states Crossword Puzzles

Vocabulary Review 2025-11-12

Vocabulary Review crossword puzzle
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  1. Each party (Democrat and Republican) choosing a candidate to represent their party in the run for president
  2. Something that is proposed that could be a law if it is passed (an idea for a law)
  3. the ruler has complete control over the citizens
  4. overthrowing one form of government or one leader and starting a new one
  5. organizations that pressure elected officials (members of Congress, state lawmakers, the mayor) to pass laws that favor their cause
  6. the votes that count towards winning the presidency–each state gets electors who vote on behalf of their state
  7. a convention that acts like a primary election in some states, but involves debating and nominating a candidate instead of everyone in the state voting
  8. Supreme Court case where Maryland tried to protest against a national bank. The court ruled that a National Bank was Constitutional
  9. a form of protest banning relationships or the use of goods from a certain group
  10. the candidate chosen to represent their party in the election
  11. The President, Vice President, and the Cabinet. The role of the executive branch is to enforce laws
  12. when the government taxes people but does not allow them to vote for what they want
  13. the document that explains how the U.S. government will work and how laws are made
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  1. groups of people with similar ideas who compete in elections
  2. dividing power into three branches of government so that one branch does not become too powerful
  3. Authoritarian, one leader makes all decisions, this form of government makes decisions the fastest
  4. States that might go either way on who they vote for–the state is split, so they have a chance of voting for a Republican or a Democrat pretty equally. Most states always vote a certain way, so these states are important for candidates to try to win.
  5. The final run for president where each nominee from each party runs against each other to try to win the presidency
  6. how power is shared between states and the national government
  7. Citizens get a vote in their government
  8. Individual votes by citizens for the president. These are counted up by state to determine how the electoral vote will go
  9. the first document listing rules for the United States, gave individual states a lot of power, but the national government was weak
  10. when the president denies or says no to a bill becoming a law.
  11. organized attempts to influence lawmakers
  12. federal courts and judges. They have the power to interpret laws and the Constitution
  13. The lawmaking branch of government (aka legislative branch)
  14. a planned set of activities leading up to election day designed to get a candidate to win the election
  15. A contest between candidates for a job within the government

28 Clues: Citizens get a vote in their government • organized attempts to influence lawmakers • the ruler has complete control over the citizens • The lawmaking branch of government (aka legislative branch) • groups of people with similar ideas who compete in elections • A contest between candidates for a job within the government • ...

Indian States 2021-09-01

Indian States crossword puzzle
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  1. it's actually in east but is classified as west
  2. rice bowl of India
  3. Land of Kings
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  1. God's own Country
  2. India's capital
  3. Jewel of Western India
  4. heart of India’s Sikh community/Sapta Sindhu

7 Clues: Land of Kings • India's capital • God's own Country • rice bowl of India • Jewel of Western India • heart of India’s Sikh community/Sapta Sindhu • it's actually in east but is classified as west

States &. Capitals 2022-03-22

States &. Capitals crossword puzzle
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  1. Columbus
  2. Oregon
  3. South Carolina
  4. Harrisburg
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  1. Oklahoma City
  2. Rhode Island
  3. South Dakota

7 Clues: Oregon • Columbus • Harrisburg • Rhode Island • South Dakota • Oklahoma City • South Carolina

World states 2023-10-13

World states crossword puzzle
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  1. A country in Eruope that won the 2022 World cup
  2. A country with highest population in the world
  3. The biggest country in the world
  4. Pizza comes from this country
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  1. Kebab comes form this country
  2. Messi was born in this country
  3. The only country which have kangaroos

7 Clues: Kebab comes form this country • Pizza comes from this country • Messi was born in this country • The biggest country in the world • The only country which have kangaroos • A country with highest population in the world • A country in Eruope that won the 2022 World cup

Midwest states 2025-03-18

Midwest states crossword puzzle
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  1. Vikings
  2. Chicago
  3. corn
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  1. divided
  2. LakeErie
  3. cheese
  4. Illinois_Ohio

7 Clues: corn • cheese • Vikings • divided • Chicago • LakeErie • Illinois_Ohio

Vocabulary Crossword 2019-03-06

Vocabulary Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist
  2. allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
  3. a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves to escape to free states
  4. person who seeks to end slavery
  5. an African-American slave who led a two-day rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County
  6. ex slave and famous Underground Railroad conductor
  7. awakening wave of religious interest that stirred the nation
  8. a movement encouraging little or no drinking of alcohol
  9. refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines
  10. Convention the first women's rights convention
  11. unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters
  12. when agricultural societies became more industrialized and urban
  13. abolitionist who believed in armed rebellion as the only way to end slavery in the US
  14. abolitionist and leading figure of the early women's rights movement
  15. worked to improve prisons and mental institutes
  16. refused to pay taxes of the us Mexican war
  17. 16th president
  18. law which required the government and the residents of free states to enforce the capture and return of fugitive slaves
  19. was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1860 election,
  20. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government
  21. Father of the Common School
  22. founder of the Hudson River School known for his landscape and history paintings
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  1. the principle that the government is created and sustained by its people. Power to the people!
  2. mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters
  3. the right to vote in an election
  4. American abolitionist known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin
  5. a widely held belief in the United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America
  6. philosophical movement that valued individualism, idealism, and the divinity of nature
  7. anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  8. five separate bills passed by Congress which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the US Mexican War
  9. American journalist known for editing The Liberator
  10. fifth chief justice of the supreme court
  11. Compromise the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state
  12. former slave who became a famous abolitionist, author, and public speaker
  13. one of the two major political parties in the United States
  14. inventor of the cotton gin
  15. novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform
  16. appointed secretary of war by president James Monroe
  17. a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds
  18. the withdrawing of a group from a larger entity

40 Clues: 16th president • inventor of the cotton gin • Father of the Common School • person who seeks to end slavery • the right to vote in an election • fifth chief justice of the supreme court • refused to pay taxes of the us Mexican war • anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe • Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist • Convention the first women's rights convention • ...

American History 2015-02-11

American History crossword puzzle
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  1. A term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast.
  2. The effort of the United States particularly over President William Howard Taft, to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.
  3. The first U.S. Navy ship to be named after the state of Maine and was commissioned in 1895.
  4. The United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of gender.
  5. Addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904
  6. A belief, creed or political ideology that involves an individual identifying with, or becoming attached to, one's nation.
  7. Reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, and surety.
  8. One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I.
  9. Refers to the pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of naval power.
  10. Refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting
  11. A German Submarine.
  12. British ocean liner, holder of the Blue Riband, and briefly the largest passenger ship.
  13. An international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
  14. A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
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  1. Is characterized by an absence of competition, which often results in high prices and inferior products.
  2. The system in which support is given only to countries whose moral beliefs are analogous to that of the nation.
  3. A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
  4. A 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair
  5. A United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and the products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
  6. The central banking system of the United States.
  7. A plan made by Woodrow Wilson's in a speech Wilson gave to the American Congress in January 1918.
  8. Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
  9. Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
  10. The state of not supporting or helping either side in a conflict, disagreement.
  11. A formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes.
  12. Secret telegram saying that in the event of war with the United States, Mexico should be asked to enter the war as a German ally.
  13. The right to vote in political elections.

27 Clues: A German Submarine. • The right to vote in political elections. • The central banking system of the United States. • One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. • Reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, and surety. • Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. • ...

Government & Economics / USA & Canada Crossword 2022-10-27

Government & Economics / USA & Canada Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. By casting an informed ________, citizens limit the power of their government.
  2. In a _______ economy, the government determines what goods are produced.
  3. Civic Duties: Citizens should help to keep their communities safe and _____ the law at all times.
  4. At the _______ and advertising level of industry, products are fixed, improved, and advertised.
  5. During western expansion, the United States adopted the policy of _______ Destiny to justify their goals.
  6. Civic Duties: Citizens should _______ some of their time to help others in their communities.
  7. The United States system of government that has a Federal government as well as state governments
  8. In a ______ economy, both the citizens and the government determine what goods are produced.
  9. north In terms of relative location, the United States is _____ of the Canada.
  10. Culture is defined as a ______'s shared beliefs and behaviors.
  11. Selling Starbucks Coffee in China is an example of ________ diffusion.
  12. Cultural ________ occurs when a cultural characteristic of one area moves to another part of the world.
  13. At the ________ level of industry, raw materials such as cotton and minerals are taken from the ground.
  14. Canada's 11 Treaties and the United States' Manifest Destiny were part of the western _______ of both countries.
  15. Canada acquired its land by signing the _______ Treaties with the First Nation peoples.
  16. During western expansion, the United States adopted the policy of Manifest ______ to justify their goals.
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  1. Products are shipped and sold at the ________ and retail level of industry.
  2. In a ________ economy, only the citizens determine what goods are produced.
  3. Civic Duties: By serving on a _______, citizens determine the guilt or innocence of members of their community.
  4. Under a _______ a country is ruled by a king or a queen.
  5. A place's latitude & longitude is considered its _________ location.
  6. Culture is defined as a group's shared ______ and behaviors.
  7. Civic Duties: By paying ______, citizens help to pay for vital services that every community needs.
  8. The best World Cultures teacher is Coach _______.
  9. In terms of relative location, Canada is _____ of the United States.
  10. The best World Cultures teacher is Coach _______.
  11. A democracy is a _______ form of government because the citizens limit the government's power.
  12. Civic Duties: Serving in the ________ is a way that citizens protect the United States' freedoms and democracy.
  13. Culture is defined as a group's ______ beliefs and behaviors.
  14. The best World Cultures teacher is Coach _______.
  15. In a pure ________, citizens vote for every decision made by the government.
  16. Civic Duties: Citizens should participate in elections by casting an ________ vote.
  17. Canada acquired its land by signing the Eleven _______ with the First Nation peoples.
  18. In a market economy, an ________ is a person who starts his or her own business.
  19. Products are built and assembled at the _________ level of industry.
  20. Limited governments offer citizens more personal ________ than unlimited governments.
  21. Under an _________ government, citizens have few personal freedoms and no way to limit their government's power.

37 Clues: The best World Cultures teacher is Coach _______. • The best World Cultures teacher is Coach _______. • The best World Cultures teacher is Coach _______. • Under a _______ a country is ruled by a king or a queen. • Culture is defined as a group's shared ______ and behaviors. • Culture is defined as a group's ______ beliefs and behaviors. • ...

Nationalism/Unification Assignment 2018-02-26

Nationalism/Unification Assignment crossword puzzle
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  1. a Polish theatre and film actor, notable for his roles in two of the most popular Polish television series
  2. was fought between the Qing Empire and the Empire of Japan, primarily over influence of Korea
  3. the name given to a speech made by Otto von Bismarck given on 30 September 1862, at the time when he was Minister President of Prussia, about the unification of the German territories
  4. agreement that secured commercial and diplomatic privileges for the United States in Japan and constituted the basis for Western economic penetration of Japan
  5. is the German word for "emperor"
  6. a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations
  7. white supremacist paramilitary groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years and after the end of the Reconstruction era of the United States
  8. the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and permitting the establishment of a U.S. consulate in Japan
  9. was the King of Sardinia from 1849 until 17 March 1861. At that point, he assumed the title of King of Italy and became the first king of a united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878
  10. a prominent historical German state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg
  11. Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy
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  1. a senior state or legal official
  2. Commodore of the United States Navy and commanded a number of ships. He served in several wars, most notably in the Mexican-American War and the War of 1812
  3. was an agreement between the United States and the Empire of Japan negotiated between United States Secretary of State Elihu Root and Japanese Ambassador to the United States Takahira Kogorō
  4. fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea
  5. war between Prussia on the one side and Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, and certain minor German states on the other. It ended in a Prussian victory, which meant the exclusion of Austria from Germany
  6. The war of 1870–71 between France (under Napoleon III) and Prussia, in which Prussian troops advanced into France and decisively defeated the French at Sedan. The defeat marked the end of the French Second Empire.
  7. Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts
  8. the period when Japan was ruled by the emperor Meiji Tenno, marked by the modernization and westernization of the country
  9. a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890
  10. Italian politician, journalist, activist for the unification of Italy and spearhead of the Italian revolutionary movement.
  11. was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification

22 Clues: a senior state or legal official • is the German word for "emperor" • Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts • was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification • Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy • ...

Friday Activity Suzuki 2019-08-26

Friday Activity Suzuki crossword puzzle
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  1. First ten amendments to the Constitution, which provide basic political rights.
  2. System of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between national and state governments.
  3. Gives Congress the power to tax to provide for the general welfare.
  4. Initially, those who supported the Constitution during the ratification period; later, the name of the political party established by supporters of Alexander Hamilton.
  5. Compromise over slavery at the Constitutional Convention that granted states extra representation in the House of Representatives based on their number of slaves at the ratio of three-fifths.
  6. Meeting in 1787 at which twelve states intended to revise the Articles of Confederation but ended up proposing an entirely new Constitution.
  7. Authority of the president to block legislation passed by Congress. Congress can override a veto by two-thirds majority in each chamber.
  8. Powers expressly granted to Congress by the Constitution.
  9. Form of government in which power derives from citizens, but public officials make policy and govern according to existing law.
  10. The presidential electors, selected to represent the votes of their respective states, who meet every four years to cast the electoral votes for president and vice president.
  11. To formally withdraw from a nation-state.
  12. Right of states to invalidate acts of Congress they believe to be illegal.
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  1. Powers held by both the national and state government in a federal system.
  2. Powers not expressly granted to Congress but added through the necessary and proper clause.
  3. Authority of courts to declare laws passed by Congress and acts of the executive branch to be unconstitutional.
  4. Those who opposed the new proposed Constitution during the ratification period.
  5. Gives Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper to the powers enumerated in section 8.
  6. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the regional governments.
  7. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the national government.
  8. Government structure in which authority is divide among branches (executive, legislative, and judicial), with each holding separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility.
  9. Government structure that authorizes each branch of government (executive, legislative, and judicial) to share powers with the other branches, thereby holding some scrutiny of and control over the other branches.
  10. The 1776 document declaring American independence from Great Britain and calling for equality, human rights, and citizen participation.
  11. Compromise on legislative representation whereby the lower chamber is base on population, and the upper chamber provides equal representation to the states.
  12. Initial governing authority of the United States, 1781-88
  13. Broad coalitions of interests organized to win elections in order to enact a commonly supported set of public policies.
  14. Rule by the people.
  15. Powers retained by the states under the constitution.
  16. Document or set of documents that establish the basic rules and procedures for how a society shall be governed.
  17. Formal process of changing the Constitution

29 Clues: Rule by the people. • To formally withdraw from a nation-state. • Formal process of changing the Constitution • Powers retained by the states under the constitution. • Initial governing authority of the United States, 1781-88 • Powers expressly granted to Congress by the Constitution. • Gives Congress the power to tax to provide for the general welfare. • ...

Rishita Gorle Articles X-Word 2024-02-10

Rishita Gorle Articles X-Word crossword puzzle
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  1. Who fled to Canada and England after the Revolutionary War and felt as if they didn't fit in the place they once thought was their home.
  2. England won all the land that was peopled by Indian tribes from west to the Mississippi River because of the Treaty of ________.
  3. After the Revolutionary War, the states were in ______ which caused different legislatures to tax.
  4. _____ of the thirteen states had to approve a bill in order for it to be passed on the Articles of Confederation.
  5. They wrote the Articles of Confederation because the thirteen colonies had to be ________ in order for them to be able to fight off the British and receive loans from Spain and France; they had to be like the name of our country.
  6. The framers of the Articles of Confederation created a ________ government intentionally because the states did not want to limit their power.
  7. With the idea of trying to have people buy goods locally, what did the states do to the goods manufactured in other states?
  8. Who still had forts on American soil even after the Articles of Confederation.
  9. What lost its power with the Articles of Confederation and gave most of it to the states; it didn't have the right to tax or force people into the army.
  10. Due to the reason that the federal government did not have enough money to form a force against Shays' Rebellion, which group of wealthy people decided to form their own militia and fight against them?
  11. How many articles, also called sections, were in the Articles of Confederation, these described their confederation.
  12. What did Shays Rebellion, who protested against the tax collection, seize when they went to Springfield to try to get the legislature to make changes to the law?
  13. With states having the ability to print such an abundance of money, the value of money became _____ valuable.
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  1. The Confederation Congress, the new central government created by the Articles of Confederation, replaced the ___________ Congress.
  2. The Articles of Confederation passed during the Revolutionary War was our first ____________.
  3. Alexandar __________ hated Congress, the world, and himself.
  4. Although all of the delegates from the colonies had the same number of votes, they all had a different number of what?
  5. Only the _________ government had the power to declare war, make treaties with other countries, and print money.
  6. In Massachusetts, Shays' Rebellion was a group of what; they protested against tax collection.
  7. In 1787, with the idea of trying to make changes to the Articles of Confederation, delegates all met up at the _____________ Convention in Philadelphia.
  8. The Articles of Confederation had ____ branch.
  9. With the actions done by the Shays' Rebellion, leaders such as George Washinton realized they needed which type of government to be stronger; this led to eventually them realizing they needed a new constitution.

22 Clues: The Articles of Confederation had ____ branch. • Alexandar __________ hated Congress, the world, and himself. • Who still had forts on American soil even after the Articles of Confederation. • The Articles of Confederation passed during the Revolutionary War was our first ____________. • ...

Q2 Benchmark Review 2025-12-11

Q2 Benchmark Review crossword puzzle
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  1. The _______ ___ ____ _______ proved to both the United States and Europe that American forces could fight. 79
  2. In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico agreed to cede the United States 500,000 square miles of land. This became known as the _________ _________. 108
  3. The Indian Removal Act moved all Native American tribes to land west of the ___________ _______. 96
  4. Many Native American groups did join Tecumseh's confederation and fought on the side of the _______ during the War of 1812. 69
  5. The _________ _______ gave the United States direct access to the Port of New Orleans. 34
  6. In the 1800s, many American citizens believed it was their natural right, given by God, to expand the country across North America. The belief the United States should stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean became known as ________ ________. 111
  7. The Second ________ _____followed the refusal of many Seminole people to abandon their lands in Florida to emigrate west of the Mississippi River. 100
  8. As a result of the _____ _____ ____, the Muskogee people were forced to give up more than 23 million acres of their homeland and move farther west. 69
  9. In the Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Nation was a ___________ nation separate from the United States. 97
  10. According to the decision made in Worcester v. Georgia, Georgia had no rights to enforce _____ laws in Cherokee Nation territory. 97
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  1. Henry Clay and the War Hawks hoped that war with Britain would lead to an invasion of Canada and significant _________ ______ for the United States. 66
  2. President James Monroe focused on the concerns about European influence in the __________ _________ in his address to Congress on December 2, 1823. The address became known as the Monroe Doctrine. 93
  3. The British captured American sailors and forced them to serve in the British navy. This practice was known as _______________. 65
  4. The American victory at the Battle of New Orleans reinforced American claims to ________________ and discouraged any British or other European countries attempts to claim it. 79
  5. _______ accused Americans of using disputes with indigenous tribes to seize more territory. 68
  6. The Louisiana Territory would serve as a stepping stone to continued _______ ________. 34
  7. The Democratic-Republicans bitterly opposed the _______ ____ ______ ____. They believed the acts strengthened the power of the federal government beyond the bounds of the Constitution and violated people's rights. 24
  8. Spending by the federal and state governments to finance internal improvements such as roads, canals, and railroads had a major impact on the _________. 89
  9. Convinced that _________ had provided arms to Tecumseh’s confederation, settlers demanded the U.S. government punish British Canada. 68
  10. During the ________ ____ _______, more than 4,000 Native Americans died from harsh weather, disease, starvation, and abuse. 98
  11. As enslaved people escaped Southern plantations, the Seminole people provided a safe haven and accepted them into their communities. The First Seminole War began over these issues as U.S. troops attempted to recapture _________ people living among the Seminole tribes. 100

21 Clues: The Louisiana Territory would serve as a stepping stone to continued _______ ________. 34 • The _________ _______ gave the United States direct access to the Port of New Orleans. 34 • _______ accused Americans of using disputes with indigenous tribes to seize more territory. 68 • ...

The Civil War 2023-05-15

The Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. having limbs
  2. the United States
  3. the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line
  4. of or occurring between or among citizens of the state
  5. the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line
  6. a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War
  7. not producing an intended consequence
  8. a war between factions in the same country
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  1. a statement that is emphatic and explicit
  2. he act of governing or exercising authority
  3. of a government with central and regional authorities
  4. any entry into an area not previously occupied
  5. impossible to split into parts
  6. a war between citizens of the same country.
  7. indicate by signs

15 Clues: having limbs • the United States • indicate by signs • impossible to split into parts • not producing an intended consequence • a statement that is emphatic and explicit • a war between factions in the same country • he act of governing or exercising authority • a war between citizens of the same country. • any entry into an area not previously occupied • ...

The Revolutionary War and Constitutional Convention 2021-10-25

The Revolutionary War and Constitutional Convention crossword puzzle
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  1. Preliminary statement of the constitution
  2. The war waged against Britain for independence
  3. The last major battle of the revolutionary war that made Britain surrender
  4. People elected to represent the population as a whole
  5. The first written constitution of the United States
  6. A system of government that represents all of its people through elected representatives
  7. The meeting of delegates from the states
  8. Freedom
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  1. Stated that the thirteen colonies were free and independent states
  2. The government of Great Britain
  3. Misnamed battle that was fought during the siege of Boston
  4. General of the continental army
  5. The armed forces of a country
  6. The place where the first shots were fired and the war began
  7. A rule that everyone must follow

15 Clues: Freedom • The armed forces of a country • The government of Great Britain • General of the continental army • A rule that everyone must follow • The meeting of delegates from the states • Preliminary statement of the constitution • The war waged against Britain for independence • The first written constitution of the United States • ...

Discovery Kids: Madison and the Constitution 2024-01-09

Discovery Kids: Madison and the Constitution crossword puzzle
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  1. This man from N.Y. called for the convention
  2. Where the Constitutional Convention was held
  3. At 80 this was the oldest man at the Convention
  4. State that came up with The Great Compromise
  5. The only state NOT at the Convention
  6. This man led a rebellion of Massachusetts farmers
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  1. State that proposed a 3-branch government
  2. Man that sent Madison books from France
  3. Man who took notes and recorded the meetings
  4. What large states wanted representation by
  5. 3/5 of these counted in a state's population
  6. Number of states need to ratify the new Constitution
  7. Number of senators each state would have
  8. The list of things that confederated 13 colonies
  9. Each of the 13 states made their own this

15 Clues: The only state NOT at the Convention • Man that sent Madison books from France • Number of senators each state would have • State that proposed a 3-branch government • Each of the 13 states made their own this • What large states wanted representation by • This man from N.Y. called for the convention • Man who took notes and recorded the meetings • ...

Civil War Cross Word 2024-01-10

Civil War Cross Word crossword puzzle
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  1. a 19th-century warship with armor plating.
  2. the turning point of the war
  3. the state of being a slave
  4. Lincolin the 16th president
  5. large field where cashcrops are grown and slave labor is used
  6. the northern states
  7. a small sturdy bag used especially by soliders
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  1. another term for Confederate States of America
  2. people who were opposed to slavery began a movement to abolish, or end, the practice.
  3. large-caliber guns used in warfare on land.
  4. slang for a dollar
  5. a large shoe
  6. soldiers marching or fighting on foot
  7. a northerner who went down to the South to for their own personal gain
  8. the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.

15 Clues: a large shoe • slang for a dollar • the northern states • the state of being a slave • Lincolin the 16th president • the turning point of the war • soldiers marching or fighting on foot • a 19th-century warship with armor plating. • large-caliber guns used in warfare on land. • another term for Confederate States of America • a small sturdy bag used especially by soliders • ...

Bill of Rights by Arjan G 2022-01-19

Bill of Rights by Arjan G crossword puzzle
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  1. The Fifth Amendment forbids double ______.
  2. Who wrote the Bill of Rights?
  3. The amendment that gives us the right to bear arms.
  4. Number of the amendment that gives us the freedom of speech.
  5. In what month of 1791 was the Bill of Rights ratified?
  6. The amendment that guarantees defendants in criminal cases the right to a speedy public trial by jury.
  7. the amendment that requires the government to compensate citizens when private property is taken for public use.
  8. This amendment gives the people all rights not mentioned in the Constitution.
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  1. The Fourth Amendment states that your home/property can't be searched by law enforcement without a court-issued ______
  2. The Third Amendment prevents ______ from forcibly quartering in homes in peacetime.
  3. This amendment grants the right to jury trial in civil cases
  4. Amendment that states that unreasonable search and seizure is prohibited.
  5. How many rights were part of the Bill of Rights before it got ratified?
  6. Freedom of this is one of the main rights given in the First Amendment.
  7. The ______ Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
  8. The amendment states that all rights not given to the federal government are given to the states and the people.
  9. Excessive _______ are prohibited by the eighth amendment.

17 Clues: Who wrote the Bill of Rights? • The Fifth Amendment forbids double ______. • The amendment that gives us the right to bear arms. • In what month of 1791 was the Bill of Rights ratified? • Excessive _______ are prohibited by the eighth amendment. • This amendment grants the right to jury trial in civil cases • ...

Northwest Ordinance 2024-03-06

Northwest Ordinance crossword puzzle
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  1. territories could from representative _________
  2. when admitted to the union, states would write this
  3. the territories were divided into ______
  4. set of laws to protect citizens
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  1. land that belongs to a nation but is not a state
  2. another name for law
  3. only part of this state was included
  4. number of states formed
  5. number of stages a territory had before becoming a state
  6. was banned
  7. someone who governs

11 Clues: was banned • someone who governs • another name for law • number of states formed • set of laws to protect citizens • only part of this state was included • the territories were divided into ______ • territories could from representative _________ • land that belongs to a nation but is not a state • when admitted to the union, states would write this • ...

gov vocab 2021-01-21

gov vocab crossword puzzle
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  1. king/queen controls all aspect of life
  2. believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property
  3. each branch of government is subject to a number of constitutional restraints
  4. division of the powers in our government among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches; no one branch has too much power
  5. government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
  6. considered intelligent and decisive
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  1. government is defined by law and serves the people
  2. “Father of the Constitution” and fourth president of the United States
  3. he distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union
  4. belief that monarchs were chosen by God
  5. first ten amendments to the Constitution
  6. compromise reached in writing the Constitution to satisfy both small and large states by having one house of Congress with an equal number of representatives
  7. 3rd president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence

13 Clues: considered intelligent and decisive • king/queen controls all aspect of life • belief that monarchs were chosen by God • first ten amendments to the Constitution • government is defined by law and serves the people • believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property • “Father of the Constitution” and fourth president of the United States • ...

From the article: What causes dead zones, and can they be reversed? 2022-03-24

From the article: What causes dead zones, and can they be reversed? crossword puzzle
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  1. these two states also have dead zones on their coastlines
  2. a major cause of dead zones, also an essential component of bones
  3. a primary cause of dead zones, also a component of protein
  4. the Gulf of Mexico dead zone decimated this industry
  5. lacking oxygen
  6. what a water-based ecosystem does when two many nutrients are added to it
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  1. location of the most infamous dead zone in the United States
  2. a dead zone in this location cleared up after the cost of chemical fertilizer increased
  3. a bay in the western part of the United states where a dead zone has been reversed
  4. a river in eastern part of the United States where a dead zone has been reversed
  5. a dead zone was first detected here in the 1970s
  6. this hurricane worsened the hypoxic conditions in the Gulf of Mexico
  7. spilling this will also worsen hypoxic conditions in water

13 Clues: lacking oxygen • a dead zone was first detected here in the 1970s • the Gulf of Mexico dead zone decimated this industry • these two states also have dead zones on their coastlines • a primary cause of dead zones, also a component of protein • spilling this will also worsen hypoxic conditions in water • location of the most infamous dead zone in the United States • ...

From the article: What causes dead zones, and can they be reversed? 2022-03-24

From the article: What causes dead zones, and can they be reversed? crossword puzzle
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  1. a river in eastern part of the United States where a dead zone has been reversed
  2. this hurricane worsened the hypoxic conditions in the Gulf of Mexico
  3. these two states also have dead zones on their coastlines
  4. a major cause of dead zones, also an essential component of bones
  5. location of the most infamous dead zone in the United States
  6. the Gulf of Mexico dead zone decimated this industry
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  1. what a water-based ecosystem does when two many nutrients are added to it
  2. a bay in the western part of the United states where a dead zone has been reversed
  3. a dead zone was first detected here in the 1970s
  4. a primary cause of dead zones, also a component of protein
  5. a dead zone in this location cleared up after the cost of chemical fertilizer increased
  6. spilling this will also worsen hypoxic conditions in water
  7. lacking oxygen

13 Clues: lacking oxygen • a dead zone was first detected here in the 1970s • the Gulf of Mexico dead zone decimated this industry • these two states also have dead zones on their coastlines • a primary cause of dead zones, also a component of protein • spilling this will also worsen hypoxic conditions in water • location of the most infamous dead zone in the United States • ...

President's Day (February 17) 2024-01-24

President's Day (February 17) crossword puzzle
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  1. The ceremony in which a new President is officially sworn into office.
  2. The group of men who played a key role in the establishment of the United States, including some who became Presidents.
  3. The document that outlines the powers and duties of the President.
  4. The President's formal workspace and meeting room in the White House.
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  1. The form of government the U.S. Presidents uphold and protect.
  2. The 16th President of the United States, known for leading the country through the Civil War.
  3. An acronym for "President of the United States."
  4. The first President of the United States, honored on Presidents' Day.
  5. Visitors often tour stone testaments to presidents in Washington, D.C., on Presidents' Day.
  6. The branch of government headed by the President.
  7. The President's power to reject a proposed law.
  8. The advisory body appointed by the President, consisting of heads of executive departments.
  9. The month in which Presidents' Day is observed.

13 Clues: The President's power to reject a proposed law. • The month in which Presidents' Day is observed. • An acronym for "President of the United States." • The branch of government headed by the President. • The form of government the U.S. Presidents uphold and protect. • The document that outlines the powers and duties of the President. • ...

Articles of The Constitution 2016-10-05

Articles of The Constitution crossword puzzle
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  1. All laws are based off of what? And considered the supreme law of the land.
  2. The Constitution can be amended due to what article?
  3. The President, Vice-President, Cabinet, and Departments under the Cabinet Secretaries ____ out the laws made by Congress.
  4. Article 7 recognizes and details all that signed the constitution. Who were these people?
  5. Decides court cases based on the Constitution.
  6. Other than Congress, who has the power to amend the constitution?
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  1. The courts under the Supreme Court decide what cases?
  2. Appointed by the president to help counsel them in times of need.
  3. Who makes the laws in this nation?
  4. _______ of the states must vote yes in order to amend the constitution.
  5. The 4th amendment also suggests that all the states are...
  6. A two-house legislature (we use this).
  7. States have the power to make and carry out their own laws due to which Article?

