History Word Puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. Abolitionist, human rights activist and one of the first leaders of the women's rights movement
  2. 11. movement to get rid of slavery
  3. 12. creator of the cotton gin
  4. 13. Political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States
  5. 14. landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that defined the scope of the U.S. Congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of American state legislatures
  6. 16. first ten amandments
  7. 17. territory sold by France to the US in 1803, comprising the western part of the Mississippi valley and including the modern state of Louisiana
  8. 20. Powers that the government assumes and enforces, despite the Constitution not mentioning these powers by name
  9. 21. Act of being freed from restraint, control, or the power of another especially to free from bondage
  10. 22. an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests
  11. 23. Forced relocation during the 1830s of Eastern Woodlands Indians of the Southeast region of the United States
  12. 25. an executive and policy-making body of a country, consisting of all government ministers or just the senior ministers
  13. 26. Escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker
Down
  1. 1. Statesman and spokesman for the slave-plantation system of the antebellum South
  2. 2. Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States
  3. 3. Dispute between slave and free states
  4. 4. Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization
  5. 6. policy of favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants
  6. 7. Organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States
  7. 8. review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act
  8. 9. Make legally null and void
  9. 10. Practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters
  10. 15. 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
  11. 18. rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries, brought about by the introduction of machinery
  12. 19. powers specific powers granted to Congress by the United States Constitution
  13. 24. Meeting at which local members of a political party register their preference among candidates running for office or select delegates to attend a convention