US History Final Exam Review

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Across
  1. 4. In 1801, President Thomas Jefferson received word that __ was about to be returned to French control.
  2. 5. an ancient passageway used regularly after 1821 by merchant-traders from Missouri.
  3. 6. On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown and several followers seized the United States Armory and Arsenal at __. The actions of Brown's men brought national attention to the emotional divisions concerning slavery.
  4. 8. The __ was seized by the U.S. Military in 1846, at the start of the Mexican-American war.
  5. 9. The Mission San Antonio de Valero, established in the early 18th century, the battle of the __.
  6. 10. the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army.
  7. 11. The attack on __ in Baltimore's harbor was a pivotal moment in the War of 1812 as it successfully prevented the ChesapeakeBay campaign the Royal Navy had been waging against the United States.
  8. 12. near present day Lafayette, Indiana. Where the Native Americans lost their grip on the fertile Midwestern lands they had roamed for thousands of years.
Down
  1. 1. Northerners who went South during Reconstruction.
  2. 2. The last battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in 1781 near the seacoast of Virginia. There the British general Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to General George Washington.
  3. 3. The __ Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.
  4. 7. murder of five men from a proslavery settlement on Pottawatomie Creek, Franklin county, by an antislavery party led by the abolitionist John Brown and composed largely of men of his family. The victims were associated with the Franklin County Court established by the proslavery territorial government. The incident was one of several that stirred national controversy over Bleeding Kansas and slavery in the U.S. territories during the mid-1850s.