Across
- 2. A 1,912 mile railroad line constructed between 1864 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern us rail with the pacific coast.
- 4. The widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the old world.
- 8. Military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory.
- 10. A faction of the Republican party during the American Civil War.
- 12. An estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
- 14. It authorized the President of the United States to subdivide Native American tribal communal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals.
- 17. Communication that is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda.
- 19. A cop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
- 20. Warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
- 21. A prolonged war or period of conflict during which each side seeks to gradually wear out the other by a series of small-scale actions.
- 23. A steel-making process in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed.
- 24. First 10 amendments to the Constitution.
- 26. The act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place.
- 27. The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body.
- 28. An agreement among the thirteen original states that served as its first constitution.
- 29. American colonists who stayed loyal to the British crown during the American Revolutionary War.
Down
- 1. The flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918.
- 3. Loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.
- 4. and balances A system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch.
- 5. The principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people.
- 6. An employee within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract to work without pay.
- 7. The first successful permanent English settlement in what would become the United States.
- 9. The 19th century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
- 11. The purchase of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803.
- 13. A legal destination for an area of land managed by a federally recognized Indian tribe.
- 15. Colonists of the thirteen colonies who rejected British rule during the American Revolution.
- 16. A presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States president Abraham Lincoln.
- 18. A series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade.
- 22. Belief in the benefits of profitable trading.
- 25. The movement to end slavery.