Across
- 4. a law that established the federal court system and the number of Supreme Court justices and that provided for the appeal of certain state court decision to the federal courts
- 7. an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines
- 9. the dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act
- 10. movement to end slavery
- 11. a document adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States
- 12. the voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and later to North America
- 13. a political system in which a national government and constituent units, such as state government, share power
- 15. a revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s
- 19. the document written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the colonies' independence from Britain
- 23. an 18th-century intellectual movement emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method as means of obtaining knowledge
- 24. a trade law enacted by Parliament in 1764 in an attempt to reduce smuggling in the British colonies in North America
- 25. the 19th century belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican Territory
- 27. a colonist who supported American independence from Britain
- 29. a political system dominated by two major parties
- 30. the Supreme Court's power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional
Down
- 1. a state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional
- 2. the 1803 purchase by the United States of France's Louisiana Territory-extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains-for $15 million
- 3. an order in which Britain prohibited its American colonist from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
- 5. a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists were killed
- 6. a law that established a procedure for the admission of new states to be a Union
- 8. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution adopted in 1865, that has abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
- 14. an 1765 law is which Parliament established the first direction taxation of goods and services with the British colonies in North America
- 16. a tax on imported goods that is intended to protect a nation's businesses from foreign competition
- 17. a series of agreement passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states
- 18. a famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863, at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg
- 20. the transatlantic system of trade in which goods and people, including claves, were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, The West Indies, and the colonies in North America
- 21. southern Pennsylvania where the most decisive battle was fought
- 22. a colonist who supported the British government during the American Revolution
- 26. an uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers protesting increased state taxes in 1787
- 28. a government in which the citizens rule through elected representatives