Reconstruction + Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 2. charging someone money in order to vote
  2. 4. the branch of government that makes the laws
  3. 6. The 14th Amendment
  4. 7. the branch of government also known as the supreme court
  5. 8. The 15th Amendment
  6. 9. first 10 amendments to the US Constitution
  7. 10. The idea that the US should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans
  8. 15. Rights that cannot be taken away without due process
  9. 16. where many Native Americans were forced to relocate during westward expansion
  10. 17. the system to make sure 1 branch of government does not become too powerful
  11. 18. Group of people who were forced to leave their own homes
  12. 20. The organization that helped freed slaves during Reconstruction
  13. 21. requiring reading and writing in order to vote
  14. 23. Law that gave settlers land for moving West
  15. 24. Laws that discriminated against African Americans even after the Reconstruction amendments were passed
Down
  1. 1. Time period from 1865-1877
  2. 3. the document signed in 1787
  3. 5. government run pieces of land where entire Native American tribes were sent during westward expansion
  4. 11. the branch of government run by the president
  5. 12. The first railroad to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans
  6. 13. Law that tried to make Native Americans more like Americans
  7. 14. the author of the Declaration of Independence
  8. 19. The 13th Amendment
  9. 22. War Time period from 1861-1865