US History Unit 3 Keywords

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Across
  1. 2. Woman who helped create asylums with better conditions for the inhabitants
  2. 5. Transcendentalist who lived self sufficiently and isolated from society for two years and then wrote Civil Disobedience promoting peaceful activism
  3. 7. American who led a group of people to live in Texas when it was part of Mexico
  4. 10. Period during the early 1800s in which the importance of religion increased and the nature of religion changed
  5. 14. Forceful relocation of Cherokee and other Indian tribes
  6. 15. Cult that declared that women should stay at home and not participate in the market-economy
  7. 16. Inventor of the cotton gin
  8. 19. Canal connecting the Great Lakes to the Hudson River
  9. 20. Document stating that the U.S. would not tolerate any more European colonization of the Western Hemisphere and would stay out of European affairs
  10. 24. Agreement saying that Missouri could only become a slave state if Maine was created as a free state to maintain a balance
  11. 25. Meeting to ask for more rights for women in the US
  12. 28. Feeling of solidarity among people from the same country
  13. 30. created to oppose the Jacksonian democrats and supported in the Northeast
  14. 32. Stronger unity among regions than among a whole nation
  15. 33. “The Great Compromiser” who suggested the Missouri Compromise and created the Whig party
  16. 35. Bank destroyed by Andrew Jackson that loaned money to state banks
  17. 36. Person who agrees with the idea that everybody can judge what is right or wrong based on their intuition
  18. 37. American writer, author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  19. 38. Female writer who wrote a Uncle Tom's Cabin supporting the abolishment of slavery
  20. 39. Railroad Network of houses and places where slaves could hide as they escaped from the south to the north
  21. 40. that Jackson transferred money to from the 2nd Bank of the United States
Down
  1. 1. Famous textile mills in Massachusetts worked in mainly by young women
  2. 3. Path crossing from the east of the US to the west that many Americans migrated along
  3. 4. Leader of The Transcendental Club that met in Boston
  4. 6. Period when people rapidly migrated to California as a result of gold being found there
  5. 8. Treaty ending the Mexican-American War and annexing several places including Texas and California
  6. 9. Writer and poet who used a gothic style
  7. 11. Education reformer who advocated for the creation of common schools
  8. 12. Period during which there was only one major political party
  9. 13. Belief that Americans had a mission to move westward and inhabit the whole country.
  10. 17. Organizer of the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls
  11. 18. Writer of a magazine that supported the abolishment of slavery
  12. 21. Deal in which Henry Clay helped John Quincy Adams become president and Adams appointed Clay as Secretary of State
  13. 22. System in which supporters of a political party received government jobs for their loyalty
  14. 23. Suggestion to ban slavery in the states acquired after the Mexican-American War that was refused
  15. 26. Increased demonstrations of sectionalism between the North and the South during Jackson's presidency
  16. 27. Former slave who strongly advocated for abolishing slavery
  17. 29. Transaction of a portion of land on the Mexican border to the US in 1853
  18. 31. Treaty handing Florida over to the U.S. from Spain
  19. 34. Military fort where many Texans were killed in the Mexican-American War