US History Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. To adjust fully into another culture.
  2. 4. Required the sale of ALL paper documents be marked with a stamp, which had to be payed for.
  3. 6. Banned the colonies trading sugar and molasses with any countries besides Britan
  4. 9. Abraham Lincoln's assassin.
  5. 11. in charge of the artillery and fought in the Revolutionary War
  6. 12. Government system in which the citizens vote for every decision.
  7. 14. made to provide federal funding for building railways across the US.
  8. 16. King of Great Britan during the Revolutionary War.
  9. 17. Main author of the Declaration of Independence.
  10. 18. a government agency that set out to help freed slaves find employment
  11. 19. the forced relocation of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and other tribes from their native land in northern Georgia to a designated spot in Oklahoma.
  12. 22. Amendment that declared Slavery fully illegal.
  13. 23. The horrific massacre of the Indian village of Sand Creek by the US army.
  14. 27. Executive order by Abraham Lincoln that allowed slaves to join the Union Army
  15. 28. Amendment that gave former slaves US citizenships and therefore constitutional rights.
  16. 29. When the confederate General Lee surrendered to General Grant, of the Union.
Down
  1. 1. A set of laws in the confederate states that enforced racial segregation.
  2. 3. Document that declared the colonies' independence from Great Britan.
  3. 5. People that were AGAINST slavery during the Civil War.
  4. 7. the Court case in which Dredd scott couldn't legally file a lawsuit because he was property, not a citizen.
  5. 8. A battle in Virginia in which the French stepped in and helped the Union soldiers win.
  6. 10. Created the Indian Reservations.
  7. 13. Comprised the first ten amendments to the constitution.
  8. 15. A battle between the US army and the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne tribes.
  9. 18. Amendment that allowed former slaves to vote.
  10. 20. The popular trail that was used for settlers to move west. It ran from Independence, MI to Fort Vancouver.
  11. 21. A chunk of land the US bought from the French in 1803 that covers the majority of the midwest.
  12. 24. Government system in which the citizens elect representatives to make decisions for us. This is the system the US uses.
  13. 25. To divide or break away
  14. 26. Commander in chief of the Colonies during the Revolutionary War, also the 1st President of the United States.