8th Grade American History Review

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  1. 3. the reason for which Northern states at the Constitutional Convention favored the counting of slaves for the population
  2. 5. the doctrine in political theory that the government is created by and subject to the will of the people
  3. 6. name of the first institution of higher learning in the United States
  4. 10. Africa, Europe, and the Americas were linked together by the trade route
  5. 11. region of the United States where slavery was most common
  6. 14. the compromise of the Constitutional Convention which determined that slaves would count "three-fifths" of a person for the purpose of determining population
  7. 18. the period before the Civil War dating from 1820 to about 1850
  8. 20. first all-male college in the United States to admit women
  9. 23. the name by which colonial elementary schools were sometimes referred
  10. 24. the route taken by slave ships as they left Africa for the Americas
  11. 25. the British colony to which slaves first arrived in the New World
Down
  1. 1. the political party that split as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  2. 2. may have been the single most important event leading to the Civil War
  3. 4. name to which Cambridge College was changed in 1638
  4. 6. the invention that made the removal of cotton seeds from harvested cotton much easier
  5. 7. the reason for which Southern states at the Constitutional Convention favored the counting of slaves for the population
  6. 8. the man sometimes referred to as "the Father of Public Education"
  7. 9. the length of time these people were required to work for their benefactors was five to seven years
  8. 12. the amendment to the Constitution that outlawed slavery
  9. 13. Illinois senator responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  10. 15. the Northern school teacher who invented the cotton gin
  11. 16. what women of the Antebellum Period were not allowed to own
  12. 17. one of the two religious groups that fought for the abolition of slavery
  13. 19. outlawed slavery north of 36 degrees north latitude
  14. 21. the colony that George Washington allowed to create a regiment of free African Americans and slaves
  15. 22. the culture trait to which education in colonial times was usually linked