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- 5. was a long series of English laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies.
- 6. was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865.
- 8. was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and founding father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
- 12. was issued by King George III on October 7, 1763, following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the Seven Years' War.
- 15. Is an economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.
- 19. This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico.
- 21. was a widely held American imperialist cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
- 22. Tobacco, cotton and sugar were grown on large-scale farms called...
- 28. was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
- 29. abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
- 33. was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
- 34. was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters
- 35. is a form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and a democracy.
- 36. is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.
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- 1. was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, during the Civil War.
- 2. was a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature.
- 3. were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
- 4. was an American statesman, politician, legal scholar, military commander, lawyer, banker, and economist. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
- 7. was a conflict fought between the United States and its allies, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its allies.
- 9. was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
- 10. was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803.
- 11. was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
- 13. comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
- 14. was a 2,170-mile east-west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
- 16. is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity, especially a political entity, but also from any organization, union or military alliance.
- 17. was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington
- 18. fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
- 20. was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787.
- 23. was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820.
- 24. was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764.
- 25. is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly.
- 26. pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by Native American allies.
- 27. was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War, which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey.
- 30. was the movement to end slavery.
- 31. was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.
- 32. was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.