HiSet Social Studies: History

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Across
  1. 1. Making of goods in factories.
  2. 3. Political system in which citizens vote directly on leaders and laws.
  3. 5. Controversial law that required all U.S. citizens to help capture and return runaway slaves to their owners.
  4. 7. British policy setting a western limit for colonial settlement.
  5. 9. Region of Mexico, Central America, and South America settled by people long ago.
  6. 14. Legal separation of people by race.
  7. 15. Agricultural crop grown to sell for profit.
  8. 17. Law of 1862 giving people free land in the West under
  9. 18. Agreement that admitted California and made new rules about the possible expansion of slavery westward.
  10. 20. European religious reform movement started by Martin Luther.
  11. 24. Refuse to buy
  12. 29. Journalists who wrote about social problems.
  13. 30. Social movement to end slavery.
  14. 31. Long, difficult Atlantic crossing that was part of the slave trade.
  15. 33. Independent city with its own government and citizenship.
  16. 35. Political system in which citizens vote for leaders who then make laws on their behalf
  17. 37. Social movement that advocated for women's rights.
  18. 42. Set of trade routes between the Americas, Europe, and West Africa over which raw materials, finished goods, and enslaved humans traveled.
  19. 44. Support for one's own nation above others.
  20. 46. Spanish adventurers and conquerors during the Age of Exploration.
  21. 47. Series of federal programs that provided economic relief during the Great Depression.
  22. 48. People who survive by collecting wild plants and hunt
  23. 49. Document announcing American independence from Great Britain.
  24. 50. Period of European cultural renewal with a focus on classical art and new philosophies.
  25. 51. National focus on building military power.
  26. 52. Indigenous group of what is now the United States.
  27. 53. Empire based at Constantinople that was once part of the Roman Empire until its conquest in 1453.
Down
  1. 2. Powerful military weapon using nuclear technology
  2. 4. Period of people working together to end legalized racial discrimination.
  3. 6. Writing that uses pictures to show ideas or syllables.
  4. 8. Voting by the people.
  5. 10. Meeting of colonial leaders
  6. 11. Idea that the United States had a duty to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
  7. 12. Law overturning the Missouri Compromise and allowing people in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on whether to allow slavery.
  8. 13. Formally leave a country
  9. 16. Division of labor in which people do different jobs.
  10. 19. First Governing document of the United States that gave most power to the states.
  11. 21. Long distance train route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
  12. 22. Competition between the United States and Soviet Union for global power.
  13. 23. Period of social, political, and economic reform lasting between about 1900 and 1915.
  14. 25. Proposed constitutional amendment guaranteeing gender equality.
  15. 26. Ancient writing cut into clay tablets that began in Mesopotamia.
  16. 27. Ruling families in which kingship passes from generation to generation.
  17. 28. Agreement that ended World War 1 that heavily punished Germany and blamed them for starting the war.
  18. 32. Use of power by one country to rule another.
  19. 34. Policy of staying out of global conflicts.
  20. 36. Time period from about 500AD to 1000AD with little surviving recorded history.
  21. 38. Central document for the function of the United States of America.
  22. 39. Agreement of 1820 that admitted Missouri and Maine, and tried to end debate over slavery.
  23. 40. A light, mobile Portuguese ship.
  24. 41. Systems to move water for farming.
  25. 43. Period of worldwide economic downturn during the 1930s.
  26. 45. Theory stating that colonies existed to provide raw materials and markets for their ruling country.