Unit IV Vocabulary Leandro Montarroyos

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Across
  1. 8. Black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion
  2. 10. 7th U.S. President
  3. 12. landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional
  4. 14. series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans
  5. 16. Transcontinental Treaty
  6. 17. the 11th president of the United States
  7. 18. from 1846 to 1848.
  8. 19. also known as the Dallas Tariff
  9. 20. Americans went to the polls in the fall of 1824.
Down
  1. 1. region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854
  2. 2. used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid 1800s to emigrate west.
  3. 3. American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States
  4. 4. "Father of Texas"
  5. 5. Peace treaty Between USA and Mexico
  6. 6. federal legislation that admitted Maine to the United States as a free state
  7. 7. admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845
  8. 9. machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation
  9. 11. known for inventing the cotton gin
  10. 13. the 15th presidential election
  11. 15. unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War