Unit 1

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Across
  1. 4. a law that established the federal court system and the number of Supreme Court justices and that provided for the appeal of certain state court decision to the federal courts
  2. 7. an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines
  3. 9. the dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act
  4. 10. movement to end slavery
  5. 11. a document adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States
  6. 12. the voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and later to North America
  7. 13. a political system in which a national government and constituent units, such as state government, share power
  8. 15. a revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s
  9. 19. the document written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the colonies' independence from Britain
  10. 23. an 18th-century intellectual movement emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method as means of obtaining knowledge
  11. 24. a trade law enacted by Parliament in 1764 in an attempt to reduce smuggling in the British colonies in North America
  12. 25. the 19th century belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican Territory
  13. 27. a colonist who supported American independence from Britain
  14. 29. a political system dominated by two major parties
  15. 30. the Supreme Court's power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional
Down
  1. 1. a state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional
  2. 2. the 1803 purchase by the United States of France's Louisiana Territory-extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains-for $15 million
  3. 3. an order in which Britain prohibited its American colonist from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
  4. 5. a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists were killed
  5. 6. a law that established a procedure for the admission of new states to be a Union
  6. 8. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution adopted in 1865, that has abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
  7. 14. an 1765 law is which Parliament established the first direction taxation of goods and services with the British colonies in North America
  8. 16. a tax on imported goods that is intended to protect a nation's businesses from foreign competition
  9. 17. a series of agreement passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states
  10. 18. a famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863, at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg
  11. 20. the transatlantic system of trade in which goods and people, including claves, were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, The West Indies, and the colonies in North America
  12. 21. southern Pennsylvania where the most decisive battle was fought
  13. 22. a colonist who supported the British government during the American Revolution
  14. 26. an uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers protesting increased state taxes in 1787
  15. 28. a government in which the citizens rule through elected representatives