Semester 1 - Review Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. Slave Act – A law requiring escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers.
  2. 6. Railroad – A secret network that helped escaped enslaved people reach freedom.
  3. 8. – The region that was becoming more industrial and generally opposed the expansion of slavery.
  4. 13. of Slavery – The debate over whether slavery should be allowed in new territories.
  5. 14. Expansion – The movement of Americans and U.S. territory toward the western lands.
  6. 16. Destiny – The belief that the United States was destined to expand westward from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
  7. 17. – The state admitted as a free state under the Compromise of 1850.
  8. 18. Breakdown – The collapse of national unity as regional loyalties increased.
Down
  1. 1. Sovereignty – The idea that people in a territory should vote on whether to allow slavery.
  2. 2. Ocean – The ocean marking the eastern boundary of Manifest Destiny.
  3. 3. Border – The disputed boundary that helped lead to the Mexican-American War.
  4. 5. War – A war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 over land and borders.
  5. 7. of 1850 – A series of laws passed to reduce tension between free and slave states.
  6. 9. of Guadalupe Hidalgo – The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War and gave land to the United States.
  7. 10. – The region that relied heavily on agriculture and enslaved labor.
  8. 11. – The region focused on land and settlement and pulled into the slavery debate.
  9. 12. Ocean – The ocean marking the western boundary of Manifest Destiny.
  10. 15. – Loyalty to one’s region rather than the nation as a whole.