Reconstruction Era

1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829
Across
  1. 2. authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American Tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands
  2. 3. it abolished slavery in the United States
  3. 4. An uprising led by a former military officer, which broke out in Western Massachussetts 1786
  4. 10. allowed for the President to break up reservation land
  5. 12. the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies
  6. 13. conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights
  7. 15. granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former slaves—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”
  8. 16. a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 until 1877
  9. 18. the federal principle or system of government
  10. 19. was made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy
  11. 20. The ecnomic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable blances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism
  12. 22. A long series of English laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies
  13. 23. loyalty to one's own region or section of the country
  14. 24. A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763
  15. 25. the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution
  16. 26. a contract between two individuals, in which one person worked not for money but in exchange for the price of passage to America
  17. 28. state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation
  18. 29. It was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World
Down
  1. 1. a large farm or estate where cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers
  2. 5. the orginal constitution of the US
  3. 6. a process of producing steel, in which impurities are removed by forcing a blast of air through molten iron
  4. 7. a person who vigorously supports their coutry and is prepared to defend it against enemies or defrators.
  5. 8. any person who opposes federalism
  6. 9. the first permanent settlement by the English in America
  7. 11. a controversial politcal doctrine according to which the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states
  8. 14. a flagshp indian boarding school where they tried to "Kill the Indian, Save the Man."
  9. 17. the aquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803
  10. 20. the belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American Continents was both justified and inevitable
  11. 21. the process of wearing down an opponent so as to force their physical collapse through continuous losses in personnel, equipment and supplies or wearing them down to such an extent that their will to fight collapses
  12. 27. the dissememation of information to influence public opinon