states into the Union
- Act: Legislation that allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery
- Amendment: This amendment prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
- code: Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights
- soiler: A person who opposed the extension of slavery into new territories
- Slave Act: A law that required runaway slaves to be returned to their owners
- Cotton diplomacy: The South's strategy during the Civil War to use its cotton as a bargaining tool with European nations
- The period before the Civil War
- The right to vote in political elections
- Nothing Party: A political party that opposed immigration and Catholic influence in the United States
- The movement to end slavery in the United States
- A person who was in charge of a group of slaves on a plantation
- of 1850: A series of laws intended to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories
- Railroad: A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to free states and Canada
- States of America: The government formed by Southern states that seceded from the Union
- Former slaves who had been emancipated
- To declare invalid
- Party: The political party founded in the 1850s to oppose the spread of slavery
- Amendment: This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves
- The use of naval forces to prevent movement and trade in and out of ports
- Reconstruction: A period after the Civil War when Congress was in control of Reconstruction
- A brief, unplanned fight between small groups of soldiers
- A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim
- To bring formal charges against a public official
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- sovereignty: The principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people
- The drafting of individuals into military service
- A fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime
- Codes: Laws passed in Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights of African Americans
- A law or regulation
- Farmer: A person who owns and cultivates a small farm
- A type of warship heavily armored with iron
- state: A state where slavery was legal
- Bureau: A federal agency established to aid freedmen in the aftermath of the Civil War
- The declared policy of a political party or group
- Reconstruction: The period after the Civil War when the South was occupied by federal troops
- A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War, especially for political or financial gain
- Klux Klan: A secret society in the Southern United States that focused on white supremacy and terrorized African Americans
- farming: A system in which a person rents land to farm from a planter
- To add a territory to one's own territory
- Act: Legislation that allowed for the partition of the Cherokee Nation to make room for the state of Georgia
- A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land
- State: A state that did not allow slavery
- destiny: The belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent
- A place where weapons and military equipment are stored
- A person who supervises and directs the work of others, especially on a plantation
- Unfair treatment of a person or group based on race, religion, or other characteristics
- The excessive concern for the interests of a particular region over those of the country as a whole
- Compromise: An agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while also prohibiting slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the 36°30' parallel
- running: The practice of sneaking goods past a blockade
- rights: The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government
56 Clues: To declare invalid • A law or regulation • The period before the Civil War • state: A state where slavery was legal • Former slaves who had been emancipated • The right to vote in political elections • To add a territory to one's own territory • State: A state that did not allow slavery • A type of warship heavily armored with iron • ...
civil war vocabulary 2021-12-08
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- Blockade one of the most important strategies during the Civil War; designed to
- of 1850 legislation passed by Congress in which California was admitted to the
- Platform established Georgia's conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850; kept Georgia from succeeding from the Union
- the South from shipping its cotton to England and France in return for weapons and other
- of 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected President; outcome led to southern states to secede from the Union
- the action of southern states to leave the Union
- March to the Sea a destructive path of total war from Atlanta to Savannah
- a legal idea that a state has the right to cancel; any federal law that the state has considered unconstitutional
- in the western theater of the Civil War; failure to follow up on the victory lead to Sherman’s Atlanta campaign
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- most notorious prisoner of war camp during the Civil War; officially named “Fort Sumter”
- the period immediately after the Civil War when the South rebuilt and the
- as a free state and a stronger Fugitive Slave Act was passed
- Atlanta Campaign battles in and around Atlanta that led to Atlanta being completely
- Rights the belief that a state’s interests should take priority over the interests of the national government
- states returned to the Union
- Scott case Missouri slave who sued for his freedom because he had lived in free territory; was denied the right to sue by the United States Supreme Court
- battle that was the largest Union
- Proclamation proclamation that said all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed on January 1, 1863
- Bureau federal reconstruction agency; provided food; helped build schools and hospitals; created the first public school program for either African Americans or whites in
19 Clues: states returned to the Union • battle that was the largest Union • the action of southern states to leave the Union • as a free state and a stronger Fugitive Slave Act was passed • the period immediately after the Civil War when the South rebuilt and the • March to the Sea a destructive path of total war from Atlanta to Savannah • ...
Building a New Nation 2020-04-02
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- The Native American that helped Lewis and Clark on their journey
- He lead Native Americans and U.S. troops during the Creek Wars and later became the seventh president of the United States.
- The Shawnee Chief that united different Native American tribes and lead attacks on white settlers. He worked with the British during the War of 1812.
- The act that stopped exports to and imports from Europe
- The treaty that gave the U.S. Florida, created a border with Spain’s territory, and Spain gave up claims in Oregon Country.
- The first canal to connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
- The man who wrote the Virginia plan and was the fourth president of the United States
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- A country in Europe that fought against the U.S. in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. It was always in war with France
- The national anthem of the United States
- The person who penned the poem, Defense of Fort McHenry
- The United States capital
- The wife of James Madison and was the first First Lady, she was beloved by the country.
- The that created a border in the west between the United States and Canada
- The port city on the mouth of the Mississippi River that was a huge trading center
- The third President of the United States and was the president authorized the Louisiana purchase and Corps of Discovery
- A country in Europe that owned the Louisiana territory and was always in war with Great Britain.
- The action of taking sailors to work on one ship from another
17 Clues: The United States capital • The national anthem of the United States • The person who penned the poem, Defense of Fort McHenry • The act that stopped exports to and imports from Europe • The action of taking sailors to work on one ship from another • The Native American that helped Lewis and Clark on their journey • ...
HaSS puzzle 2023-02-08
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- a group of countries that come together
- this made the colonies into states
- the process of moving to a new country, with plans to live there permanently
- a vote that no one knows who voted for who
- turns colonies into states
- the father of federation
- an agreement between states covering particular matters
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- second prime minister of Australia
- a special kind of voting that allows people to ask to change the law
- a group of people from one country who settle in another area
- when they only let white people into Australia
- the set of rules by which Australia is governed
- a tax on products that go from one country to another
- when states/countries trade without restrictions
- a typical example of a group, class or quality
15 Clues: the father of federation • turns colonies into states • second prime minister of Australia • this made the colonies into states • a group of countries that come together • a vote that no one knows who voted for who • when they only let white people into Australia • a typical example of a group, class or quality • the set of rules by which Australia is governed • ...
Chapter 7 crossword 2022-12-22
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- political party that supports strong state government
- Cherokee people being moved from Georgia west with thousands dying
- 363-mile-long artificial waterway connecting Hudson River to Lake Erie
- federally funded road begun in 1811
- standardized parts that can be used in place of one another
- national bank funded by the federal government and private investors
- series of agreements to keep power balance of slave states and free states
- John C. Callhoun’s name for a 1828 tariff
- devotion to one’s country
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- political party formed to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson
- practice of winning candidates’ rewarding supporters with government jobs
- 1819 case ruling Maryland had no right to tax the Bank of the United States
- designed to unify the nation and strengthen the economy
- a law in 1830 that forced Native Americans east of the Mississippi to move west
- series of financial failures triggering a five-year depresssion in the United States
- development of large-scale industrial production
- 1819 agreement where Spain gave America Florida
- production of goods in large quantities
- U.S opposition to European interference in the Western Hemisphere
- machine for cleaning seeds of cotton fibers
- protective tariff to help American industries
21 Clues: devotion to one’s country • federally funded road begun in 1811 • production of goods in large quantities • John C. Callhoun’s name for a 1828 tariff • machine for cleaning seeds of cotton fibers • protective tariff to help American industries • 1819 agreement where Spain gave America Florida • development of large-scale industrial production • ...
SEAPFRI 2021-01-19
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- , most powerful city-states.
- , two successful banking families who failed due the unpaid debts of a King in England.
- , Challenged the power of the church
- , On trade routes that linked western Europe and Asia.
- , Did not repay the loan he finance his war against France.
- , When Alfonso I conquered this country it became famous centre of arts and culture.
- , They brought high quality untreated cloth(Wool).
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- , The wealthiest and most powerful city-states in Renaissance Italy.
- , The making and trading of this clothmade Florence wealthy.
- learning and creative people such as artists,composers,and writers.
- , 1200's become wealthiest bankers and the most powerful family in Europe.
- , the coin in France and become the standard currency used throughout Europe.
- , The Italian name of " France".
- , the Pope ruled Rome and other city-states called ___________________.
- of this, they're able to enjoy life throughpaintings, music, books and beautiful buildings.
- , Not just leaders of Roman Catholics but could be ruthless politicians.
- , A city-state ruled by representatives chosen by the people.
- , over threwn by Spanish genaral Cordova in 1945.
- , Another industry that flourished in Europe.
- DuchiesRepublics ,Noble rulers of small monarchies and city-states.
20 Clues: , most powerful city-states. • , The Italian name of " France". • , Challenged the power of the church • , Another industry that flourished in Europe. • , over threwn by Spanish genaral Cordova in 1945. • , They brought high quality untreated cloth(Wool). • , On trade routes that linked western Europe and Asia. • ...
Constitution Crossword 2021-09-30
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- the form of government in which people elect officials to govern for them
- the branch in which the president sits
- the combined legislative body of the senate and House of Representatives
- the branch of the government made up of courts
- the head of the Executive branch, commander in chief of the military
- the second to the president, presides over the senate
- the fundamental framework of America’s system of government
- a person chosen to speak for a group in Congress
- A change or addition to the constitution
- the first 10 amendments to the constitution
- the president credited with freeing the slaves
- election month
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- Highest Court in the United States
- the form of government in which everyone votes on issues
- the main writer of the constitution
- the first President of the United States
- the loose group of states that preceded the United States we know today
- a small piece of our great union
- the branch of government made up of the Senate and the House
- the only colony that didn’t sign the constitution originally
- one of two people chosen by the state to represent them in the senate
21 Clues: election month • a small piece of our great union • Highest Court in the United States • the main writer of the constitution • the branch in which the president sits • the first President of the United States • A change or addition to the constitution • the first 10 amendments to the constitution • the branch of the government made up of courts • ...
Kinlee = 2nd Hour 2023-03-06
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- A political concept that gives authority over a state or territory
- A military operation that cuts off essential supplies
- Wanted slaves to be accepted in their states and fought for slaves
- A person who has escaped from a place or is hiding to avoid being captured
- A crop that is grown for profit rather than for the grower
- A person who invests in stocks
- To come to an agreement upon two things
- Violence accrued by disagreement
- Wrote a book about Anti Slavery
- Not in accordance with political constitution
- The act of betraying your country
- An act of sealing off a place from people entering or leaving
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- A boundary above the southern border where all states above the line are free states and below the line are slave states
- Opened up new territories for Kansas and Nebraska settlement
- Went from town to town promoting Pro Slavery
- First Governor of Kansas
- A person killed for their religious beliefs
- A time period when U.S citizens had to return runaway slaves to their owners
- Wrote letters to the Newspaper about Anti Slavery
- To set free from restrictions
20 Clues: First Governor of Kansas • To set free from restrictions • A person who invests in stocks • Wrote a book about Anti Slavery • Violence accrued by disagreement • The act of betraying your country • To come to an agreement upon two things • A person killed for their religious beliefs • Went from town to town promoting Pro Slavery • Not in accordance with political constitution • ...
Federalism 2015-09-29
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- what ensures that a political power is not in control over all governments?
- what is the basic principles stated in the constitution called?
- father of the constitution?
- this states the constitution is the supreme law of the land?
- who creates the laws?
- this power grants both implied and enumerated powers in the constitution?
- what is the division of power between a central and local governments?
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- this plan was known for favoring lager states?
- the branch that clarifies the laws?
- powers that belong to the states?
- which group supported the ratification of the constitution?
- was the compromise between the federalist and anti-Federalist?
- what is authority of the government that was created and sustained by the consent of its people?
- which group did not support the constitution till after the bill of rights was added?
- powers not expressed in the constitution?
- which article states the ratification process?
- which branch enforces the laws?
- what was the major issue of the constitutional convection?
- when national and state governments share the same power, what is this called?
- what kind of power prohibits state and nation governments?
20 Clues: who creates the laws? • father of the constitution? • which branch enforces the laws? • powers that belong to the states? • the branch that clarifies the laws? • powers not expressed in the constitution? • this plan was known for favoring lager states? • which article states the ratification process? • what was the major issue of the constitutional convection? • ...
Bondar Lika (Unit 4 VA and U.S History) 2023-10-20
Across
- Find a water route to the Pacific Ocean.
- Doctrine,which said about no future colonisation, Not monarchies.
- Believed in a strong national government.
- Cause of First and Second Industrial Revolutions.
- Which Removal Act exchange lands in east of the Mississippi River for lands in the West.
- The first President of the United States.
- Supported states' rights, a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
- Type of trade which happens inside of the country.C
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- Doubled Territory from France.
- Which revolution were change a subsistence economy to a market economy (based on money,trade and production)
- Became the second President of the United States.
- Farmers in western Pennsylvania protested against the federal excise tax.
- Was a landmark Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review
- This wars were fought against North African.
- support interests of your country and excludes the interests of others.
- Country against which the United States has fought most.
- Tomas Jefferson implemented the "----"Act to protect Americans interests during the Napoleonic Wars.
- established peaceful relations with Native American.
- Was the Secretary of Treasury under President Washington.
- Compromise which was banned slavery in the Lousiana Purchase above the latitude of 36 30'
20 Clues: Doubled Territory from France. • Find a water route to the Pacific Ocean. • Believed in a strong national government. • The first President of the United States. • This wars were fought against North African. • Became the second President of the United States. • Cause of First and Second Industrial Revolutions. • Type of trade which happens inside of the country.C • ...
chapter 17 terms 2023-10-11
Across
- - Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missorui
- - president during the civil war,creator of emancipation proclamation
- - Paper money issued by the United States government
- - decree issued by President Lincoln freeing enslaved people in those parts of the Confederacy
- - This is where the Civil War was ended
- - was key victory of the Un
- - Southern states; wanted slavery
- - president if the Confederate states of America
- - Confederacy’s general during the Civil War
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- - She helped wounded soldiers founded the Red Cross
- This was the first major battle of the civil war.
- - side of military formation
- - 270 were killed, wounded, or captured during the engagement.,helped inspire the enlistment of more than 180,000 Black soldiers
- - Union’s general during the Civil War
- - Northern states; didn’t want slavery`
- the battle lasted 2 days, it was a narrow victory for the union but the losses were enormous
- - a warship equipped with iron plating for protection
- taken over by the union weakened the Confederacy and split it in half
- - stream or smaller river that feeds into a larger river
- and the single deadliest day of fighting.
- the Confederates entered the town for supplies, not wanting– to fight but they encountered the enemy
- - She convinced officials to let women work as nurses
22 Clues: - was key victory of the Un • - side of military formation • - Southern states; wanted slavery • - Union’s general during the Civil War • - Northern states; didn’t want slavery` • - This is where the Civil War was ended • and the single deadliest day of fighting. • - Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missorui • - Confederacy’s general during the Civil War • ...
Civil War Crossword 2023-11-29
Across
- An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port
- elected in 1860
- A nickname used to describe people that supported the Union
- A nickname for Southerners who were against the war
- Both South and North had these military leader titles
- A person who worked to abolish slavery
- An ankle high shoe worn by soldiers during the Civil War
- A long blade or knife attached to the end of a musket
- A nickname for the South
- The Southern states that seceded in 1861
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- A warship that is fully covered and protected by iron cladding
- A northerner who moved to the South during the reconstruction in order to become rich.
- An American stage actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
- An American abolitionist trying to help slaves achieve freedom
- The ownership of a person as property
- A farm located in Southern states that held slaves
- Crackers made from flour, water, and salt
- to leave a federation
- The action of assassinating someone
- A war between the Northern and Southern states of the USA
- The Northern states during the war
21 Clues: elected in 1860 • to leave a federation • A nickname for the South • The Northern states during the war • The action of assassinating someone • The ownership of a person as property • A person who worked to abolish slavery • The Southern states that seceded in 1861 • Crackers made from flour, water, and salt • A farm located in Southern states that held slaves • ...
Civil Rights 2023-11-27
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- became a heavy weight boxing champion
- A law that reinforced slavery
- he was the executive director of the nacp
- granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to anyone born in the United States or who became a citizen of the country.
- terriozed African Americans
- One of the first African Americans to play baseball
- what did people fight for?
- abolished slavery in the United States.
- Very famous speech that MLK did
- The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
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- when a bunch of people come together and peacefully protest
- origin in Africa
- Inspired Millions to appreciate there African backgrounds
- led movement to end and stop slavery
- struggled for racial equality when she refused to give up her seat
- someone applying there opinion freely without any harm
- Not buying a product at a store because you don't support what the store supports
- one human is being owned by another
- given deferent things such as water fountains and rail cars
- setting something or someone apart from others
20 Clues: origin in Africa • what did people fight for? • terriozed African Americans • A law that reinforced slavery • Very famous speech that MLK did • one human is being owned by another • led movement to end and stop slavery • became a heavy weight boxing champion • abolished slavery in the United States. • he was the executive director of the nacp • ...
Forms of Government 2024-03-22
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- Rajya sabha passes a ___ to legislate on the State list
- Public opinion on a government proposal
- Recruited by the Union Public Service Commission; Trained by the Home Ministry; Allocated to states and UTs
- Judiciary's check on Legislature wrt Constitution
- Internal rebellion or external aggression
- Article 370 - gave ____ to Jammu and Kashmir
- indestructible union of _____ states in USA
- Unlike other organs of government, Judiciary in India is not federal. It is an integrated and ____ system
- Add, modify or delete provisions from the fundamental rights (how?)
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- 1990 - 2014: This phase of Indian politics saw the rise of ___ government.
- Marriage, adoption, preventive detention, education
- Transfer of legislative powers from Centre to subnational governments
- States and Union being interdependent on each other - ____ federalism
- Special majority requirement indicates a ___ constitution
- last state to be added to the Indian union
- Role of the SC in a federal government
- According to Art. 74, ____ shall act in accordance to the aid and advise of the Council of ministers headed by the Prime Minister.
- Demands for more autonomy in Sri Lanka led to ____
- two chambers in Legislature
- union of states
20 Clues: union of states • two chambers in Legislature • Role of the SC in a federal government • Public opinion on a government proposal • Internal rebellion or external aggression • last state to be added to the Indian union • indestructible union of _____ states in USA • Article 370 - gave ____ to Jammu and Kashmir • Judiciary's check on Legislature wrt Constitution • ...
Leading up to the Civil War Crossword 2024-04-02
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- Insisted African Americans receive not just freedom but full equality with whites.
- President who made Texas a state.
- A series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory over voting for slavery laws.
- Wrote the liberator.
- A person who wants to end slavery
- Compromise of 1850 banned the slave trade in this city.
- A slave who sued for his freedom
- An act that became stronger in the Compromise of 1850
- An act where California became a free state, and the Utah and New Mexico territories became open to slavery.
- Prominent leader in the American Abolitionist movement who fought in Bleeding Kansas
- Got their inheritance early and used it to free their family's slaves.
- All states above a certain line are free states and below are free states
- Texas became a slave state
- Proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
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- Act where Missouri Compromise Line was repealed
- Published her life story of the hardships of an escaped slave
- Written by Henry David Theroeau, urges citizens to break unjust laws.
- Senator who proposed that states should decide if they allow slaves or not.
- House burned down and killed
- Originally went by the name of Isabella Baumfree
20 Clues: Wrote the liberator. • Texas became a slave state • House burned down and killed • A slave who sued for his freedom • President who made Texas a state. • A person who wants to end slavery • Act where Missouri Compromise Line was repealed • Originally went by the name of Isabella Baumfree • An act that became stronger in the Compromise of 1850 • ...
Ciara Schroeder Articles X-word 2024-02-09
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- By taxing goods the individual states acted in their own _______
- Noah Webster wrote the ________ book (dictionary)
- Where most of the Loyalists went after England
- The power that was held exclusively by the national government was declaring __
- The united states had more of a _________ as a advantage
- States taxed goods manufactured in another state to __________ people to buy locally-produced goods
- The Loyalists felt like _____ because they didn't fit in
- The U.S's "underlying crisis" that overshadowed all other issues and was the most important
- Hamilton hated ______
- Hamilton hated the ______, the fools
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- Farmers joined Shays' Rebellion to protest taxes imposed by_________
- Hamilton hated the _______
- The united states had _______ resources as a advantage
- The best phadescribesdecribes the federalist system of government, "Balance of ______"
- A new ______ was established by the Declaration of Independence
- You needed Nine-thirteenths of the delegates to ______ to pass a new law in the Confederation Congress
- Daniel Shays was not a ______ landowner
- Continental Congress biggest obstacle was enforcing ____
- Where most of the Loyalists went after the war
- Alexander____ hated Congress because they didn't share his vision for Americas potential
20 Clues: Hamilton hated ______ • Hamilton hated the _______ • Hamilton hated the ______, the fools • Daniel Shays was not a ______ landowner • Where most of the Loyalists went after England • Where most of the Loyalists went after the war • Noah Webster wrote the ________ book (dictionary) • The united states had _______ resources as a advantage • ...
US History - Unit II 2025-10-20
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- "We the people, in order to form a more perfect _________"
- This constitution proved too weak
- This 1763 line used the Appalachian Mountains as a barrier between colonists and indigenous people
- George Washington used the military to quell this boozy uprising
- First 10 amendments
- Constitutional compromise between large and small states
- Supporter of the National Bank
- Passed by Adams in 1798 in response to the Quasi-War
- A Revolutionary War era tax on stamps
- The ability for one branch of government to limit power of another
- Constitutional compromise over representation and slavery
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- President who authorized the purchase of Louisiana Territory
- A conflict between colonists and British troops memorialized by Paul Revere
- Large states demand proportional representation
- America's war for independence
- A failed negotiation with France leading to the Quasi-War
- A revolutionary War era tax on tea
- The first president of the United States
- America's official break from Britain
- Federal, state, and local governments working together
- Economic system where a colony provides resources for a Mother Country
- Small states demand equal representation
- France's most prosperous colony in the Caribbean
23 Clues: First 10 amendments • America's war for independence • Supporter of the National Bank • This constitution proved too weak • A revolutionary War era tax on tea • America's official break from Britain • A Revolutionary War era tax on stamps • The first president of the United States • Small states demand equal representation • Large states demand proportional representation • ...
Causes of the Civil War Review 2024-04-29
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- President of the United States from 1861-1865 during the Civil War
- slaves were purposely not taught to write or this
- sometimes slave families would be separated by this
- what John Brown used to try and bring an end to slavery
- the country formed by the 11 states that seceded from the Union
- what you called a person who owned slaves
- slavery was dominant in this part of the country
- when slaves usually traveled North to avoid getting caught
- slaves had no rights or this
- what you call a house on the Underground Railroad
- became President of the Confederate States of America in 1861
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- law that let new states votes on whether to be slave or free
- the law that said all citizen had to help catch runaway slaves
- one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad
- path of safe houses that slaves followed to freedom
- a person who opposed slavery
- the name of Frederick Douglass's newspaper
- people that helped slaves travel the Underground Railroad
- Harriet Tubman's nickname because she led her people out of slavery
- armed fighting between 2 groups in the same country
20 Clues: a person who opposed slavery • slaves had no rights or this • what you called a person who owned slaves • the name of Frederick Douglass's newspaper • slavery was dominant in this part of the country • slaves were purposely not taught to write or this • what you call a house on the Underground Railroad • path of safe houses that slaves followed to freedom • ...
Chapter 12 Vocab 2024-03-20
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- less serious crimes
- powers that are reserved to the states
- population count
- governors in 43 states have the power to veto specific parts of a bill
- courts that handle minor cases such as traffic violations or disturbing the peace
- unequal representation
- early release from prison
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- judge in a small town
- two house legislature
- Constitution established an arrangement that gives the national government certain powers and reserves others for states.
- powers shared by state and federal government
- awards of money
- cases involving small sums of money
- people filing lawsuits
- reduce
- divided into districts
- one house legislature
17 Clues: reduce • awards of money • population count • less serious crimes • judge in a small town • two house legislature • one house legislature • people filing lawsuits • divided into districts • unequal representation • early release from prison • cases involving small sums of money • powers that are reserved to the states • powers shared by state and federal government • ...
4.1(a) - Events Leading to War 2024-03-25
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- The Supreme Court ruled in the ________ ________ case that black men, or any persons descended from imported slaves, could not be citizens and had no standing in Federal courts.
- After the election of Abraham Lincoln, many southern states believed they should _________ from the Union and form their own country.
- At the start of the American Civil War, the states in the north relied mostly on ____________ for their economy.
- Due to the rivalries between states over slavery, the United States found itself in a ________ war amongst itself.
- After the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, violence between anti and pro-slavery forces erupted in Kansas. This became known as ____________ Kansas.
- During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln argued that all men, including enslaved men, were entitled to certain basic __________ and freedoms.
- In a speech during 1858, Abraham Lincoln said "a house _________ against itself cannot stand", calling for the country to either be all free or all slave.
- When Abraham Lincoln was elected, the Southern States feared that he would __________ slavery in the south.
- In 1859, John Brown and 21 other men led a raid on __________ __________ to seize the federal armory and incite a slave rebellion.
- At the beginning of the American Civil War, the states in the south relied on slave labor for ______________ to drive their economy.
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- During the Election of 1860, there was increasing _____________ in American politics, due to major shifts in which political parties voters were loyal to.
- Part of the Compromise of 1850 was the __________ _________ Act, which forced any runaway slaves caught in free states to be returned to the slave owner they escaped from.
- During his 1st Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that he would let states determine their own institutions, signaling he would not try to abolish __________ in states where it already existed.
- Northern Democrats, Whigs, and Free Soil Westerners came together to form the _____________ Party and resist the spread of slavery to new territories.
14 Clues: When Abraham Lincoln was elected, the Southern States feared that he would __________ slavery in the south. • At the start of the American Civil War, the states in the north relied mostly on ____________ for their economy. • Due to the rivalries between states over slavery, the United States found itself in a ________ war amongst itself. • ...
U.S. History crossword puzzle 2015-01-20
Across
- Supporters of the constitution
- opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts
- To divide the legislative, executive, and judicial in separate bodies
- To be charged with treason
- Any of the various governing bodies
- Non supporters of the constitution
- The killer of Alexander Hamilton
- The first ten amendment
- Changes to the government
- An introduction
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- He was killed by Aaron Burr
- The plan where people wanted bigger states to have more rights
- Tax on Whiskey
- Farmers fighting for their land
- The lower house o the united states congress
- The plan where people wanted all states to have equal rights
16 Clues: Tax on Whiskey • An introduction • The first ten amendment • Changes to the government • To be charged with treason • He was killed by Aaron Burr • Supporters of the constitution • Farmers fighting for their land • The killer of Alexander Hamilton • Non supporters of the constitution • opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts • Any of the various governing bodies • ...
U.S. History crossword puzzle 2015-01-20
Across
- Supporters of the constitution
- opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts
- To divide the legislative, executive, and judicial in separate bodies
- To be charged with treason
- Any of the various governing bodies
- Non supporters of the constitution
- The killer of Alexander Hamilton
- The first ten amendment
- Changes to the government
- An introduction
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- He was killed by Aaron Burr
- The plan where people wanted bigger states to have more rights
- Tax on Whiskey
- Farmers fighting for their land
- The lower house o the united states congress
- The plan where people wanted all states to have equal rights
16 Clues: Tax on Whiskey • An introduction • The first ten amendment • Changes to the government • To be charged with treason • He was killed by Aaron Burr • Supporters of the constitution • Farmers fighting for their land • The killer of Alexander Hamilton • Non supporters of the constitution • opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts • Any of the various governing bodies • ...
Pre Civil War 2026-08-20
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- of 1850
- Southern states feared slavery’s end.
- denied jury trial to alleged fugitive
- temporary solution to balance free states and slave states
- Series of debates for Illinois Senate race.
- supported by Stephen A. Dongles
- Attracted many former Whigs and Free-Soilers.
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- Jefferson Davis elected President of Confederacy.
- Proposed by Stephen A. Douglas.
- Violence between proslavery and antislavery settlers in Kansas.
- Increased sectional tensions.
- Planned to start a slave revolt
- first state to secede from union
- exposed the cruelty of slavery
- First shots of the Civil War.
- led raid on Harper's Ferry
16 Clues: of 1850 • led raid on Harper's Ferry • Increased sectional tensions. • First shots of the Civil War. • exposed the cruelty of slavery • Proposed by Stephen A. Douglas. • Planned to start a slave revolt • supported by Stephen A. Dongles • first state to secede from union • Southern states feared slavery’s end. • denied jury trial to alleged fugitive • ...
Civil War 2021-10-11
Across
- secessionist states that opposed the Union
- capital of Confederates during the war
- a plan that included forming a naval blockade off the coast and an attack down the Mississippi
- warship used by Union navy in first notable battle between ironclad warships
- 16th U.S. president
- battle that stopped Confederate momentum and prevented intervention by the Europeans
- Confederate general that fought in Antietam and Gettysburg
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- war between northern and southern states
- Civil war’s bloodiest one-day battle
- name that referred to the northern states
- Union capital during the war
- system that required men to participate in the war
- first major land battle of civil war
- diplomacy strategy to withhold cotton exports to bring Europe into the war
- states middle ground of the Civil War
15 Clues: 16th U.S. president • Union capital during the war • Civil war’s bloodiest one-day battle • first major land battle of civil war • states middle ground of the Civil War • capital of Confederates during the war • war between northern and southern states • name that referred to the northern states • secessionist states that opposed the Union • ...
A Union Divided 2023-02-16
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- Nickname given to soldiers from the North
- Word that means "runaway"
- The south believed the government should allow more space for ___ ___.
- Word that means "to separate" or "official withdrawal"
- First state to announce its separation from the Union
- He was named president of the Confederate States of America
- This state became a battleground over state's rights and slavery.
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- President of the United States during the Civil War
- The main issue that divided the country in the 1800s
- A state that did now allow slavery.
- Name given to the southern states during the Civil War
- Word that means "agreement"
- A state that allowed the practice of slavery.
- Name given to the northern states during the Civil War
- Nickname given to soldiers from the South
15 Clues: Word that means "runaway" • Word that means "agreement" • A state that did now allow slavery. • Nickname given to soldiers from the North • Nickname given to soldiers from the South • A state that allowed the practice of slavery. • President of the United States during the Civil War • The main issue that divided the country in the 1800s • ...
Advisory Crossword 1 2024-02-22
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- This Nevada native animal can live its entire life without drinking one drop of water
- Where the president goes to work every day
- Most recent President to be assassinated
- First President to be assassinated
- The second president of the United States
- One of the two Senators from the State of Nevada
- First President of the United States
- One of two states that border Nevada's north
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- This is the richest known silver deposit in the world. It's in Nevada.
- A 1910 law made it illegal to do what in Las Vegas?
- The state that borders the west side of Nevada
- Current President of the United States
- The Governor of the State of Nevada
- The Capital of the State of Nevada
- The state that borders the east side of Nevada
15 Clues: First President to be assassinated • The Capital of the State of Nevada • The Governor of the State of Nevada • First President of the United States • Current President of the United States • Most recent President to be assassinated • The second president of the United States • Where the president goes to work every day • One of two states that border Nevada's north • ...
Unit 5 Vocabulary 2023-01-02
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- law that states the pressure of a gas is directly proportional to the Kelvin temperature if the volume is constant
- law that states the relationship between pressure, temperature, and volume of an enclosed gas
- unit of pressure (atm)
- Law that states the volume of a fixed mass of gas is directly proportional to its Kelvin temperature if the pressure is kept constant
- the pressure exerted by atoms and molecules in the atmosphere surrounding earth, resulting in collisions of these particles with objects
- R in the ideal gas equation
- the tendency of molecules to move toward areas of lower concentration unitl the concentration is uniform throughout
- the energy an object has because of its motion
- results from the force exerted by a gas per unit surface area of an object, due to collisions of gas particles with objects
- law that states the rate of effusion is inversely proportional to the square root of its molar mass
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- the contribution each gas in a mixture of gases makes to the total pressure
- a measure of how much the volume of matter decreases with pressure
- Law that states for a given mass at a constant temperature, the volume of the gas varies inversly with pressure
- law that states at a constant volume and temperature, the total pressure exerted by a mixture is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the component gasses
- the relationship described in PV=nRT
- an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure
- the process that occurs that when a gas escapes through a tiny hole in its container
- the SI unit of pressure (Pa)
18 Clues: unit of pressure (atm) • R in the ideal gas equation • the SI unit of pressure (Pa) • the relationship described in PV=nRT • the energy an object has because of its motion • an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure • a measure of how much the volume of matter decreases with pressure • the contribution each gas in a mixture of gases makes to the total pressure • ...
Review crossword puzzle 2020-09-29
Across
- -a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary Wa
- -abolished slavery in the United States
- - was a conflict between the united states and mexico.
- - a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution.
- -A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.
- -a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
- -a treaty signed with France in 1803
- - was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
- - a series of acts parliament
- -1st President of the United States
- -The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation
- -a law passed in 1764
- - an estate on wich crops such as coffee, sugar and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
- - a list of the most important rights to the citizens of a country.
- - a conflict fought between the U.s and its allies against the united kingdom.
- -was the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on March 6, 1857, that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an slaved person
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- - granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
- -was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
- -was an american abolitionist, emancipationist. a reformer who favors abolishing slavery.
- - were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
- -was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War
- - the U.S. Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote
- -contiguous railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass
- -3rd President of the United States
- -a law passed by the British gov. in 1765
- - is the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas
- -was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.,
- -issued by King George III on October 7, 1763, following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the Seven Years' War.
- - signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on July 1, 1862.
- -a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.
30 Clues: -a law passed in 1764 • - a series of acts parliament • -3rd President of the United States • -1st President of the United States • -a treaty signed with France in 1803 • -abolished slavery in the United States • -a law passed by the British gov. in 1765 • - was a conflict between the united states and mexico. • ...
Civil War Crossword 2022-05-31
Across
- a term used to describe the hard crackers often issued to soldiers of both sides during the Civil War.
- To formally enroll in the army or to call roll.
- row of trees was chopped down and replanted with their limbs pointing towards the enemy to strengthen fortifications.
- Slaves who had escaped to the Union lines for safety.
- Term for cheap, poorly made cloth which was used early in the war to make Federal uniforms
- The lowest rank in the army.
- A pledge by a prisoner of war or a defeated soldier not to bear arms.
- Loyal to the government of the United States. Also known as Union, Yankee, or Northern.
- The term used for military supplies, such as weaponry and ammunition.
- A crushing defeat where, often, the losers run from the field
- A branch of the military in which soldiers traveled and fought on foot.
- A smoothbore firearm fired from the shoulder
- Long, cylindrical metal rod used to push the cartridge down the barrel of a musket in preparation for firing
- Blocking the supply lines and escape routes of a city to force it to surrender.
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- A military branch that is mounted on horseback. Cavalry regiments could travel swiftly from place to place or go on reconnaissance excursions on horseback during the Civil War, although they mostly fought on foot. Their primary mission was to acquire intelligence on enemy movements.
- Also called the North or the United States Whigs A political party generally against slavery and its expansion into the territories
- A Northerner,someone loyal to the Federal government of the United States.
- The Confederacy, often known as the South or the Confederate States of America, was a group of states that broke away from the United States of America to create their own country.
- Also called the Confederacy, the Confederate States of America, or the Rebel states
- A type of counter-attack used to disrupt the enemy's attack or siege of a fortification, causing the enemy to divert some of its resources away from the initial attack or siege.
- Intestinal disease causing severe diarrhea. a leading cause of death by disease.
- A part of a defensive line of works or a fortification that juts out from the main line towards the enemy
- A cannon which fired hollow projectiles and was generally lighter and shorter than its solid-shot cousins
- A branch of the military using ships to conduct warfare. During the Civil War, “blue water” ships cruised the oceans and “brown water” boats floated up and down the rivers
- To formally approve or sanction
- A leave from duty, granted by a superior officer.
26 Clues: The lowest rank in the army. • To formally approve or sanction • A smoothbore firearm fired from the shoulder • To formally enroll in the army or to call roll. • A leave from duty, granted by a superior officer. • Slaves who had escaped to the Union lines for safety. • A crushing defeat where, often, the losers run from the field • ...
federalism 2018-11-29
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- returning power from the national government to states
- the national government has these under the Necessary and Proper Clause because they’re logical extensions of expressed powers
- demands on states to carry out specific policies (usually, but not always, with money provided by the national government)
- a system of taxing and spending within the federal system (usually it’s the national government providing money to states with some instructions on how to spend it)
- money and other resources given to states to spend on state and local activities, like when the national government gave state land which states sold to fund public universities
- both the national government and state governments may do these
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- says that one state must recognize and honor the official acts of other states, like marriages or criminal convictions
- the old idea that the national and state governments were equal authorities
- gives Congress the authority to make laws about economic activity that crosses state lines, or that may affect other states. Source of authority for many modern laws.
- what the constitution explicitly says Congress can do
- not mentioned specifically in the constitution, these may be done by states because the constitution neither assigns them to the national government nor prohibits them to states
11 Clues: what the constitution explicitly says Congress can do • returning power from the national government to states • both the national government and state governments may do these • the old idea that the national and state governments were equal authorities • ...
chapter 12 reconstruction 2024-04-11
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- American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
- restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.
- The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- a political party in which their views were "radical".
- provides food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
- the era following the Civil War, was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States.
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- No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
- to charge with a crime or misconduct
- The Wade–Davis Bill of 1864 was a bill "to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government,"
- Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War, and were perceived to be exploiting the local populace
- white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
- Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States
- a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
13 Clues: to charge with a crime or misconduct • a political party in which their views were "radical". • Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States • American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church • a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop • ...
Starting A New Nation 2023-09-25
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- This plan Favors the smaller states with less people/ every state regardless of size. The same number of representatives.
- Marbury V "_" Established and created judicial review, an important addition to checks and balances.
- The "_" Tariff is a tax on imported goods so people would be insured to buy American goods instead.
- In the Virginia And Kentucky "_" 2 states say they are not going to follow the Alien and Sedition Acts because they are unconstitutional and violate the first amendment.
- This is the process for creating new states, new land is divided into 5 new territories/ states. Northwest "_"
- The Bill of "_" were the first ten amendments used to protect people from the government, all are granted to these amendments.
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- The Alien and "_" Acts were used to quiet the democrats/republicans after criticism against John Adams for being a federalist.
- Articles of "_" The first new constitution that was weak and very ineffective, the states would often ignore it.
- The Great "_" satisfies both the larger and smaller states creating a government with three branches.
- The upper house of the U.S., all states get two votes, one hundred in total.
- House of "_" The lower house of the U.S., the number of votes or representatives is determined only on population.
- In "_" Rebellion, 12,000 angry farms have to pay taxes and are getting foreclosed by the banks leading them to destruction.
- This plan Introduced in 1787, favors the larger states with more people, more people equals more votes!
13 Clues: The upper house of the U.S., all states get two votes, one hundred in total. • The "_" Tariff is a tax on imported goods so people would be insured to buy American goods instead. • Marbury V "_" Established and created judicial review, an important addition to checks and balances. • ...
Marketing Chapter 2 Vocabulary 2022-08-25
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- Refers to statistics that describe a population in terms of personal characteristics
- The money left after taking out income taxes
- 40 million babies born in the United States between 1965 and 1976
- People who use the product
- All potential customers who share common needs and wants, and who have the ability and willingness to buy the product
- Also known as the 4 P’s of Marketing; product, place, price, and promotion
- Analyzing a market by specific characteristics in order to create a specific target market
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- Studies of consumers based on social and psychological characteristics
- 77 million babies born in the United States between 1977 and 1997
- The segmentation of the market based on where people live
- Information about the target market about age, income level, ethnic background, occupation, attitudes, lifestyle, or geographic residence
- 76 million babies born in the United States between 1946 and 1964
- The money left after paying for basic living necessities like food, shelter and clothing
- Focusing all marketing decisions on a very specific group of people who you want to reach
- States that businesses must satisfy customer’s needs and wants in order to make a profit
- 68 million babies born in the United States between 1998 and 2012
- People who buy the product
17 Clues: People who use the product • People who buy the product • The money left after taking out income taxes • The segmentation of the market based on where people live • 77 million babies born in the United States between 1977 and 1997 • 40 million babies born in the United States between 1965 and 1976 • 76 million babies born in the United States between 1946 and 1964 • ...
Module 9 Review 2017-10-17
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- “The Black Moses”
- law requiring all runaway slaves to be returned
- Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
- Theory that states have the right to nullify acts of the federal government
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- President of the Confederacy
- Lincoln's main goal as President was to keep the _______ together
- In the Dred Scott case, Chief Justice Taney of the Supreme Court ruled that slavery was protected under the Constitution under the _______ amendment.
- U.S. abolitionist/terrorist
- Lincoln received _________ percent of the vote in the lower Southern states
- Network of Men and Women, called “conductors” who helped runaway slaves north
- Ran against Lincoln in the Election of 1860
- book that discussed slavery
- __________ States of America was the government set up by the southern states
- Beaten nearly to death on the Senate floor for his anti-slavery views; "Bleeding _______"
- 16th US President, won the Election of 1860
- removing one's state from the union
16 Clues: “The Black Moses” • U.S. abolitionist/terrorist • book that discussed slavery • President of the Confederacy • Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" • removing one's state from the union • Ran against Lincoln in the Election of 1860 • 16th US President, won the Election of 1860 • law requiring all runaway slaves to be returned • ...
Geometry 4-1 and 4-2 Vocabulary 2013-11-11
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- An interior angle that is not adjacent to the exterior angle
- The theorem 4-2-2 states that the acute angles of a right triangle are __________.
- A triangle with three congruent angles
- All the points inside a figure
- A triangle with three congruent sides
- A triangle with three acute angles
- The theorem 4-2-3 states that the __________ of each angle in an equiangular triangle is 60 degrees
- A triangle with no congruent sides
- A triangle with one obtuse angle
- An angle formed by a side of a triangle and an extended adjacent side
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- The theorem 4-2-4 states that an exterior angle is equal to the sum of the __________.
- All the points outside a figure
- A theorem that states that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees
- A triangle with one right angle
- A triangle with two congruent sides
- An angle inside a triangle
16 Clues: An angle inside a triangle • All the points inside a figure • All the points outside a figure • A triangle with one right angle • A triangle with one obtuse angle • A triangle with three acute angles • A triangle with no congruent sides • A triangle with two congruent sides • A triangle with three congruent sides • A triangle with three congruent angles • ...
Geometry 4-1 and 4-2 Vocabulary 2013-11-11
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- The theorem 4-2-2 states that the acute angles of a right triangle are __________.
- All the points outside a figure
- A triangle with three congruent sides
- A triangle with two congruent sides
- A triangle with three congruent angles
- A triangle with three acute angles
- An interior angle that is not adjacent to the exterior angle
- All the points inside a figure
- A triangle with one obtuse angle
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- An angle formed by a side of a triangle and an extended adjacent side
- A triangle with no congruent sides
- A triangle with one right angle
- The theorem 4-2-3 states that the __________ of each angle in an equiangular triangle is 60 degrees
- The theorem 4-2-4 states that an exterior angle is equal to the sum of the __________.
- A theorem that states that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees
- An angle inside a triangle
16 Clues: An angle inside a triangle • All the points inside a figure • A triangle with one right angle • All the points outside a figure • A triangle with one obtuse angle • A triangle with no congruent sides • A triangle with three acute angles • A triangle with two congruent sides • A triangle with three congruent sides • A triangle with three congruent angles • ...
Early Astronomers 2024-01-22
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- The first to propose a heliocentric model.
- Model with the sun at the center.
- Formulated and tested the Law of Universal Gravitation.
- Concluded that the Earth is shaped like a sphere.
- Accurately provided measurements of stars and planets before the telescope.
- Distance of the Earth to the sun is 93 million miles.
- The apparent motion of a planet moving backwards.
- Law states that the path of a planet is an ellipse.
- The measure of oval a closed circle is.
- This law states that the closer a planet is to the sun, the shorter the orbital period.
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- The first to propose that Earth is a planet.
- States that every object in the universe attracts every other object.
- Discovered retrograde movement.
- Discovered the three laws of planetary motion.
- Model with the Earth at the center.
- This law states that equal areas are covered in equal time as a planet revolves around the sun.
16 Clues: Discovered retrograde movement. • Model with the sun at the center. • Model with the Earth at the center. • The measure of oval a closed circle is. • The first to propose a heliocentric model. • The first to propose that Earth is a planet. • Discovered the three laws of planetary motion. • Concluded that the Earth is shaped like a sphere. • ...
Deployments-USFacts 2025-03-19
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- America's National Animal (two words)
- How many states are there in the United States? (in words)
- What sport is known as America's National Passtime?
- This is a unique spot where 4 american states share borders (three words)
- Where was the Declaration of Independence Signed?
- This is the hottest place on Earth (two words)
- Which city is known as the Mile High City?
- Which state is called the Sunshine State?
- What famous speech did Abraham Lincoln give? (two words)
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- How many original colonies contituted the United States?
- What is the name of the largest of the 5 great lakes? (two words)
- In which national park would you find Old Faithful?
- This city is home to the famous Sunset Boulevard
- Which famous festival/carnival is held in New Orleans every year? (two words)
- Which city is also known as Sin City?
- What city is known as the Big Apple?
16 Clues: What city is known as the Big Apple? • America's National Animal (two words) • Which city is also known as Sin City? • Which state is called the Sunshine State? • Which city is known as the Mile High City? • This is the hottest place on Earth (two words) • This city is home to the famous Sunset Boulevard • Where was the Declaration of Independence Signed? • ...
United States Fun Facts 2021-07-18
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- is home to, Rainbow Bridge, the largest natural stone bridge in the world
- the only roller skating museum in the world is found in Lincoln, _______________
- Coca-Cola was first bottled in 1894 in Vicksburg, _________
- the tallest building in the U.S., Sears Tower, is found in Chicago ________________
- has the longest coastline in the U.S. It measures 6,640 miles and is greater than that of all the other states combined
- the Girl Scouts were founded in Savannah ___________ by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912
- hampshire artificial rain was first used near Concord, ___________ in 1947 to fight a forest fire
- 98% of the world's crayfish is found here
- the first electric traffic light was invented and installed in Cleveland, ____________ in 1914
- produces the most maple syrup in the U.S.
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- the first magazine in America, The America Magazine, was published in Philadelphia _______________ for 3 months in 1741
- most of the country's glass marbles are made around Parkersburg, _________________
- the typewriter was invented in Milwaukee, ____________ in 1867
- is home to the first World Series in 1903 The Boston Pilgrims vs. the Pittsburgh Pirates
- is home to the first log cabins in North America, build by Swedish Immigrants in 1683
- the only active diamond mine in the U.S. is found in _______________
- the only royal palace in the U.S. is found in ___________________
- carolina the first tea farm in the U.S. was created in 1890 near Summerville, _____________________
- dakota the world's largest natural indoor warm water pool, Evan's Plunge is founded in Hot Springs, ____________
- the world's smallest park, totaling 452 inches, was created in Portland, _____________ on St. Patrick's Day for Leprechauns and snail races
20 Clues: 98% of the world's crayfish is found here • produces the most maple syrup in the U.S. • Coca-Cola was first bottled in 1894 in Vicksburg, _________ • the typewriter was invented in Milwaukee, ____________ in 1867 • the only royal palace in the U.S. is found in ___________________ • the only active diamond mine in the U.S. is found in _______________ • ...
Baltic States and Ukraine 2022-04-11
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- estonia has the most of this type of crater per square mile
- The Baltic states came to be when what fell in 1991
- This place is home to more than a third of latvians
- What is the 2nd color on the estonian flag
- What is the color of the middle stripe in the Lithuanian flag?
- Lithuania borders russia in which cardinal direction that none of the other baltic states do
- The first name of the Ukrainian president
- This country is between the two other Baltic States
- In which baltic state can you expiernce life as a soviet prisoner
- Estonia has the highest or lowest mountains in the Baltics
- Latvia has the oldest or newest flag in the world
- This country is the southernmost Baltic state
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- What is the top color on the Ukrainian flag?
- Lithuania has the most of this typer of air baloons
- The geographical center of Europe
- What type of pants originated from latvia
- Estonia is the first country to adapt what type of voting
- Latvia has what type of territory overseas
- Which country is currently under attack from Russia
- You can become a citizen of this country without living in it
- What is the botton color on the Ukrainian flag?
21 Clues: The geographical center of Europe • What type of pants originated from latvia • The first name of the Ukrainian president • What is the 2nd color on the estonian flag • Latvia has what type of territory overseas • What is the top color on the Ukrainian flag? • This country is the southernmost Baltic state • What is the botton color on the Ukrainian flag? • ...
Baltic States and Ukraine 2022-04-11
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- Who founded Latvia?
- What is the capital of Ukraine?
- What year was Ukraine founded?
- Who founded estonia?
- Who was Ukraine settled by?
- How many people live in Ukraine?
- Which baltic country is the poorest?
- What is the capital of Lithuania?
- Who is the leader of estonia?
- Which baltic country is the smallest?
- Who is the leader of lithuania?
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- Which Baltic state is the biggest out of all the 3?
- How many people live in Latvia?
- What is the capital of Estonia?
- Who founded Lithuania?
- Who is the leader of Latvia?
- What is the capital of Latvia?
- Who is the leader of Ukraine?
- and Lithuanian, What language do the Baltics speak?
- Europe, Which continent are the Baltic countries located in?
20 Clues: Who founded Latvia? • Who founded estonia? • Who founded Lithuania? • Who was Ukraine settled by? • Who is the leader of Latvia? • Who is the leader of Ukraine? • Who is the leader of estonia? • What year was Ukraine founded? • What is the capital of Latvia? • What is the capital of Ukraine? • How many people live in Latvia? • What is the capital of Estonia? • ...
States and Countries - LH 2023-11-20
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- Disneyworld
- Acropolis Of Athens
- Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Honolulu
- St.Basil's Cathedral
- Space Needle
- Tokyo Tower
- The Great Pyramid Of Giza
- The White House
- Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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- Amazon Theater
- Acadia National Park
- Paris
- Home of peaches
- Dallas Cowboys
- Niagara Falls
- Great Wall of China
- Statue of Liberty
- Golden Gate Bridge
19 Clues: Paris • Honolulu • Disneyworld • Tokyo Tower • Space Needle • Niagara Falls • Amazon Theater • Dallas Cowboys • Home of peaches • The White House • Statue of Liberty • Golden Gate Bridge • Acropolis Of Athens • Great Wall of China • Acadia National Park • St.Basil's Cathedral • Leaning Tower of Pisa • Rock & Roll Hall of Fame • The Great Pyramid Of Giza
UNITED STATES OF RIK 2025-06-23
19 Clues: ibu klaim • si bungsu • si satset • pak ustad • ibu santuy • ibu warung • ibu penilik • menteri SDM • juru bicara • miss ontime • ibu penengah • kepala dinas • pria bayaran • vokalis maliq • bumbu basreng • tukang plastik • menteri logistik • menteri keuangan • bank mekar tanpa bunga
States, Sports, and Animals 2026-04-24
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- It has a really long neck
- The 8-legged arachnid
- The state with the Space Needle
- The insect that kills the most people in a year
- The sport with holes on it's ball
- The biggest state in the U.S.A.
- The thing you hit is a birdie
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- A state near the Great Lakes
- The fastest animal in the world
- Also known as, "The King Of The Forest."
- The only state that has islands
- The most dangerous animal in the world
- The number one pet in the U.S.A.
- The sport with hexagons on the ball
- Has the Redwood Forest
- You shoot a ball into a basket
- A big fish we eat
- Its favorite food is bananas
- Has the team "Chiefs" in it
19 Clues: A big fish we eat • The 8-legged arachnid • Has the Redwood Forest • It has a really long neck • Has the team "Chiefs" in it • A state near the Great Lakes • Its favorite food is bananas • The thing you hit is a birdie • You shoot a ball into a basket • The fastest animal in the world • The only state that has islands • The state with the Space Needle • ...
Amendments crossword puzzle 2021-01-14
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- written orders authorizing a person to make an arrest
- Ganchoso
- explained or interpreted
- rights the right of Citizens of the United States
- the act of charging with a crime
- all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States
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- being forced to work against ones will
- the senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state
- found out
- disgraceful
- house
- of Congress the Congress shall assemble at least once a year
12 Clues: house • Ganchoso • found out • disgraceful • explained or interpreted • the act of charging with a crime • being forced to work against ones will • rights the right of Citizens of the United States • written orders authorizing a person to make an arrest • of Congress the Congress shall assemble at least once a year • ...
Unit 2 Test 2021-12-14
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- An agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. It was approved, after much debate, by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, and sent to the states for ratification.
- An American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Previously, he led Patriot forces to victory in the nation's War for Independence.
- An American soldier, revolutionary and farmer famous for being one of the leaders and namesake of Shays' Rebellion, a populist uprising against controversial debt collection and tax policies in Massachusetts.
- A proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature.
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- A form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly.
- Deemed "The Father of the Bill of Rights".
- The supreme law of the United States of America; Originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government.
- An agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
- Opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution.
- America's fourth President, made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federalist Papers. In later years, he was referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.”
- The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
- best known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia.
- During his lifetime he was a Founding Father, Signer of the Treaty of Paris, Second Governor of New York, and First Chief Justice of the United States.
13 Clues: Deemed "The Father of the Bill of Rights". • The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. • A form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly. • Opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution. • ...
ch.7 first 15 2021-04-15
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- machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793
- in which Spain gave up all of Florida to the United States
- States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states
- transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation - A time when large scale industrial production using machines changed Western society
- Court case which validated the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States, denying states' rights to tax it - denied Maryland the right to tax it - established Federal powers
- protective tariff helped American industry by raising the prices of British manufactured goods, which were often cheaper and of higher quality than those produced in the U.S.
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- highway built by the federal government; during 1825-1850; stretched from Pennsylvania to Illinois (Maryland to Illinois); major overland shipping route and important connection between North and West
- plan presented to Congress by President Madison for making the United States economically self-sufficient - A plan to strengthen the economy by uniting regions of the country promoted by Henry Clay
- of State, He served as sixth president under Monroe. In 1819, he drew up the Adams-Onis Treaty in which Spain gave the United States Florida in exchange for the United States dropping its claims to Texas. The Monroe Doctrine was mostly Adams' work.
- the cotton gin
- strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country - the belief that the nation's interests outweigh regional concerns
- parts-identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing
- American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers
- production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques)
- artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo - "Big Ditch" that linked Altnatic Ocean to Great Lakes - made New York harbor dominant port
15 Clues: the cotton gin • in which Spain gave up all of Florida to the United States • machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 • parts-identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing • States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states • ...
slavery and sectionalisum 2017-01-05
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- a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
- In American political discourse, states' rights refer to political powers reserved for the U.S. state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution
- was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850 in response to the Compromise of 1850. Supported by Unionists, the document affirmed the acceptance of the Compromise as a final resolution of the sectional slavery issues while declaring that no further assaults on Southern rights by the North would be acceptable.
- Farm-centered
- railroad a series of roads, house, river crossing and people who helped southern slaves.
- A state that allowed slavery
- those states in the United States in which slavery was prohibited before the Civil War
- to add on such as adding a territory to existing towns,
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- An older slaves that plantation owners thoughts was loyal and who supervised other slaves
- restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.
- the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled
- created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and President Franklin Pierce. The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad
- soil those states in the United States in which slavery was prohibited before the Civil War
- of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846
- Setting fire
15 Clues: Setting fire • Farm-centered • A state that allowed slavery • the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled • to add on such as adding a territory to existing towns, • those states in the United States in which slavery was prohibited before the Civil War • railroad a series of roads, house, river crossing and people who helped southern slaves. • ...
History Quiz 14 2024-05-02
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- bill that established plans for national security and the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- – the false belief that God does not exist
- – U.S. plan which offered financial help to European countries that had been harmed during World War II
- – period in which the United States and the Soviet Union threatened to use nuclear weapons against each other
- – Nasa’s first satellite
- – act which provide medical care through health insurance for senior citizens
- – organization formed after World War II in which nations of the world work together to solve problems
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration started by Dwight D Eisenhower
- of 1957 – bill passed to protect the rights of Black Americans to vote in elections, first bill regarding civil rights since the reconstruction
- an agreement to stop fighting
- – organization that sends out young volunteers to help improve living conditions of poor people in nations around the world
- – program in which the United States sent planes loaded with food and supplies to West Berlin, Germany
- – manmade channel connecting the St Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
- War fought from 1950-1953 in which the United Nations especially the United States helped defend South Korea against Communist North Korea
- Amendment – Constitutional amendment stating that if the President dies while in office the vice president will become president
- – wall built by the Soviet Union that separated the Communist and the free parts of Berlin, Germany
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- Amendment – a constitutional amendment which states that a person can serve in the office of president for only two terms
- Missile crisis – situation caused by the Soviet Union’s shipping missiles to Cuba for possible use against the United States
- – the first Black American four star general in the history of the U.S. airforce
- (NATO) group of countries that agreed to defend each other against a Communist invasion
- – conflict between communist North Vietnam and free South Vietnam in which the United States became involved
- - President Johnson’s plan to improve public education, conservation, poverty, crime, and civil rights
- the first American astronaut to orbit the earth
- – policy stating that the United States would use its power to stop the overthrow of a free country
- – 36th President became president after Kennedy’s death
- – System of highways that connect all parts of America
- Intelligence Agency – security organization that gathers information from other countries and provides it to the President of the United States
- – Communist dictator of Cuba
- – 35th president, youngest person elected president, assassinated in Dallas Texas
- - term used for the border that separated Communist countries from the free countries of Eastern Europe during the Cold War
30 Clues: – Nasa’s first satellite • – Communist dictator of Cuba • an agreement to stop fighting • – the false belief that God does not exist • the first American astronaut to orbit the earth • – 36th President became president after Kennedy’s death • – System of highways that connect all parts of America • ...
Lead up to the Civil War 2025-10-21
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- He spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching, and unleashed several schismatic movements.
- A system where individuals are treated as personal property that can be bought, sold, and inherited, stripping them of all legal rights and dehumanizing them
- A public and dehumanizing process of selling enslaved people as property.
- Was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
- is a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy that warned European powers against further colonization or interference in the Western Hemisphere.
- Confirmed slavery in the American territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in the United States, and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
- The political and social balance between the Northern and Southern states, where an equal number of free and slave states, was crucial to maintaining power in the United States Senate.
- Allowed the capture and return of fugitive enslaved persons
- Was an American abolitionist and social activist.
- People employed to track down and return runaway slaves to their owners.
- The theory that states have the right to void federal laws they deem unconstitutional
- He repealed the Missouri Compromise, organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and applied the principle of popular sovereignty to allow settlers to decide on the legality of slavery.
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- It was a period of violent conflict from 1854 to 1859 between slaveholders and antislavery settlers in the Kansas Territory
- It was a social movement that promoted the reduction or elimination of alcohol consumption.
- Compromise An agruculture products that increased alavery in the South.
- Was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.
- An American social reformer and an advocate for the mentally ill.
- The action of formally withdrawing from membership in a federation or body, especially a political state.
- An agricultural podructs that increased alavery in the South.
- A machine that quickly separates cotton fibers from seeds
- It was a secret network of routes, safe houses, and people that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the northern states and Canada, not an actual railroad.
- She was an American abolitionist and activist for African American civil rights, women's rights, and abstinence from alcohol.
- Is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- It was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army.
- The principle that all political power is vested in and derived from the people
- Was an American abolitionist in the decades leading up to the Civil War.
- Is the act of freeing someone from another's control
- was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
- The political movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved people
29 Clues: Was an American abolitionist and social activist. • Is the act of freeing someone from another's control • It was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army. • A machine that quickly separates cotton fibers from seeds • Allowed the capture and return of fugitive enslaved persons • An agricultural podructs that increased alavery in the South. • ...
Unit 1 AP Gopo Review 2026-01-05
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- The constitutional "marriage" between a national government and state governments
- The 10th Amendment’s "leftovers" belonging strictly to the states
- Flying mammal
- The philosophy that prevents "all eggs from being in one basket" by using three branches
- The concept that even the President has to stop at a red light
- A group with shared interests that may harm the public good
- Powers not written but reasonably suggested by the Constitution
- The official "thumbs up" or formal approval process for the Constitution
- Man's best friend
- The "Stretch Armstrong" of the Constitution that lets Congress expand its reach
- Essay explaining that "ambition must be made to counteract ambition"
- The 1995 case that told Congress the Commerce Clause isn't a "magic wand" for everything
- America’s first "Rough Draft" that gave the states way too much power
- A system where the people don't rule directly, but hire "middlemen" to do it
- The principle that the "consent of the governed" is the only thing giving the government power
- Locke’s "Essential Three" (life, liberty, property) that no king can take away
- A loose alliance of states with a weak central authority
- The "Grocery List" of specific things Congress is actually allowed to do
- The first ten "Thou Shalt Nots" directed at the federal government
- The group that wouldn't sign the "contract" until a Bill of Rights was added
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- The SCOTUS case that basically told states, "You can't tax your boss"
- Madison’s argument that "factions" are best controlled in a large republic
- A "layer cake" approach where the Fed and States stay in their own lanes
- The 1786 "wake-up call" that proved the Articles of Confederation were failing
- When both the Fed and the States reach into your wallet for taxes at the same time
- A "marble cake" era where the Fed and States share responsibilities
- The "Devolution" movement to give power back to the states
- System that prevents any branch from becoming too powerful
- An agreement where you trade a bit of "doing whatever you want" for protection
- The 1787 Philadelphia "brainstorming session" held to revise the Articles
- A fancy way of saying the legislative branch has two separate "rooms"
- The "Strong Central Gov" fan club led by Hamilton and Madison
- The idea that the Constitution is a leash, not a blank check
- The "Connecticut" solution that created a bicameral legislature
- The "I’m the Boss" clause that makes federal law win in a fight with state law
- A giraffe has seven of them
36 Clues: Flying mammal • Man's best friend • A giraffe has seven of them • A loose alliance of states with a weak central authority • The "Devolution" movement to give power back to the states • System that prevents any branch from becoming too powerful • A group with shared interests that may harm the public good • The idea that the Constitution is a leash, not a blank check • ...
Unit 1 - Foundations of Democracy - Myrtil 2023-01-24
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- Powers that go beyond those that are enumerated in the Constitution.
- The entire set of interactions among national, state, and local governments.
- Federal grants that can be used only for specific purposes, or "categories," of state and local spending.
- Federal categorical grants distributed according to a formula specified in legislation or in administrative regulations.
- The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional.
- Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, which allows Congress to make all laws that are "necessary and proper" to carry out the powers of the Constitution.
- Federal categorical grants given for specific purposes and awarded on the basis of the merits of applications.
- A legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one state to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.
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- The provision of the Constitution according citizens of each state the privileges of citizens of other states.
- A centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency.
- A way of organizing a nation so that two or more levels of government share formal authority over the same area and people.
- A system of government in which powers and policy assignments are shared between states and the national government.
- An 1819 Supreme Court decision that established the supremacy of the national government over state governments. In deciding this case, Chief Justice John Marshall and his colleagues held that Congress had certain implied powers in addition to the enumerated powers found in the Constitution.
- The pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal system; it is the cornerstone of the national government's relations with state and local governments.
- Powers specifically given to Congress in the Constitution; including the power to collect taxes, coin money, regulate foreign and interstate commerce, and declare war.
- Federal grants given more or less automatically to states or communities to support broad programs in areas such as community development and social services.
- The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
- The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
- The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
- Article VI of the Constitution, which makes the Constitution, national laws, and treaties supreme over state laws when the national government is acting within its constitutional limits.
20 Clues: The first ten amendments to the Constitution. • The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional. • Powers that go beyond those that are enumerated in the Constitution. • The entire set of interactions among national, state, and local governments. • A centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency. • ...
Sub Work 1-9 2023-01-09
Across
- small oil refineries in the Cleveland area
- authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals
- a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way
- is a business strategy in which one company grows its operations at the same level in an industry
- period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s that gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism
- United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years
- argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893
- extremely wealthy Americans like himself had a responsibility to spend their money in order to benefit the greater good
- a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864
- among the first in the United States to conceive of photographic images as instruments for social change
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- organized unskilled and skilled workers, campaigned for an eight hour workday, and aspired to form a cooperative society in which laborers owned the industries in which they worked
- the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States
- insulate a company from competition by integrating every aspect of production into a single company, thus eliminating middlemen.
- financiers who made fortunes by monopolizing huge industries through the formation of trusts, engaging in unethical business practices, exploiting workers, and paying little heed to their customers or competition
- North American Indian religious cult of the second half of the 19th century, based on the performance of a ritual dance that, it was believed, would drive away white people and restore the traditional lands and way of life.
- speech delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States Representative from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896
- Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies.
- the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals
- federally owned island in New York Harbor, situated within the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, that was the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States
- a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army
20 Clues: small oil refineries in the Cleveland area • argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 • a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army • is a business strategy in which one company grows its operations at the same level in an industry • ...
Unit 2 Vocab 2023-02-01
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- provided for a bicameral legislature, with representation in the House of Representatives according to population and in the Senate by equal numbers for each state.
- He is the only person to sign four of the great state papers of the United States related to the founding: the Continental Association, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and U.S. Constitution.
- An England-born political philosopher and writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe.
- /Imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England.
- /A remarkable political philosopher, served as the second President of the United States
- One of the foremost of the Founding Fathers, he helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was one of its signers, he represented the United States in France during the American Revolution, and he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
- /That the government should serve the will of the people had also been developing in England for several centuries.
- / a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
- /A union of sovereign groups or states united for purposes of common action.
- /A principal's approval of an act of its agent that lacked the authority to bind the principal legally.
- An agreement among the 13 states of the United States of America, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government.
- known as the Charter of 1606, is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights to colonists for the creation of a settlement
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- He was known as "The Chancellor" after the high New York state legal office he held for 25 years
- /set the terms for ratifying the Constitution.
- /The principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.
- / a person selected to represent a group of people in some political assembly of the United States.
- A legislature that consists of only one house
- Government is restricted in what it may do, and every individual has certain rights that the government cannot take away.
- a standing army in peace- time, except with the consent of Parliament.
- /made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it.
- An act of nonviolent, voluntary abstention from a product, person, organization, or country as an expression of protest.
- / Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
- /Limited the king's power in several ways.
- /The Great Charter at Runnymede in 1215.
24 Clues: /The Great Charter at Runnymede in 1215. • /Limited the king's power in several ways. • /set the terms for ratifying the Constitution. • A legislature that consists of only one house • a standing army in peace- time, except with the consent of Parliament. • /A union of sovereign groups or states united for purposes of common action. • ...
Civics study guide 2 2020-12-01
Across
- each branch of power checks the others so no one branch can dominate the government (even tho there's highkey no check on Judicial power)
- the process by which the Constitution was put into law
- Branch of government that enforces laws
- Black slaves can be counted as part of a state's population when determining representation, but only as a fraction of a free white person
- The government practices self-control and doesn't oppress people too much, and if it wants to, it has to delegate its oppressive power to the states.
- Branch of government that checks if laws or actions of other branches are constitutional.
