Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. The first formal statement that allowed the colonies to choose their own government.
  2. 3. A belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
  3. 5. an acquisition of the territory of Lousiana by the US from the French
  4. 6. A form of democracy which people decide on policy initiatives directly
  5. 8. Ratified the US constitution and was a founding father.
  6. 10. democracy A form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and democracy.
  7. 16. A case in that supreme court decided that Dred scott could not sue because he was a piece of property.
  8. 20. a forced relocation during the 1830s of Eastern Woodlands Indians of the Southeast region of the US.
  9. 22. The first President
  10. 23. a treaty that brought an official end to the Mexican American war.
  11. 24. Washintong led a raid across the Delaware river.
  12. 25. a plan for each state to have one vote in congress instead of the number of votes based on population.
  13. 27. A plan proposed to the US for the creation of a supreme national government with 3 branches.
  14. 28. A person who works to end the practice of slavery.
Down
  1. 2. An area of land where crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown from resident labor.
  2. 4. Declared that all people held as slaves in rebellious states shall be free.
  3. 7. An armed conflict between the US and Mexico from 1846-1848
  4. 9. A war between Great Britain and France known as the seven years war.
  5. 11. An emigrant trail in US that connected the Missouri River to the Oregon valleys
  6. 12. A peaceful protest against the king for imposing taxation without representation.
  7. 13. An act of withdrawing formally from a membership of a federation or a body.
  8. 14. an act that placed taxes on paper goods.
  9. 15. Third president of the US
  10. 17. The last battle of the revolution where the British surrendered.
  11. 18. An act that placed taxes on sugar goods.
  12. 19. An American abolitionist that escaped slavery in Maryland and became a national leader.
  13. 21. An American stage actor who killed Abraham Lincoln.
  14. 26. A document that protects the rights of the people from the government.