8th grade social studies vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. The nation formed by the 11 southern states that seceded, officially the Confederate States of America.
  2. 6. Colonists who supported independence from Britain.
  3. 7. democracy was aided by the strong spirit of equality among the people of the newer settlements in the South and West.
  4. 9. The supreme law of the land, replacing the Articles.
Down
  1. 1. Purchase Land bought from France that doubled the U.S. size.
  2. 2. The era focused on bringing Southern states back into the Union and addressing the rights of former slaves.
  3. 3. The 19th-century belief that the US was destined to expand across the continent.
  4. 4. A settlement ruled by a faraway country.
  5. 8. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole.