1st Semester Review Project

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Across
  1. 2. A purchase by the United States from France of the huge Louisiana territory in 1803
  2. 4. A law that was passed that granted the president unsettled lands west of Mississippi in exchange for the Indian lands within existing state borders.
  3. 6. The act of surrounding and attacking a fortified place to isolate it from help and supplies.
  4. 9. A preferred belief in a strong central government.
  5. 10. An amendment that granted African American men the right to vote.
  6. 14. A person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time.
  7. 16. A system based on the benefits of profitable trading.
  8. 17. A crop produced for its commercial value.
  9. 18. A loyalty to one's own region or section of the country.
  10. 20. The exchange of ideas, plants, animals, diseases,and technology between the new world and the old world.
  11. 22. When you withdraw formally from a federation/body or a political state.
  12. 23. A U.S. foreign policy expressing opposition to extension of European control/influence in the Western Hemisphere.
  13. 26. A person in the American colonies who wanted the colonies to become independent from Great Britain.
  14. 27. A movement to end slavery.
  15. 28. The belief that Americans had the God given right to expand westward.
  16. 29. A written agreement in 1781 by the original 13 states that provided a legal symbol of their union by giving the central government no coercive power over the states or their citizens.
  17. 30. An amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
Down
  1. 1. A colonist that is loyal to Great Britain.
  2. 3. The first Ten Amendments to the constitution that guaranteed civil rights and liberties to the individual.
  3. 5. A person who believed in a weak central government.
  4. 7. An area of land set aside by the government for the use of Native Americans.
  5. 8. Where a group of minorities of a different ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture.
  6. 11. A series of laws passed by the British parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade.
  7. 12. A large farm/estate where cotton, tobacco,coffee,sugar cane, and etc are farmed by slaves.
  8. 13. A set of State and Local laws that were put into effect to enforce segregation in the Southern states
  9. 15. A military strategy where the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives/resources to obtain a complete victory.
  10. 19. A system where each branch of government can control/check the actions of the other branches.
  11. 21. A proclamation issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans.
  12. 24. The first permanent English settlement in North America.
  13. 25. An amendment that granted citizenship to all persons born/naturalized in the United States.