Across
- 2. President during the Civil War who issued the Emancipation Proclamation
- 7. 1803 land deal that doubled the sized of the United States
- 14. Lincoln ´ s order freeing enslaved people in rebel states
- 16. When Southern states broke away from the Union to form the Confederacy
- 17. Southern Laws that restricted the rights of freedmen
- 18. The belief that states should have more power than the federal government
- 19. New communication invention using electric signals
- 21. One of the leaders of the expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory
- 23. Conflict with Britain that boosted American nationalism
- 27. Loyalty to a region rather than the whole nation
- 28. ¨ Father of the constitution and president ¨ during the War of 1812
- 30. Agreement that tried to balance free and slave states
Down
- 1. Former president who fought strongly against slavery in Congress
- 3. A major slave uprising in Virginia that increased Southern fear and stricter slave laws
- 4. forced removal of Cherokee people from their land
- 5. Wrote the Declaration of Independence
- 6. Partner of Lewis on the western expedition
- 8. Machine that increased cotton production and slavery
- 9. Deal that included the Fugitive Slave Act
- 10. War that led to the U.S. gaining the Southwest
- 11. Major conflict between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
- 12. Improved river travel and trade
- 13. Union general who later became president
- 15. Belief that the U.S. was meant to expand west
- 20. President known for the ¨common man¨
- 22. Period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
- 24. President who created a doctrine warning Europe to stay out of the Americas
- 25. Main Confederate general during the Civil War
- 26. Movement to end slavery in the United States
- 29. Major transportation system that expanded westward