- Right to remain silent
- Right to bare arms
- Freedom from unreasonable search and seizure
- The place where the Constitution was ratified
- All power not given to the Federal Government in the Constitution belongs to the States or to the People
- Right to a jury trial for suits above $20
- Right to other rights not specified in the Constitution
- Freedom of Speech, The Press, Religion, Assembly, and the right to Petition the Government
- Branch of government that makes laws
- The Supreme Court reserves the right to over-ride any law or action done by other parts of the government if they are unconstiuttional (or if they feel like it; have fun with ur "separation of powers"
- a legal document that serves as the basis of a country
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- Opposers of the new Constitution
- similarly to Limited Government, the central government has to delegate its power unto states, which then delegate their power unto counties. It is the job of the counties to oppress you, and yet, somehow, it always ends up being the states of the central government. Isn't that crazy?
- Supporters of the new Constitution
- gave too much power to the states, not enough to the federal government. Really failed to make a single "country"
- The people rule the country and get to make important decisions, not just the rich and powerful or the political elites
- first constitution of the united states
- The part of our Constitution that outlines the goals of the country and why it's set up the way it is.
- Right to a jury trial
- Right to refuse soldiers quarter
- Power, rather than being concentrated in a single place, is split betwixt many branches and people. These people have to work together if they want to oppress you (something they're surprisingly good at doing, actually)
- Freedom from Cruel and Unusual Punishment
- created new states in the Midwest and made sure they were free states
29 Clues: Right to bare arms • Right to a jury trial • Right to remain silent • Opposers of the new Constitution • Right to refuse soldiers quarter • Supporters of the new Constitution • Branch of government that makes laws • first constitution of the united states • Branch of government that enforces laws • Freedom from Cruel and Unusual Punishment • ...
Kaja - Our Puzzling Government #2 2022-11-18
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- 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).
- powers that congress has that are specifically listed in the constitution spelled out expressly.
- Constitution's requirement that each state accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state
- Powers that are shared by both the Nationaly and state governments
- An act creating a new state
- Constitutional agreement by which the national government is created by and relies on subnational governments for its authority
- Mandates that impose costs on state and local governments without reimbursement from the federal government
- Grants made to States, private agencies for projects
- powers saved for the states
- An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
- One type of federal grants-in-aid for some particular but broadly defined area of public policy
- No State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other States
- Thought that Government should be free of parties
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- Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution, for example, the authority to print money.
- Powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone
- Powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution reasonably suggested.
- Network of political, financial, and administrative relationships between units of the federal government and those of state and local governments.
- Passing down of responsibilities from the national government to the states.
- Grants of federal money or other resources to the states or their cities, counties, and other local units.
- A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
- The first step in the state admission procedure which enables the people of a territory to prepare a constitution
- 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)
- The surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty)
- Grant for which Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose
- Direct federal orders to state and local governments requiring them to perform a service or to obey federal laws in the performance of their functions.
- Giving money back to the state and local government with no strings attached
26 Clues: An act creating a new state • powers saved for the states • Thought that Government should be free of parties • Grants made to States, private agencies for projects • Powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone • Powers that are shared by both the Nationaly and state governments • Grant for which Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose • ...
Chapter 2,3 Crossword Puzzle-Week 2 Activity 2019-08-28
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- Those who opposed the new proposed Constitution during the ratification period
- Powers retained by the states under the Constitution
- Government structure in which authority is divided among branches with each holding seperate and independent powers and areas of responsibility
- Meeting in 1787 at which twelve states intended to revise the Articles of Confederation but ended up proposing an entirely new Constitution
- Form of democracy in which political power is excerised directly by citizens
- Powers expressly granted to Congress by the Constitution
- Gives Congrress the power to tax to provide for the general welfare
- The 1776 document declaring American independence from Great Britain and calling for equality, human rights, and citizen participation
- Gives Congress the power to regulate commerce with foregin nations
- Form of government in which power derives from citizens but public officals make policy and govern according to existing law
- Authority of courts to declare laws passed by congress and acts of the executive branch to be unconstitutional
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- First ten amendments to the Constitution which provide basic political rights
- Process for selecting state judges whereby the original nomination is by appointment, and subsequent retention is by a retention election
- Systems of government in which ultimate authority rests in the national government
- Compromise on legislative representation whereby the lower chamber is based on population and the upper chamber provides equal representation to the states
- Formal process of changing the Constitution
- System of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between national and state governments
- Authority of the president to block legislation passed by congress.
- Gives Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper to the powers enumerated
- Required states to return runaway slaves, 13th Amendment
- Powers not expressly granted to Congress but added through the necessary and proper clause
- Government structure that authorizes each branch of the government to share powers with other branches and can take control over the other branches
- Initial governing authority of the United States, 1781- 1788
- Makes federal law supreme over state laws
- Powers held by both the national and state govenments in a federal system
- Doctrine holding that state govenments and the federal government have almost completly seperate functions
- Document or set of documents that establish the basic rules and procedures for how a society shall be governed
- The presidential electors selected to represent the voters of their respective states to cast electoral votes for president and vice president
- States have strong independent authority to resist federal rules under the Consitution
- Rights of states to invalidate acts of Congress they believe to be illegal
- Supports of the Consitution during the raficiation period and later the political party established by Alexander Hamilton
31 Clues: Makes federal law supreme over state laws • Formal process of changing the Constitution • Powers retained by the states under the Constitution • Required states to return runaway slaves, 13th Amendment • Powers expressly granted to Congress by the Constitution • Initial governing authority of the United States, 1781- 1788 • ...
Unit 4 Remediation 2024-12-20
Across
- area which can govern itself in certain areas, but does not have complete power to govern
- boundary in the natural landscape that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place as people moved in
- with two or more nations (includes most states)
- buffer zone created by treaties/agreements between two or more military powers that falls on either side of the actual boundary
- final authority over a territory and the right to defend territorial integrity against incursion
- political and/or economic alliance of three or more states that is formed for mutual benefit to promote shared goals and resolve disputes, but can limit the economic or political actions of member states creating a challenge to state sovereignty
- nation who do not have its own independent state
- political,economic and social alliance aimed at promoting greater unity, cohesion, and efficiency of African states and reducing the strains of their colonial roots
- aimed at promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among Arctic states, Arctic indigenous communities and other Arctic inhabitants
- military alliance formed after WWII between the U.S., Canada and 26 European states to ensure mutual assistance in times of aggression
- economic alliance to gradually eliminate tariffs and trade barriers between the U.S., Canada, Mexico
- economic alliance between European countries (1992)
- policies or actions designed to induce states to change their behavior
- boundary that is drawn by powerful outsiders and ignores existing cultural groups
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- power expressed geographically as control over people, land, and resources
- an area that governs itself, but is not an independent country
- the transfer of decision-making power from a central government to a lower level
- union formed to promote international world peace and security after WWII, comprised of 6 principal organs that meet to decide on common issues and policies
- boundary that coincides with cultural groups (religion, language) subsequent boundaryboundary that evolves as the cultural landscape of an area takes shape and changes as cultural landscape changes
- economicallianceaimed at improving development in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, and Brunei
- connection of people, their culture, and their economic systems to the land creating a desire for ownership over a defined space
- political unit with a permanent population and boundaries that are recognized by other states that allows for the administration of laws, collection of taxes, and provision of defense
- people who think of themselves as one based on a sense of shared culture and history and who desire political autonomy
- boundary that no longer exists as an international border, but remnants of its existence remain
24 Clues: with two or more nations (includes most states) • nation who do not have its own independent state • economic alliance between European countries (1992) • an area that governs itself, but is not an independent country • policies or actions designed to induce states to change their behavior • ...
APUSH Period 5 2024-12-19
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- An executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, declaring all slaves in Confederate-held territory to be free.
- The idea that political power resides with the people, who can determine the status of slavery in a territory through voting.
- A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that depicted the harsh realities of slavery and played a role in increasing anti-slavery sentiments.
- A political movement in the mid-19th century that opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories.
- A government agency established during Reconstruction to aid freed slaves in various aspects of life.
- A famous speech by President Abraham Lincoln, delivered in 1863 during the Civil War, emphasizing national unity and equality.
- The 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), who became president after Lincoln's assassination and faced challenges during Reconstruction.
- A landmark Supreme Court case that ruled enslaved individuals were property and not citizens, exacerbating sectional tensions.
- Granted the right to vote to all male citizens, regardless of race or color.
- A law passed in 1850 that required the return of escaped slaves to their owners, even if they were in free states.
- A system where landless farmers worked on land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops.
- Formed in the 1850s, this political party opposed the spread of slavery into new territories.
- Laws passed by southern states during Reconstruction to restrict the rights of freed slaves.
- The 11th President of the United States known for his role in the Mexican-American War and the acquisition of Oregon territory.
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- A conflict between the United States and its southern neighbor, resulting in the U.S. gaining significant territory, including California and the Southwest.
- Legislation that allowed settlers in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether to allow slavery based on popular sovereignty.
- The 19th-century belief that the expansion of the United States across the continent was both God-ordained and inevitable.
- Granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
- An abolitionist who believed in using violent means to end slavery and led the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
- The constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
- The act of breaking away from a larger body.
- A faction of the Republican Party during Reconstruction that advocated for more stringent measures against the South.
- Proposed legislation to prohibit slavery in territory acquired from Mexico, but it was never passed.
- The period after the Civil War aimed at rebuilding the South and integrating freed slaves into society.
24 Clues: The act of breaking away from a larger body. • The constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States. • Granted the right to vote to all male citizens, regardless of race or color. • Laws passed by southern states during Reconstruction to restrict the rights of freed slaves. • ...
Antebellum Vocab 2021-12-02
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- RAILROAD network of homes, farms, and churches from the South to the North
- right of people living in a territory to decide whether to be a free or slave state
- an arms storehouse
- person responsible for assigning work and supervising slaves
- a slave placed in charge of other slaves
- when people in one area think their ideas are correct or more important than others
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- STATES states that permitted slavery
- people who worked to abolish slavery
- the period before the Civil War
- RIGHTS the idea that powers not given to the federal government belong to each state
- CODE set of laws that defined social, economic, and physical limitations placed on slaves
- actions that deny people their rights because of prejudice
- STATES states that did not permit slavery
- SOILERS people who did not want slavery extended into western territories
14 Clues: an arms storehouse • the period before the Civil War • STATES states that permitted slavery • people who worked to abolish slavery • a slave placed in charge of other slaves • STATES states that did not permit slavery • actions that deny people their rights because of prejudice • person responsible for assigning work and supervising slaves • ...
Reconstruction 2024-04-11
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- The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
- an act of calling into question the integrity or validity of something
- laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters
- the 7th US President
- their goal of immediate, complete, and permanent eradication of slavery in the United States
- he was the first African American to serve in either house of the U.S. Congress.
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- a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
- to provide for the admission to representation of rebel states upon meeting certain conditions
- a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way, a rascal.
- the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems
- a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
- provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
- No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;
13 Clues: the 7th US President • an act of calling into question the integrity or validity of something • he was the first African American to serve in either house of the U.S. Congress. • their goal of immediate, complete, and permanent eradication of slavery in the United States • ...
crossword 2022-01-25
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- controversial political doctrine according to which the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states
- general term for transacting or transportation of products, services, or money across state borders.
- relating to the running of a home or to family relations.
- The courts review laws.
- support for a republican system of government.
- Congress has two parts, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
- counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups.
- the elected head of a republic
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- review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act.
- the principle that the greater number should exercise greater power.
- controversial political doctrine according to which the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states
- is the legislative branch of the federal government that represents the American people and makes the nation's laws
- the United States is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States of
- the federal principle or system of government.
- directs, plans, and coordinates operational activities for their organization or company
- can be made to existing constitutions and statutes and are also commonly made to bills in the course of their passage through a legislature.
- the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
- kicking off president
- the division of government responsibilities into distinct branches to limit any one branch from exercising the core functions of another.
- ? of United States of America 1789
20 Clues: kicking off president • The courts review laws. • the elected head of a republic • ? of United States of America 1789 • the federal principle or system of government. • support for a republican system of government. • relating to the running of a home or to family relations. • the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. • ...
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution 2022-05-10
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- The amendment in which guaranteed African-American men the right to vote
- The thing that enables Hayes to take office in return for the end of Reconstruction. freedmenbureau Government set up schools and hospitals for former slaves.
- Author of the 13th Amendment
- Parts of the Bill of Rights have been made applicable to states using this doctrine.
- a U.S. secret group made up of white people who are opposed to people of other races
- They were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern united states.
- The right to vote in public
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- Discussed rights that arise from national citizenship
- It is a relationship between a person and a government to which the person owes loyalty and is so entitled to protection.
- president that assumed after Lincoln's death.
- First ten amendments to the constitution
- The amendment that abolished slavery in the United States
- It was a set of laws that governed African Americans' behavior.
- Author of the 14th Amendment
- It is the condition in which one human being was owned by another.
- The war fought between Americans from 1861-1865
- The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War.
- The amendment in which Citizens of the United States and the state in which they reside are all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its authority.
- The state in which everyone gets treated the same.
19 Clues: The right to vote in public • Author of the 13th Amendment • Author of the 14th Amendment • First ten amendments to the constitution • president that assumed after Lincoln's death. • The war fought between Americans from 1861-1865 • The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. • The state in which everyone gets treated the same. • ...
Civil War Vocab 2026-03-30
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- Nickname for a Union soldier.
- Soldiers who fight on foot.
- The Northern states that remained loyal to the federal government.
- A 19th-century warship protected by iron plates, marking the end of wooden navies.
- A person killed, wounded, captured, or missing during a battle.
- A system of required military service (also known as conscription).
- Soldiers who fight on horseback.
