U.S. History
Across
- 2. Agreement signed aboard the Mayflower establishing self-government
- 5. Compromise that counted enslaved people as 3/5 of a person for representation
- 7. Economic system where colonies exist to benefit the mother country
- 12. Belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent
- 13. First plan of government for the United States
- 16. Pamphlet, by Thomas Paine that encouraged independence
- 17. Group that sailed on the Mayflower seeking religious freedom
- 18. Reform movement to end slavery
- 20. Event where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor in protest
- 21. Order issued by Abraham Lincoln freeing enslaved people in Confederate states
- 22. Forced relocation of Native Americans in the 1830s
- 23. Case that established judicial review
- 24. Period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
Down
- 1. First ten amendments to the Constitution
- 3. The first permanent English settlement in North America (1607)
- 4. Purchase in 1803 that doubled the size of the United States
- 6. System that divides power between national and state governments
- 8. War fought between Britain and France in North America (1754–1763)
- 9. Document declaring independence from Britain (1776)
- 10. Law requiring citizens to return escaped enslaved people
- 11. Compromise that admitted California as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act
- 14. Tax on printed materials that angered colonists in 1765
- 15. War between the North and South (1861–1865)
- 19. Amendment that abolished slavery in the United States