13 Clues: Who makes the laws in this nation? • A two-house legislature (we use this). • Decides court cases based on the Constitution. • The Constitution can be amended due to what article? • The courts under the Supreme Court decide what cases? • The 4th amendment also suggests that all the states are... • Appointed by the president to help counsel them in times of need. • ...

Levels of Government 2024-12-04

Levels of Government crossword puzzle
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  1. is the branch of government that writes and passes laws
  2. has 435 members, determined by state populations
  3. is the branch of government that interprets laws and decides if they are Constitutional
  4. states that any powers not listed in the Constitution should go to the states
  5. these powers are explicitly given to the federal government in the constitution
  6. running these is a reserved power that States are in control of
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  1. Congress has the power to make any laws that are" _______________ and proper" for society to function
  2. is a concurrent power that both the State and Federal governments can impact
  3. is the branch of government that includes the president
  4. includes offices like the Department of Education and the Department of Justice
  5. has 100 members, 2 for each state, who are elected to serve 6-year terms
  6. has the power to declare war
  7. a word meaning power is divided between the Federal government and the states

13 Clues: has the power to declare war • has 435 members, determined by state populations • is the branch of government that writes and passes laws • is the branch of government that includes the president • running these is a reserved power that States are in control of • has 100 members, 2 for each state, who are elected to serve 6-year terms • ...

Gases 2021-05-18

Gases crossword puzzle
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  1. the scientist summarized the results of his experiments by stating that at constant temperature and pressure the volume of gaseous reactants and products can be expressed as ratios of small whole numbers
  2. a device used to measure atmospheric pressure
  3. pressure of each gas in a mixture
  4. states that equal volume of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules
  5. the lowest possible achievable temperature is assigned the value of zero on the kelvin temperature scale
  6. states that the rates of effusion of gases at the same temperature and pressure are inversely proportional to the square roots of their molar masses
  7. expresses the relationship between pressure, volume, and temperature of a fixed amount of gas
  8. states that the total pressure of a gas mixture is the sum of the partial pressures of the component gases
  9. in the equation representing the ideal gas law the constant R
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  1. defined as being exactly equivalent to 760 mm Hg
  2. is defined as the force per unit area on a surface
  3. it had been found to be 22.414 10 L
  4. states that the volume of a fixed mass of gas varies inversely with the pressure at constant temperature
  5. common unit of pressure symbolized mm Hg
  6. is the mathematical relationship among pressure, volume, temperature, and the number of moles of a gas
  7. states that the volume of a fixed mass of gas at constant pressure varies directly with the temperature in kelvins
  8. is the force that will increase the speed of a one kilogram mass by one meter per second each second that the force is applied.
  9. defined as the pressure exerted by a force of one newton acting on an area of one square meter
  10. the pressure of a fix mass of gas at constant volume varies directly with the temperature in kelvins

19 Clues: pressure of each gas in a mixture • it had been found to be 22.414 10 L • common unit of pressure symbolized mm Hg • a device used to measure atmospheric pressure • defined as being exactly equivalent to 760 mm Hg • is defined as the force per unit area on a surface • in the equation representing the ideal gas law the constant R • ...

Standard 5-6 Study Guide 2021-09-01

Standard 5-6 Study Guide crossword puzzle
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  1. Alexander Hamilton's main political rival while in Washington's cabinet.
  2. Acts passed that punished those who criticized his foreign policy.
  3. George Washington set the precedent for this during his time as President
  4. Declared that when counting population, slaves would be counted as 3/5s.
  5. rallied against political parties and foreign interference
  6. Situation where French diplomats wanted bribes in exchange for the halt of the impressment of US sailors.
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  1. Deal with France in which the United States gained 827,000 miles of land.
  2. resulted from the Virginia and New Jersey plans.
  3. method for making new states out of the Ohio territory.
  4. Lewis and Clark traveled the longest on this river.
  5. Rebellion in which whiskey farmers who raided western Pennsylvania in protest of unfair taxes.
  6. Government plan that gave more power to states with higher populations.
  7. 1st form of government in the United States

13 Clues: 1st form of government in the United States • resulted from the Virginia and New Jersey plans. • Lewis and Clark traveled the longest on this river. • method for making new states out of the Ohio territory. • rallied against political parties and foreign interference • Acts passed that punished those who criticized his foreign policy. • ...

MARCUS GARVEY 2018-09-28

MARCUS GARVEY crossword puzzle
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  1. What did Garvey fall off of during his first formal speech in the United States?
  2. what Marcus Garvey was remembered for
  3. type of fraud Marcus Garvey was convicted of
  4. type of march Dubois held after the St. Louis violence and killing
  5. last name of energetic preacher who Garvey watched and tried to emulate
  6. horrible practice Marcus Garvey witnessed as he went across the United States by train
  7. Garvey and one of people interviewed felt that Dubois was reacting too much like this after the murdering of people in St. Louis
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  1. goal of federal government in bringing Garvey to court
  2. part of New York City where Garvey settled when he came to the United States
  3. homeland of Marcus Garvey
  4. organization created by Marcus Garvey in the United States
  5. last name of federal agent who investigates Marcus Garvey
  6. _______ star line was the name of the UNIA cruise ship company

13 Clues: homeland of Marcus Garvey • what Marcus Garvey was remembered for • type of fraud Marcus Garvey was convicted of • goal of federal government in bringing Garvey to court • last name of federal agent who investigates Marcus Garvey • organization created by Marcus Garvey in the United States • _______ star line was the name of the UNIA cruise ship company • ...

Formation of Government Crossword 2023-10-02

Formation of Government Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. This "idea" at the convention believed all states should have equal say.
  2. This agreement allowed for the south to have more representation in the House of Representatives.
  3. After this was added, the constitution was ratified.
  4. There are currently 100 members in this that serve 6 year terms.
  5. A two-house legislature
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  1. This man believed the wealthy, educated should rule. Leading thinker at convention
  2. Considered the "Father" of the constitution.
  3. This "idea" proposed that larger states should have more say.
  4. This event proved the AOC was a complete failure
  5. This was included in the AOC, it allowed for the creation of states in the NW territory.
  6. The purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to ___ the AOC.
  7. The idea that power is divided and shared between the states, and the government.
  8. This settled the dispute between the NJ and VA Plans

13 Clues: A two-house legislature • Considered the "Father" of the constitution. • This event proved the AOC was a complete failure • After this was added, the constitution was ratified. • This settled the dispute between the NJ and VA Plans • This "idea" proposed that larger states should have more say. • The purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to ___ the AOC. • ...

Chapter 3 vocab 2024-10-09

Chapter 3 vocab crossword puzzle
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  1. A strategy that can be used to divide using only subtraction..
  2. A number that is being divided.
  3. A group of related facts using the same numbers.
  4. A number that divides a whole number evenly. Also, a number that is multiplied by another number.
  5. The property that states that any number multiplied by zero is zero.
  6. The product of a given number and any whole number.
  7. The answer to a division problem.
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  1. The property that states that the order in which two numbers are multiplied does not change the product.
  2. The property that states when any number is multiplied by 1, the product is that number.
  3. The property that states that the grouping of the factors does not change the product.
  4. To break apart a number.
  5. The answer to a multiplication problem.
  6. The number by which the dividend is being divided.

13 Clues: To break apart a number. • A number that is being divided. • The answer to a division problem. • The answer to a multiplication problem. • A group of related facts using the same numbers. • The number by which the dividend is being divided. • The product of a given number and any whole number. • A strategy that can be used to divide using only subtraction.. • ...

American History Final Exam Review! 2023-12-14

American History Final Exam Review! crossword puzzle
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  1. A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.
  2. a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union; the closest we got to nuclear war during the Cold War.
  3. Land acquisition that doubled the size of the US.
  4. Refers to the industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages.
  5. a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
  6. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
  7. laws passed to discriminate against African-Americans in the South during Reconstruction
  8. the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest
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  1. survival of the fittest in society
  2. Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy African Americans and helped them get jobs
  3. A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere.
  4. a position of not taking a side
  5. The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional.
  6. A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.
  7. ______ vs. Board of Education; Supreme Court case that overturned the "separate but equal" discrimination ruling.
  8. strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism.
  9. Attack from the Japanese that caused America to join WW2
  10. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
  11. the 19th century belief that America's westward expansion was inevitable and justified.

19 Clues: a position of not taking a side • survival of the fittest in society • Land acquisition that doubled the size of the US. • Attack from the Japanese that caused America to join WW2 • The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional. • Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole • ...

School Funding Crossword 2025-06-06

School Funding Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. Over 80% of school funding comes from state and _______ resources
  2. The nation’s fourth-largest state by population was in the top 3 for per-student funding in 2013
  3. Only eight percent of total school funding comes from funds provided at this level
  4. Between 2007 and 2012, the pupil-to-teacher ratio did this in most states.
  5. This decreasing category of tax revenue has a created a need for Colorado to make up its funding deficit in other areas
  6. A federal program that provides money to districts with students from low-income backgrounds, so as to improve academic performance
  7. Every state has its own ______ for calculating school funding.
  8. This four letter acronym represents the federal act that gave money to schools in order to better support students with disabilities in the public system
  9. This term surrounds leveling the playing field regarding district-to-district or state-to-state funding disparities.
  10. States have the ability to ______ federal money if the state does not wish to participate in the program that is being promoted
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  1. One cause of the discrepancy in per-district funding is the disparity in local property ______
  2. The largest state ranked in the bottom three for per-student funding in 2013
  3. In 2009, the US provided $100 billion in economic aid in response to the country falling into this economic state
  4. Funding is often incredibly ________ across different states, areas, and districts.
  5. Nationwide school funding is approaching one ______ dollars annually.
  6. The entity in which the US government provides power to govern their schools
  7. This state had the highest percentage of students enrolled in fiscally disadvantaged districts in the country
  8. In most cases, school funding is determined on a per-______ basis
  9. This term addresses the principle that states should provide enough funding for all students to meet academic expectations

19 Clues: Every state has its own ______ for calculating school funding. • Over 80% of school funding comes from state and _______ resources • In most cases, school funding is determined on a per-______ basis • Nationwide school funding is approaching one ______ dollars annually. • Between 2007 and 2012, the pupil-to-teacher ratio did this in most states. • ...

Negro johnson 2022-03-07

Negro johnson crossword puzzle
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  1. believed that through their knowledge and achievement in liberal education would gain for American Blacks a status of economic and political equality.
  2. an African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism
  3. African American poet active around the 1920s-1960s His poetry contributed significantly to the Harlem Renaissance
  4. What a black person was reffered to as mostly as a classification
  5. the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970.
  6. was an African American cultural movement.It was centered around Harlem, a suburb of New York City.
  7. a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century
  8. a place in new york city
  9. The transportation of africans to different lands mainly americas
  10. An American abolitionist.She escaped to the North in 1849 and became the most renowned conductor on the Underground Railroad.
  11. a house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops
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  1. the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.
  2. state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  3. a ong used to tell escaping slaves to get off the trail and into the water to make sure the dogs slave catchers used couldn't sniff out their trail.
  4. the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process (By hanging).
  5. a song talking about how african americans were hung by trees and the injustices done to them.
  6. a soft, fluffy staple fiber.
  7. A slave that learned to read and write and wrote a narrative about himself.
  8. A plant with leaves that have high levels of the addictive chemical nicotine.

19 Clues: a place in new york city • a soft, fluffy staple fiber. • a house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops • What a black person was reffered to as mostly as a classification • The transportation of africans to different lands mainly americas • A slave that learned to read and write and wrote a narrative about himself. • ...

How Young Activists Got 18-Year-Olds the Right to Vote in Record Time 2023-03-28

How Young Activists Got 18-Year-Olds the Right to Vote in Record Time crossword puzzle
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  1. Many argued “If young men are to be drafted at 18 years of age to fight for their Government, they ought to be entitled to ____ at 18 years
  2. Between 1940 and 1942, Congress passed _______ Service laws that lowered the military draft age first from 21 to 20, then from 20 to 18 in 1942.
  3. Young voters aged 18-29 preferred the __________ticket by a 25-point margin.
  4. Young men could be ______ into military service at 18 but could not vote until 21
  5. Many believe that the younger the electorate, the more favorable the electorate for ______.
  6. In 1971, more than ___million 18– to 20-year-olds got the right to vote In
  7. President at the time the amendment was passed
  8. The amendment was _____ by the required 38 states by July 1,
  9. The right for 18 year olds to vote was done with ______(Dem and Rep) support
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  1. First Lady ______Roosevelt, endorsed the cause in the 1940’s
  2. Some reformers did not “talk about young people as _____agents,” who could handle the demands of adulthood.
  3. Examples of battleground states are _________, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
  4. In 19____, more than 10 million 18– to 20-year-olds got the right to vote
  5. The amendment declared “The right of ______ of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States
  6. The racially diverse youth vote was “instrumental” in sending former Vice President _______the White House.
  7. Many historians and journalists have attributed the Amendment’s passage to the work of anti-___ protesters of the 1960s.
  8. Young people of ______, played a key role in “flipping” battleground states including Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
  9. World War II took place during the 19____
  10. The decades-long push to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 culminated in the 1971 ratification of the Twenty _____ Amendment

19 Clues: World War II took place during the 19____ • President at the time the amendment was passed • First Lady ______Roosevelt, endorsed the cause in the 1940’s • The amendment was _____ by the required 38 states by July 1, • Examples of battleground states are _________, Michigan and Pennsylvania. • ...

CHAPTER 19/THE FIRST WORLD WAR 2019-10-02

CHAPTER 19/THE FIRST WORLD WAR crossword puzzle
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  1. a famous soldier of the AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, who is known for his actions while fighting in the area of MEUSE-ARGONNE
  2. a kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions
  3. a devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation
  4. the compensation paid by a defeated nation for the damage or injury it inflicted during a conflict
  5. a truce, or agreement to end an armed conflict
  6. the individual that led the AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, which included men from widely separated parts of the UNITED STATES
  7. a conservative senator, who opposed joining the LEAGUE OF NATIONS, as he believed doing so would threaten the UNITED STATES foreign policy of isolationism
  8. GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, and ITALY formed the TRIPLE _______________
  9. an amendment to the United States Constitution that gives women the right to vote
  10. the development and/or glorification of armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy
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  1. the note that proposed an alliance between MEXICO and GERMANY that was intercepted by BRITISH agents
  2. the heir to the AUSTRIAN throne, who was assassinated by a SERBIAN nationalist
  3. a famous fighter pilot who flew missions for the UNITED STATES during WORLD WAR I
  4. the individual that convinced the BRITISH to utilize a heavy guard of destroyers to escort merchant ships across the ATLANTIC OCEAN
  5. the policy of extending a nation's authority over other countries by economic, political, and military means
  6. a type of system that was used to escort merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean
  7. a prosperous businessman that guided the WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD, which encouraged companies to utilize the technique of mass-production
  8. the individual that persuaded artists and advertising agencies to create thousands of paintings, posters, and cartoons that promoted the war effort in the UNITED STATES
  9. FRANCE, BRITAIN, and RUSSIA formed the TRIPLE _______________

19 Clues: a truce, or agreement to end an armed conflict • a devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation • FRANCE, BRITAIN, and RUSSIA formed the TRIPLE _______________ • GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, and ITALY formed the TRIPLE _______________ • the heir to the AUSTRIAN throne, who was assassinated by a SERBIAN nationalist • ...

