American History 1400s to 2005

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Across
  1. 2. to set apart, typically because of race or religion
  2. 4. a person who uses violence and fear to achieve their goals
  3. 5. name of the Hurricane that destroyed parts of Louisiana in 2005
  4. 7. because of the Indian Removal Act the Cherokee were forced to move and it was called this
  5. 9. caused war with Mexico, and the belief that the United States borders should expand
  6. 10. a person who believes slavery is immoral
  7. 11. the disease that killed millions of indigenous peoples when the first Spaniards arrived
  8. 12. a period in time when the nation had to "rebuild" after war
  9. 16. when this president was elected, the south seceded shortly after
  10. 17. this invention created the expansion of more cotton land, and the need for more slaves
  11. 18. an island that the United States acquired during the Spanish-American War
Down
  1. 1. a chemical used in warfare that caused mass destruction by exposing chemicals to the land
  2. 3. this doubled the size of the United States
  3. 5. war in which a country was divided by the United States into 2 at the 38th parallel
  4. 6. these were built by the Haida people to memorialize who they were when they lived
  5. 8. American citizens were angry they had to pay these on Tea and threw the boxes overboard
  6. 13. name of the war American citizens fought to forge their independence from England
  7. 14. the name of the servants who signed a contact to come over to the New World
  8. 15. the murder of 6 million Jewish people in Europe
  9. 17. a period in time when the "arms race" between the Soviet Union took place