Across
- 1. -a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
- 6. -contiguous railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass
- 8. -abolished slavery in the United States
- 9. -a law passed in 1764
- 10. -was an american abolitionist, emancipationist. a reformer who favors abolishing slavery.
- 11. - an estate on wich crops such as coffee, sugar and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
- 13. -a treaty signed with France in 1803
- 15. - a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution.
- 16. - was a conflict between the united states and mexico.
- 19. - a series of acts parliament
- 20. -a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary Wa
- 22. - signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on July 1, 1862.
- 23. -1st President of the United States
- 25. -was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
- 26. -a law passed by the British gov. in 1765
- 27. -The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation
- 28. -was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War
- 29. - granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
Down
- 2. -was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.,
- 3. -a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.
- 4. - were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
- 5. -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.
- 7. -was 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
- 12. - a list of the most important rights to the citizens of a country.
- 14. - is the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas
- 17. -3rd President of the United States
- 18. - a conflict fought between the U.s and its allies against the united kingdom.
- 21. - the U.S. Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote
- 24. - was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.