Growth and Conflict Vocabulary Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. a region that is on the boundary of settled or developed territory (in US History, this is any area that had not yet been settled or explored by American citizens)
  2. 5. the United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million in 1803, which doubled the size of the United States at the time
  3. 6. a group of pro-slavery Missourians during the 1850s who crossed the border into Kansas to vote illegally and raid/intimidate the antislavery settlers
  4. 9. rights and powers of state governments, with which the federal government cannot interfere, according the the US Constitution
  5. 13. a federal law passed in 1854 that allowed residents of the Nebraska and Kansas territories to vote directly on whether or not to allow slavery in those territories
  6. 14. one who runs away to escape a place, person or situation
  7. 15. to seize and force into service (specifically, Britain capturing US sailors and forcing them to serve in the British Navy)
  8. 17. attempting to overthrow or damage the nation/government to which one belongs
  9. 18. a foreign policy which declared that the U.S. would not interfere with European nations or their existing colonies, and that the U.S. would prevent European nations from attempting to establish new colonies in Latin America
  10. 19. a journey or excursion undertaken for a specific purpose
  11. 20. the forced migration of approximately 15,000 Cherokee Indians in 1838-39 in which the US Army marched them from their land in North Carolina and Georgia to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River
  12. 21. a federal law passed in 1830 that allowed the federal government to exchange land west of the Mississippi River for the lands of Native American tribes east of the river
Down
  1. 1. prioritizing the interests of a specific region over the interests of other regions
  2. 2. a war between the United States and Britain from 1812-1815, which the US won and considered a “second war for independence”
  3. 4. a treaty signed in 1848 that ended the Mexican-American War, in which Mexico agreed to give up over half of its land to the United States
  4. 7. a state government’s attempt to prevent a specific federal law from being enforced within that state
  5. 8. Destiny the idea that the United States had the right and the duty to expand and annex new territories
  6. 10. the act of officially ending or stopping something
  7. 11. to officially withdraw from an organization
  8. 12. to add a specific territory to an existing state or country
  9. 16. a treaty signed in 1835 by US government officials & leaders of the Cherokee nation that resulted in the Trail of Tears