STAAR review vocab Social Studies

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Across
  1. 2. A law or command (Government/History).
  2. 7. A person in the colonies who remained loyal to the British king (History).
  3. 9. The first representative assembly in the American colonies (History).
  4. 10. A tax on imported or exported goods (Economics/History).
  5. 11. An organization created to protect the interests of native-born inhabitants against those of immigrants (History).
  6. 15. The right to vote (Civics).
  7. 17. A tax on people's earnings (Economics/Government).
  8. 19. The official swearing-in ceremony for the President of the United States (Government/History).
  9. 20. An organized protest movement in the 1800s aimed at limiting or prohibiting the consumption of alcoholic beverages (Reform).
  10. 23. A person who risks capital to organize and run a business (Economics).
  11. 24. The official statement written in 1776 by the Second Continental Congress asserting the colonies' independence from Great Britain (History).
  12. 29. To officially approve an amendment or treaty (History/Government).
  13. 32. The power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional (Government).
  14. 33. To refuse to buy or use goods or services as a form of protest (Civics/History).
  15. 35. A formal change or addition to a bill, law, or constitution (Government).
Down
  1. 1. The system where citizens are guaranteed a fair treatment under the law (Government).
  2. 3. The government principle that all authority is derived from the people (Government).
  3. 4. The period after the Civil War (1865-1877) when the Southern states were reorganized and reintegrated (History).
  4. 5. The division of power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government (Government).
  5. 6. A document establishing the structure, functions, and limits of a government (Government).
  6. 8. To formally withdraw from the Union (History).
  7. 12. The idea that the people who live in a state/territory should decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery (Government).
  8. 13. A worker who cultivated land for a landlord in exchange for a portion of the crops (History).
  9. 14. A system in which the power to govern is divided between a national government and state governments (Government).
  10. 16. A government in which the citizens rule through elected representatives (Government).
  11. 18. A set of fundamental laws and principles that established self-governance for the Pilgrims (History).
  12. 21. The act or process of establishing a settlement or settlements (History).
  13. 22. Loyalty or support for a particular region or section of the country over the nation as a whole (History).
  14. 25. An overthrow and replacement of an established government by the people governed (History).
  15. 26. A formal agreement between two or more countries (History).
  16. 27. The federal government's effort to end slavery (History-related concept).
  17. 28. The idea that the United States was meant to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific (History).
  18. 30. The conflict between the North and South, 1861-1865 (History).
  19. 31. A person chosen or appointed to act or speak for others (Government).
  20. 34. Rights that cannot be given away or taken away, as stated in the Declaration of Independence (Government).