Across
- 2. Legislative package admitting California as a free state with a stricter Fugitive Slave Act
- 4. 1852 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 7. 1820 law admitting Missouri as a slave state Maine as free and prohibiting slavery north of 36°30'
- 9. 1803 US acquisition of French territory west of the Mississippi River
- 11. Guarantees freedoms of religion speech press assembly and petition
- 14. Political party opposed to the expansion of slavery into new territories
- 15. 1830 law authorizing the forced relocation of Native American tribes
- 17. British practice of seizing American sailors and forcing them into the Royal Navy
- 20. 1787 Philadelphia meeting that drafted the U.S. Constitution
- 21. 1857 Supreme Court ruling that denied Black citizenship and protected slavery in territories
- 22. Forced 1838 relocation of the Cherokee Nation resulting in thousands of deaths
Down
- 1. Power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional
- 3. 1803 Supreme Court case that established judicial review
- 5. 1863 executive order by Lincoln freeing enslaved people in Confederate states
- 6. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution
- 8. 19th-century belief that the US was destined to expand across North America
- 10. 1798 law making it a crime to criticize the government challenged First Amendment
- 11. Part of the 1850 Compromise requiring citizens to aid in capturing runaway enslaved persons
- 12. Seventh president known for Indian Removal and the spoils system
- 13. Invention that made short-staple cotton profitable revitalizing Southern slavery
- 16. Conflict between the US and Britain over trade and maritime rights
- 18. Post-Revolution farmer uprising in MA that exposed Articles of Confederation weakness
- 19. Practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs