Across
- 4. colonists who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution.
- 5. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by the government regulating the commercial and economic interests of a nation.
- 6. People who studied corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions and published and exposed it in the papers and magazines.
- 9. the movement of about six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970.
- 12. American colonists who remained loyal to the parliament and to the king and opposed rebellions against the parliament's various acts and taxes.
- 15. A system of agriculture where a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on land
- 17. Idea that the United States is destined by God (divine right) to spread and expand it's democracy throughout the nation.
- 18. British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men after the colonists were throwing objects at the stationed British soldiers in Boston.
- 19. Offered 160 acres of land to any settler who would pay a $10 registration fee and live there for 5 years to cultivate and farm on it.
- 20. A system of economic production based on the private ownership of property and the contractual exchange for profit of goods, labor, etc.
Down
- 1. The government's hands-off policy towards expanding business and the economy
- 2. admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands located north of the 36º 30' parallel.
- 3. Refers to the industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages. They also drove their competitors out of business by selling their products cheaper than it cost to produce it. Then when they controlled the market, they hiked prices high above original price.
- 7. An act that required colonists to pay taxes on every page of printed paper they used. The tax also included fees for playing cards, dice, and newspapers.
- 8. Dominant theological credo of the New England Puritans based on the teachings of John Calvin. Calvinists believed in predestination that only "the elect" were destined for salvation.
- 10. a white supremacist terrorist group that emerged during Reconstruction. Used violence against blacks in order to maintain black economic instability and ensure white racial and economic superiority in the postwar South.
- 11. poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived.
- 13. A radical political organization formed after the passage of the Stamp Act to protest various British acts through both peaceful and violent protests.
- 14. A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances.
- 16. a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans.