Across
- 2. A purchase by the United States from France of the huge Louisiana territory in 1803
- 4. A law that was passed that granted the president unsettled lands west of Mississippi in exchange for the Indian lands within existing state borders.
- 6. The act of surrounding and attacking a fortified place to isolate it from help and supplies.
- 9. A preferred belief in a strong central government.
- 10. An amendment that granted African American men the right to vote.
- 14. A person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time.
- 16. A system based on the benefits of profitable trading.
- 17. A crop produced for its commercial value.
- 18. A loyalty to one's own region or section of the country.
- 20. The exchange of ideas, plants, animals, diseases,and technology between the new world and the old world.
- 22. When you withdraw formally from a federation/body or a political state.
- 23. A U.S. foreign policy expressing opposition to extension of European control/influence in the Western Hemisphere.
- 26. A person in the American colonies who wanted the colonies to become independent from Great Britain.
- 27. A movement to end slavery.
- 28. The belief that Americans had the God given right to expand westward.
- 29. A written agreement in 1781 by the original 13 states that provided a legal symbol of their union by giving the central government no coercive power over the states or their citizens.
- 30. An amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
Down
- 1. A colonist that is loyal to Great Britain.
- 3. The first Ten Amendments to the constitution that guaranteed civil rights and liberties to the individual.
- 5. A person who believed in a weak central government.
- 7. An area of land set aside by the government for the use of Native Americans.
- 8. Where a group of minorities of a different ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture.
- 11. A series of laws passed by the British parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade.
- 12. A large farm/estate where cotton, tobacco,coffee,sugar cane, and etc are farmed by slaves.
- 13. A set of State and Local laws that were put into effect to enforce segregation in the Southern states
- 15. A military strategy where the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives/resources to obtain a complete victory.
- 19. A system where each branch of government can control/check the actions of the other branches.
- 21. A proclamation issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans.
- 24. The first permanent English settlement in North America.
- 25. An amendment that granted citizenship to all persons born/naturalized in the United States.