Early America

2. opponent of a strong Central government.
4. a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington.
5. a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity
7. A state’s refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional.
11. The group of department heads who serve as the president’s chief advisors.
13. an agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government.
14. fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its own indigenous allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida
17. The placing of the interests of one’s own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole.
19. A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain a balance of power between slave states and free states.
20. the U.S. capital, is a compact city on the Potomac River, bordering the states of Maryland and Virginia.

1. an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first Secretary of Treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington's presidency.
3. Supporters of the Constitution and of a strong national government.
6. mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the Barbary States
8. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, added in 1791, consisting a formal list of citizens' rights and freedoms.
9. The marches in which the Cherokee people were forcibly removed from Georgia to Indian Territory in 1838-1840.
10. the final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between Native American tribes affiliated with the Northwestern Confederacy and their British allies, against the nascent United States for control of the Northwest Territory.
12. a principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.
15. The 1803 purchase by the United States of France’s Louisiana Territory-extending form the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
16. the supreme law of the United States of America.
18. an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.