Unit 3 Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. E. Lee Leader of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
  2. 4. Scott Decision 1857 Supreme Court case declaring enslaved people had no rights
  3. 6. S. Grant Union general who became the 18th president
  4. 7. Tubman Woman who led enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad
  5. 8. Gin Device by Eli Whitney that increased cotton production
  6. 11. Shift to factories, machines, and mass production
  7. 14. Nebraska Act Law allowing popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska
  8. 17. Destiny Belief that Americans were destined to expand westward
  9. 19. Early transportation innovation improving river travel
  10. 25. C. Calhoun Senator known for promoting states’ rights and nullification
  11. 26. Invention by Samuel Morse that revolutionized communication
  12. 27. Purchase Land deal that doubled the size of the U.S. in 1803
  13. 28. American War U.S. conflict caused partly by Texas annexation
  14. 29. K. Polk U.S. president famous for expansionism during the 1840s
Down
  1. 1. Bureau Federal agency created to aid freed slaves after the Civil War
  2. 3. Acts Laws dividing the South into military districts after the Civil War
  3. 5. Movement Movement dedicated to ending slavery
  4. 9. of Tears Forced relocation of Native Americans in the 1830s
  5. 10. Jefferson Third president who authorized the Louisiana Purchase
  6. 12. Farming system that trapped many freedmen in debt after the Civil War
  7. 13. Jackson President known for the “Era of the Common Man”
  8. 15. of 1812 War between the U.S. and Britain sparked by impressment
  9. 16. Compromise Agreement admitting Missouri as slave and Maine as free
  10. 18. Rights Movement seeking legal and social equality for women
  11. 20. Major transportation system that expanded rapidly in the 1800s
  12. 21. Douglass Escaped slave who became a leading abolitionist speaker and writer
  13. 22. System Henry Clay’s economic plan of tariffs and internal improvements
  14. 23. of 1850 Set of laws passed to ease sectional tensions
  15. 24. Lincoln President who led the Union during the Civil War