American History Crossword Puzzle!

3. Network helping enslaved people escape to freedom.
5. Belief that America was destined to expand across the continent.
6. Site of the 1848 women’s rights convention.
8. Post–Civil War effort to rebuild the South.
13. Site of Confederate surrender in 1865.
15. colony was founded by the Pilgrims in 1620.
18. Movement seeking the end of slavery.
19. 1803 land acquisition doubling U.S. territory.
21. Samuel Morse’s invention transforming communication.
22. Protest in 1773 against British taxation.
23. U.S. policy opposing European interference in the Americas.
24. Inventor, diplomat, and Founding Father.
25. Conflict resulting in American independence (1775–1783).
26. Explorers who mapped the West after 1803.
29. Southern agricultural system dependent on enslaved labor for cash crops.
30. President during the Civil War.

1. Conflict between U.S. and Britain over maritime rights.
2. Escaped slave and famous abolitionist orator.
4. Enslaved man whose Supreme Court case denied citizenship to African Americans.
7. Period of rapid technological growth in the U.S. (late 1700s–1800s).
9. First permanent English settlement in North America.
10. Eli Whitney’s invention that transformed Southern agriculture.
11. Turning-point Civil War battle in 1863.
12. Forced removal of Native Americans under the Indian Removal Act.
14. Constitutional system dividing power between states and the national government.
16. 1863 order declaring slaves free in rebellious states.
17. 1620 agreement that established self-government for the Pilgrims.
20. Third U.S. President and author of the Declaration of Independence.
27. The right to vote, expanded slowly in the 19th century.
28. 19th-century waterway innovations (like the Erie Canal) that boosted trade and westward expansion.