- A strategy of destroying an enemy’s resources (crops, railroads, factories) to break their will to fight.
- An exaggerated loyalty to one’s own region of the country (the North or the South) rather than to the nation as a whole.
- A system where the residents of a territory vote to decide whether or not to allow slavery.
- To formally withdraw from an organization or alliance (in this case, the Union).
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- The idea that states should have more power than the federal government, specifically regarding the right to allow slavery.
- Address A famous, short speech by Lincoln dedicated to the principles of human equality and the preservation of the Union.
- An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control.
- The 11 Southern states that seceded to form their own nation.
- A person who worked to end slavery.
- Using ships to close off a port to prevent supplies from entering.
- Slave states that did not secede (DE, MD, KY, MO).
- Nickname for a Confederate soldier.
19 Clues: Soldiers who fight on foot. • Nickname for a Union soldier. • Soldiers who fight on horseback. • A person who worked to end slavery. • Nickname for a Confederate soldier. • Slave states that did not secede (DE, MD, KY, MO). • The 11 Southern states that seceded to form their own nation. • A person killed, wounded, captured, or missing during a battle. • ...
Geometry CH2 Lessons 2-5 through 2-9 Vocab 2025-08-22
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- statements are listed in a logical order in the left column and corresponding reasons in the right column until a desired conclusion is reached.
- A conditional statement and its converse can be combined into one statement called a biconditional statement. For a statement with a hypothesis 𝑝 and a conclusion 𝑞, the biconditional statement can be written in the form “𝑝 if and only if 𝑞,” which can be expressed as “𝑝 iff 𝑞” or 𝑝𝑞.
- describes the meaning of a word. In mathematics, definitions can be written as true biconditional statements.
- states that if two angles are complements to the same angle (or to congruent angles), then they are congruent.
- a statement that you can prove. Once you have proven a theorem, it can be used as a reason in later proofs.
- states that the sides of congruence statement can be interchanged.
- states that any figure is congruent to itself.
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- states that if two angles are supplements to the same angle (or to congruent angles), then they are congruent.
- states that if two figures are congruent to a third, then they are congruent to each other.
- states that all right angles are congruent.
- states that two angles that form a linear pair are supplementary.
- states that vertical angles are congruent.
- an argument used to show that a conclusion is true. Proofs use given information, definitions, properties, postulates, and theorems to justify each step in the reasoning process used to reach a conclusion.
13 Clues: states that vertical angles are congruent. • states that all right angles are congruent. • states that any figure is congruent to itself. • states that two angles that form a linear pair are supplementary. • states that the sides of congruence statement can be interchanged. • ...
U.S. History Crossword Puzzle 2022-11-09
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- first African-American child to enter an all-white school in New Orleans.
- The United States fought a war in this country, which included events such as the Tet Offensive and the My Lai Massacre.
- This President made the Louisiana Purchase during his presidency (last name)
- Famous saying during the American Revolution. "No ___________ without representation."
- U.S. President who was assassinated while visiting Dallas, TX. (last name)
- This President issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves.
- Often called the "Wall of Shame", was torn down in 1989.
- Astronaut who was the first person to walk on the moon. (last name)
- Attack on this Naval base pushed the United States into World War II.
- First African-American to play Major League Baseball. (last name)
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- President who dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. (last name)
- President for only 31 days (last name)
- The only president to resign as President of the United States.
- President during 9/11.His father was also president.
- The first United States capital, also known as the "City of Brotherly Love"
- Civil Rights activist who became a symbol after refusing to give up her bus seat.
- The battle of _______________ was a major battle in the Civil War which took place on July 1-3, 1863.
- Only President born in Hawaii, 44th President of the United States. (last name)
18 Clues: President for only 31 days (last name) • President during 9/11.His father was also president. • Often called the "Wall of Shame", was torn down in 1989. • President who dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. (last name) • The only president to resign as President of the United States. • First African-American to play Major League Baseball. (last name) • ...
The Articles of Confederation 2026-03-06
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- who favored a weaker federal government and gave more power to the people and states
- who wanted a strong central government that had more power over the people and states
- author of the Declaration of Independence
- chosen to serve as a delegate of Massachusetts at the 1787 Constitutional Convention
- He wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights
- Congress elected ____ to lead the Confederation Congress
- a talented inventor scientist diplomat and writer
- some delegates wanted to add a bill of rights to the constitution to protect _____
- economy of the south relied on enslaved people to keep farms and plantations running
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- American Indian Nations, Some states treated the American Indians fairly Other states did not
- With independence from____ came a new government for the new nation
- Roger Sherman came up with an idea that Congress be made up of two parts called houses
- in 1787 he was elected as a new york delegate for the constitutional convention
- the leader of the Continental Army during the American Revolution
- Plan, It said that each state no matter its size would have the same number of representatives in congress
- a plan that gave Congress more power over the states and provided executive branch of government
- known as the "Father of the Constitution
- Each state had the authority to ____ trade and taxes on imports and exports
18 Clues: known as the "Father of the Constitution • author of the Declaration of Independence • He wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights • a talented inventor scientist diplomat and writer • Congress elected ____ to lead the Confederation Congress • the leader of the Continental Army during the American Revolution • ...
Social Studies 2013-10-16
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- Hawaiian port; Granted by 1887 treaty to the united states for use as a refueling station for us ships
- Agreement claiming the United States’ right to intervene in Cuban affairs
- US policy proposed in 1899 which stated that no single country should have a monopoly on trade with China
- Group of influential Americans who believed he United States should not deny other people the right to govern themselves
- The first and only reigning Hawaiian queen
- Style of journalism that exaggerates and sensationalizes the news
- US naval officer who defeated the Spanish fleet during the Spanish American war
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- 1900 nationalist uprising in china
- War 1898 war that began when the United States demanded Cuba’s independence from Spain
- Policy by which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker nations
- Areas where foreign nations claimed special rights and economic privileges
- disease spread by mosquitoes
- United States claim of right to interfere in the affairs of Latin American countries
- Canal through the Isthmus of Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific
- Secretary of State under presidents Lincoln and Andre Johnson; purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867
- US warship that exploded off Havana, Cuba, on February 15, 1898
- Member of the first us volunteer cavalry organized by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish American war
17 Clues: disease spread by mosquitoes • 1900 nationalist uprising in china • The first and only reigning Hawaiian queen • US warship that exploded off Havana, Cuba, on February 15, 1898 • Style of journalism that exaggerates and sensationalizes the news • Agreement claiming the United States’ right to intervene in Cuban affairs • ...
Geometry 4-1 and 4-2 Vocabulary 2013-11-11
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- The theorem 4-2-3 states that the __________ of each angle in an equiangular triangle is 60 degrees
- A theorem that states that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees
- A triangle with three congruent angles
- An angle inside a triangle
- A triangle with no congruent sides
- The theorem 4-2-4 states that an exterior angle is equal to the sum of the __________.
- All the points outside a figure
- A triangle with three acute angles
- A triangle with one right angle
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- A triangle with one obtuse angle
- An interior angle that is not adjacent to the exterior angle
- A triangle with three congruent sides
- An angle formed by a side of a triangle and an extended adjacent side
- A triangle with two congruent sides
- The theorem 4-2-2 states that the acute angles of a right triangle are __________.
- All the points inside a figure
16 Clues: An angle inside a triangle • All the points inside a figure • All the points outside a figure • A triangle with one right angle • A triangle with one obtuse angle • A triangle with no congruent sides • A triangle with three acute angles • A triangle with two congruent sides • A triangle with three congruent sides • A triangle with three congruent angles • ...
Geometry 4-1 and 4-2 Vocabulary 2013-11-11
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- A triangle with two congruent sides
- An interior angle that is not adjacent to the exterior angle
- The theorem 4-2-3 states that the __________ of each angle in an equiangular triangle is 60 degrees
- A triangle with three congruent angles
- An angle formed by a side of a triangle and an extended adjacent side
- All the points inside a figure
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- The theorem 4-2-4 states that an exterior angle is equal to the sum of the __________.
- A triangle with three acute angles
- A triangle with three congruent sides
- A theorem that states that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees
- All the points outside a figure
- A triangle with one right angle
- An angle inside a triangle
- A triangle with one obtuse angle
- The theorem 4-2-2 states that the acute angles of a right triangle are __________.
- A triangle with no congruent sides
16 Clues: An angle inside a triangle • All the points inside a figure • All the points outside a figure • A triangle with one right angle • A triangle with one obtuse angle • A triangle with three acute angles • A triangle with no congruent sides • A triangle with two congruent sides • A triangle with three congruent sides • A triangle with three congruent angles • ...
Geometry 4-1 and 4-2 Vocabulary 2013-11-11
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- The theorem 4-2-3 states that the __________ of each angle in an equiangular triangle is 60 degrees
- All the points inside a figure
- A triangle with two congruent sides
- The theorem 4-2-4 states that an exterior angle is equal to the sum of the __________.
- All the points outside a figure
- A triangle with one obtuse angle
- A triangle with three congruent angles
- An angle inside a triangle
- A triangle with three congruent sides
- A theorem that states that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees
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- A triangle with three acute angles
- The theorem 4-2-2 states that the acute angles of a right triangle are __________.
- A triangle with one right angle
- An interior angle that is not adjacent to the exterior angle
- An angle formed by a side of a triangle and an extended adjacent side
- A triangle with no congruent sides
16 Clues: An angle inside a triangle • All the points inside a figure • A triangle with one right angle • All the points outside a figure • A triangle with one obtuse angle • A triangle with three acute angles • A triangle with no congruent sides • A triangle with two congruent sides • A triangle with three congruent sides • A triangle with three congruent angles • ...
Crossword Puzzle: 1789 2016-11-09
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- second President of the United States and the first Vice President
- orator during the movement for independence in Virginia
- author of the Declaration of Independence
- opposed ratification of the Constitution
- one of the Founding Fathers, $100
- a formal and organized process of electing or being elected, especially of members of a political body.
- nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government
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- an infantryman's light gun with a long barrel, typically smooth-bored, muzzleloading, and fired from the shoulder
- support Federalism
- an instance of revolving
- first president of the United States
- formal or official change made to a law
- officer of high rank in the army
- American political theorist and statesman, who served as the fourth President of the United States
- American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
- month that the thirteen colonies claimed their independence from England
16 Clues: support Federalism • an instance of revolving • officer of high rank in the army • one of the Founding Fathers, $100 • first president of the United States • formal or official change made to a law • opposed ratification of the Constitution • author of the Declaration of Independence • orator during the movement for independence in Virginia • ...
Civics Test 2023-10-13
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- What group of people were taken to America and sold as slaves?
- Who is in charge of the executive branch?
- What is the name of the national anthem?
- What is the economic system in the United States?
- We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years?
- Who makes federal laws?
- The United States bought the _________ territory from France in 1803?
- Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
- Who is the “Father of Our Country”?
- We elect a President for how many years?
- We elect a U.S? Senator for how many years?
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- What is the highest court in the United States?
- Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
- During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
- What is the supreme law of the land?
- In what month do we vote for President?
16 Clues: Who makes federal laws? • Who is the “Father of Our Country”? • What is the supreme law of the land? • In what month do we vote for President? • What is the name of the national anthem? • We elect a President for how many years? • Who is in charge of the executive branch? • Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? • We elect a U.S? Senator for how many years? • ...
Civil War crossword puzzle 2024-06-11
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- The act of withdrawing from an organization or alliance.
- A significant battle in Virginia, known for its Confederate victory.
- Last name of the Union general who later became the 18th President.
- Last name of the President of the Confederate States of America.
- The bloodiest single-day battle in American history.
- A major battle won by the Confederates in Virginia.
- The northern states during the Civil War.
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- The southern states that seceded from the Union.
- The movement to end slavery.
- The act of freeing enslaved people.
- Site where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
- A major turning point in the Civil War, fought in Pennsylvania.
- Last name of the leading general of the Confederate Army.
- The siege that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
- Last name of the Union general known for his "March to the Sea."
- The President of the United States during the Civil War.
16 Clues: The movement to end slavery. • The act of freeing enslaved people. • The northern states during the Civil War. • The southern states that seceded from the Union. • A major battle won by the Confederates in Virginia. • Site where General Lee surrendered to General Grant. • The bloodiest single-day battle in American history. • ...
John Houlton Chapter NSDAR Constitution Crossword Puzzle - September 2022 2022-09-09
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- The _____ amendment to the US Constitution gave women the right to vote
- Constitution Day is celebrated on _____ 17, the anniversary of the day the framers signed the document
- The _____ is the supreme law of the United States
- The _____ Continental Congress called for peace, made preparations for war, and declared independence
- Article VII of the Constitution describes how the Constitution would be _____
- The only amendment to the US Constitution that has been repealed (the 18th)
- One of the two houses of Congress historically known as the upper house
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- The US Constitution is on display here in Washington, DC
- One who loves their country, e.g., supported the American cause of independence
- Article _____ sets forth the ways to amend the Constitution
- Article _____ of the Constitution tells how the Legislative Branch of the government should work
- Article _____ of the Constitution tells how the Executive Branch of the government should work
- There are _____ amendments to the US Constitution
- The lower house of Congress in which states are represented based on _____ is the House of Representatives
- The _____ (2 words) becomes president of the United States if the president should die
- The _____: The introduction to the United States Constitution
- Article _____ of the Constitution describes the relationship between the states and the federal government
17 Clues: There are _____ amendments to the US Constitution • The _____ is the supreme law of the United States • The US Constitution is on display here in Washington, DC • Article _____ sets forth the ways to amend the Constitution • The _____: The introduction to the United States Constitution • The _____ amendment to the US Constitution gave women the right to vote • ...
