Across
- 2. elected as the 1st president in 1789
- 5. allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves to be returned to their slaveholders.
- 6. U.S.A. born in 1776
- 10. march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia
- 11. document outlying the 1st national government for the U.S.
- 13. Inventor who came up with the idea of using interchangeable parts, improving Elements of Industrialization
- 14. 1st permanent English settlement in North America
- 15. only ⅗’s of slaves in a state would count when determining population
- 16. Great Britain recognizes U.S.A Independence
- 17. political party formed by anti slavery northerners
- 18. system of gov’ment where power is distributed between gov’ment and states
- 22. a sailor from Genoa, Italy
- 26. author of popular antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 29. an African American slave involved in a complex case
- 31. 2,000 mile trail stretching from western Missouri, through the Great Plains, to the Oregon Territory
- 34. supporters of independence
- 35. belief shared by many Americans that U.S. should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean
- 36. a journey by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore and map Louisiana Purchase
- 37. laws limiting freedom of speech and the press
- 38. expansion of voting rights during Andrew Jacksons Administration.
- 39. demanded more rights for women during abolition movement
Down
- 1. Republican who won the presidential election of 1860 without winning a single electoral vote from the south
- 3. people who supported the new constitutional
- 4. English protestants wanting to reform the church
- 7. nation formed by the southern states when the left the union; also known as the confederacy.
- 8. spread slavery to the Midwest
- 9. the first people to live in North America
- 12. uprising of farmers protesting high taxes
- 16. a democratic-republican who became president in 1800 presidential election
- 19. movement to appose or abolish slavery
- 20. agreement that allowed California to enter the union as a free state and divided Mexican territories
- 21. a new document drafted to improve the articles of confederation
- 23. a canal that runs from Albany, New York to Buffalo, New York.
- 24. Religious movement that swept the colonies
- 25. allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
- 27. social reform effort to encourage people to drink less alcohol
- 28. statement by James Monroe forbidding further colonization in the Americas.
- 30. doubled the size of the United States
- 32. escaped slavery and became a leader in the abolitionist movement
- 33. people who opposed the new constitution