Across
- 3. first major legislative departure from the U.S. policy of officially respecting the legal and political rights of the American Indians
- 7. an area of land managed by a Native American tribe
- 13. conflict between the United States and Mexico
- 14. A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners
- 15. a series of violent attacks on courthouses and other government properties in Massachusetts
- 18. the process of adopting the language and culture of a dominant social group or nation
- 22. first formal statement by a nation's people asserting their right to choose their own government
- 24. agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit
- 27. any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847
- 28. the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution
- 29. a secret hate group in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War
Down
- 1. ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763
- 2. the first constitution of the 13 American states, adopted in 1781 and replaced in 1789 by the Constitution of the United States
- 4. information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely
- 5. a village in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America 1607; restored 1957
- 6. loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole
- 8. "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free"
- 9. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery
- 10. A train route across the United States, finished in 1869
- 11. to help the South become a part of the Union again
- 12. The Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World
- 16. , that the people living in a territory should be free of federal interference in determining domestic policy, especially with respect to slavery
- 17. a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation
- 19. the withdrawal of 11 slave states
- 20. best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere
- 21. colonist loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution
- 23. a treaty signed with France in 1803 by which the U.S. purchased for $15,000,000 the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountain
- 25. the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America
- 26. late-18th century movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution