History Extra Credit

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Across
  1. 2. War between the Union states of the North and the Confederate states of the South; fought from 1861 to 1865
  2. 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.
  3. 5. People who travel from place to place, usually following available food sources,instead of living in one location.
  4. 6. Process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture.
  5. 8. Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories.
  6. 9. nickname for a white Southern Republican after the Civil War.
  7. 11. A policy of favoring native-born Americans over immigrants.
  8. 12. The first women's rights convention in United States history, held in 1848.
  9. 13. First major battle of the Civil War, won by the Confederates in July 1861
  10. 16. Required military service
  11. 17. Place where weapons are stored.
  12. 18. To join or attach, as in the joining of a new territory to an existing country
  13. 19. The right to vote
Down
  1. 1. Regulation that prohibited certain private activities people considered immoral, such as drinking alcohol on Sundays.
  2. 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.
  3. 4. An official forgiveness of a crime.
  4. 7. Railway extending from coast to coast.
  5. 10. The United States as a national unit; or, during the Civil War, the North.
  6. 14. Procedure that permits voters to remove public officials from office before the next election.
  7. 15. In the Civil War, the states between the North and the South.