Across
- 1. emplyee within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed contract to work without pay for by the owner of the indenture for a period of time
- 3. Lincoln issued this proclimation that declared all slaves in the south to be set free (Not in north states)
- 4. State and local laws the enforced racial segregation in the Southern US
- 6. armed uprising in Western Massachusetts inopposition to a debt crisis among the citizenry and the state governments increased efforts to collect taaxes on individuals and their trades
- 9. attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy tot he point of collapse through continuous losses in personal and material, won by side with greater reasources
- 10. benefit that attracts people to a certain place
- 12. crop used for its commercial value rather than use by grower
- 14. area of land that is owned and managed by an Indian tribe
- 15. first 10 amendments of the US Constitution giving rights such as freedom of speech, assembly and worship
- 17. An estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor
- 18. military surround something and cut off its supplies
- 19. war that is unrestricted in terms of weapons used, the territory or comabatants involved, or the objects pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded
- 21. the right form the federal government to produce and sell something for a certain number of years without anyone copying it
- 23. best known US policy toward the Western Hemisphere, doctorine warns European nations that the US would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs
- 25. (cultural) when ethnic minority adopts the beliefs, languages, and customs of the dominant community, losing their own culture in the process
- 27. flaw or distress thast drives a person away from a certain place
- 28. Economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism
- 29. Signed by Andrew Jackson, May 28 1830, grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi river in exchamge for Indian lands within existing state borders
- 30. Original constitution of the US ratified in 1781, replaced by US Constitution in 1789
- 31. The withdraw of 11 states fro the Union in 1860 leading to the Civil War
Down
- 2. railroad that connected the existing East railnetwork in Iowa witht he Pacific Coast in San Fransico
- 5. someone who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formaly) slavery
- 7. Strict laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force
- 8. unreconized breakaway states the fought against the US during the Civil War
- 11. Series of laws passed by Brititsh Parliment that forced restrictions on colonial trade
- 13. 19th century belief that expansion of the US throughout the American Continent was justified and inevitable
- 16. Colonists who stayed loyal to the crown during the American Revolutionary War, called Tories, Royalists, King's men, opposed by the Patriots
- 20. Colonists of the 13 Colonies who rejected the British rule during the American Revolution and declared the US an indepentdent nation in July of 1776
- 22. American Abolitionist who saw violence as unfortunatly necassary if slavery in the United States were to be eliminated
- 24. Author of the Declaration of Independence, founding father, 1st Secretary of State
- 26. first permanent English settlement in the Americas, settlement thrived for 100 yearsas the capital of the Virginia Colony and was abandoned after the capital moved to Williamsburg in 1699