Who's Who
Across
- 2. Modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect
- 8. de Tocqueville/ French diplomat, political scientist, and historian. Author of Democracy in America
- 9. David Thoreau/ A leading transcendentalist, best known for his book Walden.
- 10. Allen Poe/ He is known for being a poet that wrote about mysteries and morbid events
- 12. Douglass/ African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
- 14. Dix/ American activist that worked on behalf of the mentally insane
- 15. Turner/ Enslaved African American who led rebellion of slaves and free blacks.
- 17. Irvin/ He is best known for his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
- 18. Calhoun/ American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina and the seventh Vice President of the United States. Is remembered for strongly defending slavery.
- 20. Core belief believes in nature and self reliance
- 22. system/ The practice of, after winning an election, giving civil jobs for your friends, family, and supporters.
- 23. Truth/ African American abolitionist and women's right activist
- 26. Morse/ Invented the telegraph
- 27. McCormick/ Invented the mechanical reaper
- 29. Cady Stanton/ Worked with Lucretia Mott during the Seneca Falls Convention
- 32. Rush/ The movement of a lot of people going towards an area with gold.
- 33. Purchase/ The purchase that allowed the United States to gain the southern part of Arizona and New Mexico
- 35. Destiny/ A belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
- 37. A pivotal event in the Texas Revolution.
- 38. Canal/ Canal that opened trade between New York and the midwestern states and aided in the growth of New York as a port
Down
- 1. A religious and cultural group related to Mormonism
- 3. The act of canceling something
- 4. parts/ First used for musket rifles
- 5. Waldo Emerson/ American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century.
- 6. of Abominations/ A protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States, designed to protect industry on the northern United States
- 7. Restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions
- 11. A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution
- 13. Fennimore Cooper/ He is known for his historical romances of frontier and the Indian life.
- 16. Lode/ Located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, first major discovery of silver in the United States
- 19. Bank/ A commercial bank that is chartered under federal government
- 21. Political idea that a nation should govern itself
- 24. Mott/ Women's rights activist. Worked with Elizabeth Staton during the Seneca Falls Convention
- 25. Great Awakening/ A Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States
- 28. Young/ American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, moved Mormons to Utah
- 30. Smith/ American religious leader and founder of Mormonism
- 31. gin/ A machine for separating cotton from its seed
- 34. Whitney/ Invented the cotton gin
- 35. cession/ A historical name on the United States for the region of the modern day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the US in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- 36. Webster/ Created the dictionary
- 37. Jackson/ American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States. He gained the support through being seen as a “common man”.