1st Semester Vocabulary/American History
Across
- 2. Is a form of government in which the country is considered a ''public mother.''
- 4. Was an American political, leader, military general, statesman, and founding father who served as the first president of the United States.
- 6. Was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 7. Famous actor who shoot president Lincoln.
- 8. Was an american social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, he became a national leader or the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.
- 14. Is a form of democracy in which people decide an policy initiatives directly.
- 17. The plan was created in response to the Virginia plan, which convent for two houses of congress.
- 18. Was a political and mercantile protest by The Sons of Liberty boycotting the King in Boston Massachusetts.
- 25. Declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
- 27. This act passed on July 1, 1862 provided Federal subsidies in land and loans for the construction of a transcontinental railroad across the United States.
- 28. Was a proposal to the United State constitutional convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three and a bicameral legislature.
- 29. Was an armed conflict between the United States and the Mexican territory, since the government did not recognize the treaty signed by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
- 30. Was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Chayenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.
- 31. Guarantees voting right to all citizens of the United States.
Down
- 1. Was a massacre of Cheyenne and Aropaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian War that occurred on November 29,1864.
- 3. Expresses the ideals on which the United States was founded and the reasons for separation from Great Britain.
- 5. Defines citizenship to include African Americans.
- 9. An act regulating stamp duty on the legal recognition of documents.
- 10. Was the acquisition of the territory by The United States from France in 1805.
- 11. Were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
- 12. Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
- 13. Officially tittle the Treaty of peace, friendship, limits, and settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic.
- 15. A conflict primarily fought between Britain and France over New World territory, ended with a British Victory.
- 16. The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a practical state.
- 19. Authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individuals plots.
- 20. Was a landmark decision of the U.S. supreme court in which the court held that the U.S. constitution was not meant to include American citizenship from black people.
- 21. Is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group.
- 22. Was a conflict fought between The United State and its allies against The United Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 23. The belief that it was America's god given right to expand from ocean to ocean to justify all wrong doings.
- 24. The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
- 26. A person who is against slavery.