Unit 3 vocabulary 2023-02-06

Unit 3 vocabulary crossword puzzle
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  1. The Preamble to the United States Constitution, beginning with the words We the People, is a brief introductory statement of the Constitution's fundamental purposes and guiding principles.
  2. Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades.
  3. The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787.
  4. Alexander Hamilton was a Nevisian-born American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first United States secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795. Born out of wedlock in Charlestown, Nevis, Hamilton was orphaned as a child and taken in by a prosperous merchant.
  5. Article Seven of the United States Constitution sets the number of state ratifications necessary for the Constitution to take effect and prescribes the method through which the states may ratify it.
  6. the federal principle or system of government.
  7. a formal declaration of the legal and civil rights of the citizens of any state, country, federation, etc.
  8. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
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  1. a late-18th-century political movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution.
  2. the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
  3. James Madison Jr. was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father. He served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.
  4. A constitutional amendment is a modification of the constitution of a polity, organization or other type of entity.
  5. John Jay was an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, abolitionist, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served as the second governor of New York and the first chief justice of the United States.
  6. a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788.
  7. a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.

15 Clues: the federal principle or system of government. • The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. • the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789. • a formal declaration of the legal and civil rights of the citizens of any state, country, federation, etc. • ...

Unit#3 Division Notes Crossword 2025-12-04

Unit#3 Division Notes Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. Allowed voters in Kansas to decide through a popular vote if they would enter the union as a free or slave state.
  2. In the 1800s, the most widely used form of lamp oil and machinery oil was __________.
  3. an extremely unpopular part of the Compromise of 1850 in the North, that saw California join the union as a free state. Allowed Southern slave holders to hire bounty hunters to find and imprison African Americans in the North.
  4. With increased demand and profitability of cotton production and westward migration did tension between free states and slave states increased or decreased? Pick one.
  5. He led a raid on the federal weapons depot at Harper’s Ferry that ultimately failed. He was eventually put on trial and executed. Opinion of his actions further divide the nation.
  6. Many states in the South did this after Lincoln wins the election of 1860. Slave holding border states of: Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri all stay in the union.
  7. This port city at the mouth of the Hudson river benefited socially, politically and economically from the Eerie Canal.
  8. This man was the 1860 nominee from the newly created Republican party. His candidacy was so opposed in the south, that his name was not even on the ballot in numerous states.
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  1. This machine was invented by Eli Whitney and mechanized the process of sorting the seeds out of cotton. Efficiency in cotton harvesting was greatly increased, thereby increasing its profitability
  2. He became a prominent leader in the abolitionist movement: Meeting with elected officials, writing and publishing an abolitionist newspaper, making speeches and organizing supporters.
  3. Prior to the Civil War, there were this many slaves in the United States of America
  4. Due to increased demand and increased efficiency cotton became the United State’s most valuable_______________. (when you send good for sale to another country).
  5. ________ were primarily employed to work in the early textile factories in the Northeastern United States in the 1800s. Many would join labor causes and other social reform efforts, instrumental to changes taking place in the 1800s in the U.S.
  6. This public construction project link the Hudson river by water with Lake Eerie.
  7. This supreme court decision answered the question of freedom and state lines for slaves. It declared that a former slave ________could not be free regardless of where he lived as it would deny his slave holders right to his property. Also, declared the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional. Politically, it meant there was no point or room for further compromise between free state and slave states in Congress.

15 Clues: This public construction project link the Hudson river by water with Lake Eerie. • Prior to the Civil War, there were this many slaves in the United States of America • In the 1800s, the most widely used form of lamp oil and machinery oil was __________. • ...

Great Depression Crossword 2021-01-29

Great Depression Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States
  2. an American documentary photographer and photojournalist
  3. an American political figure, diplomat and activist
  4. sign and accept liability under an insurance policy
  5. shantytowns built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of early 1930s
  6. area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust
  7. investment in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss
  8. when an investor buys an asset by borrowing the balance from a bank or broker
  9. collective action taken during the auction of a foreclosed property
  10. repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
  11. an American physician, author, political organizer and author of the Townsend Plan
  12. group of 43,000 demonstrators – made up of 17,000 U.S. World War I veterans and afflicted groups
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  1. an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States
  2. international agreement which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve disputes
  3. provided financial support to state and local governments, made loans to banks
  4. an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner
  5. political philosophy or movement that exalts nation and often race above the individual

17 Clues: an American political figure, diplomat and activist • sign and accept liability under an insurance policy • an American documentary photographer and photojournalist • an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner • collective action taken during the auction of a foreclosed property • ...

Force and Motion Vocab 2024-02-14

Force and Motion Vocab crossword puzzle
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  1. The force exerted on a body by gravity.
  2. Newton’s _______ Law of motion states that for every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction.
  3. The push or pull on an object.
  4. How fast something is moving and in what direction it is going.
  5. __________ is the shortest distance from the initial to the final position.
  6. The length between objects or points without regard for direction.
  7. ________ is the force that resists motion.
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  1. The Law of Conservation of __________ states that before and after two objects collide they have the same amount of momentum.
  2. Fall The tennis ball that I dropped from the latter was at ____ _____.
  3. ________ keeps us from floating away from Earth.
  4. A change in position of an object
  5. The ______ of the car is 80 mi/hr.
  6. The tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion.
  7. Newton’s ________ Law of motion states that the force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration.
  8. The car _________ from 20 mi/hr to 40 mi/hr.
  9. Newton’s ________ Law of motion states that an object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it.
  10. Resistance The force that acts in the opposite direction to an object moving through the air.

17 Clues: The push or pull on an object. • A change in position of an object • The ______ of the car is 80 mi/hr. • The force exerted on a body by gravity. • ________ is the force that resists motion. • The car _________ from 20 mi/hr to 40 mi/hr. • ________ keeps us from floating away from Earth. • The tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion. • ...

US HISTORY PUZZLE 2024-05-29

US HISTORY PUZZLE crossword puzzle
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  1. Opposed a strong national government and wanted more power for the states
  2. Purchase of French land doubling the size of the US in 1803 during Jefferson's term
  3. Helped write the Constitution and believed in checks and balances of power
  4. The first constitution of the United States that gave more powers to states than the national government
  5. The Constitution separated power among the branches to limit any one from becoming too strong
  6. George Washington decided America would stay out of conflicts between European nations
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  1. Led the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase
  2. Farmers revolted because they couldn't pay taxes, showing weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
  3. Group of advisers who helped the President run the government
  4. Laws restricting immigrants and free speech that eroded civil liberties
  5. Supported a stronger national government over the states
  6. A government where the people hold power and elect representatives
  7. A group that formally elects the President and Vice President
  8. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who helped the judicial branch grow in power
  9. A law that helped settlers buy land fairly and earn money for the government
  10. First Secretary of the Treasury who wanted a strong industrial America
  11. The first ten amendments protecting civil liberties added to appease Antifederalists

17 Clues: Supported a stronger national government over the states • Group of advisers who helped the President run the government • A group that formally elects the President and Vice President • A government where the people hold power and elect representatives • Led the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase • ...

Formative Years 2014-04-27

Formative Years crossword puzzle
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  1. document formally ending the American Revolutionary War
  2. Supreme Court ruling, declaring the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional
  3. prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri
  4. a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington
  5. the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana, more than doubling the current size of the United States
  6. battle of the American Revolution, which ended the war
  7. an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787, caused by aggressive tax and debt collection
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  1. chief justice appointed by John Adams
  2. stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention
  3. a collection of articles, written in opposition to the ratification of the 1787 United States Constitution
  4. the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution

11 Clues: chief justice appointed by John Adams • battle of the American Revolution, which ended the war • document formally ending the American Revolutionary War • Supreme Court ruling, declaring the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional • the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution • ...

Civil War to Civil Rights 2024-03-14

Civil War to Civil Rights crossword puzzle
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  1. This is the war that took place starting in 1861 between the Union and the Confederacy. (2 words)
  2. One of the Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement who promoted peaceful protests was Dr. _________ ________ ______ Jr. (3 words)
  3. The Confederacy did this from the rest of the United States as they pulled away from them.
  4. This is the name of the city in South Carolina were the Battle of Fort Sumter took place.
  5. This word refers to the freedoms that people should have as citizens of the United States.(2 words)
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  1. During the Civil War, this is what the Northern States were called.
  2. During the Civil War, this is what the southern states called themselves.
  3. The period of time after the Civil War where the South's buildings and economy were built up.
  4. She was another leader in the Civil Rights Movement who did not give up her spot on the bus as a form of peaceful protest (2 words).
  5. This was the president of the United States during the Civil War who agreed with the Northern States. (2 words)
  6. A separation between multiple groups of people.

11 Clues: A separation between multiple groups of people. • During the Civil War, this is what the Northern States were called. • During the Civil War, this is what the southern states called themselves. • This is the name of the city in South Carolina were the Battle of Fort Sumter took place. • ...

ewewewewewewewewewew 2022-01-10

ewewewewewewewewewew crossword puzzle
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  1. The law created the Federal Reserve System and the central banking system of the United States.
  2. the protection of natural resources
  3. was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States
  4. elected the 27th President of the United States (1909-1913) and later became the tenth Chief Justice of the United States
  5. American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
  6. Theodore Roosevelt's campain promise that all groups would have an equal opportunity
  7. presidential campaign, pledging to restore unfettered opportunity for individual action and to employ the power of government in behalf of social justice for all
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  1. a former political party in the United States; founded by Theodore Roosevelt during the presidential campaign of 1912; its emblem was a picture of a bull moose
  2. a federal agency, established in 1914 that administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace
  3. was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States
  4. someone who would destroy all trusts
  5. area set aside by the government to be conserved

12 Clues: the protection of natural resources • someone who would destroy all trusts • area set aside by the government to be conserved • Theodore Roosevelt's campain promise that all groups would have an equal opportunity • was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States • ...

Bill of Rights 2024-04-10

Bill of Rights crossword puzzle
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  1. the eighth amendment protects citizens from cruel and unusual ___________ such as excessive bail and fines
  2. under the third amendment, citizens do not have to house or quarter ________
  3. in the tenth amendment, it states that whatever ___________ is not given to the federal government belongs to the states and to the people.
  4. to keep from incriminating themselves, a person can plead the ________ during a court hearing
  5. this the freedom to gather together
  6. this amendment states that citizens are allowed to have guns for defensive purposes.
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  1. this is a freedom granted in the first amendment. It includes things such as news, newspapers, social media
  2. the first ten amendments to the constitution are called this
  3. the fourth amendment states that the government cannot search your personal property or ________ it (you will have to change the tense of the word)
  4. this amendment protects a citizens freedom of religion, assembly, press, petition, and speech
  5. the ninth amendment states that the Bill of Rights are not the only _________ that a citizen has, they have more.
  6. in a civil trial, a citizen has the right to a trial by a group of their peers. This group is called a _________
  7. a person has the right to a _________ under the 6th amendment

13 Clues: this the freedom to gather together • the first ten amendments to the constitution are called this • a person has the right to a _________ under the 6th amendment • under the third amendment, citizens do not have to house or quarter ________ • this amendment states that citizens are allowed to have guns for defensive purposes. • ...

Reconstruction 2024-05-06

Reconstruction crossword puzzle
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  1. What was the percentage of people to get the state readmitted
  2. What did the Jim Crow laws pass?
  3. What amendment states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
  4. restrict the total number of immigrants while not offending the large element of ethnic voters.
  5. The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.
  6. What was it called when the president were trying to "revive" the state.
  7. What amendment states "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States"
  8. Required voters to pay a fee in order to enter the polling places to cast their ballots
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  1. How many military districts were there?
  2. What did the congress do in response to Johnson?
  3. What amendment states "guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
  4. the Black Codes ____ African Americans from doing specific things
  5. Johnson wanted more so what did the congress do?

13 Clues: What did the Jim Crow laws pass? • How many military districts were there? • What did the congress do in response to Johnson? • Johnson wanted more so what did the congress do? • What was the percentage of people to get the state readmitted • the Black Codes ____ African Americans from doing specific things • ...

Roller Coasters 2025-11-21

Roller Coasters crossword puzzle
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  1. anything a person spends money on
  2. stored energy
  3. Law that states every action has an equal and opposite reaction
  4. force of gravity or acceleration on a body
  5. Law that states an object at rest will remain at rest
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  1. energy of motion
  2. to cause to move towards, push
  3. highest point
  4. plan for managing your money
  5. push or pull
  6. Law that states forces equal mass times acceleration

11 Clues: push or pull • highest point • stored energy • energy of motion • plan for managing your money • to cause to move towards, push • anything a person spends money on • force of gravity or acceleration on a body • Law that states forces equal mass times acceleration • Law that states an object at rest will remain at rest • ...

Constitution Crossword 2021-11-20

Constitution Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. Article about amending the constitution
  2. Article of the Supreme Law of the Land
  3. Which branch does article 2 deal with
  4. Article states how senators are elected
  5. Which branch does article 3 deal with
  6. How many amendments are there
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  1. Which branch does article 1 deal with
  2. States the purpose of the Constitution
  3. How many article are there
  4. Article about relationships between states
  5. Article about ratifying the Constitution

11 Clues: How many article are there • How many amendments are there • Which branch does article 1 deal with • Which branch does article 2 deal with • Which branch does article 3 deal with • States the purpose of the Constitution • Article of the Supreme Law of the Land • Article about amending the constitution • Article states how senators are elected • ...

Civil War 2025-09-11

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. General of the South
  2. made up of 11 states
  3. nickname of Southern General killed by his own men
  4. who was the President of the Confederacy
  5. A friend of Lincoln's and former slave
  6. who was President of the United States
  7. General of the South
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  1. this side wanted to keep slavery
  2. made up of 23 states
  3. color of the Confederacy's uniformss
  4. the turning point of the war
  5. color of the Union's uniforms

12 Clues: made up of 23 states • General of the South • made up of 11 states • General of the South • the turning point of the war • color of the Union's uniforms • this side wanted to keep slavery • color of the Confederacy's uniformss • A friend of Lincoln's and former slave • who was President of the United States • who was the President of the Confederacy • ...

How Greece was Ruled 2015-10-19

How Greece was Ruled crossword puzzle
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  1. City-state beginning with O
  2. Alexander the...
  3. City-state that Alexander the Great was from
  4. Greece was divided into...
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  1. Each city-state had its own government
  2. Often the city-states joined together to fight the...
  3. City-state beginning with C
  4. Was there one country called Ancient Greece?
  5. Did the city-states often fight each other?
  6. City-state beginning with S
  7. City-state beginning with A

11 Clues: Alexander the... • Greece was divided into... • City-state beginning with O • City-state beginning with C • City-state beginning with S • City-state beginning with A • Each city-state had its own government • Did the city-states often fight each other? • City-state that Alexander the Great was from • Was there one country called Ancient Greece? • ...

U.S Citizenship Practice 2 2024-11-06

U.S Citizenship Practice 2 crossword puzzle
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  1. Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government?
  2. Who is the Chief Justice of the United States now?
  3. What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?
  4. What is the name of the speaker of the house of representatives now?
  5. How many justices are on the Supreme Court?
  6. What is the capital of your state?
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  1. There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
  2. What are the two major political parties in the United States?
  3. Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states?
  4. Who is the Governor of your state now?

10 Clues: What is the capital of your state? • Who is the Governor of your state now? • How many justices are on the Supreme Court? • Who is the Chief Justice of the United States now? • What are the two major political parties in the United States? • What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens? • ...

