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Across
  1. 4. fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War
  2. 6. belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
  3. 9. contiguous railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass
  4. 10. conflict fought between the United States and its allies, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its allies
  5. 13. the first ten amendments to the US Constitution guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship
  6. 21. document that was approved by the Continental Congress and announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain
  7. 23. political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty
  8. 24. form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and a democracy
  9. 25. was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico
  10. 27. form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly
  11. 28. declaration that all lands west of the Appalachian Divide were off-limits to colonial settlers
  12. 29. The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans by the united states government
  13. 30. a U.S. government agency after the Civil War, to direct "provisions, clothing, and fuel ... for the immediate and temporary shelter and supply of destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen and their wives and children
Down
  1. 1. the war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England 1754–60
  2. 2. American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
  3. 3. the subdividing of Native American tribal communal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals
  4. 5. state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
  5. 7. first British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, and dice
  6. 8. a proposal to the United States for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature
  7. 11. prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
  8. 12. grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” thereby granting citizenship to former slaves
  9. 14. the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France
  10. 15. large farms in the colonies that used the enforced labor of slaves to harvest produce for trade and export
  11. 16. abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
  12. 17. a 2,170-mile east-west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon
  13. 18. unfair taxing of goods like sugar, coffee, and cloth etc. to make revenue
  14. 19. a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade
  15. 20. a proposal for the structure of the United States Government which called for two houses of Congress, both elected with apportionment according to population
  16. 22. provided Federal government support for the building of the first transcontinental railroad
  17. 26. economic system of trade that generates wealth