US History crossword

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  1. 4. Canal a canal in New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System.
  2. 7. parts parts that are, for practical purposes, identical.
  3. 8. of Tears a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
  4. 10. of the United States a national bank, chartered for a term of twenty years, by the United States Congress on February 25, 1791.
  5. 12. of 1816 also known as the Dallas Tariff, is notable as the first tariff passed by Congress with an explicit function of protecting U.S. manufactured items from overseas competition.
  6. 14. Jackson an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837
  7. 16. Clay an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House.
  8. 17. System an economic plan that played an important role in American policy during the first half of the 19th century.
  9. 21. Whitney an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
  10. 22. Van Buren the eighth President of the United States
  11. 23. of Abominations a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the Northern United States.
  12. 25. Treaty a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.
  13. 26. Party a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States.
  14. 27. system a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government civil service jobs to its supporters, friends, and relatives as a reward.
  15. 29. Webster an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress
  16. 30. of 1837 a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s.
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  1. 1. Doctrine a United States policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas.
  2. 2. v Maryland a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that defined the scope of the U.S. Congress's legislative power
  3. 3. Party an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s.
  4. 5. Removal Act The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands.
  5. 6. Tyler an English religious leader who served as the third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1880 to 1887.
  6. 9. Road the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government.
  7. 11. an idea and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty over its homeland.
  8. 13. C. Calhoun one of the leading War Hawks who maneuvered the unprepared United States into war with Great Britain in 1812.
  9. 15. Revolution the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
  10. 18. gin a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds
  11. 19. production the production of large quantities of a standardized article by an automated mechanical process.
  12. 20. Compromise federal legislation that admitted Maine to the United States as a free state, simultaneously with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the US Senate.
  13. 24. Quincy Adams the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829.
  14. 28. Henry Harrison American military officer and politician, was the ninth President of the United States