US History Civil War & Reconstruction SSUSH8-10 2023-11-17

US History Civil War & Reconstruction SSUSH8-10 crossword puzzle
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  1. Radical Republicans Reconstruction-• Passed 14th and 15th amendments• Military reconstruction act divided the south into five military districts• New state constitutions required to guarantee voting rights• Military rule protected voting rights for African Americans• Empowered African Americans in government and supported their education
  2. John Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal; Brown and remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was hanged
  3. the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime: Lincoln takes this away during the Civil War
  4. Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory
  5. Served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865
  6. Lincoln urged Americans not to seek revenge on slaveholders and their supporters and military after the war. Instead, he urged reconstruction of the South "with malice toward none; with charity for all."
  7. Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War
  8. Amendment that ended slavery
  9. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  10. 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves.
  11. General Sherman and his troops set the city on fire, in order to destroy the confederate's supply lines and then Marched to the Sea, Savannah, and burnt everything along the way
  12. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
  13. laws passed in the south just after the civil war aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit african american workers
  14. Amendment that says citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude
  15. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. Led to Bleeding Kansas.
  16. Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War
  17. view of reconstruction : all states had to end slavery, states had to declare that their secession was illegal, and a small % men had to pledge their loyalty to the U.S.
  18. a 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery.
  19. an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the Civil War.
  20. federal agency set up in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the South
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  1. Lincoln issued it and freed all the slaves in the Confederate states, but slaves in Border States loyal to the Union remained enslaved. It only applied to states in rebellion (Confederate states). It led to slaves rebelling and joining the Union army and increased sympathy from Europe.
  2. General whose march to sea caused destruction to the south, union general, led march to destroy all supplies and resources, beginning of total warfare
  3. The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit.
  4. he intentionally violates Tenure Act because it was set upt to get him impeached by firing Secretary of War Edwin Stantin, at the Trial his lawyer says his only crime is opposing Congress, 12 democrats and 7 republicans vote him "not guilty", so he escaped impeachment by one vote
  5. violent abolitionist who murdered slaveholders in Kansas and Missouri (1856-1858) before his raid at Harpers Ferry (1859), hoping to incite a slave rebellion; he failed and was executed, but his martyrdom by northern abolitionists frightened the South.
  6. Confederate general who surrendered to Grant in the Civil War.
  7. Court ruled that he was the property of Sanford and, as a slave, was prohibited from suing in court. Chief Justice Taney gives his opinion that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Decision adds to sectionalism between North and South that will lead to the Civil War.
  8. Grant besieged the city from May 18 to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union.
  9. ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million
  10. The 11th U.S. President, he led the country during the Mexican War and sought to expand the United States
  11. Amendment declaring that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
  12. general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)
  13. the north/the U.S. during the Civil War
  14. the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties
  15. The most violent battle of the American Civil War that took place in PA and is frequently cited as the war's turning point, fought from July 1 - July 3, 1863.
  16. 1846 - 1848 - President Polk declared war over the dispute of land in Texas. At the end, American ended up with 55% of Mexico's land.
  17. Lincoln wins, southern states begin to secede
  18. Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river; as long as Hayes became the president
  19. the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America.
  20. putting the country back together after the Civil War.

40 Clues: Amendment that ended slavery • the north/the U.S. during the Civil War • Lincoln wins, southern states begin to secede • putting the country back together after the Civil War. • Confederate general who surrendered to Grant in the Civil War. • the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 • ...

Paddock AH Final Exam Review: 144 Terms and Events 2023-01-04

Paddock AH Final Exam Review: 144 Terms and Events crossword puzzle
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  1. wrote about trusts, child labor, impure food, slums, and corruption
  2. gave aid to help Western European nations rebuild and fight communism after World War II
  3. Paul Revere and William Dawes warned the minutemen that the redcoats were marching out of Boston; the colonists met the British and fought the opening battles of the American Revolution in these towns
  4. the process by witch an immigrant becomes a citizen of the United States
  5. seizure of American sailors any the British in the early 1800s; this became a cause of the war of 1812
  6. Congressman at the time of the War of 1812 who wanted to capture Canada from the British and florida from the Spanish
  7. in this 1954 case, the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were illegal
  8. Franklin Roosevelt's programs to end the Great Depression; the Civilian Conservation Corps, Works Progress Administration, and Tennessee Vally Authority created jobs for the unemployed
  9. Santa Anna's killed American defenders of this mission in San Antonio
  10. the colonist yelled insults and threw snowballs at some British soldiers; the redcoats fired into a crowd, killing five patriots
  11. used by President Andrew Jackson to give government jobs to friends and loyal supporters
  12. an organization of workers that tries to bargain for higher wages, fringe benefits, and improved working conditions
  13. slogan of Americans who wanted the United States to expand to the pacific coast
  14. the United States, Canada, and many Western European nations formed this alliance to oppose the spread of communism
  15. it began after Germany invaded Poland in 1939, and involved the Allied Powers and Axis Powers.
  16. house of congress with two members from each state
  17. the making of goods by machines in factories; it began in the 1790s
  18. a person cannot be denied the right to vote because of their race or color
  19. when the patriots staged the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed these harsh laws to punish the people of Massachusetts
  20. conflict in which the Americans defeated the British, and became an independent nation
  21. during the early 1800s, it was the main route of trade and travel between New York and the Great Lakes region
  22. it abolished slavery in all parts of the United States
  23. A refusal to buy goods in order to force a change in policy; the colonists used this tactic to get Parliament to repeal some of its strict trade and tax policies
  24. it was the constitution of the United States from 1781 until 1789; because it created a weak central government, it was replaced by there Untied States Constitution
  25. amendment that gave women the right to vote
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  1. division of power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches
  2. route the Indians who were forced to travel from the Southeast to the Oklahoma Territory
  3. the group of advisers of the President (secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, ect.)
  4. President Lincoln gave a speech in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War
  5. the U.S blockade ordered by President John F. Kennedy forced the Soviet Union to withdraw offensive nuclear weapons from the island of Cuba
  6. U.S base in Hawaii attacked by Japan on December 7th, 1941; congress responded by declaring war on the Japanese; the United Staes entered the war on the Allied Powers side
  7. the British and the Americans together drove the French from North America after winning the Battle of Quebec
  8. there first women's right meeting in the United States; the organizers included Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Lady Stanton
  9. amendment witch guaranteed freedom of religion , speech, press, assembly, and petition
  10. the first ten amendments to the Constitution
  11. it gave citizenship to former slaves, and "equal protection off the laws" to citizens of the United States
  12. the process by which labor and management negotiate a new contract
  13. it has been the plan of government of the untied states since 1789; consists of articles and amendments
  14. the preservation of forest lands, soil, water, and other natural resources
  15. strong loyalty or support for one's nation
  16. (First Manassas)First battle of the Civil War, fought near washington, D.C.; it was a stunning Confederate victory, and showed that the war would not be over soon
  17. period after the Civil War when there former Confederate states were readmitted to the Union
  18. Part of the Compromise of 1850 that made Northern States pay to capture and return runaway slaves
  19. a refusal by the president to sign a bill into law
  20. it was caused by the impression of American seaman by the British, and by the British encouragement of Indian raids against frontier families; this two-year conflict between the United States and the British ended with neither side achieving victory
  21. highest U.S court; consists of the Chief Justice and eight associate justices; can declare laws unconstitutional
  22. harassed British tex collectors and other officials; dumped tea into Boston harbor
  23. the United States fought against the Vietcong and North Vietnam; anti-war demonstrations in the U.S became widespread
  24. system whereby escaped slaves where moved northward to Canada
  25. enables one branch of Government to limit the power of another branch, such as when the President (executive branch) vetoes a bill passed by Congress (legislative branch)
  26. belief that a state can ignore a federal law it thinks is unconstitutional
  27. tax on cheap foreign goods to protects Northern manufacturers
  28. U.S. policy aimed at keeping European nations out of Latin America
  29. it gave 160 acres in the West to people who agreed to occupy the land for at least five years
  30. period of tension between the United States and Soviet Union; began at the end of World War II and lasted until the early 1990s
  31. where the confederates fired the first shots of the civil war; it was located at Charleston, South Carolina
  32. the lawmaking body consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives

57 Clues: strong loyalty or support for one's nation • amendment that gave women the right to vote • the first ten amendments to the Constitution • a refusal by the president to sign a bill into law • house of congress with two members from each state • it abolished slavery in all parts of the United States • system whereby escaped slaves where moved northward to Canada • ...

Vocab #3 2021-11-16

Vocab #3 crossword puzzle
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  1. Belonging to, or relating to, a town or city.
  2. An area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  3. A change in structure, function, or behavior by which a species or individual improves its chance of survival in a specific environment.
  4. A prominent leader from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache people.
  5. Passed in 1887 under President Grover Cleveland, allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands.
  6. Marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War.
  7. A 2,000-mile historic east-west large wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
  8. A gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
  9. A massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
  10. Several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead.
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  1. A train route across the United States that was finished in 1869.
  2. In, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.
  3. Something such as a device or process that has been created or made up.
  4. A Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies.
  5. A common style of dwelling built in the Prairies during the second half of the 19th century.
  6. ​​The process of adopting the language and culture of a dominant social group or nation.
  7. A leader of the Wallamwatkain band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

17 Clues: Belonging to, or relating to, a town or city. • A prominent leader from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache people. • A train route across the United States that was finished in 1869. • Something such as a device or process that has been created or made up. • In, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town. • ...

Civil War Vocabulary 2021-11-19

Civil War Vocabulary crossword puzzle
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  1. battle that was the largest Union defeat in the western theater of the Civil War; failure to follow up on the victory lead to Sherman’s Atlanta campaign
  2. of the national government
  3. battles in and around Atlanta that led to Atlanta being completely
  4. a destructive path of total war from Atlanta to Savannah
  5. one of the most important strategies during the Civil War; designed to prevent the South from shipping its cotton to England and France in return for weapons and other supplies
  6. take priority over the
  7. 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
  8. the period immediately after the Civil War when the South rebuilt and the southern states returned to the Union
  9. Abraham Lincoln elected President; outcome led to southern states to secede from the Union
  10. established Georgia's conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850; kept Georgia from succeeding from the Union
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  1. federal reconstruction agency; provided food; helped build schools and hospitals; created the first public school program for either African Americans or whites in Georgia
  2. proclamation that said all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed on January 1, 1863
  3. the belief that a state’s interests
  4. a legal idea that a state has the right to cancel; any federal law which that state has considered unconstitutional
  5. legislation passed by Congress in which California was admitted to the Union as a free state and a stronger Fugitive Slave Act was passed
  6. the action of southern states to leave the Union
  7. most notorious prisoner of war camp during the Civil War; officially named “Fort Sumter”

17 Clues: take priority over the • of the national government • the belief that a state’s interests • the action of southern states to leave the Union • a destructive path of total war from Atlanta to Savannah • battles in and around Atlanta that led to Atlanta being completely • most notorious prisoner of war camp during the Civil War; officially named “Fort Sumter” • ...

Constitution Crossword! 2021-12-10

Constitution Crossword! crossword puzzle
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  1. The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as
  2. This article explains how to get the Constitution ratified by getting 9 out of 13 states to agree to use the Constitution
  3. The leader and head of the Executive Branch. Their main job is it is to carry out and enforce laws
  4. The starting sentence of the Constitution is known as:
  5. This article explains how the states should act with each other and respect each other's laws. It also says that all states must be republics.
  6. This article is The longest and explains how the legislative branch should run in 2 different branches. The job of the legislative branch is to make laws.
  7. a change or addition to the Constitution is called a:
  8. This branch of Congress has a proportional amount of members per state.
  9. The amount of states needed to ratify:
  10. The two branches of the Legislative Branch together are known as:
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  1. This article explains how to propose an amendment to the Constitution and get it passed.
  2. The document that explains how our government runs:
  3. The highest court of the land.
  4. The amount of states needed to block the Constitution
  5. This article explains how federalism works and how if a state law contradicts a federal law the federal law is on top.
  6. This article sets up the Judicial branch and tells us how the Supreme Court and court system of the land are set up. It explains that the job of the Supreme Court is to interpret laws.
  7. This article establishes the executive branch whose main job is to execute and enforce laws. The job of the president and it's powers are also established as the head of the executive branch.

17 Clues: The highest court of the land. • The amount of states needed to ratify: • The document that explains how our government runs: • The amount of states needed to block the Constitution • a change or addition to the Constitution is called a: • The starting sentence of the Constitution is known as: • The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as • ...

Anatomy of the Constitution, Part 2 2024-11-19

Anatomy of the Constitution, Part 2 crossword puzzle
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  1. According to Article IV, new states can be admitted to the Union with the authorization of _____ and the president.
  2. According to Article V, an amendment may be proposed by a __-___ vote in both houses of Congress.
  3. The final draft of the Constitution was signed by the delegates at the Constitutional Convention on _____ 17, 1787.
  4. According to Article V, an amendment may be ratified by __-___ vote of the state legislatures.
  5. System of government in which the powers of government are divided between the national government and the state governments
  6. According to Article VI, if a state and a federal law disagree, the _____ law wins.
  7. According to Article VII, _____ of the thirteen states had to ratify the Constitution before it took effect.
  8. The Bill of Rights are the first _____ amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which set forth basic rights guaranteed to all Americans.
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  1. Article V of the Constitution describes how the Constitution can be _____, or changed.
  2. Article IV of the Constitution describes how ____ should interact with each other.
  3. Type of democracy in which the people elect representatives to carry on the work of government for them
  4. A written change or addition to the Constitution
  5. Many people opposed ratifying the Constitution because it did not contain a list of the _____ of the people.
  6. Article VI states that the laws and treaties of the U.S. government are "the _____ law of the land."
  7. The _____ of Rights was added to the Constitution in 1791.
  8. The legal process for returning criminals to the place from which they fled
  9. The "full _____ and credit" clause of Article IV requires that each state respect the laws and court decisions of other states.

17 Clues: A written change or addition to the Constitution • The _____ of Rights was added to the Constitution in 1791. • The legal process for returning criminals to the place from which they fled • Article IV of the Constitution describes how ____ should interact with each other. • According to Article VI, if a state and a federal law disagree, the _____ law wins. • ...

wwII vocab 2023-04-20

wwII vocab crossword puzzle
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  1. a person not in the armed services or the police force.
  2. Germany built new and larger ------ to punch holes in the British blockade,
  3. a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
  4. the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin Roosevelt and as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to January 1945.
  5. The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as
  6. commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945
  7. an allegorical cultural icon in the United States who represents the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who joined the military.
  8. a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base on Sunday, December 7, 1941
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  1. created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language
  2. also called atom bomb, weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of a heavy element such as plutonium or uranium.
  3. This practice—skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance
  4. a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada
  5. the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), a precursor of the U.S. Air Force
  6. Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States.
  7. Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945
  8. a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race

16 Clues: a person not in the armed services or the police force. • created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language • Germany built new and larger ------ to punch holes in the British blockade, • Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945 • ...

Mr. Ross Crossword 2024-04-11

Mr. Ross Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
  2. a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction
  3. a U.S. government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction
  4. giving a part of each crop as rent."fifth of farmers sharecrop the land they till"
  5. a faction within the Republican Party
  6. to charge a public official before a competent tribunal as the U.S. Senate with misconduct in office
  7. laws which governed the conduct of African Americans.
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  1. The first black congressman
  2. a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
  3. a bill "to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government,"
  4. 17th President
  5. the historic period where the US was figuring out how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems
  6. 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.

13 Clues: 17th President • The first black congressman • a faction within the Republican Party • laws which governed the conduct of African Americans. • a U.S. government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction • giving a part of each crop as rent."fifth of farmers sharecrop the land they till" • ...