SS8H8 and SSH9 Vocabulary Terms 2023-02-08
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- a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl harbor
- one of the deadliest global conflicts in history.
- an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years
- a secret message proposed a Mexican-German alliance if the United States declared war on Germany
- the relief the government provided for people after the great depression
- a long period of time with no rain
- Georgia served in the U.S. Senate for almost 40 years (1932–1971).
- a the name given to the drought-stricken southern plains region of the United States
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- provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems
- a British ship that was sunk by Germans
- when too much crops are made then needed
- a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market,
- governor of Georgia, from 1933 to 1937, and then again from 1941 to 1943
- set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation
- American politician and lawyer who served as the 32nd president of the United States
- a bug that devastated farmers crops
- was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945.
17 Clues: a long period of time with no rain • a bug that devastated farmers crops • a British ship that was sunk by Germans • when too much crops are made then needed • one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. • was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945. • Georgia served in the U.S. Senate for almost 40 years (1932–1971). • ...
Civil War - KW 2025-05-09
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- When a state leaves the Union
- A metal warship
- To be forcefully taken into the army
- The unofficial term for the Northern states during the civil war
- To dig trenches
- To join the Army
- An all-out-war that has civilian and non-militant infrastructure targetted and used
- Rights that every individual state has
- A reward given out in exchange for bringing someone in dead or alive
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- A judicial order that bans law enforcement from keeping a prisoner in confinement without justification
- A proclamation declaring that all slaves are free persons
- Injuries, MIA, or Death
- The states that left the United States
- the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument
- States that allowed slavery but stayed with the Union
- To move around the enemy and attack them from all sides
16 Clues: A metal warship • To dig trenches • To join the Army • Injuries, MIA, or Death • When a state leaves the Union • To be forcefully taken into the army • The states that left the United States • Rights that every individual state has • States that allowed slavery but stayed with the Union • To move around the enemy and attack them from all sides • ...
Unit 6 2013-03-27
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- corps volunteer program run by the United States government
- the authority act that an elected official receives from the voters who elected him or her
- a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008.
- was committed to the promotion of a libertarian and egalitarian society
- speech and program by Lyndon B. Johnson
- authorized the formation of local Community Action Agencies as part of the War on Poverty
- national social insurance program, administered by the U.S. federal government since 1965, that guarantees access to health insurance for Americans ages 65 and older and younger people with disabilities as well as people with end stage renal disease
- was realistic in that nuclear weapons couldn't be used
- initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961 aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America
- point-to-point communications link in which a call is automatically directed to the preselected destination without any additional action by the user when the end instrument goes off-hook
- 36th President of the United States
- was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin
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- To select from a group for some usually compulsory service like the army
- used by liberal Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention
- separation of humans into racial groups in daily life
- United States health program for certain people and families with low incomes and resources
- a group that investigated the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that had taken place on November 22, 1963
- 35th President of the United States
- abolished the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act
- form of direct action that involves one or more people nonviolently occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change
- prohibits nuclear weapons tests "or any other nuclear explosion" in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water
21 Clues: 35th President of the United States • 36th President of the United States • speech and program by Lyndon B. Johnson • separation of humans into racial groups in daily life • was realistic in that nuclear weapons couldn't be used • corps volunteer program run by the United States government • was committed to the promotion of a libertarian and egalitarian society • ...
Civil War 2017-04-05
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- Clay Senator who supported the Compromise of 1850
- President of the Union
- This act made assisting a fugitive slave to freedom in any way a crime punishable by fine or imprisonment
- To break away from the rest of the states, form their own nation
- This compromise allowed California to be admitted as a free state, new territories in the west would be decided by popular sovereignty, and the Fugitive Slave Law
- Warships with very tough Oak walls with iron sheets on the sides
- The North
- Unfair treatment
- Address by Lincoln in which he "freed" the enslaved people of the South
- Soldiers on horseback
- The South
- A system where residents vote to decide an issue
- An unfair opinion not based on facts
- Established that Congress could not ban slavery and slaves could not sue for their freedom since they are not citizens
- Laws in a Southern state that controlled enslaved people
- In the civil war the states between the north and the south: delaware, mayland, kentucky, and missouri
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- First state to secede from the United States
- Famous Confederate General who surrendered to General Grant
- A system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
- The right of states to limit the power of the federal government
- These people believed that since the states voluntarily joined the Union, they can also choose to leave.
- President of the Confederacy
- People who sought to end slavery in the United States in the early 1800s
- The compromise that blocked slavery north of 36*30' N
- This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and called for popular sovereignty to decide whether slavery would be allowed within new states
- Senate Debates which set the stage for Lincoln's presidential campaign event though he didn't win the Senate seat
- Lead the raid of Harper's Ferry in 1858
- Armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into and out of an area
- The main export of the Southern Economy
- Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North.
30 Clues: The North • The South • Unfair treatment • Soldiers on horseback • President of the Union • President of the Confederacy • An unfair opinion not based on facts • Lead the raid of Harper's Ferry in 1858 • The main export of the Southern Economy • First state to secede from the United States • A system where residents vote to decide an issue • ...
Aaron Umali Articles X-Word 2024-02-09
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- The 13 states wrote then later adopted the Articles of Confederation ______ the Revolutionary War.
- After the British losing the war, loyalists moved to ______; weren't treated properly and loyalists felt like outcasts to the people in there.
- Alexander Hamilton knew that the factors to the U.S. being a powerful nation is ________________ and a large population.
- The proposal to both amendments in 1781 and 1783 were ________ due to not all states approving them.
- After the American Revolution, the Articles of Confederation was the First ____________.
- What did America really need that is strong and central after the events of Shay's Rebellion.
- _____ Rebellion was infamous for having farmers rebel against the government of Massachusetts for poverty, taxes, and promises always breaking.
- The delegates needed to find a way to scrap the Articles of Confederation; took them 4 months of debating.
- If anybody defies the Constitution, they will be considered ________!
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- In 1787, many of the state representatives suggested to write a document about this to start fresh towards the Articles of Confederation; a system where a strong national government teams up with the states' power.
- The legistlatures suggested delegates to meet at that place; they knew they need to shape up the Articles of Confederation!
- The most "underlying crisis" in America that stood out from all other issues was being ________!
- Who couldn't levy taxes; resulting in Washington's army to starve and go through super harsh climates.
- The Treaty of Paris shows that America won land to the west and land towards __________ to get codfish.
- States persisted on _______ their money; meaning that people from other states were forced to pay the state's currency.
- He is a man who was born in the indies and saw the United States was a world power; furthermore, he hated Congress, the world, even himself!
- Over the 6 months, the major topic for all ________ states were the Constitution.
- This guy wrote a speller; also called a dictionary that almost everyone knows today!
- This was yet another problem that America had to face; the government wasn't able to remove British forts from the country's _______.
- This was one of the many issues in the Articles of Confederation; meaning the value of a dollar is worthless.
20 Clues: If anybody defies the Constitution, they will be considered ________! • Over the 6 months, the major topic for all ________ states were the Constitution. • This guy wrote a speller; also called a dictionary that almost everyone knows today! • After the American Revolution, the Articles of Confederation was the First ____________. • ...
The United States and the International Community Crossword Puzzle 2025-04-29
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- The U.S. currency that dominates global trade.
- Famous economic conflict between the U.S. and China.
- What is the term to describe the U.S.'s consistent support for Israel, often at the expense of Palestinian concerns?
- Conflict where the U.S. Navy helped contain Soviet power.
- US’s diverse cultural landscape, shaped by immigration and a blend of traditions from various parts of the world contributes to what image?
- Where was the Bretton Woods Agreement held?
- A military agreement between the United States and the Philippines aimed at strengthening their alliance. It allows the US to rotate troops into the Philippines for extended stays, build and operate facilities on Philippine bases, and preposition military equipment.
- What is the primary mission of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)?
- The U.S. Navy ensures freedom of __________, a key principle in global trade.
- a formal agreement between two or more countries that pledges a commitment to defend each other in any possible threats or external aggression. This agreement essentially creates a military alliance, signifying that the signatory nations will come to each other's aid if one of them is attacked.
- What is the agreement between Spain and the United States that ceded the Philippines islands from Spain to the United States?
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- Considered the most important organ of the United Nations where the United States is a permanent member of.
- The power the United States has for being a permanent member of the organ of your answer in the previous question.
- In which geopolitical conflict did the United States frequently use the type of power mentioned in your previous answer to support its ally?
- Type of diplomacy involving joint naval exercises.
- U.S. Navy's action against threats like piracy and terrorism.
- Major strategic region where the U.S. Navy counters China's influence.
- Who is the 1st Secretary General of NATO
- What is the main factor that gives Silicon Valley global influence?
- The U.S. Navy patrols this important waterway in the Middle East.
- NATO was formed because of the threat of this country and its political ideology.
- Identify the international body that regulates trade rules between nations to ensure smooth and fair commerce wherein the United States is a founding member and the largest contributor of.
22 Clues: Who is the 1st Secretary General of NATO • Where was the Bretton Woods Agreement held? • The U.S. currency that dominates global trade. • Type of diplomacy involving joint naval exercises. • Famous economic conflict between the U.S. and China. • Conflict where the U.S. Navy helped contain Soviet power. • U.S. Navy's action against threats like piracy and terrorism. • ...
Lead up to the Civil War Terms 2025-10-20
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- People hired to track and capture escaped enslaved individuals.
- 1850 law requiring escaped slaves to be returned to their owners, even from free states.
- U.S. senator known for brokering major compromises to ease sectional tensions.
- Law easing tensions by balancing slave and free states and settling land disputes.
- Reformer who fought to improve treatment of the mentally ill and prison conditions.
- 1823 policy warning Europe not to interfere in the Americas' affairs.
- 1854 law letting states choose to allow slavery or not.
- System where people are treated as property and bought or sold.
- 1857 ruling saying enslaved people couldn’t sue and weren’t U.S. citizens.
- Idea that states can cancel federal laws they think are unconstitutional.
- Public sales where enslaved people were bought and sold to the highest bidder.
- Campaign to limit or ban alcohol to improve society and health.
- Machine invented in 1793 that quickly separated cotton fibers from seeds.
- Abolitionist who led a raid to end slavery at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
- Keeping equal numbers of free and slave states to maintain power in Congress.
- 1852 novel that showed the cruelty of slavery and fueled abolitionist support.
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- Religious revival in the 1800s that inspired reform movements like abolition and temperance.
- Former slave who became a famous abolitionist and speaker for freedom.
- Former slave who spoke out for abolition and women’s rights.
- 1820 law that kept slave and free states balanced.
- Nickname for cotton’s powerful role in the Southern economy before the Civil War.
- The act of freeing someone from slavery or legal bondage.
- Movement to end slavery and free enslaved people.
- Violent clashes over slavery in Kansas before the Civil War.
- Abolitionist who published The Liberator and demanded immediate emancipation of all enslaved people.
- 1846–1848 conflict over land that added the Southwest to the United States.
- Idea that people in each state decide if slavery is allowed.
- Act of a state leaving the Union to become independent.
- Secret network helping enslaved people escape to freedom in the North.
- Brave conductor of the Underground Railroad who led many enslaved people to freedom.
30 Clues: Movement to end slavery and free enslaved people. • 1820 law that kept slave and free states balanced. • 1854 law letting states choose to allow slavery or not. • Act of a state leaving the Union to become independent. • The act of freeing someone from slavery or legal bondage. • Former slave who spoke out for abolition and women’s rights. • ...
USVA Unit 7 Test Review 2026-02-13
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- The United States obtained this territory from Spain after the Spanish-American War
- This "Roosevelt ____" added to the Monroe Doctrine, and claimed the U.S. had "international police power" to intervene in Latin America
- The United States first attacked the Spanish in this bay in 1898
- The United States successfully connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through this engineering project
- This type of diplomacy is associated with President Wilson, who pursued humanitarian goals internationally
- This "_____ Service Act" authorized the U.S. government to mobilize the military using a draft
- This term refers to U.S. senators who refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles under any circumstance
- This telegram proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico
- This type of warfare involves non-traditional hit and run tactics, used by Filipino insurgents
- This ____-American War was a brutal conflict (1899-1902) over American colonial rule
- This term refers to U.S. senators who would only support the Treaty of Versailles if changes were made
- This long standing U.S. policy avoided involvement in European wars and other international conflict
- This was Wilson's political party, and "Wilson _____" supported the Treaty of Versailles as written since it was negotiated by Wilson
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- The United States overthrew the queen and then annexed this Pacific island territory
- Wilson proposed a "____ of Nations" to prevent future global war
- This type of diplomacy -- favored by President Taft -- focused on U.S. economic influence rather than military might
- This British passenger ship was sunk by a German u-boat (submarine), killing 128 Americans
- The "_____ Act" criminalized disloyal language about the U.S. government during WWI
- Wilson's peace plan had this many points
- Emilio ____; Filipino revolutionary leader who fought against both Spain and the United States
- This amendment stated that the U.S. could not annex Cuba after the war
- The "Treaty of ______" ended WWI, but the United States did not ratify [approve] the treaty
- "____ of Influence" -- areas in China where foreign nations claimed exclusive political and economic rights
- This is the name of the U.S. ship that exploded in Havana Bay
- The United States joined WWI on this side, which included Great Britain, France, and Russia
- This law promised eventual independence for the Philippines
- "_____ door policy" -- U.S. proposal that all nations should have equal trading rights in China
27 Clues: Wilson's peace plan had this many points • This law promised eventual independence for the Philippines • This telegram proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico • This is the name of the U.S. ship that exploded in Havana Bay • Wilson proposed a "____ of Nations" to prevent future global war • The United States first attacked the Spanish in this bay in 1898 • ...
