U.S. History

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