The Constution Crossword 2021-11-19

The Constution Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. the plan of government adopted at the constitutional convention that established a two house congress and is based on state population and equal numbers of senators
  2. a series of essays written by james madison alexander hamilton and john jay in support of the ratification of the constitution by the states
  3. a coutry governed by elected representatives
  4. decided how slaves would be counted for states populations
  5. a written plan that provides a basic framework for a government
  6. ften called the father of the constitution
  7. to approve something formally.
  8. the age of reason in 17 and 18 century europe
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  1. a law passed by congress in 1787 the specified how western lands would be governed
  2. the group establihed by the constitution to elect the president and vice president voters in each state choose their electors
  3. convention the meeting of delegates in which the articles of confederation were scrapped in favor of a new united states constitution
  4. the first written plan for goverment for the united states
  5. a region of the united states bounded by the ohio and mississippi rivers and the great lakes the region was given to the us by the treaty of paris in 1783

13 Clues: to approve something formally. • ften called the father of the constitution • a coutry governed by elected representatives • the age of reason in 17 and 18 century europe • decided how slaves would be counted for states populations • the first written plan for goverment for the united states • a written plan that provides a basic framework for a government • ...

FORMING A GOVERNMENT 2021-01-14

FORMING A GOVERNMENT crossword puzzle
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  1. Carta, A document signed by King John in 1215, made the king subject to law.
  2. Compromise, The agreement to make two-house legislature
  3. Plan, New federal constitution that would give sovereignty or supreme power to the central government
  4. Statute for Religious Freedom, This document declared that no person could be forced to attend a particular church or be required to pay for a church with tax money
  5. Convention, Held in May 1787 in Philadelphia's Independence Hall to improve the Articles of Confederation
  6. A period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment
  7. Taxes on imports or exports.
  8. Jersey Plan, The plan gave each state an equal number of votes and thus an equal voice in the federal government
  9. Madison, He co-wrote The Federalist Papers co-founded the Democratic-Republican Party and served as the fifth United States Secretary of State from 1801 to 1809.
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  1. A set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of the government.
  2. Occurs when there are increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money.
  3. of Confederation, The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution.
  4. commerce, Trade between two or more states
  5. The right to vote by allowing any white man who paid taxes to vote

14 Clues: Taxes on imports or exports. • commerce, Trade between two or more states • Compromise, The agreement to make two-house legislature • The right to vote by allowing any white man who paid taxes to vote • A period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment • Carta, A document signed by King John in 1215, made the king subject to law. • ...

Theories of global politics 2021-03-24

Theories of global politics crossword puzzle
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  1. The word Immanuel Kant used to describe a situation of constant peace
  2. A theory of global politics which emphasises the importance of states cooperating with each other to achieve shared goals
  3. The idea that each state's security and prosperity is now linked to those of others
  4. Council The body within the United Nations with the authority to approve military action against other states
  5. The idea that there is no supreme power to police the global political system
  6. A term to describe realist concerns about security; in the effort to maximise one's own military strength, states encourage their rivals to do the same
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  1. Each state has sole power within its own border and no other state should attempt to intervene in their affairs
  2. City in France where the last major climate change agreement was signed.
  3. 46th President of the United States; re-entered the Paris Climate agreement
  4. A non-governmental oganisation concerned with protecting the environment
  5. An intergovernmental organisation concerned with encouraging a free market approach to economic development
  6. 45th President of the United States; withdrew from the Paris climate agreement
  7. A theory of global politics which emphasises each state's desire for power and security

13 Clues: The word Immanuel Kant used to describe a situation of constant peace • City in France where the last major climate change agreement was signed. • A non-governmental oganisation concerned with protecting the environment • 46th President of the United States; re-entered the Paris Climate agreement • ...

Mexican War Vocab 2021-01-19

Mexican War Vocab crossword puzzle
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  1. He was ordered to station troops near the northern bank of the Rio Grande River. The purpose of this was to pick a fight with Mexico.
  2. a counting of the population done by the government at regular intervals
  3. The 1848 treaty ending the U.S. war with Mexico; Mexico ceded nearly one-half of its land to the United States. Don’t talk CC
  4. To give up, especially by treaty
  5. This was the last bit of territory added to the continental United States. This was a strip of land across what is now Southern Arizona and New Mexico. The United States wanted this land in order to put a transcontinental railroad there. It cost $10 million to buy it from Mexico.
  6. A person who works to end slavery.
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  1. a vast region given to the United States by Mexico after the Mexican-American War; it included the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
  2. A plan presented by Henry Clay that Texas would surrender its claims to the disputed area, and the United States would pay Texas $10 million dollars. California would also become a state according to this plan.
  3. A person who drives or directs a team of animals.
  4. Change
  5. Elected officials who make the laws for the state
  6. a meeting of delegates of a political party to form policies and select candidates
  7. proceeding from an ancestor

13 Clues: Change • proceeding from an ancestor • To give up, especially by treaty • A person who works to end slavery. • A person who drives or directs a team of animals. • Elected officials who make the laws for the state • a counting of the population done by the government at regular intervals • ...

American States 2019-08-26

American States crossword puzzle
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  1. Texas
  2. California
  3. Hawaii
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  1. Indiana
  2. Florida
  3. Mississippi
  4. Ohio

7 Clues: Ohio • Texas • Hawaii • Indiana • Florida • California • Mississippi

50 States 2023-03-21

50 States crossword puzzle
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  1. The lone star state
  2. Parts have been in a drought for over 5 years
  3. The ocean state
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  1. Touches the borders
  2. The coldest state
  3. Won the college softball last year!
  4. Great for skiing

7 Clues: The ocean state • Great for skiing • The coldest state • Touches the borders • The lone star state • Won the college softball last year! • Parts have been in a drought for over 5 years

Indian States 2021-10-16

Indian States crossword puzzle
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  1. the capital of punjab and haryana
  2. the biggest state
  3. how many states in India
  4. the state of dehradun
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  1. the state of shimla
  2. the smallest state
  3. the capital of India

7 Clues: the biggest state • the smallest state • the state of shimla • the capital of India • the state of dehradun • how many states in India • the capital of punjab and haryana

midwest states 2021-12-01

midwest states crossword puzzle
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  1. Illinois
  2. Ohio
  3. Indiana
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  1. Wisconsin
  2. Iowa
  3. Michigan
  4. Minnesota

7 Clues: Iowa • Ohio • Indiana • Illinois • Michigan • Wisconsin • Minnesota

The Great Depressioin 2021-01-27

The Great Depressioin crossword puzzle
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  1. Finance Corporation was a finance government corporation that provided finance support to stay in local governments in the United States from 1932 to 1957.
  2. Roosevelt was a former first lady of the united states. She served first lady from 1933 to 1945. Eleanor was the longest serving first lady in the United States.
  3. Francis Townsend was an American Physician who was best know for his revolving old age pension during the geat depression.
  4. Pact Pact of Paris General Treaty for renunciation of War as a instrument of National Policy.
  5. Steinbeck was a American Author and the 1962 Nobel prize Literature winner.
  6. is the Purchase of a asset with the hope that it will become more valuable in the near future.
  7. Lange was an American Documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known in the great depression era. She also worked for the Farm security administration.
  8. Army the Bouns army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators made up of 17,000 U.S. WWI Veterans.
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  1. is a form of far right authorization.
  2. a Shantytown built in unemployed and destitute people during depression of the early 1930’s.
  3. Auction the Penny Auction was a bidding free auction.
  4. buying is Borrowing money from a broker in order to purchase stock.
  5. D Roosevelt was the 32nd president. He served president in 1933 to 1945 when he died.
  6. Smoot Tariff was a legislation act in the 1930’s that raised import duties to protect American business and farmers in the great depression.
  7. Amendment the 21st Amendement to the United States Constitution repealed the 18th Amendement to the United States.
  8. Bowl An Area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded.
  9. sign accept liability under insurance policy.

17 Clues: is a form of far right authorization. • sign accept liability under insurance policy. • Auction the Penny Auction was a bidding free auction. • buying is Borrowing money from a broker in order to purchase stock. • Steinbeck was a American Author and the 1962 Nobel prize Literature winner. • ...

Chapter 2 vocabulary 2022-08-31

Chapter 2 vocabulary crossword puzzle
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  1. a form of government or the set of rules, cultural or social norms that regulates the operation of a government or institution and its interaction with society.
  2. States A state that is generally capable of providing adequate political goods to its citizens.
  3. Legitimacy This is when rule is based on law and certain amount of procedures
  4. States a government in which all key powers are given to the national or central government
  5. A system of government through which political authority is divided and shared between the national, and state and local government
  6. It is the ability to rule absolutely within a territory. The principle of sovereignty means that all states are considered equal to each other and no state may interfere in the affairs of another state.
  7. The maximum rate of output of a process or a system
  8. a permanent population, a defined territory, governing institutions, sovereignty, international recognition.
  9. State A state or country that has failed at providing basic conditions for the country.
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  1. legitimacy when a government bases their rule on ideological beliefs or tradition.
  2. legitimacy This is when rule is based on the personality of an individual or group
  3. A state is a body of people living in a defined space, with the power to make or enforce laws, and with the organization to do this
  4. The right to rule as determined by a country's citizens
  5. the transfer of powers and responsibilities from the federal government to the states
  6. Expression of independence; individual's capacity to behave on their own.
  7. It is the organization inside a state that controls the actions and policies of the state.
  8. States A state that only partially provides adequate political goods to its citizens.

17 Clues: The maximum rate of output of a process or a system • The right to rule as determined by a country's citizens • Expression of independence; individual's capacity to behave on their own. • Legitimacy This is when rule is based on law and certain amount of procedures • legitimacy when a government bases their rule on ideological beliefs or tradition. • ...

Some of famous places to visit in NYC and WDC 2022-10-03

Some of famous places to visit in NYC and WDC crossword puzzle
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  1. is a 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
  2. is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.
  3. is a transcontinental country located primarily in North America.
  4. is the 46th and current president of the United States.
  5. is an urban park in New York City located between the Upper West and Upper East Sides of Manhattan
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  1. is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
  2. a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
  3. is the capital city and federal district of the United States
  4. is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.
  5. is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense.

10 Clues: is the 46th and current president of the United States. • is the capital city and federal district of the United States • is a transcontinental country located primarily in North America. • is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense. • is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. • ...

Thermodynamics Vocab Crossword 2022-02-13

Thermodynamics Vocab Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. the transfer of energy through the movement of particles that are in contact with each other
  2. a body of matter and/or radiation, confined in space by walls, with defined permeabilities, which separate it from its surroundings.
  3. process by which heat is transferred by movement of a heated fluid such as air or water
  4. The thermodynamic system is the energy contained within it.
  5. thermodynamic system is the energy contained within it.
  6. the measure of a system's thermal energy per unit temperature that is unavailable for doing useful work
  7. Law of Thermodynamics that states the entropy of a system approaches a constant value as the temperature approaches absolute zero.
  8. energy transferred to or from an object via the application of force along a displacement
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  1. states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed
  2. Law of Thermodynamics that states entropy always increases
  3. no net flow of thermal energy between them when they are connected by a path permeable to heat
  4. physical science that deals with the relations between heat and other forms of energy
  5. Law of Thermodynamics that states if two bodies are each in thermal equilibrium with a third body, they are also in equilibrium with each other
  6. physical quantity that expresses the degree of hotness or coldness of a substance
  7. Law of Thermodynamics that states energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transferred.
  8. energy that comes from a source and travels through space and may be able to penetrate various materials
  9. energy that is transferred from one body to another as the result of a difference in temperature

17 Clues: states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed • thermodynamic system is the energy contained within it. • Law of Thermodynamics that states entropy always increases • The thermodynamic system is the energy contained within it. • physical quantity that expresses the degree of hotness or coldness of a substance • ...

american24 2024-06-08

american24 crossword puzzle
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  1. Side benefiting from the proclamation.
  2. Foundation for these in the future.
  3. Type of cause it strengthened.
  4. Institution it aimed to abolish.
  5. Advocates for the proclamation.
  6. Principle it promoted.
  7. Exempt from the proclamation.
  8. States in this were affected.
  9. Speech reinforcing its ideals.
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  1. Type of proclamation issued in 1862.
  2. Area targeted by the proclamation.
  3. Type of order it was.
  4. Date it took effect.
  5. Purpose of the proclamation.
  6. Central theme of the proclamation.
  7. President who issued it.
  8. Movement supporting the proclamation.
  9. Amendment it paved the way for.
  10. Result for slaves in Confederate states.

19 Clues: Date it took effect. • Type of order it was. • Principle it promoted. • President who issued it. • Purpose of the proclamation. • Exempt from the proclamation. • States in this were affected. • Type of cause it strengthened. • Speech reinforcing its ideals. • Advocates for the proclamation. • Amendment it paved the way for. • Institution it aimed to abolish. • ...

SS8H6 Civil War and Reconstruction 2017-04-25

SS8H6 Civil War and Reconstruction crossword puzzle
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  1. compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union
  2. Confederate victory; largest battle fought in Georgia
  3. ended slavery in the United States.
  4. election where Abraham Lincoln defeated three opponents to win the presidency
  5. Reconstruction period where Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the Union.
  6. gave African-American men the right to vote
  7. gave African-Americans United States citizenship.
  8. Union strategy during the Civil War which incorporated a plan to blockade Southern ports and capture the Mississippi River
  9. infamous Civil War prisoner-of-war camp in Macon County, Georgia. Over 13,000 Union soldiers died in the camp.
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  1. private Southern ships that attempted to “break” the Union blockade
  2. document that declared all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed if the South did not return to the Union
  3. sixty-nine African-Americans served as delegates to Georgia’s constitutional convention or served
  4. Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States
  5. the act of making legally null and void
  6. the belief that a state’s sovereignty is more important that that of the national government.

15 Clues: ended slavery in the United States. • the act of making legally null and void • gave African-American men the right to vote • gave African-Americans United States citizenship. • Confederate victory; largest battle fought in Georgia • private Southern ships that attempted to “break” the Union blockade • ...

lession 4.1 and 4.2 vocabulary 2025-02-21

lession 4.1 and 4.2 vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. money
  2. a plan that called for a strong national government with three branches and one house
  3. a meeting of representatives from all states except Rhode island to revise the articles of confederation
  4. a solution to which each side gives up some of its demands to reach an agreement
  5. a plan at the constitutional convention that settled the differences between large and small states
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  1. a 1787 law that set up a government for the northwest territory
  2. an agreement that three-fifths of the enslaved people would count in a state's population
  3. the first American constitution, passed in 1777, which created a loose allince of 13 independant states
  4. a plan that called for a strong national government with three branches and two houses
  5. a document that sets out laws, principles, organization, and proccesses of a government
  6. the first ten amendments of the United States constitution
  7. to give up
  8. rebellion a 1786 revolt in Massachusetts led by farms in reaction to high taxes
  9. to put private individuals or companies in charge of something
  10. a period when business activity slow, prices and wages fall, and unemployment rises

15 Clues: money • to give up • the first ten amendments of the United States constitution • to put private individuals or companies in charge of something • a 1787 law that set up a government for the northwest territory • rebellion a 1786 revolt in Massachusetts led by farms in reaction to high taxes • ...

