Chapter 9 Vocabulary US History
Across
- 5. The taxes placed on imported and exported goods
- 8. The person currently in office
- 11. A law that restricts commerce with one or more nations
- 12. A treaty between France and US in which a large area of land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains was purchased
- 13. Commissioned by Adams in the final hours of his presidency
- 14. An often fatal disease carried by mosquitoes in tropical climates
- 16. The war against Great Britain that James Madison declared
Down
- 1. An idea or law that goes against the principle of the US constitution
- 2. The power to invalidate any law the Supreme Court deems unconstitutional
- 3. The federal legislation that reduced the number of justices on the Supreme Court from six to five
- 4. The formal ending of the War of 1812
- 6. The act of forcing men into military or Naval services
- 7. A person who approved and encouraged war; An American who favored war with Britain in 1812
- 9. Someone who is believed to deliver messages from God or some other divine source
- 10. A legal document
- 15. A federal legislation that stopped all foreign imports from entering American harbors