US HISTORY EOC REVIEW

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Across
  1. 4. supported the creation of a strong central government, which would take power away from the states.
  2. 7. stated that the US would control the entire Western Hemisphere and told European colonial powers to leave.
  3. 11. the right to vote
  4. 13. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel which brought home the evils of slavery to many in the North, published in 1852.
  5. 14. American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
  6. 16. the acquisition of this land doubled the size of the US and granted us access to the Mississippi River.
  7. 17. Notion that the people of a territory should determine if they want to be a slave state or a free state.
  8. 18. blended ideas from the NJ and Virginia Plan to create the government we have today.
Down
  1. 1. did not support a strong central government during the Constitutional Convention. Wanted a Bill of Rights.
  2. 2. created after WWI, it ultimately failed because the US did not join it.
  3. 3. a large meeting that took place in upstate NY which discussed the need for women's suffrage.
  4. 5. this time period in European history had a heavy influence on our Founding Fathers.
  5. 6. this was our first form of government which failed due to its weaknesses.
  6. 8. A flowering of African American culture in the 1920s; instilled interest in African American culture and pride in being an African American.
  7. 9. Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers; was used most prominently during the Spanish-American War.
  8. 10. wrote 'Common Sense' which encouraged the colonists to revolt against the British government.
  9. 12. An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by exerting exclusive economic controls over their colonies; colonies existed only for the economic benefit of the mother country.
  10. 15. the first ten amendments