Across
- 5. Abolitionist, human rights activist and one of the first leaders of the women's rights movement
- 11. movement to get rid of slavery
- 12. creator of the cotton gin
- 13. Political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States
- 14. landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that defined the scope of the U.S. Congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of American state legislatures
- 16. first ten amandments
- 17. territory sold by France to the US in 1803, comprising the western part of the Mississippi valley and including the modern state of Louisiana
- 20. Powers that the government assumes and enforces, despite the Constitution not mentioning these powers by name
- 21. Act of being freed from restraint, control, or the power of another especially to free from bondage
- 22. an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests
- 23. Forced relocation during the 1830s of Eastern Woodlands Indians of the Southeast region of the United States
- 25. an executive and policy-making body of a country, consisting of all government ministers or just the senior ministers
- 26. Escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker
Down
- 1. Statesman and spokesman for the slave-plantation system of the antebellum South
- 2. Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States
- 3. Dispute between slave and free states
- 4. Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization
- 6. policy of favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants
- 7. Organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States
- 8. review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act
- 9. Make legally null and void
- 10. Practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters
- 15. principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US
- 18. rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries, brought about by the introduction of machinery
- 19. powers specific powers granted to Congress by the United States Constitution
- 24. Meeting at which local members of a political party register their preference among candidates running for office or select delegates to attend a convention