Unit 2 | North America | Vocab | Vol. III 2022-11-01

Unit 2 | North America | Vocab | Vol. III crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the largest mountain range system in North America
  2. The use of machines to make raw materials (such was lumber) into usual products (like chairs or tables)
  3. the effort to rebuild and reunite the United States following the Civil War
  4. the mass slaughter by the Nazis of six million Jews and others during World War II
  5. the second longest river in North America
  6. a large farm that grows crops for profit
  7. a partnership between countries
  8. to strengthen
  9. the speech Abraham Lincoln made in 1863 honoring soldiers who died at the Battle of Gettysburg during the U.S. Civil War
  10. the movement to end slavery, before and during the Civil War in the United States
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  1. an 1863 document that freed all slaves living in Confederate held territory
  2. a ruler with complete control
  3. the route the Cherokees took during their forced migration from the southeast United States to Oklahoma in the 1830s
  4. a war between opposing groups of citizens in the same country
  5. the idea that the United States had the right to expand its territory to the Pacific Ocean

15 Clues: to strengthen • a ruler with complete control • a partnership between countries • a large farm that grows crops for profit • the second longest river in North America • the largest mountain range system in North America • a war between opposing groups of citizens in the same country • an 1863 document that freed all slaves living in Confederate held territory • ...

Unit 2 | North America | Vocab | Vol. III 2022-11-01

Unit 2 | North America | Vocab | Vol. III crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a war between opposing groups of citizens in the same country
  2. a ruler with complete control
  3. a large farm that grows crops for profit
  4. the effort to rebuild and reunite the United States following the Civil War
  5. The use of machines to make raw materials (such was lumber) into usual products (like chairs or tables)
  6. the largest mountain range system in North America
  7. the second longest river in North America
  8. the speech Abraham Lincoln made in 1863 honoring soldiers who died at the Battle of Gettysburg during the U.S. Civil War
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  1. an 1863 document that freed all slaves living in Confederate held territory
  2. the idea that the United States had the right to expand its territory to the Pacific Ocean
  3. a partnership between countries
  4. the movement to end slavery, before and during the Civil War in the United States
  5. the route the Cherokees took during their forced migration from the southeast United States to Oklahoma in the 1830s
  6. the mass slaughter by the Nazis of six million Jews and others during World War II
  7. to strengthen

15 Clues: to strengthen • a ruler with complete control • a partnership between countries • a large farm that grows crops for profit • the second longest river in North America • the largest mountain range system in North America • a war between opposing groups of citizens in the same country • an 1863 document that freed all slaves living in Confederate held territory • ...

Mr Ross hunter 2024-04-11

Mr Ross hunter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a Northerner in the South after the American Civil War usually seeking private gain under the Reconstruction governments.
  2. white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
  3. white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
  4. Elected by the Mississippi legislature to the United States Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during the Reconstruction era, he was the first African American to serve in either house of the U.S. Congress.
  5. bill A Bill to guarantee to certain States whose Governments have been usurped or overthrown a Republican Form of Government.
  6. provided assistance to tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the Southern States and the District of Columbia in the years following the war.
  7. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
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  1. laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters.
  2. the act of reconstructing, rebuilding, or reassembling, or the state of being reconstructed:
  3. a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
  4. With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States
  5. 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

12 Clues: the act of reconstructing, rebuilding, or reassembling, or the state of being reconstructed: • With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States • white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War. • ...

Chapter 9 2017-11-19

Chapter 9 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when people began buying and selling goods rather than making them for their own use
  2. Mexico gave the Rio Grande as a border for Texas and ceded New Mexico and California to the United States. The US gave $15 million to Mexico.
  3. The belief that the United States’ destiny was to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory.
  4. Taylor he was a General that was given orders by Polk to march his men to the Rio Grande and blockade the river.
  5. the economic system in which private businesses and individuals control the means of production
  6. President of the United States. Wanted war with Mexico because he wanted to acquire as much land as possible.
  7. a machine that carried messages tapped in code across copper wire.
  8. One of the busiest and most well-known avenues of trade. Missouri traders would use this trail to obtain silver, gold and and furs.
  9. a religious community group that played a large role in Western Expansion
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  1. Blacksmith who invented the first steel plow. It could slice through heavy soil much more easily than other plows.
  2. provided various Native American nations control of the Central Plains, land east of the Rocky Mountains.
  3. established the current borders of the lower 48 states
  4. to incorporate into the United States
  5. People believed that there was Gold in the waters of California so everyone flocked to California to find it. Unfortunately, not many found Gold.
  6. raising one or two cash crops that they could sell at home or abroad
  7. investors who risk their own money into new industries. They had a large risk but also a large profit if the company succeeded.
  8. the prospectors who fled to California in 1849 to find Gold

17 Clues: to incorporate into the United States • established the current borders of the lower 48 states • the prospectors who fled to California in 1849 to find Gold • a machine that carried messages tapped in code across copper wire. • raising one or two cash crops that they could sell at home or abroad • ...

Jefferson Davis 2025-05-21

Jefferson Davis crossword puzzle
Across
  1. best confederate army general
  2. when states remove themselves from a country
  3. the southern states
  4. the northern states
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  1. one of the top cash crops
  2. Confederacy president during the civil war
  3. One country fighting against itself
  4. crops that the southern economy relied on
  5. the main reason that the civil war started
  6. union president

10 Clues: union president • the southern states • the northern states • one of the top cash crops • best confederate army general • One country fighting against itself • crops that the southern economy relied on • Confederacy president during the civil war • the main reason that the civil war started • when states remove themselves from a country

CIVIL WAR CROSSWORD PUZZLE 2016-11-13

CIVIL WAR CROSSWORD PUZZLE crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a fortified military post where troops are stationed
  2. the United States
  3. run away quickly
  4. a region where a battle is being fought
  5. a war between factions in the same country
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  1. an offensive against an enemy
  2. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  3. build again
  4. indicate by signs
  5. bringing death

10 Clues: build again • bringing death • run away quickly • indicate by signs • the United States • an offensive against an enemy • a region where a battle is being fought • a war between factions in the same country • a fortified military post where troops are stationed • the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Civil War 2017-05-25

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A place where they aided freed slaves
  2. Confederate
  3. bloodiest battle in American history
  4. laws passed by southern states
  5. last name of the confederate president
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  1. slave states states
  2. of bull run The first battle
  3. another way of saying union
  4. separation of whites and blacks
  5. last name of the man who shot Lincoln

10 Clues: Confederate • slave states states • another way of saying union • of bull run The first battle • laws passed by southern states • separation of whites and blacks • bloodiest battle in American history • A place where they aided freed slaves • last name of the man who shot Lincoln • last name of the confederate president

Mississippi and the Civil War 2021-10-19

Mississippi and the Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. known as the "War Between the States"
  2. MS was a member of the ____________.
  3. _______ Davis was the Confederacy's President
  4. the confederacy were the ______ states
  5. number one cash crop in Mississippi
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  1. to leave
  2. Abraham _______ was the Union President
  3. the Union wanted to _______ slavery
  4. Mississippi was the ______ state to secede
  5. Northern States during the Civil War

10 Clues: to leave • the Union wanted to _______ slavery • number one cash crop in Mississippi • MS was a member of the ____________. • Northern States during the Civil War • known as the "War Between the States" • the confederacy were the ______ states • Abraham _______ was the Union President • Mississippi was the ______ state to secede • ...

Influential Women 2022-03-23

Influential Women crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Sat On Bus And Wanted Equality
  2. Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work
  3. American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.
  4. AMELIA stars two-time Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, the legendary aviatrix.
  5. American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
  6. Dolores Huerta continues to work tirelessly developing leaders and advocating for the working poor, women, and children.
  7. At age 16, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring
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  1. She was a painter that did self portraits
  2. American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States
  3. Lead enslaved people to freedom
  4. Vice President of the United States of America.
  5. Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.
  6. American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
  7. During the 100 years war she got the british out

14 Clues: Sat On Bus And Wanted Equality • Lead enslaved people to freedom • She was a painter that did self portraits • Vice President of the United States of America. • During the 100 years war she got the british out • Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms. • American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. • ...

vocab words 2022-01-23

vocab words crossword puzzle
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  1. A white southerner who works with Northern Republicans during Reconstruction for personal profit.
  2. The forced enrollment of people into military service
  3. To withdraw or break away from something, such as a nation
  4. Favoring your state or region over the nation you live in.
  5. A formerly enslaved person
  6. June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of the Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas
  7. The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union
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  1. Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by southern governments after the Civil War
  2. A tax on imported goods.
  3. Using naval vessels (ships) to prevent shipment of food and supplies into or out of ports
  4. The idea that the federal government should not interfere with the states constitutional power.
  5. To revoke or withdraw officially from a law or act.
  6. A person from the Northern States who went to the Southern States during Reconstruction to profit.
  7. A local law or piece of legislation

14 Clues: A tax on imported goods. • A formerly enslaved person • A local law or piece of legislation • To revoke or withdraw officially from a law or act. • The forced enrollment of people into military service • To withdraw or break away from something, such as a nation • Favoring your state or region over the nation you live in. • ...

American Revolution crossword puzzle 2023-03-28

American Revolution crossword puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress
  2. was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820
  3. was among the few heroes of the Revolutionary War from Georgia. He was wounded several times.
  4. entered politics in 1775, serving as a member of the Second Continental Congress, a position he held until 1780
  5. was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father. Born in 1743. Died in 1826.
  6. was an American-born military officer who served during the Revolutionary War. He fought with distinction for the American Continental Army.
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  1. was a British-born American Founding Father who, as a representative of Georgia to the Continental Congress was one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence.
  2. was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father. Was the first president of the united states.
  3. dutifully enforced the 1765 Stamp Act, which helped to spark the American Revolution.
  4. helped negotiate the treaty of peace. Was the second president of the united states.
  5. He died in a duel against Aaron burr. Died in 1804. served as the first United States secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795.
  6. a Founding Father of the United States, signed the United States Declaration of Independence while representing Georgia in the Continental Congress.
  7. was an enslaved African American who fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War.

13 Clues: helped negotiate the treaty of peace. Was the second president of the united states. • dutifully enforced the 1765 Stamp Act, which helped to spark the American Revolution. • was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820 • was among the few heroes of the Revolutionary War from Georgia. He was wounded several times. • ...

APUSH 2015-04-13

APUSH crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century.
  2. a joint declaration released by U.S. President FranklinDRoosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland.
  3. Lengthened Sherman Anti-Trust Act's list of practices. Exempted labor unions from being called trusts, legalized strikes and peaceful picketing by labor union members.
  4. applied biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics.
  5. the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s; black writers, artists, musicians
  6. era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. American wages, especially for skilled workers, were much higher than in Europe, which attracted millions of immigrants.
  7. First "hot war" of the Cold war. The Korean War began in 1950 when the Soviet-backed North Koreans invaded South Korea before meeting a counter-offensive by UN Forces, dominated by the United States. The war ended in stalemate in 1953.
  8. Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States.
  9. American force of 14,500 that landed in France in June 1917 under the command of General John Pershing. Both women and blacks served during the war, mostly under white officers.
  10. the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
  11. 36th president; democrat
  12. a community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth.
  13. surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base
  14. a system of segregation of people, each with a traditional hereditary occupation.
  15. a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of US intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
  16. Thurgood Marshall argued that a separate but equal violated equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Warren decided separate educational facilities were inherently unequal.
  17. a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
  18. the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
  19. package of five bills sent in September 1850. It defused a four year confrontation between the southern slave states and the northern Free states following the Mexican American War. Drafted by Whig Henry Clay and brokered by Democrat Stephen Douglas it temporarily avoided secession or civil war at the time and it quieted a sectional conflict for 4 years.
  20. won by JFK
  21. a group of American post-World War II writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired.
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  1. The document that establishes the rights and liberties of the American people. It created a federal government of three branches---legislative, judicial, and executive. It separates powers among the three branches and establishes a system of checks and balances among them and defines the distribution of power between the federal government and the states.
  2. was organized in St. Louis in 1892 to represent the common folk—especially farmers—against the entrenched interests of railroads, bankers, processers, corporations, and the politicians in league with like interests.
  3. wrote Silent Spring
  4. built mainly with the support of bankers and businessmen in order to support Hamilton's fiscal policies.
  5. defined the process by which new states could be admitted into the Union from the Northwest Territory. the ordinance forbade slavery in the territory but allowed citizens to vote on the legality of slavery once statehood had been established.
  6. best ways to open up foreign markets to U.S. exporters.
  7. was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory
  8. Passed by LBJ, outlawed public segregation and discrimination, forbade racial discrim in the workplace
  9. practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs.
  10. a bank owned by the state
  11. the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence.
  12. it was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
  13. The relocation of Japanese-Americans during WWII.
  14. executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War, directed to all of the areas in rebellion and all segments of the executive branch (including the Army and Navy) of the United States.
  15. a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States; FDR
  16. a tariff to protect and promote American industry; a national bank to foster commerce; and federal subsidies for roads, canals, and other "internal improvements" to develop profitable markets for agriculture.
  17. United States dropped these on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  18. a 20th-century term for an attitude toward women's roles present in the emerging United States before, during, and after the American Revolution
  19. Written by Betty Friedan
  20. created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820
  21. a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions.
  22. an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
  23. the first written constitution of the United States. Stemming from wartime urgency, its progress was slowed by fears of central authority and extensive land claims by states before was it was ratified on March 1, 1781.
  24. approved by Congress on July 4, 1776. drafted by Thomas Jefferson, it formalized the colonies' separation from Britain and laid out the Enlightenment values (best expressed by John Locke) of natural rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" upon which the American Revolution was based.
  25. Southerners declared federal protective tariffs null and void, Jackson responded with Force bill and suggested compromising over tariff; John C Calhoun was a big advocate
  26. signed the Tripartite Pact.
  27. was a state of political and military tension after World War II between U.S. and Soviet Union
  28. in opposition of the acquisition of lands.
  29. the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.
  30. created New Deal

51 Clues: won by JFK • created New Deal • wrote Silent Spring • Written by Betty Friedan • 36th president; democrat • a bank owned by the state • signed the Tripartite Pact. • in opposition of the acquisition of lands. • was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory • The relocation of Japanese-Americans during WWII. • best ways to open up foreign markets to U.S. exporters. • ...

Vocabulary Word List 2024-09-05

Vocabulary Word List crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Change: Object still has the same composition, and is just represented in a different form
  2. Change: A change in chemical properties or composition of a substance, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance.
  3. When matter changes states from a liquid to gas form.
  4. When matter changes states from a solid to liquid form
  5. of State: The change of a substance from one physical state to another
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  1. When matter changes states from a gas to liquid form
  2. When matter changes states from a solid to gas form
  3. Point: The exact temperature that liquid matter changes states into a solid matter
  4. When matter changes states from a liquid to solid form

9 Clues: When matter changes states from a solid to gas form • When matter changes states from a gas to liquid form • When matter changes states from a liquid to gas form. • When matter changes states from a liquid to solid form • When matter changes states from a solid to liquid form • of State: The change of a substance from one physical state to another • ...

abolitionism 2019-01-07

abolitionism crossword puzzle
Across
  1. within said designated States
  2. against the authority and government of the United States
  3. in American have two part first are free second are slaves
  4. is a important place in American
  5. lead citizen become rich and make many rules.
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  1. of said persons
  2. symbol of American become more and more free
  3. need to get freedom
  4. belong to slavery states is a question

9 Clues: of said persons • need to get freedom • within said designated States • is a important place in American • belong to slavery states is a question • symbol of American become more and more free • lead citizen become rich and make many rules. • against the authority and government of the United States • in American have two part first are free second are slaves

USA Icons and Symbols (Francisco Hernández Gómez) 2025-12-06

USA Icons and Symbols (Francisco Hernández Gómez) crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The national bird and symbol of the USA
  2. Flag with stars and stripes representing the 50 states and 13 colonies
  3. Official seal used for authenticating U.S. documents
  4. Historic document proclaiming freedom from Britain
  5. The capital city of the United States
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  1. Symbolic statue in New York Harbor representing freedom
  2. Where the U.S. Congress meets
  3. Residence and workplace of the U.S. president
  4. Monument with four presidents carved into a mountain
  5. The national anthem of the United States
  6. Pledge taken by new U.S. citizens
  7. Famous cracked bell symbolizing American independence
  8. Personification of the U.S. government

13 Clues: Where the U.S. Congress meets • Pledge taken by new U.S. citizens • The capital city of the United States • Personification of the U.S. government • The national bird and symbol of the USA • The national anthem of the United States • Residence and workplace of the U.S. president • Historic document proclaiming freedom from Britain • ...

Famous African Americans 2023-06-19

Famous African Americans crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Douglass (Abolitionist and writer)
  2. Hughes (Poet and writer)
  3. Harris (Vice President of the United States)
  4. Angelou (Author and poet)
  5. Morrison (Author and Nobel laureate)
  6. Tubman (Abolitionist and activist)
  7. Williams (Tennis player)
  8. Truth (Abolitionist and women's rights activist)
  9. Kaepernick (Former NFL player and activist)
  10. X (Civil rights activist)
  11. Parks (Civil rights activist)
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  1. Rice (Former U.S. Secretary of State)
  2. Mandela (South African anti-apartheid revolutionary)
  3. Obama (44th President of the United States)
  4. Jordan (Basketball player)
  5. Parks (Civil rights activist)
  6. Luther King Jr. (Civil rights leader)
  7. (Singer and actress)
  8. Winfrey (Media mogul and philanthropist)
  9. Ali (Boxing legend and activist)

20 Clues: (Singer and actress) • Hughes (Poet and writer) • Williams (Tennis player) • Angelou (Author and poet) • X (Civil rights activist) • Jordan (Basketball player) • Parks (Civil rights activist) • Parks (Civil rights activist) • Ali (Boxing legend and activist) • Douglass (Abolitionist and writer) • Tubman (Abolitionist and activist) • Morrison (Author and Nobel laureate) • ...

Unit 5 Vocabulary Crossword 2022-02-01

Unit 5 Vocabulary Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a line that cuts through two or more other lines
  2. the sum of the ___________ angles in EVERY polygon is 360 degrees
  3. the vertical angles theorem states if angles are vertical angles, then they are ____________
  4. the segment congruence theorem states that two segments are congruent if and only if they have the same ____________
  5. the sum of the ____________ angles in a polgyon is (n-2)*180
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  1. the _______________ property of congruence states if F is congruent to G and G is congruent to H then F is congruent to H
  2. same side interior angles are __________________.
  3. the A-B-C-D theorem states that every isometry preserves angle measure, betweenness, collinearity and ____________
  4. the justification for step 1 in EVERY proof
  5. the definition of a circle states that if a figure is a circle, then its radii are congruent.
  6. the abbreviation for the Corresponding Parts in Congruent Figures Theorem

11 Clues: the justification for step 1 in EVERY proof • a line that cuts through two or more other lines • same side interior angles are __________________. • the sum of the ____________ angles in a polgyon is (n-2)*180 • the sum of the ___________ angles in EVERY polygon is 360 degrees • the abbreviation for the Corresponding Parts in Congruent Figures Theorem • ...

Presidents of United States 2020-02-28

Presidents of United States crossword puzzle
Across
  1. an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States. He gained fame as a general in the United States Army
  2. He is often referred to by the initials JFK and served as the 35th president. He was assassinated in November 1963.
  3. Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States
  4. His contribution to the overall creation of the Constitution earned him the nickname "Father of the Constitution".
  5. an American politician who served as the 42nd president. His name was William Jefferson.
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  1. he is often referred to by his initials FDR, was an the 32nd president of America
  2. The third president who is famous for writing the Declaration of Independence
  3. The nation's 36th vice president
  4. the 45th and current president of the United States.
  5. an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president
  6. the first African-American president of the United States

11 Clues: The nation's 36th vice president • the 45th and current president of the United States. • the first African-American president of the United States • an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president • Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States • ...

Civil War Crossword :^) 2019-06-11

Civil War Crossword :^) crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Grant Surrounded the city
  2. Conflit from 1861 to 1865
  3. Made slavery illegal in the South
  4. First to secede.
  5. Turning point of the war
  6. North didnt get bridges
  7. General of the South
  8. President of the Confederacy
  9. Stonewall Jackson got his name here
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  1. Someone who wanted to abolish slavery
  2. The general at Fort Sumter
  3. Capital of the South
  4. Stonewalk Jackson is killed after this battle
  5. let states decide on slavery
  6. Number of boarder states
  7. Had a larger industry
  8. Better military leaders
  9. General during Battle of Richmond
  10. won the election of 1860

19 Clues: First to secede. • Capital of the South • General of the South • Had a larger industry • North didnt get bridges • Better military leaders • Number of boarder states • Turning point of the war • won the election of 1860 • Grant Surrounded the city • Conflit from 1861 to 1865 • The general at Fort Sumter • let states decide on slavery • President of the Confederacy • ...

Chapter 2 Definitions - American Gov 2025-09-29

Chapter 2 Definitions - American Gov crossword puzzle
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  1. a highly decentralized form of government; sovereign states form a union for purposes such as mutual defense
  2. a form of government where power is divided between state gov. and a national gov.
  3. a legislature with only one house, like the Confederation Congress or the legislature proposed by the New Jersey Plan.
  4. a system that allows one branch of government to limit exercising the power by another branch; requires different parts of gov. to work together
  5. the powers given explicitly to the federal government by the Constitution
  6. powers not prohibited by the constitution or delegated to the national gov; powers reserved to the states and denied to the federal gov
  7. a compromise between the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan that created a two House Congress; representation is based on population in the House of Representatives and equal representation of states in the Senate.
  8. the right to life liberty and property; believed to be given by God; no government may take away
  9. a document written in 1776 in which the American colonists proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and listed their grievances against the British king - King George III
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  1. a compromise btw northern + southern states that called for counting of all states free population and 60 percent of its slave population for both fed taxation and representation in Congress
  2. a form of government in which political power lies in the hands of the people, not a monarch, and is exercised by elected officials
  3. the first basis for the nation's government, adopted in 1781; created an alliance of sovereign states held together by a weak central government
  4. an agreement between people and government in which citizens consent to be governed so long as the government protects their natural rights
  5. a plan that called for a one house national legislature; each state receives one vote
  6. the sharing of powers among three separate branches of gov
  7. statement in Article 6 of the Constitution; that fed law is superior to laws passed by state legislature.
  8. a legislature with two houses such as the US Congress

17 Clues: a legislature with two houses such as the US Congress • the sharing of powers among three separate branches of gov • the powers given explicitly to the federal government by the Constitution • a form of government where power is divided between state gov. and a national gov. • ...

SCOTUS 2024-03-01

SCOTUS crossword puzzle
Across
  1. religion
  2. state laws that go against federal laws are not valid
  3. when everyone agrees on something
  4. symbolic speech
  5. Supreme Court sees a case
  6. ___versus Kuhlmeier
  7. armbands
  8. illegal search of residence
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  1. the Supreme Court asserted the power of Judicial Review
  2. Location
  3. Supreme Court Of The United States
  4. interracial marriage
  5. criminal and Civil
  6. 'friend of the court' in Latin
  7. ___versus United States
  8. the first Supreme Court decision addressing federal power
  9. was refused to the right to a lawyer
  10. Marital privacy

18 Clues: Location • religion • armbands • symbolic speech • Marital privacy • criminal and Civil • ___versus Kuhlmeier • interracial marriage • ___versus United States • Supreme Court sees a case • illegal search of residence • 'friend of the court' in Latin • when everyone agrees on something • Supreme Court Of The United States • was refused to the right to a lawyer • ...

Division of Power 2023-10-10

Division of Power crossword puzzle
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  1. powers directly stated in the Constitution.
  2. a sum of money given to a state or local government for a specific purpose
  3. a formal order given by a higher authority
  4. powers the government requires to carry out its expressed constitutional powers.
  5. a law that requires periodic checks of laws or of government agencies to see if they are still needed.
  6. a position that favors national action in dealing with problems.
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  1. powers that both the national government and the states have.
  2. powers the Constitution grants or delegates to the national government
  3. statement found in the Constitution establishing that the Constitution and treaties of the United States "shall be the supreme Law of the Land".
  4. to return a fugitive who flees across state lines back to the original state.
  5. a system of government in which two or more governments exercise power over the same people and the same territory.
  6. powers that belong strictly to the states.
  7. a written agreement between two or more states.
  8. the stated course of action the government takes to address problems or issues.
  9. a law prohibiting public officials from holding meetings not open to the public.
  10. a position that favors state and local action in dealing with problems.

16 Clues: powers that belong strictly to the states. • a formal order given by a higher authority • powers directly stated in the Constitution. • a written agreement between two or more states. • powers that both the national government and the states have. • a position that favors national action in dealing with problems. • ...

Chapter 16 Georgia in the Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2024-11-08

Chapter 16 Georgia in the Civil War Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
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  1. a document that serves as proof of a debt and that requires payment of the debt plus interest
  2. Davis president of the Confederate States of America
  3. Bartow was a prominent Confederate Colonel from Georgia who was killed in action at the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) in J
  4. Lincoln served as the 16th President of the United States –issued the Emancipation Proclamation
  5. a statement of the principles and policies a political party supports
  6. a factory that makes gold and silver money
  7. Proclamation a document issued by President Lincoln in 1862 that freed the slaves in the Confederacy
  8. Wirz a Swiss-American convicted war criminal who served as a Confederate Army officer during the Civil War
  9. T Sherman served as a general in the Union Army during the Civil War
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  1. States of America name given to the government formed by the southern states that seceded from the Union
  2. H T Walker served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War
  3. Olmstead served through the bombardment of Fort Pulaski, in which he commanded the Confederate forces
  4. a compulsory enrollment for military service
  5. abusive or discriminatory behavior towards members of another race
  6. to obstruct or prevent access to
  7. killed wounded or missing
  8. a general increase in the price of goods and services over time

17 Clues: killed wounded or missing • to obstruct or prevent access to • a factory that makes gold and silver money • a compulsory enrollment for military service • Davis president of the Confederate States of America • a general increase in the price of goods and services over time • abusive or discriminatory behavior towards members of another race • ...

Constitutional 2022-02-18

Constitutional crossword puzzle
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  1. All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution
  2. the judicial branch of Government with the creation of the Supreme Court
  3. states respect and honor the state laws and court orders of other states
  4. the Legislative Branch consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate
  5. It changed the number of states needing to ratify the Constitution from 13 to 9.
  6. the President is responsible for the execution and enforcement of the laws created by Congress.
  7. slavery is illegal
  8. added to ensure ratification in the constitution
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  1. responsible for enforcing
  2. he helped ratify the Constitution by writing 51 of the 85 installments of The Federalist Papers
  3. is known as the Father of the Constitution because of his pivotal role in the document's drafting as well as its ratification.
  4. contributed to the ratification of the constitution and worked on the federalist papers
  5. states have the power to pass their own laws in their own area
  6. The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary
  7. was serving as an ambassador in London during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, ;;
  8. as president of the Convention, signed first

16 Clues: slavery is illegal • responsible for enforcing • as president of the Convention, signed first • added to ensure ratification in the constitution • states have the power to pass their own laws in their own area • the judicial branch of Government with the creation of the Supreme Court • states respect and honor the state laws and court orders of other states • ...

United States of America 2021-03-22

United States of America crossword puzzle
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  1. President assassinated in 1963
  2. Home of the American film industry
  3. The first Black US President
  4. The American flag is known as the ______and stripes
  5. Capital of the US
  6. The Statue of___________
  7. San Francisco's ____________Bridge
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  1. American currency
  2. Another way to say America
  3. The first female Vice President
  4. New York is known as the _______Apple
  5. American has 50 of these
  6. The President lives in the _______House
  7. Famous motorcycle manufacturer _____Davidson
  8. _________Vegas

15 Clues: _________Vegas • American currency • Capital of the US • American has 50 of these • The Statue of___________ • Another way to say America • The first Black US President • President assassinated in 1963 • The first female Vice President • Home of the American film industry • San Francisco's ____________Bridge • New York is known as the _______Apple • ...

United States History 1 2023-04-14

United States History 1 crossword puzzle
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  1. The use of two types of metal to back currency
  2. The giving of government jobs to supporters
  3. East Coat immigration station
  4. sturdy, short tempered breed of cattle
  5. Patrons of Animal Husbandry
  6. Reason why a person comes to a new country
  7. First secretary of the treasury
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  1. West Coast immigration station
  2. Home made of blocks of sod
  3. Founder of Standard Oil of Ohio
  4. The growth of cities
  5. the name for pre civil war south
  6. Reason why a person leaves home country
  7. Head of the American Federation of Labor
  8. the illegal use of political influence for personal gain

15 Clues: The growth of cities • Home made of blocks of sod • Patrons of Animal Husbandry • East Coat immigration station • West Coast immigration station • Founder of Standard Oil of Ohio • First secretary of the treasury • the name for pre civil war south • sturdy, short tempered breed of cattle • Reason why a person leaves home country • Head of the American Federation of Labor • ...

ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2016-05-13

ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS crossword puzzle
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  1. Attributed to irresistible attacks of refreshing sleep that occur daily over at least three months.
  2. A learned technique for refocusing attention that brings about an altered state of consciousness.
  3. Peron behind the Activation-synthesis theory.
  4. Happens most often during REM sleep, when activity in many brain areas is highest.
  5. Substances that are capable of producing hallucinations
  6. Sleep talking
  7. Waves present in the fourth stage of sleep.
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  1. Causes individual to stop breathing while he/she is sleeping.
  2. States of panic experienced while sound asleep.
  3. Awareness of the sensations, thoughts, and feelings being experienced at a given time.
  4. Fifth stage of sleep.
  5. Sleep walking, sitting
  6. A trancelike state of heightened susceptibility to the suggestions of others.
  7. Any substance that alters consciousness.
  8. a kind of substance increase relaxation and relieve pain and anxiety

15 Clues: Sleep talking • Fifth stage of sleep. • Sleep walking, sitting • Any substance that alters consciousness. • Waves present in the fourth stage of sleep. • Peron behind the Activation-synthesis theory. • States of panic experienced while sound asleep. • Substances that are capable of producing hallucinations • Causes individual to stop breathing while he/she is sleeping. • ...

Chemistry - States of Matter 2023-08-09

Chemistry - States of Matter crossword puzzle
Across
  1. square triangle circle
  2. rough or smooth
  3. the point at which materials changes from a solid to a liquid
  4. brown black blue green
  5. relationship between the mass of the substance and how much space it takes up (volume).
  6. amount of space that a substance or object occupies
  7. solid, liquid, gas
  8. how big something is.
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  1. scent, sensed by the nose, fragrant
  2. anything that has mass and occupies space
  3. point or the temperature at which a liquid starts to boil and gets converted to gaseous form. 100 °C
  4. state of matter which has a fixed shape, mass, and volume
  5. state of matter which has no defined shape or volume; oxygen, carbon dioxide;
  6. state of matter which has fixed volume but no fixed shape.
  7. measure of the amount of matter in an object, (grams, kilograms)

15 Clues: rough or smooth • solid, liquid, gas • how big something is. • square triangle circle • brown black blue green • scent, sensed by the nose, fragrant • anything that has mass and occupies space • amount of space that a substance or object occupies • state of matter which has a fixed shape, mass, and volume • state of matter which has fixed volume but no fixed shape. • ...