US History (Exploration thru Reconstruction)

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Across
  1. 3. fertile soil, warm climate, cash crops; Transatlantic Slave Trade provided slave labor for plantations
  2. 5. Amendment that granted African American adult males suffrage
  3. 6. land US acquired after the US-Mexican War in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  4. 7. growth of cities as people left farms for work in factories
  5. 10. took control after Lincoln's death; punished Confederate leaders and Southerners following Civil War
  6. 11. Those who worked to end slavery
  7. 14. New England Colony; Puritans/Pilgrims founded for religious freedom
  8. 18. regions' geography impacted its economy; loyalty to ones' region over their country as a whole
  9. 19. First Amendment- Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, Speech
  10. 24. claimed land in New World to profit from fur trading
  11. 25. law prohibited colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
  12. 28. Confederacy surrendered to Union in Virginia; ended Civil War
  13. 29. rocky soil, cold climate, fishing, lumber, and shipbuilding
  14. 30. protects individual liberties; inspired by the English Bill of Rights
  15. 31. Established by Marbury v Madison
  16. 33. claimed, Florida, Texas, California; built missions
  17. 34. rich farmland, moderate climate, grew oats, wheat, grain and raised livestock
  18. 35. British controlled colonial trade; colonies only purpose is to benefit the Mother Country
  19. 37. California admitted as a Free State; Fugitive Slave Act
  20. 39. sharing of power between the Federal government and the states
  21. 40. No political parties; No permanent foreign alliances
Down
  1. 1. after the Civil War, South in financial ruin and divided into 5 military districts
  2. 2. invented by Eli Whitney; led to an increase in slavery
  3. 4. to escape religious persecution, Roger Williams left Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island
  4. 8. Did South Carolina have the right to overturn a federal law
  5. 9. against Constitution, wanted more power given to the states
  6. 12. Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
  7. 13. belief British should have colonists' permission to pass taxes
  8. 15. man-made rivers; price of goods decreased
  9. 16. Amendment that ended slavery
  10. 17. founded for Catholics seeking religious freedom
  11. 20. economy with little to no interference from the government
  12. 21. first Secretary of Treasury; $10 Bill; Financial Plan
  13. 22. Dorothea Dix helped to improve prison conditions for these people
  14. 23. first anti-slavery group; lived in Pennsylvania
  15. 26. Amendment that gave African Americans citizenship
  16. 27. supported the Constitution, wanted strong central government
  17. 32. Gave Union command of Mississippi River (Turning Point)
  18. 36. agreements between differing sides
  19. 38. rights all people have from birth