Across
- 4. citizen soldiers who could be ready to fight at a minutes notice
- 7. a person who wanted to end slavery
- 9. a person who supported the British during the American Revolution
- 10. a tax on imported goods
- 11. the freeing of slaves
- 13. the forced removal of Cherokees and their transportation to Oklahoma
- 14. treaty that ended the Spanish American War
- 15. the channeling of a nation's entire resources in a war effor
- 16. document that declared the United States a free country
- 17. territory in western United States purchased from France in 1803
Down
- 1. 1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent
- 2. balanced free and slave states to keep peace in America
- 3. the first constitution of the United States
- 5. a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery or not
- 6. law that taxed printed goods like playing cards, documents, and newspapers
- 8. to leave or withdraw from a country
- 12. act passed by the British that allowed British troops to live in the homes of colonists