REVOLUTION TO CIVIL WAR

7. First 10 amendments guaranteeing individual rights.
8. Movement to end slavery in the United States.
11. First shots of the Civil War were fired here, 1861.
14. Women’s rights convention held in New York, 1848.
15. Commander of the Continental Army and later first president.
18. Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that fueled antislavery sentiment.
20. Supreme Court case that established judicial review.
21. Author of Common Sense who urged independence.
22. 1865 event marking end of Civil War (location).
23. 1863 battle considered the turning point for the Union in the Civil War.
24. System of sharing power between national and state governments.

1. 1794 uprising over excise tax on whiskey.
2. 1857 Supreme Court decision saying enslaved people were property.
3. Invention by Eli Whitney that increased demand for enslaved labor.
4. 1860 election winner whose victory led to Southern secession.
5. 1823 policy warning European powers against intervening in the Americas.
6. Belief that the U.S. had the right to expand west to the Pacific.
9. Purchase that doubled the size of the U.S. in 1803.
10. The first shots of the American Revolution were fired here (1775).
12. 1863 document freeing enslaved people in rebelling states.
13. Violent 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry led by abolitionist.
16. 1776 document announcing independence from Britain.
17. Former enslaved man who became a famous abolitionist speaker and writer.
19. American victory in 1777 that convinced France to join the war.