US History 3

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Across
  1. 5. Laws passed in 1798 that limited free speech and made it harder for immigrants to become citizens.
  2. 8. An agreement during the Constitutional Convention that created a two-house legislature with equal and proportional representation.
  3. 10. An agreement that counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation and taxation purposes.
  4. 11. The brutal sea journey enslaved Africans were forced to endure across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
  5. 14. The first battles of the Revolutionary War in 1775 that marked the start of armed conflict between Britain and the colonies.
  6. 15. A farm product grown mainly to be sold for profit, such as tobacco in the Southern colonies.
  7. 16. A religious group that settled in New England to reform the Church of England and created communities based on strict religious beliefs.
  8. 17. A group of English settlers who traveled to America on the Mayflower in 1620 seeking religious freedom and established Plymouth Colony.
  9. 20. A colonist who remained loyal to Great Britain and opposed independence during the Revolutionary War.
  10. 21. The lawmaking body of Great Britain that imposed taxes and laws on the American colonies.
  11. 22. A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that encouraged colonists to support independence from Britain.
  12. 23. A conflict between the United States and Great Britain caused by trade issues and interference with American shipping.
  13. 24. The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia, which struggled at first but survived through tobacco farming.
Down
  1. 1. Colonial militia members who were ready to fight at a minute’s notice during the early stages of the Revolutionary War.
  2. 2. A religious revival in the 1700s that encouraged personal faith, emotional preaching, and challenged traditional church authority.
  3. 3. An uprising of farmers in Massachusetts (1786–1787) that showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
  4. 4. The agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War and recognized the United States as an independent nation.
  5. 6. A system used to elect the president in which electors cast votes based on each state’s population.
  6. 7. A period of rapid industrial growth where machines and factories replaced hand production, changing how goods were made.
  7. 9. A policy stating that European nations should not colonize or interfere in the Americas.
  8. 11. A 1215 English document that limited the king’s power and established the idea that everyone must follow the law.
  9. 12. The idea that states can reject or ignore federal laws they believe are unconstitutional.
  10. 13. The power of courts to declare laws unconstitutional, established by the Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison.
  11. 18. Compact An agreement signed by Pilgrims in 1620 to create a self-governing colony based on majority rule.
  12. 19. An American colonist who supported independence from Britain during the Revolutionary War.