Social Studies - Ch. 12 Vocab Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Practice of rewarding one’s political supporters with government jobs.
  2. 5. Presidential statement that declared that North and South America were off-limits to future colonization by any foreign power.
  3. 7. Agency created by Congress to oversee federal policy toward American Indians.
  4. 8. Law passed by Congress that authorized the removal of American Indians who lived east of the Mississippi River.
  5. 10. Originally made up of people who supported Andrew Jackson in the presidential election of 1828.
  6. 14. Meeting whose purpose is to select a political party’s presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
  7. 15. Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the federal government, not the states, had authority over the Cherokee.
Down
  1. 1. First federal road project in the United States, which began construction in 1815.
  2. 3. Large canal project that ran from Albany to Buffalo, New York.
  3. 4. Treaty that limited naval power on the Great Lakes for both the United States and Great Britain.
  4. 6. President Andrew Jackson’s trusted advisors.
  5. 9. Treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
  6. 11. Agreement between the United States and Canada that gave the United States fishing rights off parts of the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts and established the border between the United States and Canada at the 49th parallel, as far west as the Rocky Mountains.
  7. 12. Plan for using high tariffs to pay for internal improvements in the United States.
  8. 13. Financial crisis that led to severe economic depression.