Social Studies Crossword Project

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  1. 1. formally announces and justifies the thirteen American colonies' separation from Great Britain
  2. 4. In 1732 Oglethorpe was granted this legal document issued by King George II, establishing the Province of Georgia as the thirteenth British colony in North America
  3. 11. In 1850 averted a crisis caused by California's request to enter the Union as a free state, threatening the fragile balance between free and slave states, South allowed California to join the country and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.
  4. 12. the formal withdrawal of a state a federal union, to establish independence
  5. 15. a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that enslaved people were not U.S. citizens and could not sue in federal court. Rendering the Missouri compromise unconstitutional.
  6. 16. system of forced, race-based, inherited bondage of Black people in the U.S., serving as the primary economic foundation for the South, led to the civil war because the south was afraid of its abolition.
  7. 18. American colonists that supported Independence and believed in self governance, rejected British rule
  8. 19. Led by General Sherman, series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia. Aimed to take the vital rail and industrial hub of Atlanta, which significantly boosted Northern morale and assisted President Lincoln’s re-election.
  9. 20. naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading, also known as the Anaconda Plan
Down
  1. 2. Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final fourteen months of the American Civil War. Known for its brutal conditions.
  2. 3. forced relocation of over 100,000 Native Americans, primarily the Cherokee, Muscogee from their ancestral U.S. Lands.
  3. 5. the constitutional theory that U.S. states can invalidate federal laws deemed unconstitutional
  4. 6. longest-serving Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, leading the tribe through forced removal and the Civil War.
  5. 7. served as a defense mechanism for states against perceived federal overreach throughout American history, belief that any power not directly given to the federal government should be controlled by the states
  6. 8. 1860 President Lincoln is elected into office leading to Southern State successions
  7. 9. defined tribes as "domestic dependent nations," meaning they were not foreign nations but possessed a right to their lands under federal, not state, jurisdiction.
  8. 10. American colonists that supported Great Britain and saw that they needed to keep ties with the mother land, opposed Independence during the American revolution
  9. 13. Created to avert a national crisis and prevent Georgia from leaving the Union at the time, encouraging other Southern states to not secede from the nation. Supported the Compromise of 1850.
  10. 14. Caused by French and Indian War, Proclamation 1763, Stamp Act
  11. 17. He signed the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs, selling all remaining Creek lands to the U.S. against tribal law.