US History Vocabulary 8

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Across
  1. 4. served the shortest time of any American President—only thirty-two days. He also was the first President from the Whig Party
  2. 7. a major political party in the United States between the late 1830s and the early 1850s, opposition to the Democratic party
  3. 8. a law passed to admit Missouri as a slave state and create a limit on slavery in the north
  4. 11. a nativist political movement whose members refused to answer questions about the association
  5. 13. confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government over attempts to nullify and void the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832
Down
  1. 1. granted control of Florida to the US and settled Spanish disputes
  2. 2. the 10th president of the US which earned the first VETO override in Congress
  3. 3. a period in the 1820s-1830s in which the economy and society shifted from moral economies to a capitalist system
  4. 5. the machine used to pull cotton fibers from the seed which was invented by Eli Whitney
  5. 6. an anti-immigrant policy focused on protecting domestic interests
  6. 9. a financial crisis in the United States that triggered a multi-year economic depression in the 1830s
  7. 10. the right to vote in political elections
  8. 12. a period in the U.S. when transportation became cheaper and more efficient with the rapid development of railroads and canals