Across
- 2. War between the Union states of the North and the Confederate states of the South; fought from 1861 to 1865
- 4. Type of veto a chief executive may use after a legislature has adjourned; it is applied when the chief executive does not formally sign or reject a bill within the time period allowed to do so.
- 5. People who travel from place to place, usually following available food sources,instead of living in one location.
- 6. Process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture.
- 8. Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories.
- 9. nickname for a white Southern Republican after the Civil War.
- 11. A policy of favoring native-born Americans over immigrants.
- 12. The first women's rights convention in United States history, held in 1848.
- 13. First major battle of the Civil War, won by the Confederates in July 1861
- 16. Required military service
- 17. Place where weapons are stored.
- 18. To join or attach, as in the joining of a new territory to an existing country
- 19. The right to vote
Down
- 1. Regulation that prohibited certain private activities people considered immoral, such as drinking alcohol on Sundays.
- 3. A program implemented by the federal government to repair the damage to the South caused by the Civil War and to restore the southern states to the Union.
- 4. An official forgiveness of a crime.
- 7. Railway extending from coast to coast.
- 10. The United States as a national unit; or, during the Civil War, the North.
- 14. Procedure that permits voters to remove public officials from office before the next election.
- 15. In the Civil War, the states between the North and the South.