2nd Semester Test Bonus Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. Southern side in the Civil War
  2. 5. Organized group sharing similar beliefs about government
  3. 7. Current number of Supreme Court justices
  4. 10. Agreement that maintained the balance between free and slave states in 1820
  5. 11. Group of officials who advise the President
  6. 12. Belief that government gets its power from the people
  7. 13. Method used to officially elect the President of the United States
  8. 16. Number of years in a presidential term
  9. 20. War fought between the Union and Confederacy from 1861–1865
  10. 21. Jefferson-era law that stopped American trade with foreign nations
  11. 22. Length of a Supreme Court justice’s term
  12. 25. Main job of the Executive Branch related to laws
  13. 26. Inventor whose machine revolutionized cotton farming
  14. 27. War with no clear winner that helped the U.S. earn greater respect worldwide
  15. 28. Supreme Court case that ruled Congress could not ban slavery in territories
  16. 31. Policy of avoiding alliances and involvement in foreign conflicts
  17. 32. War with no clear winner that helped the U.S. earn greater respect worldwide
  18. 34. First major federally funded highway in the United States
  19. 35. Method by which Supreme Court justices are chosen by the President
  20. 36. Waterway connecting the Great Lakes region to the Atlantic coast
  21. 40. Law requiring escaped enslaved people to be returned to enslavers
  22. 43. Early political party that supported a powerful central government
  23. 44. Congressional chamber where every state has two members
Down
  1. 1. Belief that Americans were meant to spread across the continent from coast to coast
  2. 2. Forced march of the Cherokee to lands west of the Mississippi River
  3. 4. Presidential election that led several Southern states to secede
  4. 6. Describes a legislature with two separate chambers
  5. 8. Congressional chamber with representation based on population
  6. 9. Jefferson’s political party that favored states’ rights
  7. 14. Harriet Beecher Stowe novel that increased anti-slavery feelings in the North
  8. 15. Highest court in the United States judicial system
  9. 17. Fraction of Congress needed to override a veto
  10. 18. Lincoln’s order freeing enslaved people in Confederate states
  11. 19. Large Southern farm that often relied on enslaved labor
  12. 23. Branch of government responsible for the nation’s courts
  13. 24. Principle that prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful
  14. 29. Northern side in the Civil War
  15. 30. Constitutional system that shares power between national and state governments
  16. 33. Machine that greatly increased cotton production in the South
  17. 37. Nickname for the violent conflict over slavery in Kansas Territory
  18. 38. Early 1800s incident in which French agents demanded bribes from American diplomats
  19. 39. Power of the Supreme Court to review laws and government actions for constitutionality
  20. 41. Turning-point battle of the Civil War that became one of the deadliest in U.S. history
  21. 42. Abolitionist who attacked a federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry