American History Chapter 1

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Across
  1. 2. of Rights The first ten amendments to the U.S Constitution, added in 1791 and consisting of a formal list of citizens's rights and freedoms
  2. 3. an opponent of a strong central government
  3. 5. the group of department heads who serve as the president's chief advisers
  4. 6. Court House town near Appomattox , Virginia, where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865, thus ending the Civil War
  5. 8. the drafting of citizens for military service
Down
  1. 1. the Confederate States of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the Union
  2. 2. Tea Party the dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act
  3. 3. movement to end slavery
  4. 4. a northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War
  5. 7. Sense a pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in 1776, that called for separation of the colonies from Britain