US History Word Bonanza

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Across
  1. 2. A law that required Native Americans to move onto reservations
  2. 4. An estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor
  3. 7. Information of a biased or misleading nature to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
  4. 11. Prolonged war of period of conflict during which each side seeks to gradually wear out the other
  5. 13. An armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in response to a debt crisis
  6. 16. First ten amendments
  7. 18. A stronger central government
  8. 19. Was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World
  9. 21. Colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rejeted British rule
  10. 24. Laws that enforced racial segregation
  11. 25. Indain Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
  12. 26. American colonists who stayed loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War
  13. 27. A steel making process
  14. 29. Was the period in American history that lasted from 1863 to 1877 following the Civil War, significant chapter in civil rights
  15. 30. The amendment that got rid of slavery
Down
  1. 1. Authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots
  2. 3. Laws passed by the British Parliament that restricted the colonial trade
  3. 5. The acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the US from France
  4. 6. Belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
  5. 8. First permanent English settlement in America
  6. 9. Rule by the people
  7. 10. Act of abolishing a system
  8. 12. A crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower
  9. 14. The original constitution of the US, ratifed in 1781
  10. 15. Belief in the benefits of profitable trading
  11. 17. Military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies
  12. 20. A movement that opposed the creation of a stronger US federal government
  13. 22. Restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests
  14. 23. A faction of the Republican party during the Civil war that was distinguished by their fierce advocacy for abolition of slavery
  15. 28. The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union