Reconstruction + Westward Expansion
Across
- 2. charging someone money in order to vote
- 4. the branch of government that makes the laws
- 6. The 14th Amendment
- 7. the branch of government also known as the supreme court
- 8. The 15th Amendment
- 9. first 10 amendments to the US Constitution
- 10. The idea that the US should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans
- 15. Rights that cannot be taken away without due process
- 16. where many Native Americans were forced to relocate during westward expansion
- 17. the system to make sure 1 branch of government does not become too powerful
- 18. Group of people who were forced to leave their own homes
- 20. The organization that helped freed slaves during Reconstruction
- 21. requiring reading and writing in order to vote
- 23. Law that gave settlers land for moving West
- 24. Laws that discriminated against African Americans even after the Reconstruction amendments were passed
Down
- 1. Time period from 1865-1877
- 3. the document signed in 1787
- 5. government run pieces of land where entire Native American tribes were sent during westward expansion
- 11. the branch of government run by the president
- 12. The first railroad to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans
- 13. Law that tried to make Native Americans more like Americans
- 14. the author of the Declaration of Independence
- 19. The 13th Amendment
- 22. War Time period from 1861-1865