Across
- 2. a conflict fought between the United States and its allies
- 5. a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War
- 7. omprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
- 8. The last battle of the Revolutionary War
- 10. A democratic republic
- 14. the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States
- 19. a 2,170-mile east-west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States
- 20. an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico
- 24. belief in the benefits of profitable trading
- 26. The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade
- 27. a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention
- 28. the first president of the United States
- 29. is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress
- 30. colonial history, British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies
- 31. was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans
Down
- 1. King George III declared all lands west of the Appalachian Divide off limits to colonial settlers
- 3. was a widely held American imperialist cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America
- 4. the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on March 6, 1857, that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an slaved person
- 6. a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
- 9. a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature
- 11. King of Great Britain
- 12. transport is a means of transferring passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails
- 13. was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
- 15. was an American statesman, politician, legal scholar, military commander, lawyer, banker, and economist
- 16. was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States
- 17. pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly
- 18. an estate on which crops such as coffee sugar and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor
- 21. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution
- 22. an act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents)
- 23. The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France
- 25. the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group