American Government Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. The time period before a war
  2. 4. Government by the people; the form of government the USA uses.
  3. 8. Americans fought for freedom against the British Empire.
  4. 9. When people own human beings, like property, to do all their dirty work and be their servants for free.
  5. 12. America fought within itself for the freedom of slaves.
  6. 14. Rise in prices and decrease in the value of money.
  7. 15. The side of the Civil War that wanted to give slaves freedom.
  8. 16. Tax on imports.
  9. 18. A person that wants to put an end to slavery.
Down
  1. 1. This is what the Confedarate States of America did from the Union.
  2. 2. The side of the Civil War that was against giving slaves freedom.
  3. 5. What the law is called before it is signed by the president
  4. 6. When the president decides not to pass the bill.
  5. 7. A worldwide economic depression where the stock market crashed wiping out millions and millions of investors.
  6. 10. A area that is under full or partial control by another country, usually a country from far away.
  7. 11. The basic principles and laws of America. Written in 1787, and ratified in 1788.
  8. 13. British people did this thing without representation which angered the colonists and was one of the causes of the American Revolution.
  9. 17. A plant that is made for financial gain rather than being used by the grower.