U.S History

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Across
  1. 2. slaves counted as 3/5 of a person for population in congress
  2. 6. economic system in which trade is seen as the source of wealth rather than as exchange of goods
  3. 9. form of government where power is vested in the people and exercised by them through system of representation
  4. 10. constitutional doctrine holding that a state has legal right to declare a national law void
  5. 13. British practice of taking American sailor
  6. 15. peoplel mixed of Spanish and Native American descent
  7. 17. 1st railroad to span the whole US allowing travel from the east to west
  8. 18. system of government in which power is clearly divided between state and national government
  9. 19. term applied to America in late 1800s that refers to the shallow display and worship of wealth
  10. 20. grant of land made by Spain to an American settler including the right to use natives as laborers
Down
  1. 1. supportors of the constituion
  2. 3. major third party in 1890s formed to fight for the rights of working people
  3. 4. the transatlantic exchange of plants, animals, diseases that occurred after 1st European contact w the americas
  4. 5. a tax on imports into any nation
  5. 7. people in the colonies who supported Britain and opposed American independence
  6. 8. first 10 amendments to the U.S Constitution
  7. 11. Eli Whitney invention that allowed for cheap processing of cotton
  8. 12. all states would be equally represented in the Senate and proportionally represented in the House of Representatives
  9. 14. boundary set at the peaks of the Appalachian Mountains beyond which no western white settlement was to take place
  10. 16. first permanent British settlement in North America